THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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expressed in llie resolution met with the full approval 
of the meeting. 
“In view of the spread of diseases and insect ])ests in¬ 
troduced from foreign countries, such as the chestnut 
hlighl, gypsy moth and white pine blister.” 
“Jtesolved, that the American Forestry Association 
favor the principle of absolute national quarantine on 
plants, trees and nursery stock to take effect at the ear¬ 
liest date which may he found commercially expedient.” 
Pamphlets bearing the titles of “A Bandit from Abroad” 
and “An Invasion from Abroad” were freely distributed 
among the members and visitors at the meeting. 
NUBSFBYMFN ATTEND THE MEETING OF THE 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF OFFICIAL 
HORTICULTURAL INSPECTORS 
The 29th annual meeting of the American Association 
of Economic Entomologists was held at the Columbia 
University, New York, December 28th to 30th. Scien¬ 
tists from all over the country were there, attending the 
meetings of their various interests, reading their papers, 
making their addresses and comparing notes. 
A conference on Phytopathological Inspection and 
Quarantines was held in joint session by the American 
Phytopathological Society, American Association of 
Economic Entomologists and the American Association 
of Official Horticultural Inspectors. 
The Third session held on Friday evening was held at 
the American Museum of Natural History and was in the 
form of a round table discussion of Nursery Inspection 
and quarantines. 
The Horticultural Inspectors very kindly handed the 
meeting over to the visiting nurserymen. 
Mr. William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y., chaiiman of the 
Legislative Committee, acted as Chairman and Mr. Curtis 
Nye Smith, Boston, Mass., Counsel of the American Asso¬ 
ciation of Nurserymen, as Chief Speaker. 
The meeting was a most enjoyable and profitable one 
as it gave those present an oportunity to get a grasp of 
the other fellow’s view, and showed that every measure, 
however impractical, illegal or unjust had behind them 
a sincere desire to accomplish good, and such a meeting 
works wonders in bringing about mutual understanding. 
As Mr. Pitkin stated, the aim for uniform State Legis¬ 
lation was growing slowly and surely, but it was hardly 
to be expected that 48 states, with their conflicting 
interests and ideas, could be brought in line all at once. 
There is little doubt but that Prof. Sanders’ Bill is the 
most practical solution yet advanced and will form the 
basis on which order will be brought out of chaos. 
Curtis Nye Smith, Counsellor for the Nursery and 
Seed Trades, addressed the meeting and submitted to 
questions on legal phrases of the subjects under discus¬ 
sion. 
It was very difficult for the lay mind, as represented 
by the entomologists and inspectors of the various states 
to grasp the principles of United States Law “that no in¬ 
dividual state had the right to impose its rules on ex-state 
nurserymen.” 
Both nurserymen and inspectors are to be congratu¬ 
lated on the evident good feeling and mutual co-operation 
evidenced at the meeting. 
NURSERYMEN SHOULD STUDY LANDSCAPE 
GARDENING 
By E. 1). VaniwU 
In landscape work we nurserymen arc* glaringly de¬ 
ficient. I believe the standard of the whole nurs(*ry 
trade will he elevated when eveny nurseryman has a 
proper landscape training. Most of us grojx* our way 
into the de])artment by making an honest effort to till a 
need we have obseiTcd to exist. The nursfuyman who 
can make a practical working plan for the small prop¬ 
erty owner, by which he can plant his suburban lot, of 
not over fifty foot front, properly and artistically so that 
the finished work will be just right, is not only going to 
sell the stock he grows, but he is going to grow slock 
that is worthy of growing and his customers w ill enrich 
Ills life with their praise as well as their money. I 
know the common way is to get a customer into youi- 
place in some way—sell him all you can of something he 
perhaps cannot use to advantage, and leave him to stick 
in the stock in any old way he can devise, and then we 
expect that customer to come back after more and won¬ 
der wdiy he never shows up again? When you build 
your house you start with the plans and draw ings of 
the architect. You do not have to go to a boiler factory 
and buy your steam heating plant, guessing at the size 
and number of radiators, etc. You do not buy your 
plumbing and set your hired man to work installing it 
as he might be able to do in a stable. Why should we 
trust a customer to properly decorate his home grounds? 
One thousand persons will see his planting about the 
front, to every one wdio sees the inside of his house and 
his steam radiators. How can his property look like a 
home if it is not decorated and properly planted by the 
man who knows how'^? I have only a humble estimate 
of my own ability in this department, but I wdsh to tell 
you I have had many home ow ners tell me as follow s;— 
“I have been waiting for months for some one to show 
me what you have by the little sketch you have so kindly 
submitted. I w^ant you to tell me what it will all cost. 
I want to have it if I can afford it, etc.” No nicely made 
catalogue can supply this need on the part of your cus¬ 
tomer. No college graduate who has taken some special 
horticultural course can do it without the nurseryman’s 
experience to back him. The field is practically un¬ 
touched. Thousands of nice new places are being dis¬ 
figured annually because the “man who knows how” is 
asleep, so the work is left to the owmer or to some hold 
youth whose business card is engraved w ith some high 
sounding horticultural title after his name, but who 
needs about twenty years nursery experience to mellow' 
him. 
Tree agents with a plate book will w'alk miles for a 
five dollar order which someone will sign to get rid of 
him. The customers are waiting all down the block 
for the “man who know's how,” and w hen he starts out 
to see them he is surprised w hen night falls that he has 
been only a short distance. He saw more business on 
one square than he ever dreamed existed in a whole 
state. After he has pleased one customer, he won’t need 
to present his card next door. They know him before 
he calls and are waiting to see him. 
