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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
nt'w channels called for by the proposed soldiers’ mem¬ 
orial. tree groups and memorial avenues. 
(uiriously enough, Joyce Kilmer, one of the militant 
po(‘ts who gave up their lives for their country, evidently 
had a premonitory sense that the tree was to figure more 
largely and emotionally in American life. And it would 
h(‘ fitting, therefore, if, wherever the tree memorials to 
oui’ soldiers and sailors be set up, there shoulld apj)ear 
in imperishable bronze his lovely tribute that makes tbe 
trees, as it were, brothers to the heroes their greenery 
will commemorate. It runs as follows: 
I think that I shall never see 
A ])oem lovely as a tree. 
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest 
Against the earth’s sweet flowdng breast; 
A tree that looks at God all day 
And lifts her leafy arms to pray; 
A tree that may in summer wear 
A nest of robins in her hair; 
Upon wdiose bosom snow has lain; 
Who intimately lives with rain. 
Poems are made by fools like me. 
Put only God can make a tree. 
Philadelphia Public Ledger. 
NO TIME FOR GLOOMS 
Not a few persons are busily working over-time in 
making all sorts of bogeymen, walking ghosts, and blue 
devils that are to spring their appearance in labor, in¬ 
dustry and finance w ith the return of peace and the ad¬ 
vent of “reconstruction.” 
These are almost invariably the same persons who 
w ere conjuring up a like assortment of glooms w lien they 
assured us, at the opening of the war, that we would 
have an aw ful time of it in sizing up to the tasks w hich 
we would be called upon to share with the Allies. 
Of course w^e are going to have, for a while some 
pretty hard nuts to crack, but they are not likely to be any 
harder than those w^hich w e have been cracking in first- 
rate fashion during the past year and a half. 
This is not a Bolsheviki country; it is not built that 
way, and never has been. The American people were 
never so level-headed as they have been in the entire 
course of the war, and there is not likely to be less of 
such level-headedness in the average, despite our Cal¬ 
amity Janes, when we shall work out the ])roblems of 
peace. 
It has always been a safe and sure thing in the long 
run to be a bull on the United States; and that faith in 
the capacity of the vast majority of our country-men to 
meet their troubles sanely and squarely, sbould be as 
article first in the patriotic creed of every w ise and sound 
American today .—Philadelphia Bulletin. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 
President —.T. R. .Mayhew, Waxahachie, Texas. 
Vice President —J. Edward Moon, Morrisville, Pa. 
Treasurer —J. W. Hill, Des Moines, Iowa. 
Secretary for the Association —Chas. M. Sizemore, Louisiana, Mo. 
Executive Committee —C. R. Burr, Manchester, Conn.; C. C. Mayhew, 
Sherman, Tex.; J. B. Pilkington, Portland, Oregon; J. Edward 
Moon, Morrisville, Pa.; E. S. Welch, Shenandoah, Iowa. 
LIST OF COMMITTEES AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERY¬ 
MEN 1918-19 
Finance —E. S. W^elch, Chairman, Shenandoah, la.; E. W. Chattin, 
Winchester, Tenn.; T. B. West, Perry, Ohio. 
Program —E. M. Sherman, Chairman, Charles Citj% la.; J. W. Hill, 
Des Moines, la.; Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md. 
Arrangements & Exliihits —Alvin E. Nelson, Chairman, Chicago, Ill.; 
P. R. Von W^indigger, Clayton, Mo.; E. S. Welch, Shenandoah, la. 
Hail Insurance —P. A. W^eber, Chairman, Nursery, Mo.; B. P. Ber- 
nardin. Parsons, Kans.; H. D. Simpson, Vincenne.s, Ind. 
Press & Publicity —Ralph T. Olcott, Chairman, Rochester, N. Y.; Jno. 
S. Kerr, Sherman, Texas; Chas. Sizemore, Louisiana, Mo. 
Statistical —Henry B. Chase, Chairman, Chase, Ala.; W^m. Pitkin, 
Rochester, N. T.; E. S. W^elch, Shenandoah, la.; M. R. Cashman, 
Owatonna, Minn. 
Landscape Architects —Thos. B. Meehan, Chairman, Dresher, Pa.; J. 
Edward Moon, Morrisville, Pa.; W^m. Flemmer, Springfield, N. J. 
Nomenclature —J. Horace McParland, Chairman, Harrisburg, Pa.; 
L. A. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.; Chas. J. Malloy, Rochester, N. Y. 
Standardization —Harlan P. Kelsey, Chairman, Salem, Mass.; F. L. 
Atkins, Rutherford, N. J.; Henry Hicks, W^estbury, L. I. 
Bistrihution & Birectory —M. R. Cashman, Chairman, Owatonna, 
Minn. James Pitkin, Newark, N. Y.; Chas. H. Perkins, Newark, 
N. Y. 
French Relief —F. L. Atkins, Chairman, Rutherford, N. J.; W^. C. 
Reed, Vincennes, Ind.; Paul C. Stark, Louisiana, Mo. 
Annual Report —Chas. Sizemore, Chairman, Louisiana, Mo.; Paul C. 
Stark, Louisiana, Mo.; P. R. Von Windigger, Clayton, Mo. 
Vigilance —Paul C. Stark, Chairman, Louisiana, Mo.; Robert Pyle, 
W^est Grove, Pa.; Henry B. Chase, Chase, Ala. 
Arbitration —.Ino. S. Kerr, Chaiiman, Sherman, Texas; G. A. Marshall, 
Arlington, Nebr.; J. M. Pitkin, Newark, N. Y".; .Jncu Dayton, Paines- 
ville, Oliio; T. W^. Stark, Louisiana, Mo. 
Legislation —Orlando Harrison, Chairman, Berlin, Md.; Jno. Dayton, 
Painesville, Ohio; Robert C. Chase, Chase, Ala.; J. M. Pitkin, New¬ 
ark, N. Y.; C. C. Mayhew', Sherman, Texas; P. H. Stannard, Otta¬ 
wa, Kans.; Thos. B. Meehan, Dresher, Pa. 
Tariff —Theo. J. Smith, Chairman, Geneva, N. Y.; Irving Rouse, 
Rochester, N. Y.; .1. Edward Moon, Morrisville, Pa.; Thos. B. 
Meehan, Dresher, Pa.; James Pitkin, Newark, N. Y. 
Transportation —Charles Sizemore, Louisiana, Mo. 
'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. 
Association Oklahoma Nurserymen —President, P. W. Vaught, 
Holdenville, Okla.; secretary, Jim Parker, Tecumseh, Okla. Next 
meeting during week of State Fair 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, B. 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, 
Princeton, Ill. Secretary, A. M. Augustine, Normal, Ill. 
Massachusetts Nurserymen’s Association —President, John Kirke- 
gaard, Bedford, Mass. Secretary, David C. Stranger, W’est New¬ 
berry, Mass. 
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, A. E. Robinson, 
Lexington, IMass.; Secretary, R. M. W^yman, Framingham, Mass.; 
Annual meeting wdll be held on the last Tuesday in January in 
Boston. 
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. Dlnsmore, 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. 
