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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
•PEN PICTURES OF LEADING NURSERYMEN DELEGATES AT PORTLAND CONVENTION AS DRAWN BY JOURNAL ARTIST 
Oregon Daily Journal. 
PRESIDENT BROWNELL’S ADDRESS 
[CONTINbED] 
At a number of our Conventions there have been some 
very creditable individual exhibits made. Believing that 
the time had arrived when their scope should be extended and 
recognized and cared for by the Association, we took the 
liberty to appoint a committee on Exhibits to act in conjunc¬ 
tion with the Committee of . the American Association—the 
result you are invited to inspect in the adjoining rooms. 
The time of our meeting makes it difficult to make an ex¬ 
tended display, but we should like to see the plan followed at 
our future meetings, and we recommend that a standing 
Exhibits Committee be authorized. 
To the Florists of Portland is due our hearty thanks for the 
material aid contributed, the beautiful decorations, and 
floral exhibit furnished by them. 
We trust that our Reception Committee will be alert at 
all times to see all welcomed, introduced, made to feel at 
home and furnished with any desired information. 
This Committee has been supplemented by the appoint¬ 
ment of an Auxiliary Committee of ladies to care for the 
ladies in attendance. Please make yourself known to them 
and they will gladly take care of you. 
Finally we hope this joint convention will prove to be not 
only highly profitable, but enjoyable as well, and that we may 
all go home feeling that it has been good to be here. 
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF AMERICAN 
ASSOCIATION OF NURSEYRMEN 
We have approached this convention with considerable 
anxiety from the fact that a peculiar combination of cir¬ 
cumstances has pravented very many of our members from 
attending this anniversary. One of the main explanations 
for this condition is that the meetings of the Association, 
it is claimed, are held at an inopportune time. The Spring 
packing season has barely closed by the time for which this 
annual gathering is scheduled and the work which follows 
the packing season demands such close attention that 
members cannot leave home without incurring loss; besides, 
they have no intelligent idea at that early date of what stock 
they have on hand and what their future wants will be. 
Quite a number of members have expressed themselves as 
favoring a later date, suggestions varying from two weeks 
to two months later than the constitutional date. 
Then, too, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition 
of 1915 in San Francisco is claiming the attention of many 
members to the extent of their letting this convention pass. 
There are still others who have planned to be present who 
are prevented from doing so by sickness, either of them¬ 
selves or members of their families. There is also a strong 
feeling that the annual convention should be held at some 
more central point which will be reasonably easy of access 
to members from all directions. 
Never, in the history of the Association, have the receipts 
of the Secretary been so large as this year. We report a 
total income of over $3,300, and we hope to receive at this 
convention a number of new members. 
Another feature which gives us pleasirre to mention is 
the large addition which has been made to the membership 
through the earnest efforts of Mr. James McHutchison, who 
was appointed a committee for this purpose by President 
Meehan. 
The Grim Reaper has again been busy among us and in 
the latter half of the year 1912 the losses sustained were 
very severe. 
June 17 th—George S. Josselyn, died at his home in 
Fredonia, N. Y., age 70 years. “Papa Josselyn” will live 
in the memory of members not alone as an enterprising 
nurseryman, but also for his excellent personal qualities. 
July '26th—Michael H. Golden, president of the Genesee 
Valley Nurseries, died in Rochester, N. Y. 
August loth—Prof. John Craig, who was at the head 
of the Department of Horticultirre in Cornell University, 
died at Siasconset, Mass., in his forty-eighth year. We 
were able to make record of this effort in the 1912 annual 
report. 
September 14th—Charles L. Yates, died somewhat sud¬ 
denly at his home in Rochester, age 65 years. Mr. Yates 
was for many years the treasurer of this Association. He 
was also business manager of the National Nurseryman, 
the official organ of this Association and Prof. Craig as 
editor of the same publication. It was a .singular coinci- 
