THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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The National N urseryman. 
C. L. YATES, Proprietor. RALPH T. OLCOTT, Editor. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., 
305 Cox Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
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 THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900. 
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AHERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, Theodore J. Smith, Geneva, N. Y.; vice president, N. W. 
llale, Knoxville, Tenn.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, 
N. Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee — Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; C. L. Watrous, Des 
Moines, la.; E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind. 
Committee on Transportation — TheoJoreJ. Smith, ex-officio, chairman ; A. L. 
Brooke, N. Topeka, Kan.; William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; Peter Youngers, 
Geneva, Neb.; N. W. Hale, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Committee on Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; N. H. Albaugh, 
Phoneton, O.: Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la.; Charles J. Brown, Rochester, N.Y. 
Robert C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
Committee on Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; J. J. Harrison, Paines- 
ville, O.; Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa. 
Annual convention for 1901—At Niagara Falls, N. Y., June 12-13. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., April, 1901. 
THE ANNUAL CONVENTION. 
The twenty-sixth annual convention of the American Asso¬ 
ciation of Nurserymen will be held in Niagara Falls, on June 
12th and 13th. This being the first time the convention has 
been held in the East in several years and it being the occasion 
also of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, only a few 
minutes’ ride from the Falls, the attendance should be large. 
Secretary Seager has been working diligently to secure 
desirable accommodations for the members of the Association 
at the convention. At first it seemed that it would be impos¬ 
sible to obtain what was wanted in this respect on account of 
the very great demand for hotel accommodations on and after 
the opening of the Exposition, on May 1st. Rates of $4 and 
$5 per day were demanded in such hotels as could accommo¬ 
date the number of nurserymen that usually attend the con¬ 
ventions and could offer an assembly hall for the convention 
sessions, as well as a lobby large enough for the congregation 
of the members during the recesses. Finally, after 
respondence, Secretary Seager obtained what must at once be 
admitted to be most favorable terms in consideration of the 
pressure for hotel reservations at Exposition time. He is able 
to announce that a minimum rate of $3 per day has been 
secured at the Cataract House, with choice of rooms at $4 and 
upwards. In this way everyone may be accommodated; and 
it is unnecessary to refer to the fact that at this hotel the best 
service and greatest number of conveniences are obtainable. 
The members will have the use of an appropriate assembly 
hall for the convention sessions, and a large lobby for the 
work of the meeting between sessions, which is not the least 
important part of the annual gathering. 
A railroad rate of one fare and a third to the convention has 
also been obtained by the secretary. But, in order to secure 
this rate, it is absolutely essential that the members procure 
the necessary certificates at the place of starting, so that these 
certificates may be turned over to the railroad representatives 
at the convention. All who have attended the conventions 
know the importance of this; for on more than one occasion 
the reduced rate has been secured only by collecting every cer¬ 
tificate in the room. Therefore, this matter is one of the most 
important connected with the trip to the Falls. 
FEDERAL LEGISLATION. 
The committee on legislation of the American Association 
of Nurserymen will report at the Niagara Falls convention 
regarding work at Washington in connection with the federal 
bill for the regulation of the transportation of nursery stock. 
Silas Wilson, Atlantic City, la., of the committee, says: 
“The last trip made to Washington was, in my judgment, the 
most important ever made by the committee.” 
C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la., chairman of the committee, 
says: “ We found that the Californians had arranged to put 
an amendment to the regular agricultural appropriation bill 
when the same was in the Senate, after having passed the 
House. This amendment would, without doubt, have been 
adopted in a day or two, if we had not reached there, in which 
case it would have been impossible to eliminate it from the 
bill, as our congressman informed me. It provided that all 
foreign stocks shipped into this country might be held up and 
opened at the port of entry and if the young men at Washing¬ 
ton thought there was anything wrong they might confiscate 
the stock. In our judgment it was a very ill-advised piece of 
legislation.” 
KEEP COOL AND COUNSEL. 
This is the advice given to fruit growers and nurserymen by 
a leading horticultural journal. American Agriculturist, whose 
comment on the San Jose scale is reproduced in another 
column. 
“ All interested should co-operate with nature.” Says the 
journal referred to. “But let us keep cool, do nothing rash, 
but counsel together and stand as one man, allied with nature, 
against the common enemy. A single season of such effective 
co-operation would go far toward controlling the scale.” 
Regarding legislation, American Agriculturist says : 
“ The Maryland law is backed by every nurseryman and 
fruit grower in the state. Public sentiment is so strong in its 
