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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, .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 WARD ED I HE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPO ITIOX, 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. 
Address Editor, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Entered in the Post Office at Roehe-der. as second-class mail matter- 
Rochester, N. Y., December, 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 Glassification 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. Stannardi 
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. 
HORTICUL¬ 
TURAL PAR. 
AGRAPHERS. 
“It is possible for a man to cause the wood of his trees to 
become mature at any time and some fruit growers now under¬ 
stand this fact.” Here is a statement by an 
“office horticulturist.” It is very easy to dic¬ 
tate or write a sentence of this kind but the man 
who grows nursery stock or orchards, knows a 
good deal better. He knows that to a large extent he is a 
creature of circumstances; that soil and climate limit his scope 
of action to a very considerable degree. It is perfect nonsense 
to say that a man can arrest the growth of his orchard trees or 
his nursery stock during the height of the growing season, 
especially if that period were accompanied by ideal growing 
weather; and the same is true of orchard trees. 
Of course we know that the growing season may be extended, 
or curtailed to some extent by cultural methods, but what we 
object to, are broad statements by men who possibly have had 
no practical experience whatever and who are nevertheless 
trying to lead the blind. One way of obviating statements of 
this kind is by newspaper men being a little more particular 
in selecting correspondents and in admitting contributions. 
We propose to mark the opening of the new year by publish¬ 
ing in the January number the first of an exceedingly important 
important series of articles which are to appear each month 
centers of 1905 and longer if necessary. These articles 
the united are to deal with the great commercial fruit tree 
S TA TE S 
AND growing regions of the United States and our 
Canada friends of the Dominion to the North. They will 
give something of the history, the development and the pres¬ 
ent day condition of the business. 
The sketches will be faithful representations of the sections 
described and reliable descriptions of the business interprises 
of firms included. The purposes of the articles are: 
1— To record general nursery development. 
2— To emphasize the specialties of each section. 
3— To credit the pioneers of the past and the progressive 
men of the present with the important advances for which they 
have been responsible. 
The reviews will be carefully written and adequately illus¬ 
trated. We shall hope for the cooperation of the nurserymen 
in this important venture and take this means of introducing 
them to the general plan of the enterpri e. 
Is is not “up to” the nurserymen of the country to encour¬ 
age the planting of better varieties of pears, than Keiffer and 
grow bet- even Duchess? Not long since we received a 
rrES V ()F* ,Em c °U e ction °f fi ne European varieties of pears from 
pears Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry of Rochester, N. Y., 
Few of these varieties are to be found in the catalogues of any 
nurserymen of the United States. It is probable that they 
are not there, because the demand for them is limited; but 
after all do not all good varieties move slowly at first unless 
exploited by some one. Perhaps one thing which retards 
the introduction of some of these high quality French pears 
is their lengthy and unpronounceable names. This note is 
incited by a letter from C. W. Ward of Queens, Long Island, 
in which he gives hi? experience with Belgian and French 
pears during a recent visit to the land of their origination. Mr. 
Ward returns from his European trip very much impressed 
with the quality and highly enthusiastic in regard to these 
productions of the Dutch pomologist Van Mons, which have 
