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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
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,.SI .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., June, 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 
.T une. 
Pe j • -■ylvania Nurserymen’s Association —President, W. H. Moon, Morrisvilie, 
secretary, Earl Peters, Mt. Holly Springs, Pa. Next annual meeting at 
1 1 irr.-burg, in January. 
Nai.onm, Association of Retail Nurserymen —President, William Pitkin, 
Rochester. N. Y.; secretary, John B. Kiley, Rochester, N. Y. 
THE ATLANTA CONVENTION. 
All is in readiness for the twenty-ninth annual convention 
of the American Association of Nurserymen at Atlanta, Ga. 
The date is June 22-24. The headquarters will be at the 
Hotel Piedmont, the finest hotel in the South, with conven¬ 
tion hall on ninth floor. The railroads have granted a rate 
of a fare and a third for this occasion. 
A large party of eastern nurserymen will start from Roch¬ 
ester at about 7 P. M. on Sunday, June 19t.h, via the Northern 
Central railroad, arriving in Washington, D. C., the next 
morning. Monday will be spent in the national capital. 
At 10.35 P. M. Monday, June 20th, the party will start, via 
the Southern Railway, for Atlanta, arriving there at 3.55 
P. M. on Tuesday, June 21st. The convention will open at 
10 A. M. on Wednesday, June 22d. 
The fare from Rochester with this party will be $30.30, 
one fare and a third. 
Excursions to the great nursery and peach-growing sections 
of Georgia and Alabama have been planned by the southern 
nurserymen who have promised a warm welcome to all who 
attend the convention. 
MAY GO TO PORTLAND NEXT YEAR. 
A cordial invitation to the American Association to hold 
the convention of 1905 in Portland, Oregon, is extended 
by the Pacific Coast Nurserymen’s Association. In this 
issue of the National Nurseryman are presented strong 
arguments in favor of holding the convention on the Pacific 
coist next year. The subject is presented extensively at 
this time, so that the American Association may consider 
the invitation at the Atlanta convention and pass upon it 
intelligently. Air. M. McDonald of the Oregon Nursery 
Co., Salem, Ore., is especially delegated by the Pacific Coast 
association to present the matter before the Atlanta con¬ 
vention. He is the vice-president of the American Associa¬ 
tion from Oregon. He has extended an invitation to Pacific 
coast nurserymen generally to join the American Associa¬ 
tion, and has addressed a letter to each member of the Amer¬ 
ican Association, asking him to signify an expression of 
his views as to holding the convention of 1905 in Portland, 
upon the occasion of the Lewis & Clark Exposition. 
In a letter to the National Nurseryman Mr. McDonald 
says: “I am pleased to tell you that in answer to a circular 
letter I have sent out to all the members of the National 
Association I have already, in the last three days, received 
about fifty replies from nurserymen throughout the entire 
country, and each and every one expresses himself as favor¬ 
able toward coming to Portland in 1905. Some few have 
thought .perhaps the other fellow might think it too far 
away and too expensive to come out here; but they all seem 
confident that they, • themselves, will be able to take the 
trip, providing we are successful in getting the association 
with us.” It is probable that there will be other invitations 
to the American Association for its 1905 convention, but 
it is safe to sa\ r that no other effort to secure the convention 
will be more earnest or more exhaustively treated than is 
that of Portland’s. 
