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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
not lag, enthusiasm that does not wane, will make a suc¬ 
cessful Eastern Association. 
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done 
There are thousands to prophesy failure; 
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, 
The dangers that wait to assail you, 
But just buckle right in with a bit of a grin, 
Then take off your coat and go to it. 
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing, 
That cannot be done and you’ll do it! 
WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 
Charles Sizemore , Secretary a'nd Traffic Manager of 
the American Association of Nurserymen tells of the 
Freight and Express situation at the meeting of the 
Western Association at Kansas City. 
Up to the time his report was made $6523,87 railroad 
and express loss and damage and overcharge claims had 
been collected. The commission on same placed to the 
credit of the Association was $1603.16. Nearly $15,000.- 
00 of railroad claims are still pending and about $10,000 
of this amount have been placed with Attorneys for suit. 
Old accounts collected to date amount to $7150'27 and 
the revenue to the Association on these is $815.61. About 
$20,000 of old accounts are still in the hands of the Sec¬ 
retary for collection. 
Mr. Sizemore still desires to impress upon all mem¬ 
bership the advisability of watching their freight bills 
closely, especially the weight on carload shipments. Just 
recently in checking one of the member’s bills be found 
a small refrigerator of import nursery stock containing 
17 cases billed at 55,500 lbs,. Knowing it to be an im¬ 
possibility to load that much tonnage of nursery stock in 
a 32 ft. refrigerator, claim was filed on basis of the min¬ 
imum of 16.000 lbs. knowing that it was a 100 to 1 shot 
that the car did not contain the required minimum. 
Later investigation developed the fact that the actual 
weight in the car was 13,500 lbs. making an overcharge 
of nearly $200.00 on this one car, Mr. Sizemore has re¬ 
peatedly called the memberships attention to the above 
fact and cautioned to always have the cars reweighed 
where any such heavy weight was shown by the carrier. 
As Traffic Manager he now has up with the Interstate 
Commerce Commission the question of lower rates on 
nursery stock, both carloads and less than carload and 
from information available at this time a hearing is ex¬ 
pected to be granted the nursery interests the latter part 
of February. The Commission is now conducting a hear¬ 
ing on special commodity rates, but as the nursery pro¬ 
ducts are not listed or covered by special commodity 
rates, their subject will come up under the schedule of 
“other commodities” and the Commission has promised 
to assign a date and time for the nurserymen to be 
heard. 
Three hundred and twenty questionaires were mail 
ed to the membership desiring to know how much of 
their shipments went by freight and how much by ex¬ 
press, if the high transportation charges had effected 
their business any and what percent of claims had they 
filed on their business during the past year. Out of these 
320 questionnaires, 150 of the membership replied and 
from these replies, it was learned that about 85% of the 
nursery shipments went by freight. 146 of the answers 
stated that the high transportation charges had curtailed 
their business, while four stated it had not effected them 
in the least. Taking the 150 replies as a whole, the 
amount of freight claims filed against the carriers was 
very much under one per cent. 
From press reports, it appears that Great Britian is 
lowering the freight rates on various commodities sim¬ 
ilar to the same plan as being followed in the United 
States and the article further stated that they were fig¬ 
uring on a general reduction in freight rates on the per¬ 
centage basis and the Traffic Manager now has up with 
parties in Great Britian for a copy of their plan of 
schedules to compare with what is going on in this 
country. 
Mr. Sizemore further stated that nurserymen have 
been bothered more or less lately with the law in Cali¬ 
fornia covering outside nurserymen which require a 
bond and the filing of certificate and fee before they 
were allowed to ship into that state. Recently it has been 
learned this law was declared inoperative by the At¬ 
torney General, thus for the present, nurserymen need 
not comply with that provision of the law. The letter 
from the Department of Agriculture, Sacramento, Calif., 
dated Jan. 11th, 1922 reads as follows: 
“I have your letter of January 7 having reference to registra¬ 
tion of nurserymen outside of California who desire to ship 
nursery stock and plants into this state. I note also the quota¬ 
tion from my letter addressed to Jackson & Perkins Company, 
Newark, New York, under date of Nov. 26. 
“The section of the law having reference to the registration 
of out-of-state nurserymen has been declared inoperative. How¬ 
ever, when a nurseryman does comply with the provisions of the 
law, files the bond, pays the ten dollar fee and provides the 
necessary certificates of inspection, a permit is issued by the 
Director of Agriculture and there is no authority for the return 
of such bond or fee as may be furnished. In the event the nur¬ 
seryman does not desire to comply, the law is such that we can¬ 
not enforce compliance, neither does the law permit the rejec¬ 
tion of plants because of non-compliance with this law. A great 
many nurserymen have sent the bond, asking for a permit, and 
have omitted sending the necessary fee. Unless all of the provi¬ 
sions of the law are complied with the Director of Agriculture 
cannot issue a permit. However, in no case will plants be refused 
entry because this section of the law has not been fully complied 
with.” 
MEETING OF THE ORNAMENTAL GROWER’S 
ASSOCIATION 
The annual meeting of the Ornamental Growers’ As¬ 
sociation was held at the Hotel Biltmore, New York City, 
January 4th and 5th. The following officers were elect¬ 
ed: President, J. D. Rice, Geneva, N. Y.; vice president, 
R. C Chase, Chase, Ala.; secretary-treasurer, Charles J. 
Maloy, Rochester, N. Y. The executive committee con¬ 
sists of Wilmer Iloopes, West Chester, Pa., elected for 
three years, and William Flemmer, Sr., Springfield, N. 
J., for one year. The stock report committee consists of 
E. S. Welch, It, C. Chase and C. It. Burr. 
Among the nurserymen present at the meeting were: 
Robert Pyle, of Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, Pa ; 
Charles Perkins, Newark, N. Y.; J. P. Rice, Geneva, N. 
Y.; Paul C. Lindley, Pomona, N. C.; R. Kent Beattie, 
Washington, I). C.; J. Edward Moon, West Chester, Pa.; 
F. F. Rockwell, Bridgeton, N. J., and J. H. Dayton, 
Painesville, O. Among other nurserymen present were F. 
L. Atkins. Rutherford, N. J.; G. Hale Harrison, Berlin, 
Md.; W. E. Campbell, New Haven, Conn.; John Fraser, 
Huntsville, Ala.; Thomas Meehan, Dresher, Pa.; Wil¬ 
liam Warner Harper, Philadelphia, Pa.; William Flem¬ 
mer, Jr., Springfield, N, J. 
