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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
Established 1893 by C. L. Yates. Incorporated 1902 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO.. Inc. 
218 Livingston Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
Editor.ERNEST HEMMING, Flourtown, Pa. 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nursery Stocks of all kinds. 
It circulates throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. 
Official Journal of American Association of Nurserymen 
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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 by the Business Manager. Rochester 
N.Y. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nurserymen and horti¬ 
culturists are cordially solicited. 
Address. Editor, Flourtown, Pa. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, N. Y., as second-class matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., March, 1913 . 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 
President —Thomas B. Meehan, Dresher, Pa.; vice-president, J. B. Pilkington, 
Portland, Ore.; secretary, John Hall, Rochester, N. Y. treasurer, Chas. J. Maloy, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee— H. B. Chase, Huntsville, Ala.; J. W. Hill, Des Moines, 
Iowa; P. A. Dix, Roy, Utah; T. B. Meehan, Ex-Officio, Dresher, Pa.; 
John Hall, Ex-Officio, Secretary, Rochester, N. Y. 
Chairmen of Committees 
Transportation —Chas. M. Sizemore, Louisiana, Mo. 
Tariff —Irving Rouse. Rochester, N. Y. 
Legislation East of Mississippi River —Wm. Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. 
Legislation West of Mississippi River —Peter Youngers, Geneva, Nebr. 
Co-Operation with Entomologists —L. A. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
Program —Samuel Miller, Milton, Oregon. 
Exhibits —F. W. Power, Orenco, Oregon. 
Arrangements —John Hall, Rochester, N. Y.; J. B. Pilkington, Portland, Ore. 
Publicity and Trade Opportunities —^W. P. Stark, Louisiana, Mo.; Jefferson 
Thomas, Harrisburg, Pa.; Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md.; C. M, Griffing, Jack¬ 
sonville, Fla.; G. C. Roeding, Fresno, Cal.; H. D. Simpson, Vincennes, Ind.; James 
M. Irvine, St. Joseph, Mo. 
Membership —^James McHutchison, New York City. 
STATE AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS. 
American Nurserymen’s Protective Association—President, J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la. 
secretary, Thomas B. Meehan, Dresher, Pa. 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. 
Association of Oklahoma Nurserymen—President, J. A. Lopeman, Enid, Oklahoma; 
secretary, C. E. Garee, Noblei Oklahoma. 
California Association of Nurserymen—President, Frank H. Wilson, Dinuba. Cal. 
Secretary, H. W. Kruckeberg, Los Angeles. Cal. 
Canadian Association of Nurserymen—President, E. D. Smith, Winona; secretary, 
C. C. R. Morden, Niagara Falls, Ont. 
Connecticut Nurserymen’s Association—President T. E. Burroughs, Deep River, 
Conn.; secretary, F. L. Thomas, Manchester, Conn. 
Eastern Association of Nurserymen—President, Wm. C. Barry, Rochester, N. Y.; 
secretary-treasurer, William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. Meets annually in January. 
Mississippi Nurserymen’s Association—President, J. R. Woodham, Newton; Vice- 
President, W. A. Woods, Tomnolen; Sec’y-Treas., R. W. Harned, Agr. College. 
National Association of Retail Nurserymen—President, E. S. Osborne, Rochester, 
N. Y.; secretary, F. E. Grover. Rochester, N. Y. 
National Nurserymen’s Association of Ohio—President, W. N. Scarff, New Carlisle, O.; 
secretary, W. B. Cole, Painesville, O. 
Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen—President, Albert Brownell, Portland, Ore¬ 
gon ; secretary-treasurer, C. F. Tonneson. Tacoma, Wash. Meets annually in June. 
Pennsylvania Nurserymen’s Association—President, Abner Hoopes, West Chester, Pa., 
secretary, Henry T. Moon, Morrisville, Pa. 
Southern Nurserymen’s Association—President, W. A. Easterly, Cleveland, Tenn.; 
secretary-treasurer, A. I. Smith, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Tennessee Nurserymen’s Association—President, E. W. Chattin, Winchester, Tenn.; 
secretary, G. M. Bentley, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Texas Nurserymen’s Association—President, J. R. Mayhew, Waxahachie, Texas; 
secretary-treasurer, John S. Kerr, Sherman, Texas. 
Western Association of Nurserymen—President, Geo. A. Marshall, Arlington, Nebr.; 
secretary-treasurer, E. J. Holman, Leavenworth, Kan. Meets annually second 
Wednesday in December. 
Horticultural Schools, Agriculture 
HORTICUL- Schools, Forestry Schools, Experiment 
TURAL EDUCA- Stations, Societies, Associations, Lecture 
TION Courses, Correspondence Schools seem 
to be the order of the day, and what is 
the net result in the supply of skilled labor in the nursery 
business ? 
Why is it the graduates do not gravitate to the best 
positions in nurseries? Is it because they are incompetent 
or is the demand for more teachers, lecturers and men to fill 
Government positions still so great that it takes care of 
them all? 
There is no question but what a scientific training is a 
good equipment for a young man to have who has chosen 
horticulture for his profession, but it is not a complete 
equipment by any means, and it spoils a good many in the 
making. 
They are apt to make the scientific training their object 
in life instead of a means to an end. They can talk, rea¬ 
son and explain but they cannot work to produce results 
and results are the only accepted measure of success in the 
Nursery Business. 
The nurseryman’s son, in fact any boy raised on a nursery, 
who absorbs his father’s business into his system, is (perhaps 
unconsciously) the one who will get the most out of a special 
course in Horticulture, as it is merely a means to an end 
with him, as he knows it is only labor that produces. 
The boy that goes through the public school, then through 
the high school and then to a horticultural college is too 
long before he gets in contact with the soil and hard produc¬ 
tive work. There is rarely a position open on a nursery 
for such a man, and few have the grit to begin at the bottom 
and work up, even with their educational equipment. 
The educational method is wrong; there is too much 
horticultural book learning in the beginning. The ideal 
course would be a good common school education followed 
by four or five years apprenticeship on a good nursery or 
horticultural establishment, followed by a two year course 
at an experiment station or college. This is the plan followed 
by Kew Gardens and is eminently successful as far as turning 
out practical, well equipped men is concerned. 
Encourage the boys to take a four year course on the 
nursery before they are 21 years of age and then when they 
do take their horticultural course at college it will count for 
something and will not spoil them as practical nurserymen. 
It is essential they work at “the bench’’ at the same time 
they are studying, before they get too old, and the Horti¬ 
cultural schools only play at work. 
There will perhaps be a number of 
THE NURSERY- nurserymen in the east who have already 
MAN’S CON- decided not to attend the convention at 
YEN TION Portland the coming June. May be the 
decision is fixed by necessity and there 
is no appeal, but more often we decide such matters on the 
spur of the moment, for such reasons as—It will cost too 
much. Cannot spare the time. It is too far away, etc., etc. 
If such nurseryman fully realized how necessary his 
presence was to the progress of the nursery business at large, 
