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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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. 
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. 
AflERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, Robert C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.; vice-president, R. J. 
Coe, Fort Atkinson, Wis.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, 
N. Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; N. W. Hale, Knoxville, 
Tenn.; William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. 
Committee on Transportation—A. L. Brooke, N. Topeka, Kan.; William Pit¬ 
kin, Rochester, N. Y.; Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; N. W. Hale, Knox¬ 
ville, Tenn. 
Committee on Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; Silas Wilson, At¬ 
lantic, la.; Charles J. Brown, Rochester, N. Y.; Howard A. Chase, Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 
Committee on Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; J. H. Dayton, Paines- 
ville, O.; Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa. 
Annual convention for 1903—At Milwaukee, Wis., June 11-13. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., January, 1902. 
FOR MODIFIED POSTAL LAW. 
Wholesale seedsmen of the country have endorsed the bill 
providing for doing away with stamps on third-class mail 
matter and for having third-class matter weighed at the post- 
office and paid for at the regular rate of eight cents per pound. 
Rochester is one of the heaviest mailers in the country of 
third-class matter. Assistant Postmaster Whittlesey is author¬ 
ity for the statement that the Rochester postoffice sold 
2 , 000,000 one-cent stamps during the last three months. Most 
of these went on third-class matter and at an average of ten 
cents a pound, allowance being made for one-cent stamps on 
matter weighing less than two ounces, represents the enormous 
quantity of 200,000 pounds of such* matter sent through the 
local office during the time indicated by Mr. Whittlesey. All 
of this matter had first to be stamped by its senders and then 
postmarked and cancelled by the postoffice clerks. 
“Fully one-third of this third-class mail is sent out by 
the New York Institute of Science,” said Mr. Whittlesey, “and 
then follow the seedsmen and nurserymen. This year, how¬ 
ever, local merchants and manufacturers of all sorts have been 
sending out great quantities of advertising matter—something 
unprecedented in the history of this office for years. Every 
day, for the last four months, we have sent out from twenty- 
five to thirty-five sacks of third-class mail matter. All of our 
clerks have been putting in their spare time at sorting it out, 
weighing it and canceling it, and we have had to employ two 
extra clerks besides.” 
One peculiar feature about the third-class postage regula¬ 
tions is that seeds, bulbs, roots, scions and plants, by being 
placed in that class, are given preference over every other 
form of merchandise. The reason for this is that the post- 
office department holds such matter to be of special public 
benefit in that it goes to beautify the country. 
Assistant Postmaster Whittlesey is of the opinion that a 
single rate should be made for all third-class and fourth-class 
matter. 
AN ERA OF NATURE STUDY. 
The opening of the second year of the twentieth century finds 
a quite general and active participation in nature study. Nur¬ 
serymen first became acquanted with the subject through the 
earnest talks of Professor Bailey years ago and they looked on 
while he put into practical application his ideas at Cornell,and 
saw others quickly follow. In the last few years, however, nur¬ 
serymen have participated in some of the ideals which were 
then set up. 
It is apparent to all whose business or whose pleasure in 
any way associates them with nature, that never before has 
there been such an active interest in landscape adornment. 
This subject was the principal topic of discussion at the open¬ 
ing session of the annual meeting, last month, of the largest 
horticultural society in this country, the Minnesota State 
Society, having a membership of 1 , 000 . And a nurseryman 
O. F. Brand, of Faribault, presented at that meeting a paper 
on “The Nurseryman’s Part in Landscape Adornment.” 
Naturally the nurseryman’s part in the improvement of pub¬ 
lic and private estates is a large one. It is recognized at once 
by those having charge of such improvement, especially if there 
has been the proper education on the subject. All have noted 
the large number of books published within the last few years 
on nature subjects. These books have created and fostered a 
love for the beautiful in nature. Recently there has appeared 
a work which bears more directly upon the nurseryman’s part 
in the adornment of the landscape than do most of the others, 
The title is “ The Improvement of Towns and Cities.” The 
author is Charles Mulford Robinson, member of the Architec¬ 
tural League of America’s National Committee on Municipal 
Improvements. Although the title sounds dry and the theme 
lends itself to prosiness, Mr. Robinson has produced a really 
entertaining book on civic aesthetics. It is a timely volume 
and will be a valuable addition to the library of the progressive 
nurseryman. It is published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New 
York. 
Passing rapidly over the titles of the chapters on the site of 
the city, the street plan, burial of wires, smoke nuisance, the 
advertising problem, architectural development, we note a dis¬ 
cussion of the tree’s importance, in which the author refers to 
the rise of esteem for trees in cities, gives two views as to their 
proper ownership, and comments on trees in Paris and Ameri- 
