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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Resolved, that these resolutions be spread on the records 
of Association here assembled. 
Respectfully submitted, 
L. J. Farmer, 
W. G. Campbell, 
J. M. Charlton, 
Carl D. Needham, 
Albert F. Meehan, 
Committee of the American Association of Nurserymen. 
H. W. Cruckenberg, 
Chas. H. Hawkes, 
Guy M. Pilkington, 
Committee of the Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen. 
Of course the greatest interest in the reports of committees 
was that of the Vice-Presidents whose duty it was to submit 
nominations for officers and the place of next meeting. 
These nominations were as follows: 
For President: J. B. Pilkington, Portland, Oregon. 
For Vice-President: Henry B. Chase, Huntsville, Ala. 
For Secretary: John Hall, Rochester, N. Y. 
For Treasurer: Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb. 
For Executive Committee: Thomas B. Meehan, Dresher, 
Pa.; John H. Dayton, Painesville, Ohio; F. A. Dix, Roy, 
Utah. 
Each to serve for three, two and one years respectively, 
in the order in which they were named. 
For meeting 1914 convention: Cleveland, Ohio. 
Immediately upon the reading of the report, John B. 
Morey moved its acceptance, and followed with a motion 
that the Secretary cast one ballot for the officers and place 
of meeting named in the report. 
The Chair appointed a committee to conduct the newly 
elected officers to the platform, when they separately pledged 
themselves to not only continue the great work of the 
Association but also to do all possible to extend its usefulness. 
The business being concluded, the President, after a few 
remarks thanking the members for their hearty support 
and co-operation during his administration, announced the 
closing of the Convention. 
ADDRESS OF THOMAS MEEHAN, PRESIDENT, 
JUNE, 1913 
This is the 38th annual convention of the American 
Association of Nurserymen, and for the first time in its 
history, I think, that we have had the opportunity of hold¬ 
ing a joint convention with a local organization, who are 
striving, as we are, to advance the nursery trade and better 
its condition. This joint meeting, will, I am sure, be of 
material benefit to all of us, as the interests of the Pacific 
Coast Association are so closely allied with those of our 
own. 
Many of us have travelled several thousand miles to be 
here, and to see with our own eyes the great work which the 
coast nurserymen have done in the establishment of nurseries, 
orchards and the beautifying of the home grounds, and I am 
sure we shall return east feeling amply repaid for the long 
and tedious journey which we have undertaken and that 
our visit here will go far towards cementing the pleasant and 
cordial relations existing between the east, and the west, the 
Pacific Coast States. 
At the suggestion of the officers of the Pacific Coast 
Nnrserymen’s Association and with the approval of the 
Chairman of om Executive Committee, I agreed that this 
shoffid be a joint convention of the American Association 
of Nurserymen and the Pacific Coast Nurserymen’s Asso¬ 
ciation and I have the pleasure of sharing my office as 
president with Mr. Albert Brownell, the president of the 
Coast Association. 
It has been arranged that we shall hold our meetings 
jointly, with the exception of the session on Friday, on 
which day oiu* Association will hold a separate meeting, for 
the ptrrpose of electing officers, place of next meeting and 
the transaction of such business as may pertain wholly to 
our Association. 
This arrangement I am sure will be wholly satisfactory 
to the members of our Association. 
It has been but a few years since these Coast States were 
almost wholly dependent upon the country east of the 
Rockies for their supply of fruit and ornamental stocks, 
but now this is changed, and we find here great nurseries, 
which are not only filling all demands for fruit trees and a 
great deal of the fruit stocks required for home consump¬ 
tion, but are growing them in such vast quantities that they 
are seeking markets in the middle west and even in the 
eastern states for an outlet for their products. 
With these conditions confronting us, what may we 
expect in the next ten years ? 
It has been supposed that the supply of Pear, Pliun and 
Cherry stocks must be produced in France, that climatic 
conditions precluded the possibility of successfully growing 
them in the United States, yet for several years past these 
Pacific Coast States have grown quite large quantities of 
these stocks for their own consumption, and successfully 
too, and I ventirre to predict that at no distant date they will 
not only grow all the fruit stocks they require for their own 
use, but will also produce sufficient to supply a large part of 
the demand in the east and middle west. 
And why should this not be so ? Hundreds of thousands 
of dollars are annually sent to France to pay for the millions 
of fruit stocks which we use, and which we may properly call 
otrr “raw material.’’ 
We should, by trial and experiment, find in this vast 
country, certain localities where all the different stock we 
use can profitably be produced, and when these locations 
are found we may truly call this a “free country’’ and at the 
same time cut ourselves loose from the drastic laws which 
are continually being enacted, and which tend to hamper 
our trade relations with foreign countries. 
Since our last convention several very important matters 
have developed. The first was the unexpected passage of 
the so-called Federal Inspection Bill, which your Legislative 
Committee so successfully contested for three years. I 
speak advisedly when I say “so-called’’ for those who advo¬ 
cated its passage insisted that the quarantine features of the 
bill were of secondary consideration, yet the Federal Horti¬ 
cultural Board, having in charge the carrying out of the 
law and providing the Rules and Regulations governing it, 
