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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Tnc. 
205 Cox Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
President, .THOMAS B. MEEHAN 
Vice-President and Editor, .JOHN CRAIG 
Secretary-Treasurer and Business Manager, . C. L. YATES 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nursery Stock 
of all kinds. It circulates throughout the United States and Canada. 
Official Journal of American Association of Nurserymen. 
A WARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION , 1900. 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 
One year, in advanee,.$1.00 
Six months,.75 
Foreign Subscribtions, 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. 
Correspondents from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Address Editor, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester , as second-class mail matter- 
Rochester, N. Y., September, 1904. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, E. W. Kirkpatrick, McKinney, Tex.; vice-president, C. L. 
Watrous, Des Moines, la.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, 
N. Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; M. McDonald Salem 
Ore.; George A. Sweet, Dansville, N. Y. 
Transportation—E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind.; M. McDonald, Salem, Ore.; H. 
B. Chase, Huntsville, Ala.•W. H. Moon. 
Committee to meet Western Freight Classification Committee at Manitou, Col.— 
Peter Youngers, E. Albertson. 
Committee to meet Eastern Freight Classification Committee in New York—Wm. 
H. Moon, Howard Davis, James McHutchison. 
Committee to meet Southern Freight Classification Committee—H. B. Chase, R. 
C. Berckmans. 
Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; Thomas B. Meehan, Dreshertown, Pa.; 
H T. Jones, Elizabeth, N. J. 
Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; N. H. Albaugh, Phoneton, O.; 
N. W. Hale, Knoxville, Tenn.; R. C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.; George A. Sweet, 
Dansville, N. Y. 
Programme—Harlan P. Kelsey, Boston; H. B. Chase, Huntsville, Ala.; John S. 
Kerr, Sherman, Tex. 
Publicity—Ralph T. Olcott, Rochester, N. Y.; Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md.; 
J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa. 
Exhibits—R. C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.; J. C. Hale, Winchester, Tenn.; M. B. 
Fox, Rochester, N. Y. 
To edit report—J. Horace McFarland, C. L. Watrous, George C. Seager. 
STATE AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS. 
American Nurserymen’s Protective Association President, R. C. Berckmans, 
Augusta Ga.; 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. 
Pennsylvania Nurserymen’s Association— President, W. H. Moon, Morrisville, 
Pa.; secretary, Earl Peters, Mt. Holly Springs, Pa. Next annual meeting at 
Harrisburg, in January. 
National Association of Retail Nurserymen —-President, William Pitkin 
Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, John B. Kiley, Rochester, N. Y. 
editorial 
We have recently been taken to task by a patron who claims 
to have been badly treated by an advertiser who uses the col¬ 
umns of the National Nurseryman. Let us suppose the 
case is substantially as follows: Messrs. A. & 
ethics offer stock in wholesale in quantities in our 
advertising columns. Messrs. C. & D., retailers, 
and others residing in adjoining states purchase freely. 
The stock is shipped purchasers by A. & B. in due time. 
Now comes the remarkable and entirely unwarranted part 
of the transaction. After Messrs. C. & D. receive the stock 
and are busy placing orders, agents representing A. & B. appear 
on the scene as active competitors. Mere competition is not 
so bad but their methods appear to be utterly contemptible. 
They circularized the farmers of the county urging them to 
buy direct from the wholesaler, to avoid the jobber; and to 
clinch matters actually published the names of the dealers 
who had purchased stock of them, together with a rough bill 
of the goods! Business ethics, eh? If this statement is true 
and there appears to be no good reason to doubt it, we are of 
the opinion that Messrs. A. & B. have much to learn under the 
general caption of Business Ethics. 
To come back to the original proposition—the responsibility 
of the advertising medium—we must state now that it is our 
desire and aim to deal squarely with the seller and the buyer. 
We will not willingly aid a fraud, nor will we knowingly allow 
the columns of our journal to be used by unscrupulous and dis¬ 
honest persons. But on the other hand we must not be ex¬ 
pected to fight legal battles for our patrons who have been 
worsted in business struggles by such sharp practice as is out¬ 
lined above. It seems to us that here are sufficient grounds for 
a suit of damages. When such has been brought by Messrs. 
C. & D. then the readers of the Nurseryman can properly be 
informed of its progress. 
“Many thousand peach trees in the Michigan fruit belt 
have already died and many more are likely to die as the re¬ 
sult of the long continued cold weather of last winter,” so 
says Professor L. R. Taft in the National Fruit 
THE hard Grower. The writer states that the injury is 
WINTER. much greater than occurred during the winter 
of 1898-1899. The injury is also more or less 
confined to the exposed hill tops where the soil is light and 
where the ground was unprotected by snow covering. The 
author is of the opinion that the experience of many years, 
although there are apparent exceptions, has not proven 
misleading in regard to the conditions that prevailed during 
the past winter, “and the man will not go far astray who 
after planting some cultivated crop in his peach orchard for the 
first two years, relies upon frequent cultivations from the first 
of May to the fifteenth of July, or perhaps the first of August, 
if the season is a dry one, and then seeds the land with some 
cover crop as a winter protection.” 
These hard winters are to be looked for. They have come 
with more or less periodicity as far back as our horticultural 
records extend, but they do not constitute a sufficient reason 
for abandoning peach culture in any section where the indus¬ 
try has been particularly “hard hit.” Rather they constitute 
the best possible argument for studyng conditions so that the 
most can be made of site, aspect and methods of tilling. 
