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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
l)ers into closer touch witli each other; it will mean a 
deeper sympathy and a fuller understanding; it will bring 
a realization that the interests of all nurserymen are ex¬ 
actly the sam(‘. whether growers or sellers, wholesalers 
or retailers, catalogue or agency; and it will afford op¬ 
portunity to counsel together to the end that differences 
may he eliminated; and with that closer acquaintance and 
friendly counsel, we shall gain what we have so greatly 
lacked and so much needed, the cooperation without 
which we have been able to do so little, but which we 
can expect to accomplish so much. We have 
the same interests and the same ends, and we can best 
serve them only by traveling the same road and in com¬ 
pany. This Advisory board moves us a long step in the 
right direction. 
Yours truly, 
John Watson^ President, 
American Association of Nurserymen. 
Advisory Board : 
American Nurserymen’s Protective Association, 
Represented by: Indng Rouse, Rochester, New York. 
American Retail Nurserymen’s Protective Association. 
II. L. Merkel, Des Moines, Iowa. 
Western Association of Nurserymen, 
F. II. Stannard, Ottawa, Kansas. 
Southern Nurservmen’s Association, 
A. I. Smith, Knoxville, Tennessee. 
Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen, 
S. A. Miller, Milton, Oregon. 
Northern Nurserymen’s Association, 
M. R. Gashman, Owatonna, Minnesota. 
New England Nurserymen’s Association, 
Charles x\dams, Springfield, Massachusetts. 
California x\ssociation of Nurserymen, 
George G. Roeding, Fresno, California. 
Connecticut Association of Nurserymen, 
F. S. Raker, Cheshire, Connecticut. i 
Idaho Nurserymen’s Association, 
J. F. Littooy, Boise, Idaho. 
Massachusetts Nurserymen’s Association, 
G. Howard Frost, W. Newton, Mass. 
Missijqii Nurserymen’s Association, 
S. W. Crowell, Roseacres, Mississippi. 
Ohio Nurserymen’s Association, 
T. R. West, Perry, Ohio. 
New York State Nurserymen’s Association, 
lYlward S. Osborne, Rochester, New York. 
Pennsylvania Nurserymen’s Association, 
Wilmer W. Iloopes, West Chester, Penna. 
Tennessee Nurservmen’s Association, 
E. W. (diattin, Winchester. Tennessee. 
Texas Nurservmen’s Association, 
George J. Bowyer, San Benito, Texas. 
Oklahoma Nurserymen’s Association, 
Jim. Parker, Tecumseh, Oklahoma. 
NEEDLESS PANIC 
By F. W. Kelsey 
The white pine blister rust agitation is apparently now 
in its acute stage. While the injuiy to the pine tree 
plantations and pine forest areas from the “rust” has 
been and is likely in the future to be of material impor¬ 
tance; yet, as in all such matters the remedy in creating 
a condition of panic may occasion far more serious loss 
and prove more costly than the disease. 
When we magnify by microscopic research any of the 
fungus or other injurious insect diseases, the possibilities 
for destruction become enlarged in geometric proportion 
until we become thoroughly alarmed, and the laboratory 
point of view soon becomes the basis of the most direful 
prediction for sensational public appeals, to say nothing 
of the radical congressional legislation now proposed. 
Of the hundreds of injurious insect diseases that have 
menaced as many kinds of tree and plant life, how many 
of them have not at one time or another been singled out 
for the almost complete destruction of the object of the 
attack ? 
From the predicted loss of the grape vine and its de¬ 
struction by the Phylloxera to the possible elimination of 
the pine trees by the blister rust, these scarce cycles come 
around as regularly as the seasons. Many can remem¬ 
ber that the appearance of the weevil was later to prevent 
successful wheat growing; the boll weevil making im¬ 
possible the continued successful growth of cotton; the 
potato bug it was thought would soon permit the growth 
of only sweet potatoes for general consumption; the elm 
tree beetle would ravage the elm trees to destruction; the 
Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths were to consume the growth 
of all kinds of live vegetation; the Aphis and fruit tree 
borers with the plum Curculio and San Jose scale were, 
in a short time, to eliminate successful fruit growing all 
over the country, and so on to the end. 
In these, as in so many instances, that come to mind, 
human effort and nature’s own remedial processes allow 
the great growth and production of tree and plant life in 
the aggregate to go on much the same, notwithstanding 
the local or even general losses such insect pests occasion. 
With this view, as the Government and State authori¬ 
ties are fully awake to the importance of preventing the 
spread of the pine blister rust, it would seem as though 
there should be no stampede from fright for fear that 
the usual result will not obtain in the eradication or suc¬ 
cessful elimination of the blister rust disease. 
The special committee of the American Forestry Asso¬ 
ciation appointed five years ago to consider the relations 
between the forestry and nursery interests, and to har¬ 
monize, if possible, the existing antagonisms between the 
producers of forestry stock who were then, as now, de¬ 
sirous of shutting out all foreign supplies, and conversely 
those opposed to this plan for benefiting the comparatively 
few American growers;—the Committee’s report after 
the subject had been gone over exhaustively was unani¬ 
mously approved by the Society. This report, published 
in the Forestry Magazine and a number of the Trade 
periodicals, may now be of interest to those averse to ex- 
rteme action on this matter at the present time. 
