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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
llora to its highest usefulness in serving divine purpose 
aiid llu' haj)])iuess and welfare of man. 
f'or iustane(‘. the natural llora of the Atlantie eoast 
sect ions foi- thousands of years, has been developed under 
the favorable eonditions of good soil, good elimate and 
am|)le moisture of that seetion, and has been added to and 
improved by the nurserymen and florists of that section, 
and lias been supiilemented by many ada})ted plants from 
oriiMital eoimtries until the Rhododendrons, the Norway 
Maples, the evergreens and thousands of beautiful orna¬ 
mentals grace your landscapes, which are a delight to 
the beholder, esiiecially the admirer coming from the less 
favored sections of the West, the Northw est and especially 
the southwest. 
I can say for the southwest that w e have paid an enor¬ 
mous price to learn the lesson w Inch the Creator intended 
us to learn. We have learned it after spending tens of 
thousands of dollars filling our Southwestern parks and 
gardens with your Atlantic coast flora, and trying to re- 
jiroduce foi‘ ourselves and under our climate, the beau¬ 
ties we have enjoyed in the east, and have failed, only to 
look about us and see the possibilities and the beauties 
of the native flora w hich the Creator has for thousands ot 
years been preparing for us, ever since he lifted the an¬ 
cient prehistoric floods off this country and has subjected 
us to a climate peculiar and in many respects severe, and 
given us a virgin soil in many sections as “rich as the 
Valley of the Nile.” 
Come w ith me and I w ill show you w estern flora both 
evergreen and deciduous, both beautiful in flower and 
valuable in fruit, both perennial and annual, wlich ac¬ 
tually revel and luxuriate in the canyons and among the 
rocks, w ith little or no rainfall and under merciless suns, 
and which under cultivation, domestication and hybridiza¬ 
tion are to he the foundations for our gardens and parks 
ecjualing if not surpassing in their uni([ue attractiveness 
the gardens and ])arks of any other section. I will sa} 
loo, there are many old standard plants which are also 
valuable to and are used by us. These two extreme 
sections of the northeast and the southwest will serve to 
(‘stahlish my point. 
Coui'th: It is a fact and it is right that it should he, 
“The nurseryman sets llu' j)ace in horticulture” on the 
nursf'ryman and tlu' florist (hwolves the duty of testing, 
j)i()j)agaling and disseminating the trees and j)lants grow n 
in his s(‘(‘tion. Tlum it is tru(‘ that as the nnrs(‘rymen 
and florists dischai'g(' their duty so will the orchards, 
gardens atid parks of llu' people prove successes or fail¬ 
ures, allow ing rt'asonahly for after cai'e and cidture. 
.Allow me to say, 1 think the nurserymen and florists 
are now, and may p(M'ha])s have always been reasonably 
sensible of their duly in this respect, and have given 
much valuable time aiul spent large sums of money in 
creating and testijig new varieties of trees a-nd plants, 
have suffered many failures and disappointments, while 
scoring iu a degn'c w ell merited successes. This branch of 
work also should and does have to some extent the help 
of lh(‘ govtu'iuuenl both national ami state in the collec¬ 
tion and disseiiuualion of Irt'es ami jjlants from both for- 
(‘ign and our ow n countries. 
Notably we ladVi- to llu' Plant Departmeid at Washing¬ 
ton, to Arnold Arboretum, to the Missouri Botanical Gar¬ 
den, or Shaw’s Garden and to many others of less note. 
The nurserymen, florists and otluu’ li'ee and j)lant lovcu s 
of Texas are working vigorously for a Texas Botanical 
Garden. 
Mueh as we ai)preciate these ])ublic efforts, 1 heli('v<' 
if like princely sums used in them, were accorded to tiu' 
practical nurserymen composing the American Associa¬ 
tion that much greater results would he gained therew ith, 
than anything we have enjoyed so far, because this class 
of w ork comes in their line and they have the work more 
at heart. 
Finally again let me say. The Future in Ornamentals 
is an all important subject, and may well engage our best 
efforts in developing. 
Time, space and my limited capabilities forbid me at¬ 
tempting to go into the enumeration of vai’ieties for vai- 
ious sections, or the various methods or possibilities of 
producing new" varieties, or into the varied effects to l)e 
produced by arrangement of classes and varieties, which 
belong to Landscape Architeeture, these and many other 
phrases of the subject may and I hope w ill he brought 
out in discussions by this assembly. 
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE 
Bij J. Horace McFarland, C/iairtnan. 
Your committee takes pleasure in re})orliug substantial 
progress during the year. 
There had been associated w ith the committee fiist a])- 
pointed by the American Association of Nurserymen .i 
similar connnttee appointed by the Ornamental Growei's 
Association prior to the 1916 meeting. Subsequently 
the interested co-operation was secured of the American 
Society of Landscape Architects, of the American Phar¬ 
maceutical Association, and of the American Association 
of Park Superinfendeids, each of which appointed a 
carefully selected committee to work with your Commit¬ 
tee. 
Opportunity w as afforded to the American Seed Trade 
Association, and to the American Society of Florists and 
Ornamental Horticulturists. Much conespondence was 
had with the former, hut no p.ractical co-operation vc- 
sulted, while the florists have paid no attention whatever, 
so far as your Chairman is aware, to the imi)oi'tant mat¬ 
ters included under the heading of Nomenclature. 
Each nunnher of the Association has received ere this 
a copy of the “1917 Official Code of Standardized Plant 
Names,” which we believe is the first pLd)licalion of its 
kijid ever issued in the world, designed not oidy to provid(' 
a uniform scientific nomenclautre foi' ol)jects in horticnl- 
tural commerce, hut to providi* that Code from tlu' stand¬ 
point of MAKING BUYING EASY. 
It was the exeeeding good fortune of the Committee to 
he able to secure the active and interested co-operation of 
Dr. L. H. Bailey in connection with the conqiletion of that 
great world work, “Bailey’s Standard Cyclo])edia of Hor¬ 
ticulture,” wdiich was published in March, 1917. This 
w"ork had previously been chosen by the Association as 
its standard for the scientific names of horlicnltural ob¬ 
jects. It wvas found, however, that there were certain 
radical differences which meant, if this delei'inination 
w as adhered to without intimate consideration, very great 
