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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
THE NEW TARIFF. 
Opinions of the Members of the Tariff Com¬ 
mittee—A Long Way in Advance of 
Any Previous Tariff Measure. 
In the last issue of this journal the opinion of Hon. N. H. 
Albaugh, Tadmor, O., regarding the new tariff schedule on 
nursery stock was given. Mr. Albaugh believes that the new 
tariff will certainly have a favorable effect on the nursery busi¬ 
ness of this country, and that the tariff on roses will tell much 
in favor of Eastern florists, whose business was greatly injured 
by European importations. 
Herewith are presented the opinions of other members of 
the tariff committee of the American Association : 
President Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.: “While the new 
tariff law on nursery stock is not all that we could have wished, 
or that we tried to obtain, it is a long way in advance of any 
bill that we have ever had, the specific part alone being the 
greatest advance. The combination of specific and ad valorem 
duties will enable parties using small-sized stocks to import 
them on a more equitable basis that if the duty had been 
strictly specific alone. The present schedule also does away, 
in a great measure, with the conflicting and contradictory 
clauses that have always appeared in former bills. 
“The whole law is the outcome of a hard and long fight 
made by the nurserymen, and if we have not got exactly what 
we asked for, we have, I believe, received a fair measure of 
protection.” 
Ex-President Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la.: “The tariff on 
nursery stock, as provided for in the Dingley bill which has 
recently gone into effect, is by far the best tariff on nursery 
stock that the nurserymen of America have ever had. Of 
course it is not just what the nurserymen asked for, but I be¬ 
lieve it will contribute largely to the value of the nursery busi¬ 
ness of the country. I believe it will tend to discourage many 
small farmer nurserymen who have been growing more or less 
stock for the trade who had no trade, thus breaking the mar¬ 
ket and injuring the regular nurserymen, and at the same time 
the farmer nurseryman was all the while playing a loosing 
game ; also doing the general nursery business an injustice by 
growing a lot of poorly grown and graded stock and putting it 
upon the market at less prices than good stock could be pro¬ 
duced for. 
“ I believe when this new tariff is fully understood by the 
nurserymen of the country it will be generally accepted as sat¬ 
isfactory. I further believe that we are now on the eve of a 
period of prosperity. I believe the continued increase in the 
output of gold ore in this country, and the large and growing 
demand for American grain in Europe, and the settling of the 
tariff question, will all contribute to a revival of business, and 
I believe this revival will be permanent, but it may be gradual 
in coming.” 
President J. J. Harrison, of the Storrs & Hanison Co., 
Painesville, O.: “There seems to be somewhat of a diversity 
of opinion among our directors as to the results of the new 
tariff bill. Some look upon its probable effect with anything 
but optimistic views ; others are hopeful that it will work for 
the good of the profession, not all at once, but making gradual 
improvement as time passes, until the nursery business will as¬ 
sume a healthy condition. All would have been better pleased 
if full specific duties had been granted on stocks, cuttings and 
seedlings, as asked for by the Association of American Nursery¬ 
men, as it would have prevented undervaluation by dishonest 
importers.” 
OUTDOOR ART ASSOCIATION. 
Gentlemen interested in park management met recently at 
Louisville, Ky., and formed the “ Park and Outdoor Art 
Association.” The committee on organization presented the 
following report, which was adopted : 
“Your committee reports that an organization be formed 
on the lines suggested by Mr. Charles Eliot shortly before his 
death, to wit: A general association to be made up of all 
who desire the advancement of ‘art out of doors,’including 
amateurs, land owners, writers, park commissioners and officers, 
village improvement societies, foresters, gardeners and others 
interested. An organization corresponding somewhat to the 
American Association for the Advancement of Art.” 
The following were elected as officers and on committees : 
President, John B. Castleman, of Kentucky ; vice-president, 
L. E. Holden, of Ohio ; secretary and treasurer, Warren H. 
Manning, of Massachusetts. Executive committee—R. H. 
Warder, Ohio ; T. L. Ridgeley, Missouri; W. H. Manning, 
Massachusetts ; W. S. Edgerton, New York ; L. E. Holden 
Ohio ; Lewis Johnson, Louisiana ; Harry W. Jones, Minne¬ 
sota ; Andrew Cowan, of Kentuckey ; P. Thomas, Kentucky ; 
Robert Kinkead, Kentucky. 
Committee to prepare constitution and by-laws (to report at 
next meeting): C. S. Sargent, Massachusetts; E. N. Flaskell, 
Massachusetts ; John C. Olmsted, Massachusetts ; W. H. Man¬ 
ning, Massachusetts; W. S. Edgerton, New York ; L. H. Bailey^ 
New York ; Mrs. M. G. Van Rensselaer, New York ; William 
Falconer, Pennsylvania ; Colonel Bingham, Washington, D. C.; 
Charles W. Garfield, Michigan; Charles H. Shinn, California; 
F. L. Ridgeley, Missouri ; Professor Trelease, Missouri ; 
A. R. Mayer, Missouri ; Andrew Cowan, Kentucky ; L. John¬ 
son, Louisiana; C. Peck, New York; W. W. Folwell, Minne¬ 
sota ; C. M. Loving, Illinois ; O. C. Simonds, Illinois ; J. F. 
Foster, Illinois ; Sol Claypool, Indiana ; J. M. Waddick, Ohio; 
W. M. Canby. Delaware. 
The next annual meeting of the new association will be held 
at Minneapolis June 22, 1898. 
TREES FOR PITTSBURG PARKS. 
The Pittsburg Dispatch publishes the following : 
“The contract for furnishing trees, shrubs, etc., for the 
parks has been awarded to Ellwanger & Barry, of Rochester, 
N. Y., at $r,20o. An agent, who buys wherever he can, bid 
$3 lower, but this bid was rejected because Director Bigelow 
thought it was desirable to have the best trees and shrubs for 
the parks, delivered promptly. Ellwanger & Barry is the 
largest firm of its kind in the country.” 
James Vick’s Sons, Rochester, N. Y., writing of a visit to 
David Miller, originator of the Cumberland black raspberry, 
say : “ We were greatly pleased with the Cumberland black 
raspberry as seen at your place in Newark. The berry is 
extra large, the quality better than the Gregg, and the plants 
very productive. We think there is a future for it.” 
