THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
Established 1893 by C. L. YATES. Incorporated 1902 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
Hatboro, Pa. 
Editor . .. . 
.ERNEST HEMMING, Flourtown, 
Pa. 
The leading 
Nursery 
trade journal Issued for Growers and Dealers 
Stocks of all kinds. It circulates throughout the 
United States, Canada and Europe. 
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Entered us second-class matter June 22, 1016, at the post office at 
Hathoro, Pennsylvania, under the Aet of Mareh 3, 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., August 1917 
Two years ago a radical change 
A(Xh)i\lI*LlSIlMENT took place in the American Asso¬ 
ciation of Nnrseryinen, amount¬ 
ing to a reorganization. When habits of thought and 
action of large bodies of men have to be diverted into 
new channels, it cannot he ex{)ected that much can he 
accomplished in a veiy short time. The jiast two con¬ 
ventions, under the new organization, have shown the 
nurserymen to he in sympathy with the leaders, as never 
was interest so energetic and active, hut speeches, reso¬ 
lutions and discussion never did accomplish much, unless 
they were hacked hy real wairk. The old organization 
owed its elliciency to unselfish individuals, who gave 
their tinui and money freely, and the success of the new 
organization will largely depend upon this, or some 
equivalent. As the new organization is being largely 
modelled along the lines of a business corporation, it 
will depend for its success upon the activity and untiring 
elforts of its officers, hacked up hy the body of the Asso¬ 
ciation, and to really accomplish things such as have 
been jiroposed, good business jiractiee will have to he 
followed. 
At the Philadelphia convention there was an all too- 
evident lack of time to give proper consideration to mat¬ 
ters vital to the welfare of the Association. It would 
he diffieult to find a more able jiresident than John Wat¬ 
son, yet in spite of his elforts sessions were not started 
on time and committeemen were working until the wee 
sma’ hours of the morning. 
This is largely dne to the fact that it is still work¬ 
ing under the old-fashioned programme. The first ses¬ 
sions were largely taken up with matters of small value 
com])ar('d with imjiortant work that was crowded into 
tin' last session. 
Ih^solutions of grave import were rushed through and 
adopti'd and when it was recognized that jnojier consid¬ 
eration had not been given, they were brought u|) again 
for revision. There are some things that must neces¬ 
sarily he left until the last, Init there are others that took 
up a good part of the early sessions that could just as 
well have been side-tracked. 
There is evidimt need for an ellieieney and cost ewpert 
to systematize the ojieration of the convention, so as to 
g('t the greatest good for the expense entailed. 
We may as well look upon a convention as a husiiu'ss 
])roposition and consider the cost. If one were able to get 
at th(' aggregate cost to each and every nurseryman, com¬ 
ing as they do from all parts of the state, then add to that 
the loss to their Imsiness, due to their ahstmee, it Mould 
make a large total. 
Such expense does not show on the hooks of the Asso¬ 
ciation, yet it can jiroperly he charged against it, unless 
it he classed under the head of vacation. 
Even if such overhead expenses he entirely ignored, 
common business sense reejuires that maximum results 
he seimred. 
It has been truthfully said “A committee is a body of 
men that aceomjilishes as much as one man in a longer 
time” and as the Mork has to he done largely hy eommil- 
tees. ev(U'y possible effort to conserve tinu' and aecom- 
plish inqiortant things during the sessions should ho 
made. 
As the nurserymen forming the Association only meet 
in convention once a year, it should at least he made so 
that the most could he aecomplished at that time. 
Even if the Executive Committee he given plenary 
poMcrs, they Mould Mork Math much more lu'art if the 
voice of the Association Mas emphatic on a given sub¬ 
ject and to make it so the issues must he clean cut and 
deliberately considered in convention assembled. 
The Ncm’ York Sun of July the 8th in reporting the 
Conveidion of the American Association of Nurserymen 
reported at length on the suggestion made hy President 
Watson that there should he a National Arboretum, one 
Mhich should he entirely free from the clutches of the 
politicians. The Sun further remarks “If the Nursery¬ 
men’s Association m ill father this the editor of the Farm 
and Garden Department of the Sun will agree to obtain 
all the land that is needed for the ])urpose without cost¬ 
ing the Association a penny. The ujikeej) can he met 
hy annual dues and bequests.” 
According to dhe Australian Iidernational Nurseryman 
a conference of experts has been held to discuss a di¬ 
sease that has been attacking the Plane trees iPlatanus 
Orienfalis) in various jiarls of the State of Victoria. The 
scieidific name of the disease is Gloeosporiitm nervise- 
quitm and is causing much anxiety. The Plane tree is 
very largely used as a street and avenue tree in this jiart 
of the world. 
Among other resolutions, such as those ri'commending 
that alt trees he heavily pruned early in the w ilder and 
that all the affeetial shoots and branches he huriu'd forth- 
M ith, leaves to he collected and burned soon after falling, 
and sjirayed w ith Bordeaux Mixture during the winter 
and again when growth begins, a resolution was to the 
effect that in future the Plane tree should only he planted 
