THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 
President— Lloyd G. Stark, Louisiana, Mo. 
Acting President— .1. It. Mayhew, Waxahadiie, Texas. 
Treasurer— J. W. Hill, I les Moines, Iowa. • 
Attorney and Secretary for the Association—Curtis Nye Smith, 
Boston, Ma.ss. 
Executive Committee— .7. B. Pilkington, Portland, Oregon; J. Kd- 
ward Moon, Morrisvilh', Pa.; E. S. Welch, Shenandoah, Iowa; C. G. 
Mayhew, Sherman, Texas; T. B. West, Perry, Ohio; 15. W. Ghattin, 
Winchester, Tenn. 
Graysville, Tenn. Secretary-treasurer, G. M. Bentley, Kno.xville, 
Tenn. 
Tennessee State Florists’ Association— President, I..eo-n Geny, Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn. Secretary-treasurer, G. M. Bentley, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Texas Nurserymen’s Association—President, William B. Munson, 
Denison, Texas; secretary-treasurer, J. M. Ramsey, Austin, Texas. 
Western Association of Nurserymen—President, Lloyd C. Stark, 
Louisiana, Mo.; secretary-treasurer, E. J. Holman, Leavenworth, 
Knn Meets annually second Wednesday In December. 
THE FIKST MILEPOST 
CHAIBMEN OF COMMITTEES 
Arranger- ejita—Thomas B. Meehan, Dresher, Pa. 
Arbitration—W. C. Reed, Vincennes, Ind. 
Exhibits- Albert F. Meehan, Dresher, Pa. 
Program—.1. R. Mayhew, Waxahackle, Texas. 
Report of Proceedings—Curtis Nye Smith, Boston, Mass. 
Nomenclature—J. Horace McFarland. Harrisburg, Pa. 
Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y. 
Press—Ralph T. Olcott, Rochester, N. Y. 
Telegraphic Code—R C. Chase, Chase, Ala. 
Hail Insurance—F'rank A. Weber, Nursery, Mo. 
Publicity—I'". L. Atkins, Rutherford, N. J. 
Distribution—M. R. Cashman, Owatonna, Minn. 
Legislation—William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. 
Transportation—Charles M. Sizemore, Louisiana, Mo. 
Landscape—W. H. Wyman, North Abington, Mass. 
WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 
President—Mrs. E. S. Welcli, Shenandoah, Iowa. 
Vice-President—Mrs. W. C..Reed, Vincennes, Ind. 
Secretary—Mrs. E. R. Taylor, Topeka, Kansas. 
Treasurer—Mrs. E. E. May, Shenandoah, Iowa. 
STATE AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS 
American Nurserymen’s * Protective Association —President, Irving 
Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; secretary,‘Thomas B. Meehan, Dresher, 
Pa. Meets annually in June. 
American Retail Nurserymen’s Protective Association —President, H. 
W. Marshall, Arlington, Nebraska; secretary, Guy A. Bryant, 
Princbton, Ill. Meets annually in June. 
Association Oklahoma Nurserymen —President, P. W. Vaught, 
Holdfenville, Okla.; secretary, Jim Parker, Tecumseh, Okla. Next 
meeting .during week of State Pair at Oklahoma City, last of Sep¬ 
tember or first of October. 
California Association of Nurserymen —President, John S. Arm¬ 
strong, Ontario. Secretary, H. W. Kruckeberg, Los Angeles, Cal. 
Canadian Association of Nurserymen—President, E. D. Smith, Win¬ 
ona; secretary, C. C. R. Morden, Niagara Falls, Ont. 
Connecticut Nurseryman’s Association —President, Walter E. Camp¬ 
bell, New Haven, Conn.; secretary, F. L. Thomas, Manchester, 
Conn. 
Idaho Nurserymen’s Association —President, Anton Diedricksen, Pay¬ 
ette, Idaho; secretary, J. F. Litooy. Boise, Idaho. No definite time 
has been set for next meeting. Probably in July at Boise, Idaho. 
Illinois Nurserymen’s Association —President, Guy A. Bryant, 
I’rinceton, 111. Secretary, A. M. Augustine, Normal, Ill. 
Massachusetts Nurserymen’s Association —President, John Kirke- 
gaard. Secretary, Winthrop H. Thurlow, West Newbury, Mass. 
Mississippi Nurserymen’s Association —President, Theodore Bechtel, 
Ocean Springs, Mississippi; Vice-President, S. W. Crowell, Rose- 
acres, Mississippi; 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. 
New England Nurserymen’s Association —President, Harlan P. Kel¬ 
sey, Salem, Mass.; Secretary, Charles Adams, Springfield, Mass. 
Annual meeting held on the last Tuesday in February. 
New Jersey Association of Nurserymen —President, Carl H. Flemer, 
Springfield, N. J. Secretary-Treas., A. F. Meisky, Elizabeth, N. J. 
New York State Nurserymen’s Association —President, E. S. Osborne, 
Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, H. B. Phillips, Rochester, New York. 
Next meeting September. Probably at Utica. 
Ohio Nurserymen’s Association —President, T. J. Dinsmore, Troy, 
Ohio.; secretary, W. B. Cole, Painesville, Ohio. 
Oregon—Washington Association of Nurserymen —President, C. F. 
Breilhaup, Richland, Wash.; secretary, C. A. Tonneson, Tacoma, 
Wash. 
Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen —President S. C. Miller, 
Milton, Oregon; secretary-treasurer, C. A. Tonneson, Tacoma, 
Wash. Place of next meeting to be decided later. 
Pennsylvania Nurserymen’s Association —President, Adolf Muller, 
Norristown, Pa. Secretary, Henry T. Moon, Morrisville. Pa. 
Southern Nut.serymen’s Association —President, O. W. Fraser, Birm¬ 
ingham. Ala.; Vice-president, H. C. Caldwell, Atlanta. Ga.; Secre¬ 
tary and Treasurer, O. Joe Howard, Pomona, N. C. The next meet¬ 
ing is to be held in Birmingham the 21st and 22nd of August. 
South Western Nurseryman’s Association —President, W. C. Grifflng, 
Port Arthur, Texas. Secretary-Treasurer, L. J. Tackett, Fort 
Worth, Texas. The next meeting will be held in Denison, Texas, 
September 24th, 1918. 
.rcr^ essee Nurserymen’s Association—President, George W. Poague, 
The goveriiineiit has laid its hands upon the rails of the 
eountry; swiftly, silently, the vast administrative ma¬ 
chinery of the second largest industiy of the United 
States is changing its fonn; the tasks, the salaries, the 
very lives of lumdrtMls of thousands of railroad men are 
lieing seriously allected; questions w ithout numher rise 
to the lips of ev('ry observer, questions, many of which no 
one can now" answer, so novel and unprecechnited is the 
situation which the war emergency has called into being. 
Miracle^-or catastrophe? Success — or failure? The 
great enigma! The railroads in their historic, peacedime 
structure were found inadequate as an industrial weapon 
of war. Eame the government fiat. Tw "0 million railroad 
■ employ(H\s w"ere affected. A historic evolution w"as inter- 
rujited; “thou shalt not” over night hecame “thou shalt;” 
law s higher than those on the statute hooks wa're invoked 
— and the inqiossihle Yvas done. 
Done it w"as, too, w ith hearty good will. It is a war 
measure. The lighting spirit of the American peojile has 
furnished the magiq power for carrying it out. Now 
have they to wonder at and examine wdiat they have done. 
As for the future, that must be allowed to take care of 
itself. Who can tell w"hat the American peo])lc will want 
to do w itli the railroads when it is no longin' a question 
of making every sacriliee in order to w in the war? 
Just now we will do well to cultivate President Wil¬ 
son’s ])hilosophy of the open mind. Today the war’s the 
thing . — Hichard //. Waterman in The Nation’s Business 
for August. 
A GYHATINU TREE 
A cross section of a spi'uce tree, recently received from 
Alaska, shows a most jieculiar spiral structure w.hlch has 
caused a great deal of speculation among the various for¬ 
esters throughout the country. Although no definite ex¬ 
planation has been offered, a theory has been advanced 
in regard to its history wdiich is extremely interesting. 
It is known that a coniferous tree, growing at a slant, 
forms, on the lower side of the trunk, a dense reddish 
wood known as rotholz red wmod. As the rotholz in this 
particular specimen is a continuous formation, winding 
from the centre to within half an inch from the circum¬ 
ference, it is surmised that it was growing in an inclined 
position on the edge of a glacier, wiiere it was caused to 
rotate so that different radii of the stem wmre succes- 
ively on the downward side, thus causing the rotholz to 
intersect the annual rings and, as the tree grew older, 
forming a spiral. The formation of the rotholz appar¬ 
ently began w hen the tree was six years old, the rotholz 
