THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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l>IU)('.U AM HLIAIvNTIl ANNUAL MULTINA; OF 
(ILOIU'.IA FLOKIDA PFUAN (IHOWFUS 
ASSOCIATION 
TIIOMASVILLF, OFOIUIIA, MAY 30 and 31 si, 1017 
Wednesday,, May 30th, 10 a. ai. 
(iail lo Order. 
In vocal ion. 
Address of Wel(*onu! - Mayor of Thoinasville. 
l{(‘sponse to Address of Weleonie, W. C. .Tones, Caiio, Oa. 
Presid(‘nt’s Addn'ss, - (L A. Simpson, Montieedio, Fla. 
The Nut Case-hearer and Us Control, 
.1. IT. (lill, Monliec'llo, Fla. 
experience in Handling Pecan Kosette, 
S. M. MeMurran, Washington, 1). C. 
The New P(H*an Proj(‘ct, C. A. Heed, Washington, D. C. 
Question Pox 
Wednesday, 2.00 p. ai. 
How to Develoj) an Orchard to the Bearing Age, 
H. G. White, Putney, Ga. 
Charlie Puckett, Putney, Ga. 
How lo Cultivah' I he Bearing Orchard, 
Col. G. A. VaiiDuzee, Cairo, Ga. 
B. W. St one, Thomasville, Ga. 
A Talk, - - E. Lee Worsham, Atlanta, Ga. 
How to Avoid Winter-Killing, 
W. W. Bassett, Monticello, PAa. 
Question Box 
Wednesday, 8.30 p. ai. 
Ban(|uet at Tosca Hotel, followed hy round tahle discus¬ 
sion. 
Beport on the Behavior of the Leading Varieties. 
Question Box 
Thursday, 9.00 a. ai. 
The True Merits of a Paper Shell Pecan, 
L. A. Nevin, Atlanta, Ga. 
Some Pecan Statistics, - J. AI. Patterson, Putney, Ga. 
Will the Pecan Business he Overdone, 
J. B. Wight, Cairo, Ga. 
Beport from the National Pecan Exchange, 
W. P. Bullard, Albany, Ga. 
Miscellaneous Business. 
Bepoit of Standing Committees. 
Selection of Place of Next Meeting. 
Election of Officers. 
Officers of Association; 
President, C. A. Simpson, Monticello, l^la. 
Vice-President, W. P. Bullard, Albany, Ga. 
Secretary-Treasurer, W. W. Bassett, Monticello, Fla. 
QUABANTINES ON FIVE-LP:AVED PINES, AND 
CUBBANT AND GOOSEBERRY PLANTS, ON 
ACCOUNT OF WHITE PINE BLISTER RUST 
Two orders have just been issued hy the Secretary of 
Agriculture, effective .Tune 1. 1917, on account of the 
White pine blister rust. One of these orders prohibits 
Ihe further impoi talion of currant and gooseberry plants 
from Europe and Asia. The other order quarantines 
all the States east of and including the States of Min¬ 
nesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and 
prohibits the movement from these Stales to points out¬ 
side lh(} (juaiantiiu'd area of all five-leav(‘d pines and 
currant and gooseberry plants. There is a furthei- 
prohibition ol the movement of liv'e-leaved pines and 
Idack currant plants lo any point outside the heavily in¬ 
fected region com|)rising Ihe New England Slates and tlu; 
State ol New \oik. This additional (juarantine is 
made lor the purpose of protecting other (juarantined 
Slates, as widl as Ihe remainder of the country, from pos¬ 
sible infection by w bib* pirn; blister rust by means of the 
plants mentioned. 
While this domeslic (piaranline, as noted, does not be¬ 
come effective until .lime 1, the attention of all nursery¬ 
men is called to the laid that in the meantime their vol¬ 
untary agreiMuent of a year or more ago not to ship any 
white j)ines or currant or gooseberry plants into the 
Rocky Mountain and the Pacific Slope States is expected 
to remain in full force and effect, and Ihe inspectors of 
these Western States have been notified of this under¬ 
standing. 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
federal horticultural BOARI)^ 
Washington, D. G., April 23, 1917. 
Dear Sirs:— 
Referring to the quarantine orders sent you yesterday, 
you are advised that a press notice will go out very 
shortly in relation to these quarantines giving a state¬ 
ment of their scope. The fixing of the effective date 
of these quarantines at June 1st was done solely in the 
interest of the nurserymen in recognition of their needs 
and of their spring contracts for delivery. It is hardly 
necessary perhaps to say that the Board will expect nur¬ 
serymen, in return, to scrupulously res])ect State quaran¬ 
tines in relation to the pines, currants and gooseberries 
covered in these orders, and it is understood that in the 
meantime the voluntary agreement of a year or more 
ago not to ship any w hite pines or currants or gooseberry 
plants into the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Slope States 
is to remain in full force and effect. The inspectors of 
these western states have been notified of this under¬ 
standing. 
Yours very truly, 
G. L. Marlatt, Chairman of Board. 
National Nurseryman Pub. Co., Inc. 
Hatboro, Pa. 
Berlin, Aid., April 24, 1917. 
Editor of National Nurseryman, 
Flourtown, Pa. 
Dear Sir;— 
I hope every member of the American Associa¬ 
tion of Nurserymen will stop and consider for a 
moment the cost of growing fruit trees and for 
another season make their prices to cover at least 
the actual cost of growing. It is a matter of vital 
importance and should receive serious consideration 
at the coming convention. 
Very truly yours, 
J. G. Harrison & SonS;, 
Orlando Harrison. 
