THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
apple orehards in southern Indiana and other parts of the 
stat(‘. 
He is serving his eighth year as trustee of Purdue Uni¬ 
versity. At 70 lie still keeps in toueh with hortieullural 
interests, hut feeds he has served his day and generation 
and that youngiu’ and more active hands must now take 
up the work. 
Mr. Hohhs says he has very pleasant memoides of some 
of the early and oldei’ nuMiihei's of the Ameriean Associa¬ 
tion of Aurserymen. Me'ssrs. Storrs, Harrison, Franklin 
Davis, Pai'iieS; Phases, Manning, Alba ugh, Augustine, 
Ih'rkman, Meehan, Huhbard, Josselyn, Moody, Win. Parry 
and a host of others, most of whom have passed to the 
h(*yond. 
He is jileased to see that the younger generation of niir- 
serynum are organizing the association more along prac¬ 
tical business lines, which in the end will bring great 
good to the craft. 
PACKING AND STORAGE HOUSES OF THE THOMAS 
R. MEEHAN CO., RURNED TO THE GROUND 
On Saturday night, October 29th the packing and stor¬ 
age houses of the Thomas R. Meehan Co., Dresher, Pa., 
were struck by lightning and burned to the ground. 
The lire occurred about 11 p. m. and although the lire 
companies from the surrounding country quickly re¬ 
sponded to the alarm, the tire made sueh headway they 
could do little but prevent it spreading to the offices and 
nearby buildings. 
The buildings, covering about an acre of ground, and 
contents are a total loss and include considerable ma¬ 
chinery, tools, raffia, several carloads of stock and incom- 
pleted orders. The loss being estimated at about 
$ 10 , 000 . 
The buildings and contents w ere covered by insurance. 
Refore the embers had cooled Mr. Meehan was busy on 
plans for a new building and apart from a little delay in 
connection with the orders in process of filling business 
w ill o'o on as usual as no records w ere destroyed. 
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Raleigh, N. C., October Tth, 1917. 
Mr. 0. Joe Howard, Secretary, 
Southern Nurserymen’s Association, 
Pomona, N. G. 
Dear Mr. Howard: 
1 am certainly glad to see your resolution regarding 
"Unethical Rusiness Practices” in the last number of the 
.National Nurseryman. I believe this resolution, if fol- 
low ed out to the letter, w ill do a great deal towards purg¬ 
ing your assoeiation of undesirable members and of let¬ 
ting unprincipled nurserymen see that they cannot re¬ 
main in an association of reputable nurserymen unless 
their methods are above suspicion. I ho})e that your 
association w ill have the back-bone to see that this reso¬ 
lution is carried out to the letter. If so, I feel sure that 
it will result in great good to the horticultural interests 
of tin* south. Very truly yours, 
^ State Horticulturist. 
(Signed) W. N. Hutt, 
I T is the purpose of the National Nurseryman to publish a roll 
of honor consisting of the names of those nurserymen serving 
in the United States army in the present war. We shall appre¬ 
ciate it if our readers will send us their names and photographs 
if possible. 
Charles R. SmitI), Aviation Section of the Signal Reserve 
Corj)s, Aviation Camp, San Antonia, Texas.—Smith 
Rros. Nursery Company, Concord, Ga. 
Stuart Perkins, Wireless Operator, Sj>ecial Radio School, 
Cambridge, Mass.—.Jackson tf- IMrkins Co., Newark, 
N. Y. 
Wade Muldoon, Sergeant, Heetdquarters Military Police, 
Camp Hancock, Ga.—Thomas Meehan & Sons. 
George Taylor, Battery “F,” 108th U. S. F. A., Camp IRm- 
cock, Georgia.—Thomas Meehan & Sons. 
Carroll .1. Baghy, Capt. U. S. Infantry—New Haven Nur¬ 
series, New Haven, Mo. 
Oliver W. Baghy, Lieutenant, U. S. Navy—New Haven 
Nurseries, New Haven, Mo. 
Redph B. Baghy, Lieutenant, 2Jst U. S. F. A., I^ort Riley, 
Kansas—New Haven Nurseries, New Haven, Mo. 
Lew IF. Baghy, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) U. S. Navy — 
New Haven Nurseries, New Haven, Mo. 
Paul Rathert, Battery F., 128th U. S. F. A., Ft. Sill, Okla¬ 
homa, New Haven Nurseries, New Haven, Mo. 
Charles Schwentker, Battery F, 128th U. S. F. A., FT. Sill, 
Oklahoma—New Haven Nurseries, New Haven, Mo. 
Robert E. Baghy, Cadet, Senior Class, United Stales Mili¬ 
tary Academy—New Haven Nurseries, New Haven, 
Mo. 
Harold J. Baghy, Enlisted Medical Reserve Corps—New 
Haven Nurseries, New Haven, Mo. 
Lloyd C. Stark, Major of the Field Artillery, Fori Sill, 
Okla. Vice-President and a Director of Stark Bros. 
Nurseries and Orchards Co., Louisiana, Mo. I*resi- 
dent of the National Association of Nurseries. 
Meredith P. Reed, Captain, Sixth Company Section U. S. 
Officers’ Reserve Corps.—Vincennes Nurseries, F/n- 
cennes, Indiana. 
V’ilUam Flemer, Jr., F. tb F. Nurseries, Springfield, N. J. 
I*rivate U. S. Expeditionary Force, Ambulance Corps, 
Battalion No. 23, Section No. 23, France. | 
Clay M. Stark, Stark Bros. Nurseries tf- Orchards Co., 
Iwuisiana, Missouri. American Field Service. Now 
in France. 
