TIT?] NATTOXAT. NURS?]??YMAX 
'Phis old lu'^io ;isl\('(l his inash'r lo Imy hiiii a liocMiso in a 
iH'i^hhorin^ cily. d'lu' inash'r. hciii^' in haslcy did not 
ask tin' nanu' of tin' hapj)}' woman, hnl as In* dro\'(' alon^ 
h(‘ r(dl(‘cl(‘d on llu‘ many l(‘n(hM“ atlonlions that ho had 
S(M*n John lavish upon Malinda Wilson, tin' cook. and. 
concluding that llu'rc' could Ix' no mislak<'. had llu' lic(‘ns(‘ 
mad(‘ out in luu’ nanu'. ■“Th('r<''s your lic('us(‘ lo many 
Malinda,” he said lo llu' old darky on his r('lurn, ''yoirrc 
as ^ood as mai ioHl already and you ow(‘ uk' only Iwo dol¬ 
lars.” The darky’s Tacc loll. ■‘I{ut lMars('Tom, Malinda 
Wilson aint dc lady Isc ^winc l(‘r niarry. Dal wa’n'l 
nothin mo’n a lillh' I’lirlalion. (Icor^ia Thompson, llu' 
laund’t'ss, is the one Isc ^winc h'r marry.” ‘'Oh, well. 
John,” said the mastei', amused and soimwvhal irrilaled, 
"there’s no harm doin'. I’ll gel you another lieen.se to¬ 
morrow', hut it will cost you two dollars more.” The 
next morning the old darky came out lo the carriage as 
it was stalling lo town, and leaning conlidentially over 
tln^ w hei'l, said, “Marse Tom, you needn’t git me no uddi'r 
license. I’ll use the one Ise got. Isc heeii thinkin’ it ovi'r 
in the night, and to tell you de troof, Marse Tom, de con¬ 
clusion ol) my judgment is dat dar aint two dollars worth 
of diU'erence helw een dcin two ladies.” 
Yes, we are exceedingly critieal in some of our deal¬ 
ings, hut we care not a flip who grows the stock that 
goes into our orders. Leave his entire stock in the hands 
of the farmer grower for one season, with-draw your 
jiati'onage from him, and he goes out of husiness. I 
want to say here that this renegadi' element, both giowi'i's 
and sellers, are kej)t in husiness hy you uh'u before me. 
and they w ill go hack to grow ing corn and cotton w hen 
wa' (piit buying their stock. Will wa' do it'.^ It makes 
litth' (lilference, afti'r all. whether the jirice is one thing 
or another, if this price is eciuilahle and stable. It w ill 
he readily agrec'd that if each of us is ahh' to si'll his 
grow ing on a fair and reasonable liasis, each year would 
he prolitahle wdieia' under the pri'senl chaotic conditions 
it is a gamble, jmre and simple. More and moia' I am 
coming lo helii'vi' that through close co-ojieralive nu'lhods 
w'ill we he ahh' lo jilace the nursery Tmsiness on a paying 
basis and lo ri'lieve it of the many hazards which has 
been true of the past. 
SOUTIIEHN NUHS?]UYM?]N’S ASSOCIATION 
At the last meeting of the Southern Nurserymen’s As¬ 
sociation held at Atlaida, Oeorgia. August 29th and 3()lh 
a revised constitution was adopted including Article vii 
as follows:— 
It shall he the duty of every member to reiiort lo the 
executive committee hereof, any character of dealings on 
the part of Association nu'inliers not in accord with I's- 
tahlished business ethics. The Secretary shall onci' 
each year jirovide each member w ith blanks for ballot, 
upon w hich he shall make a report, and in case any mem¬ 
ber shall receive' three or more advi'rsi' r('|)orts. the exi'- 
cutive committi'e shall immediately make su(*h investiga¬ 
tion as will develop all the facts in the case, and hi'ing 
their report before the next annual meeting of this Asso¬ 
ciation. If, uj)on evidence deduced, it is proven that 
such members’ dealings violate established ethical rela¬ 
tions, he shall be expelled from this Association in)on a 
majority vote of the members present at any annual 
mei'ling. pi'o\id('d eacdi iiK'iuher shall ha\(' tin' right to he 
lu'ard ill his ow ii Ix'half hi'fore such action is laki'ii. 
Th(' follow ing r('soluliou w as also adopted 
That llu' Southern Nursi'iyuK'n's Association in con¬ 
vention assi'inhled .\ugusl 29. 1917. at Atlanta, ('la., do 
heri'hy ('iidorse tin' |)('ndiiig resolutions hefori' tin' Amer¬ 
ican Association of .Nurserymen whiidi pro\i(h's for a 
husiiK'SS organization to dirc'ct tin' affairs of the .Vssocia- 
tion, and urgi' the adoption llu'reof at the next annual 
nu'i'ting in (’hicago; and that a copy of these n'solulions 
Ik' si'iit to tin' Si'crelary of tin' .Xnn'rican .\ssocialion (d‘ 
Nurseiynn'ii. 
(]('rtifi('d: 
(). Joe. IIowaiu), Ncr’// Son. Xiirs. Asfoi^ 
PItOPAt’.ATINd FKOM SFLLCTFI) TYPLS 
F()l{ IIAltDINFSS 
Heod hi/ WiHiain llorri/ Kosskr, Ijniihcope .[rchilod, 
lilrin'nKjlunii, .Mo., Before llie MeeHof/ of (he Soolliero 
Xorseri/iiien's Association, Allania, (ieori/ia, 
Aof/osI 29lli 0)1(1 S(hh, 1917. 
W F are all well ac(|uainl('d with tin' fact that ci'i- 
tain varieties of trees, shrulis. jilanls and viiu's 
ar(' adapted to restiicted aieas hy ri'ason of 
differences in climatic soil and situation influenci's. and 
that w hile these vai ii'lic's may acclimalizi' lln'insi'lves in a 
more or less (h'gri'i' lo localitii's sonu'w hat ditfi'ient than 
their natural habitat, that occasionally tlu'y will he s('- 
verely injured, it not kilh'd. hy ('xtri'iin's of t('mp('ralur-'. 
diyness or I'xcessive moisture. Tin' |)urpos(' ol this 
talk is to fostc'r an interest in the study of tyjies of var¬ 
ieties w ith tin' idea of hri'eding them up. or propagating 
from tyjies that have hec'n hia'd uji or havi' naturally ulu¬ 
lated into individuals that are ahh' lo ('xisi in a satisfac¬ 
tory manner in localiti('s moia' oi' h'ss fort'ign lo their 
natLiral recjuiia'inenis. 
The (h'linitf' jiroducing of kinds of jilanls adajili'd lo 
giv('n uses is known as jilani hrei'ding. Natural var- 
i('lies are the result of natural l('n(h'nci('s and laws, and 
not from the rt'guhUr'd acts of man. Tin' laws ol jilanl 
inheritance an' now' beginning to Ik' uinh'rstood and the 
result of this knowledge is the jiroduction in an ordc'rly 
way w ith more or less practical results. Sinci' tin' dis¬ 
covery of De Yries mutation tin'ory and the Mendeliaii 
jirincijiles, a great advanci' has been made in jilanl bi't'i'd- 
ing, which jiuts exjierimentation in this fii'ld on a mueli 
more sure basis. 
The laws of heredity are of jirimary inijiorlance lo the 
jreeder, for while it is gi'iieially true that like ht'gi'ts 
ike, it is also true that in soiik' inslanci's like jiroduces 
.inlike. It is (juite well known that individual jilants of 
he same variety vary in their charactc'i's, just as nn'u dit- 
ler ill facial exjiression. This fact allows for tin' ini- 
[irovement of classes Iiy selection. All of us have no 
loubt noticed that in lilocks of one variety individu.il 
sjiecimens show distinct variation from others growing 
in close proximity and under the same ajijiarent soil and 
Mimatic conditions, jiossessing jieculiarities that may in¬ 
crease their value in beauty of form, color and size of 
foliage and flow ers, productiveness and hardiness. Now 
