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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Resolved, That our thanks are due to the Citizens’ Business League, 
its representative Mr. R. B. Watrous, our brother nurseryman Mr. T. J. 
Ferguson and the daily press for kindly attentions and courtesies dur¬ 
ing our visit, also to the Plankinton House, admirably fitted as it is 
for taking care of large conventions, and that we tender our vote of 
appreciation to Manager Comee for his efforts to add to the pleasures 
of our meeting, in which effort he has been so signally successful. 
Geo. A. Sweet, 
C. M. Hobbs, 
J. W. Gaines. 
Resolved, that in the death of William H. Storrsof Painesville, Ohio, 
and Thomas Meehan of Germantown, Pa , this Association has suffered 
great loss ; that we are proud to remember that such men whose lives 
were so full of usefulness were members of our calling. 
REPORT OF TARIFF COMMITTEE. 
The conditions of the trade in imported stocks the past year were 
such as gave the government officials little chance to make trouble for 
nurserymen importers. Prices on invoices were in a number of cases 
on early shipments raised, but those arriving later escaped. 
Your committee called on the assistant secretary of the treasury at 
Washington, but received very little satisfaction, the secretary reading 
us letters from the seedsmen and his answers thereto, showing that 
they were having the same trouble that the nurserymen were. 
The secretary stated that it was out of his power to dictate in aDy 
way to the appraisers as to prices. Later in the season, while on a 
visit to New York, the writer got the following information from 
Appraiser Whitehead : 
“ As one of the means of determining the dutable value of nursery 
stock, it has been the practice to take into consideration the contracts 
for delivery, as far as they can be ascertained, for each size and variety, 
and the values stated in such contracts serve as a guide on appraise¬ 
ment, provided, of course, that the foreign market conditions have 
undergone no change between the date of the contract and the time of 
shipment. 
“2. If the importer is dissatisfied with values fixed on appraisement, 
he may, within two days after notice thereof, request a reappraise¬ 
ment, in which event the case would be heard by one of the Board of 
United States General Appraisers. An appeal may thereafter be taken 
to a board of three general appraisers, whose decision is final and con¬ 
clusive as to the dutiable value of the merchandise, against all parties 
interested therein.” 
Thus we see the courts afford no relief, and that we are practically 
at the mercy of the government officials. First the appraisers; second, 
of the general board of appraisers, and third, the review of the full 
board of three general appraisers, whose decision is final. 
With a stationary market, there will be very little trouble ; but with 
scarcity and high prices at the end of the season, we shall continue to 
have more or less friction. n 
Respectfully submitted, Ikving Rouse, 
Thomas B. Meehan. 
J. H. Dayton. 
AMONG THOSE PRESENT. 
Among those present at the Milwaukee convention are the 
following, the names of whom were taken from the registers of 
the Plankinton House and other hotels : 
E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind.; N. II Albaugh, Phoneton, O. 
Robert C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.; Charles J. Brown, Rochester, 
N. Y.; Nelson Bogue, Batavia, N. Y.; Prof. L H. Bailey, Ithaca, 
N. Y.; Guy A. Biyant, Princeton, III.; A. J. Brown, Geneva, Neb.; 
II. J. Bagby, New Haven, Mo.; Charles It Buttrick, Edwin R. Beebe, 
Ada, Mich.; H. N. Brown, Hartland, Wis.; L. G. Bragg and daughter, 
Kalamazoo, Mich.; H. Berkhan, New Tork city ; R. H. B.air, Kansas 
City ; D. E. Bingham, Sturgeon Bay, Wis. 
H. B. Chase, R. C. Chase, Huntsville, Ala.; O. G. Chase, ThomasC. 
Carson, Geneva, N. Y.; J. M. Charlton and wife, Rochester, N. Y.; 
W. J. Campbell, St Joseph, Mo.; John C. Chase, Derry, N. Ft.; G. H. 
Currie, Freeport, Ill.; Gilbert Costich, R >chester, N. Y.; Frank Cutter, 
Normal, Ill.; A Campbell, Hartford, Wis.; R. J. Coe, Fort Atkinson, 
Wis.; H. R. Cotta and wife, Freeport, Ill.; Thomas E. Cashman and 
wife, Owatonna, Minn. 
J. H. Dayton, Painesville, O ; Howard Davis and wife, Baltimore, 
Md.; F. N. Downer, Bowling Green, Ky.; Thos. H. Douglas and wife, 
Waukegan, Ill.; R. K. Dorr, Elgin, 111.; E. T. Dickinson. New York 
city. 
E T. Edmondson, Perry, la ; A. J. Edwards. Fort Atkinson, Wis. 
Theodore J. Ferguson, Milwaukee, Wis.; M. B. Fox, Rochester, 
N. Y.; E. C. Foster and wife, Grand Rapids; M. F. Foley, Baraboo, 
Wis. 
J. A. Gage, Beatrice, Neb.; George B. Galbraith, Faiibury, Neb.; 
A. C. Griesa and wife, Lawrence, Ivan.; R. G. Gould, Chicago, Ill.; 
CharlesH. Grissler, Columbus, O ; Chailes E. Greening, Monroe, Mich.; 
Frank Glen, Chicago ; L. Green & Son Co., Perry, O. 
Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md.; D. H. Henry, Geneva, N. Y.; J. C. 
Hale and wife, Winchester, Tenn.; W. F. Heikes, Huntsville, Ala.; 
D. Hill, Maude E. Hid, Florence Hill, Dundee, Ill.; W. L. Hart, Fre- 
donia, N. 'S.; J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la.; F. M. Hartman, Dansville, 
N. Y.; Horace Hooker, Rochester, N Y.; J. W. Henshaw, Eureka, 
Ivans. 
Charles A. Ilgenfritz and wife, Monroe, Mich.; James M. Irvine, St. 
Joseph, Mo. 
George S. Josselyn, Fredonia, N Y.; Hiram T. Jones, Elizabeth, 
N. J.; Z. K. Jewett, Sparta, Wis.; Irving Jaquay and wife, Benton 
Harbor, Mich.; Alfred Jarvis, Bridgeport, O. 
E. W. Kirkpatrick, Sherman, Tex.; A. H. Kirkeval, Elsberry, Mo.; 
C. A. Krill, Kalamazoo, Mich.; John S. Kerr, Sherman, Tex. 
D. S. Lake, Shenandoah, la.; J. F. Lee, Rochester, N. Y.; Samuel 
Lorton, Davenport, la. 
Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa.; J. McHutchinson, New York 
city ; James McVitty, Perry, O.; A. McGill, Salem, Ore.; H W. Mar¬ 
shall, Arlington, Neb.; John B. Morey, C. W. McNair, Dansville, 
N. Y.; J Horace McFarland and wife, Harrisburg. Pa.; Charles A. 
Maxson, Kalamazoo, Mich.; D. T McCarthy, Lockport, N. Y. 
Ralph T Olcott, Rochester, N. Y. 
William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; Earl Peters, Uriah, Pa.; George 
C. Perkins, Newark, N. Y.; D. II. Patty, Geneva, N. Y.; E. C. Peir- 
son, Waterloo, N. Y.; Charles M. Peters, Snow Hill, Md ; P. D. Pearce, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.; G. E. Prater and wife, Paw Paw, Mich. 
E. Runyan, Elizabeth, N. J.; W. C. Reed and wife, Vincennes, Ind. 
Theodore J. Smith, Geneva, N. Y.; C. Sonderegger, Beatrice, Neb.; 
Robert C. Stoehr, Dayton, O.; II. D. Simpson, R. A. Simpson, Vin- 
cinnes, Ind.; F. G. Sprague, St. Joseph, Mo.; George C. Seager and 
wife, Edward J. Seager, Rochester, N. Y ; C M. Stark, W. P. Stark, 
Louisiana, Mo.; F. H. Stannard Ottawa, Kan. J. W. Schuette, George 
W. Sallee, St. Louis ; Albert Spaulding, Irving E. Spaulding, Spauld¬ 
ing, Ill.; Albert A. Schulze, Brussels, Ill.; W. P. Storrs, Painesville, 
O. ; George A. Sweet, Dansville, N. Y.; J. W. Shadow, Winchester, 
Tenn.; F. E. Schifferli, Fredonia, N. Y. 
F. W. Taylor, St. Louis; G. N. Titus, Nemaha, Neb.; W. J. Trim- 
bleson, Havelock, la. 
J. Van Lindley, Pomona, N. C.; P. J. Van Heiningen, Boskoop, Hol¬ 
land. 
A. Willis, Ottawa, Kan ; A. L. Wood, Rochester, N. Y.; R. A. 
Wickersham, Winchester, Va.; E. S. Welch, Shenandoah, la.; C. L. 
Watrous, Des Moines la ; Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la.; F. A. Weber. 
St. Louis; Wheelock & Clark, Fredonia, N. Y. 
J. A. Yager, Fremont, Neb.; C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y.; Peter 
Youngers, Geneva, Neb. 
FEDERAL BILL. 
A bill to provide rules and regulations governing the importation of 
trees, plants, shrubs, vines, grafts, cuttings, and buds, commonly 
known as nursery stock, and fruits into the United States, and rules 
and regulations for the inspection of trees, plants, shrubs, vines, grafts, 
cuttings, and buds, commonly known as nursery stock, grown within 
the United States, which become subjects of interstate commerce or 
exportation. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States in Congress assembled, That it shall be unlawful for any 
transportation company, after July 1st, 1902, to offer for entry at any 
port of the United States any trees, plants, shrubs, vines, grafts, cut¬ 
tings, and buds, commouly known as nursery stock, unless accompa¬ 
nied by a certificate of inspection by a qualified expert of the country 
from which the exportation was made, officially appointed by the gov- 
