THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS 
/y/y llarrii Mrliolson, at the Meeting of the Southern Xursergmen's Association, 
Atlanta, Georgia, August 29th and SOth, 1917. 
1 AM very llianki'ul tliis morning to be able to be here, 
and have the pleasure of meeting you all again. 
This has Iteen a very anxious year for us all, I know 
it has been for me. full of uneasiness and some dread as 
to what might ha|)j)en. it has ])een a year the like of 
whieh this assoeiation has never seen before, not only in 
the eondition of Ibe world, but in weatlu'r eonditions, in 
our planting season, and I doubt not that all ot ns have 
been losers more or less. 
At lh(' first of the season we hardly knew wbat we 
would do. the eountry being in sueh an unsettled eondi¬ 
tion, but as lime passed we all deeided to do the l)est we 
eould to ])usb forward, do our full duty as we saw it, and 
trust the rest to the Lord. 
In s])ite of all. many of us have been surprised at the 
sales this year; the ])eo])le are not forgetting that fruit is 
a very essential part of the food ])rol)lem. and this has 
stimulated the sale of trees. The demand for peach trees 
is greater than the sup])ly. Then too in many parts of 
the eountry, the crop of ])eaehes and especially in this 
favored section of the great state ot (icorgia. has sold 
w(dl, and made money for those that have bandied it 
right, this has made a great demand for peach trees, es- 
])ecially tin* .lime buds. For many years there has not 
been such a demand, and right here I want to say to my 
brethren be careful, don’t ])1unge and plant three times 
as many seed as usual, don’t let us forget the years that 
have gone and the brush ])iles. 
I believe it will be better for us all, if we will plant 
about as usual, or perba])S a few more, sell wbat we 
grow, bold up ])riees and make something out of wbat we 
do sell, I would rather l)uy a few trees each year to fill 
out wbat we may need than to have a lot to burn. 
In the beginning of this year I could not help feeling 
unsettled and luke warm abmd going forward with our 
business, but as time ])assed and our President called on 
the eountry for its people to stand by him and try to grow 
the biggest ei’op they eould. I pulled myself together and 
have been trying to do what little I eould. My en¬ 
thusiasm has grown as the time ])assed. I hope that each 
member of this assoeiation will try to make the coming 
year one of the very best in our business experience, by 
using every effort to grow the best trees possible in order 
that we may put in the bands of the farmer and planter 
the best trees that can be grown. 
I want to say a few words about prices and this subject 
I sup])ose has troubled us all more or less, nearly all the 
necessary things have gone soaring sky high in price. 
Corn is two dollars per bushel and bogs 15 to 19 cents 
])er ])ound. and everything else in ])ro])orlion. I doubt 
if any of us ever remendjers bearing of such prices be¬ 
fore in the South. Our trees, with few exceptions, are 
the same old price, and it seems hard to get the prices up. 
our dealers grumbled very mueh when we asked one 
cent more, but we are hoping that something can be done 
by this association from year to year to improve mat¬ 
ters. 1 here is only one way to do it i. e. eo-operation, 
put our heads together, make out a schedule of what we 
think we can affoi’d to sell at. and then .stick to it. We 
are meeting here together from year to year, if I under¬ 
stand the object of these meetings, to try and build up our 
])rofession and business iido a liigher and a better thing, 
and the only way I see to do this is to help each othei'! 
If any of us know better methods and h'arn something 
helj)ful, tell tin* other fellow. I have bet*n a member of 
the American Assoeiation for years and have watched it 
grow and stej) by step elind) the ladder to usefulness and 
things worth whih*. In the last fe\\ yeais mueh has 
b(*en done to uj)lift and better tin* profession and I want 
to urge each member of this assoeiation to join the Amer¬ 
ican Assoeiation and show our a])j)reeiation of what they 
have dojie. 
I hope whih* we are here that sojne oin* will urge that 
something be done to lielj) to get more uniform state in- 
sj)ection laws, I want to call your attenion, especially, to 
the law s that Florida and Louisiana, and now this year 
South (Carolina, has, that at the end of each tiresome dav, 
they require us to send copy of each and every invoice of 
all shipments. This makes nurserymen lots of trouble 
and expense. When the time comes, in the fall, to begin 
getting ready to shi[) we hardly know^ how^ to meet the 
requirements, if each state eould have the same recjuire- 
ments mueh of the troidjle would be saved. 
Now I think I have talk(*d about long enough, but be¬ 
fore I stop, I want to say this to you. I hope we have 
all come liere chuck full of the desire to learn somethijig 
and to inq)art some good thing to this assoeiation, so that 
when we leave for our homes we may go away feeling 
thaf it has been good for us to have been here. I for one 
always go away with a closer brotherly feeling than 
when I eaine. We have this year the brightest pros- 
l)eets for the biggest crop we have ever made, this should 
hel]) us all this fall and we ho])e to make good deliveries 
and be happy, but in our ])rosperity and hapj)lness let as 
not forget the suffering and need across the sea. Let us 
remember that the nurserymen of this eountry stand for 
its best citizenship and let us not forget that our eountry 
needs the helj) of each one, may we ever be ready to re¬ 
spond to each call that may come to us. 
Sej)tember 8, 1917. 
Cicntlemen:—• 
We w ill be very glad to have you continue sending us 
the National Nurseryman, and are inclosing cheek here¬ 
with, covering the ensuing year. 
We w ould be lost without it. 
Very truly yours, 
Maloney Bros. & Wells Co. 
