THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
373 
THE CLEVELAND CONVENTION 
By Henry B. Chase, President of the American Association of yurserymen. 
Last year at Monteagle I told you of the Portland meet¬ 
ing and you remember that the one speeial topic I en¬ 
larged upon was the question of Uniform Legislation, 
which was brought up at Portland, thrashed out in com¬ 
mittee, and is now being handled by a sjiecial committee 
appointed by the National Association. This is a matter 
that interests every nurseryman in the United States, 
North, East, South or West, and at the Cleveland meet¬ 
ing the committee reported progress in this work. At 
the meeting of the Entomologists in Atlanta last January 
the National Association sent a s[)ecial committee of five 
to meet with the Entomologists; that meeting resulted 
in a “get together” feeling between the Entomologists 
and the nurserymen, and there is today a better feeling, 
a better understanding between the nurserymen and the 
Entomologists than ever before. This is a matter that 
will take time, but a bill will be woi ked out eventually 
that will come as near Uniform Legislation as is possible. 
Last year the Southern Association made up a fund of 
nearly $200.00, which was sent to Treasurer Youngers 
to help along with the work. 
The program at Cleveland was one of the best in years, 
the illustrated lecture by Mr. Robert Pyle on “Roses”— 
and Prof. N. E. Shaw on “Ohio Nurseiies” and the mag¬ 
nificent paper by Mr. Henry Hicks on “Fitting trees to 
SHADE TREES FOR THE SOUTH 
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with, can, generally, be traced to one or all of the follow¬ 
ing causes. 
First—Selection of unsuitable species. 
Second—The mixing of several sjiecies on the same 
climate and soil” was alone worth the ex|)ense of attend¬ 
ing the Cleveland meeting, if you figure on a dollars and 
cents liasis. There were many very valuable pajiers and 
discussions, to say nothing of the pleasure derived from 
getting together, getting accpiainted, meeting your 
brother nurserymen face to face, and incidentally enjoy¬ 
ing the fun and entertainment which was so generously 
provfded for us. 
The National Association needs the support of every 
nurseryman and dealer in nursery products in the 
United States, and right here I want to urge every mem¬ 
ber of the Southern Association to join the National As¬ 
sociation; it is working through its committees on Legis¬ 
lation, Tariff, Transportation, etc., for you and for all 
nurserymen. It is, in my opinion, one of the best trade 
associations in the United States. 1 want to see a great 
big increase in the membership of the National Associa¬ 
tion next year, and particularly from this Southern states 
where the membership is now so small. The cost to each 
of you is but $5.00 per pear; the printed jiroceedings con¬ 
tain information worth many times this sum. Join the 
National Association and attend this next Convention at 
Detroit if you possibly can, but join it anyway—you as 
nurserymen cannot afford to do otherwise. 
Southern States; and is not intended to he complete, but 
merely suggestive, and can be classified as follows: 
Trees With Showy Flowers. 
Acer rubriim (Red Maple); AescnUis ruhiennda (Red- 
flowering Horse Chestnut) ; Cercis canadensis (Judas 
Tree); Catalpa sjieciosa AVestern Calalpa); Cornus 
Florida alha (White-Flowering Dogwood) ; llovenia dul- 
500,000 June buds. Huntsville Wholesale yurseries, Huntsville, Ala. 
block, and very often in front of the same lot. 
Third—Crowding the trees. 
Now having outlined the use of the tree in brief, we 
can make selection of varieties for special purposes, and 
this list includes trees of proved hardiness for the Middle 
CIS (Honey Tree); Koelreuteria jmnicuhda (Ciolden Rain 
Tree); Liriodendron tulipifera (Tulip Tree); Magnolia 
Soulangeana (Chinese Magnolia); Steradia jilatanifolia 
(Varnish Tree); Virgilia lutea (Yellow Wood) ; Magnolia 
grandiflora (Southern Evergreen Magnolia); Sluarlia 
