THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
273 
I believe that as this Association is for the good of every 
nurseryman in this great country, its meetings should be 
held in various sections, but this should be done in such a 
manner as to avoid the selection of extreme ])oints in two 
succeeding years. 
To my mind this can only be accomplished by dividing 
the country into several sections, and the meeting ]Dlacc 
selected in consecutive order each year, in one of these 
sections, returning to the first section after a meeting has 
been held once in each of the sections. 
I throw this out merely as a suggestion, believing that if 
it would be taken under consideration by our Executive 
Committee, at least some plan could be evolved, which 
would do away with our present hit or miss system, and 
would prove of great and lasting benefit to our Association. 
It has been suggested at various times, that some one city 
like Chicago should be selected permanently as our Conven¬ 
tion City, but I can see no reason why nurserymen in or 
near that city should be so favored, leaving those members 
living at a more or less greater distance to take their time 
and spend their money to go there year after year. It is 
the duty of the Association to go to the door of the eastern or 
western or southern nurserymen at least once in five years. 
During the last twelve months, since our convention in 
Boston, the Silent Reaper, has been active in our midst, 
and death has taken from us several members, who for 
many years were active in the work of the Association, and 
who have done much toward advancing and elevating the 
nursery interests of this country. Our Boston meeting 
was scarcely brought to a close when the death occurred of 
Geo. S. Josselyn, quickly followed by Prof. John Craig, 
Treasurer Charles L. Yates, Geo. A. Sweet, Wm. Smith. 
O. P. Nichols, Joshua I. Maxwell, R. W. Reasoner, Chas. 
Dingee, Wm. R. Smith, T. V. Munson, Benj. Chase, J. W. 
McNary, S. D. Willard, Miss Martha Lehr of the Morris 
Nursery Company and J. R. Trumpy, the latter one of the 
oldest and best known propagators of ornamental nursery 
stock in the United States and for many years associated 
with the old firm of Parsons & Co. 
The memory of these kind friends and co-laborers should 
be an inspiration to us to continue the great work these men 
so successfully carried on. Their kindly faces, congenial 
dispositions and helping hands will be sadly missed at this 
and future gatherings of our Association, but how fittingly 
we can say “The good which men do live after them,’’for 
truly the good which these men have done will last even 
unto many generations. 
ADDRESS QF ALBERT BROWNELL, PRESIDENT 
PACIFIC COAST NURSERYMEN’S ASSOCIATION 
Fellow Members.of the American and Pacific Coast Asso¬ 
ciation of Nurserymen in joint convention assembled, it is 
with great pleasure we greet you and assure you of a most 
hearty welcome. 
Many of you have traveled a long distance to be with us 
today; we appreciate this, and trust you may be amply 
repaid for your trouble. 
To the Members of the Pacfic Coast Association, and 
especially you of Portland and the Willamette Valley, please 
consider yourselves all a committee to see that our Eastern 
Friends do not have a dull moment while with us. 
Ten years ago this month the Pacific Coast Association 
of Nurserymen held their First Annual Convention in this 
city, with only a score of members in attendance. This year 
our Badge Book shows a membership of between three and 
four hundred, which no doubt will be considerably increased 
before the close of this meeting. 
At that time we were all just beginning to recover from a 
long season of depression, which had put many nurserymen 
entirely out of business and severely tried the resources of all. 
Many of our friends when approached in regard to forming 
an organization for the betterment of nursery interests were’ 
doubtful and suspicious, did not care to give information for 
the general good, or felt they could not afford theexpense and 
time to attend a convention. 
It has been a great pleasure to me to attend every meeting 
of our organization with one exception during the ten years of 
its life, to watch its growth from year to year, the changed 
attitude of its members towards each other, and am firmly 
convinced that while many problems of the nurserymen have 
at least been greatly lessened by the action of'our Association, 
directly, or through the work of its committees, that the 
greatest good so far accomplished is the elimination of the old 
feeling of distrust and suspicion of each other on account of 
their being competitors, and the substitution in its place of 
personal friendship; a willingness to help a brother nurser>^- 
man in trouble, and a general desire to work together har¬ 
moniously to solve our common problems and to plaee the 
nursery business on a higher plane. 
This I say is the greatest accomplishment of the ten 
years, for it insures our taking up and working out together 
the questions still confronting us—many of which we would 
be unable to solve singly. 
INSPECTION 
It has been the policy of this Association to work with the 
orchardist for the passage of Inspection Laws that would be 
fair and just, and at the same time be a protection to both the 
nurseryman and the fruitgrower, and we are pleased to say 
that the inspection authorities are recognizing this fact and 
are willing and anxious to meet us in an effort to overcome 
friction and injustice wherever it may appear. We wish to 
commend this policy as one well worthy of continuance. 
COMMITTEE OF PRESIDENTS 
Our last Convention provided for a new standing com¬ 
mittee to be made up of the Past President,. the Acting 
President and the President Elect, who shall have charge of 
Legislative, , Inspection, Legal and Experimental work 
attempted by the Association,* and also to raise funds for the 
committees use. This action was taken after a thorough 
discussion at the last two meetings, and is extremely impor¬ 
tant. 
This Committee should have the hearty co-operation of 
every member, and given all necessary financial support. 
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