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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO.. 
(incorporated) 
205 Cox Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
President, .THOMAS B. MEEHAN 
Vice-President and Editor, .... RALPH T. OLCOTT 
Secretary-Treasurer and Business Manager, . C. L. YATES 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nursery Stock 
of ail kinds. It circulates throughout the United States and Canada. 
Official Journal of American Association of Nurserymen. 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900. 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 
One year, in advance.$1.00 
Six Months,. .75 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance,.1.50 
Six Months, “ “ 1.00 
Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., March, 1904 . 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, N. W. Hale, Knoxville, Tenn.; vice-president, Frank A. 
Weber, St. Louis, Mo.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y.; 
treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; Peter Youngers, Gen¬ 
eva, Neb.; John S. Kerr, Sherman, Tex. 
Committee on Transportation—President Hale, ex-officio; A. L. Brooke, N. Tope¬ 
ka, Kan.; J. H. Hale, South Glastonbury, Conn.; E. Albertson, Bridgeport, 
Ind.; M. McDonald, Salem, Ore. 
Committee on Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; Thomas B. Meehan, Dresher- 
town, Pa.; Hiram T. Jones, Elizabeth, N. J. 
Committee on Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; Silas Wilson, Atlan¬ 
tic, la.; George A. Sweet, Dansville, N. Y.; William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; 
E. M. Kirkpatrick, McKinney, Tex. 
Committee on Program—-J. H. McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa.; Harlan P. Kelsey, 
Boston,; Charles A. Ilgenfritz, Monroe, Mich. 
Committee on Publicity—Ralph T. Olcott, Rochester, N. Y.; Orlando Harrison, 
Berlin, Md.; Prof. W. G. Johnson, New York City. 
Committee on Exhibits—R. C. Berckmans, Augusta.; J. C. Hale, Winchester! 
Tenn.; M. B. Fox, Rochester. 
Committee on Cost of Growing Trees—-Wilson J. Peters, Troy, O.; W. F. Heikes. 
Huntsville, Ala.; Theodore Smith, Geneva, N. Y. 
STATE AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS. 
American Nurserymen’s Protective Association —President, William Pitkin, 
Rochester, N. Y.; vice-president, A. L. Brooke; secretary, Thomas B. Meehan, 
Dreshertown, Pa.; treasurer, Peter Youngers. Meets annually in June. 
Nurserymen’s Mutual Protective Association —President, N. H. Albaugh, 
Phoneton, O.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y. Meets annually 
in June. 
American Retail Nurserymen’s Protective Association —President, Charles 
J. Brown, Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, Guy A. Bryant, Princeton, Ill. Meets 
annually in June. 
Eastern Association of Nurserymen— President, W. C. Barry, Rochester, N. Y.; 
secretary-treasurer, William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. Meets annually in Jan¬ 
uary. 
Western Wholesale Nurserymen’s Association —President, F. H. Stannard, 
Ottawa, Kan.; secretary, E- J- Holman, Leavenworth, Kan. Meets in July and 
December at Kansas City, Mo. 
Southern Nurserymen’s Association —President, W. T. Hood, Richmond, Va.; 
vice-president, Henry Chase, Huntsville, Ala.; secretary, J. C. Hale, Winchester, 
Tenn. Meets at Asheville, N. C., in August, 1904. 
Southwestern Nurserymen’s Association —-President, J. W. Preston, King¬ 
fisher, Okl. Terr.; secretary, J. A. Taylor, Wynnewood, Ind. Terr. 
Texas Nurserymen’s Association —President, E. M. Kirkpatrick, McKinney, 
Tex.; secretary, John S. Kerr, Sherman, Tex. 
Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen— President, S. A. Miller, Milton, 
Ore.; secretary-treasurer, C. A. Tonneson, Tacoma, Wash. Meets annually in 
June. 
TARIFF ON NURSERY STOCK. 
A practical topic for consideration at the Atlanta convention 
next summer is the tariff on nursery stock. The treasury 
department has ruled that the appraiser cannot state the 
prevailing prices upon which the duty is to be collected. 
Importers must name the price . If this is above the official 
standard the importer is allowed to pay the good round duty. 
If it is below that standard the appraiser may advance it 
and collect in addition as penalty an extra duty amounting 
to 50 per cent, of the total revaluation. 
CREATION OF NEW FRUITS. 
At the St. Louis meeting of the Society for Horticultural 
Science, Dr. H. J. Webber, of the U. S. Department of Agri¬ 
culture, presented, as some of the results of recent attempts 
in breeding hardy oranges, the citrange and the tangelo. The 
fruits of the citrange are about the size of a tangerine orange, 
have a thin skin, are very juicy, and are nearly seedless. The 
texture of the pulp is excellent, but the fruit is rather sour. 
In flavor citranges are more like lemons or limes than oranges, 
but they resemble no other fruit in existence. The tangelo 
is a cross of the tangerine orange and the pomelo. Both of 
these fruits are new creations and can be grown no further 
north than the common orange. It is believed that within 
the next decade hardy edible oranges may be produced. L. 
C. Corbett discussed co-ordination of horticultural work and 
a uniform scheme of note-taking for varieties of plants in 
different localities, so that nurserymen can with greater con¬ 
fidence recommend varieties for a given locality. A per¬ 
manent committee was appointed for this work. 
A BFSINESS PROPOSITION. 
The mails are flooded with periodicals published for the 
general instruction or entertainment of their readers. A 
man may choose from these what he will read. 
But in the matter of a trade journal pertaining exclusively 
to his business the nurseryman has no choice. There is but 
one nurseryman’s journal. The National Nurseryman is 
a business journal for business men. It is not for entertain¬ 
ment; it is foi business, from cover to cover. It keeps the 
nurseryman informed upon nursery matters all over the 
country and the world at large. Its readers repeatedly say 
that they could not do business without it because in these 
days of competition the enterprising nurseryman must know 
what his brother nurseryman is doing. He must get new 
ideas and he must have the very latest information regard¬ 
ing the location of stock that he needs. 
All these things and much more are provided by the 
National Nursery’man, the official journal of the American 
Association of Nurserymen. This journal has always had 
the interests of the nursery trade first at heart and it should 
receive the united support of all who believe that nursery 
interests shonld be safe-guarded at all times and in all places. 
To all our subscribers we extend appreciative recognition of 
their warm endorsement and to those who are still outside 
the fold we say: “Come and join us.” The dollar for the 
subscription is not chargeable to expense; it is simply a 
commission advanced for a sure return of many fold. 
