Gbe IRational IRuiKryman. 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated 
Vol. XXX. HATBORO, PENNA., MAY 1922 No. 5 
The Coming Convention 
Next month will be convention month. C. A. Ilgen- 
fritz, Monroe, Mich., was appointed chairman of a com¬ 
mittee to make proper arrangements for it. He reports 
the Wolverine Hotel, Detroit, has been selected as head¬ 
quarters. 
From all accounts the coming convention promises to 
be one of the most important gatherings in the history of 
the Association. At this writing nurserymen are too busy 
filling orders and attending to their own personal affairs 
to think much about the convention, hut as soon as their 
minds are relieved of the pressing business of their own 
affairs they will begin to take interest in what is going 
on in the trade at large. 
Quarantine 37 is still a live issue. It does not seem to 
sit right. Its effect on the trade is now beginning to be 
seriously felt, and nurserymen are aware that it will be 
many years yet before the trade can properly adjust itself 
to the lack of foreign supplies. Last year the executive 
committee was instructed to work out a definite plan for 
closer co-operation between the American Association of 
Nurserymen and the State and District Associations. It 
is to be hoped some feasible plan will be presented that 
will obviate the duplication of effort and give a better 
driving force to accomplish good for the benefit of the 
whole trade. 
Paul C. Lindley, Pomona, N. C., who by the way is vice 
president of the association and in line for the supreme 
honor of the presidency, is also chairman of the Vigilance 
Committee. Judging from his report of last year he will 
he sure to have something extremely interesting to pre¬ 
sent at the coming convention; but perhaps the responsi¬ 
bilities of the high office which confronts him will reflect 
themselves in his report. 
Harlan P. Kelsey, chairman of the Nomenclature Com¬ 
mittee, will be able to report the work accomplished in 
producing the new official catalog of Standardized Plant 
Names. 
Exhibits at the convention are rarely of noteworthy in¬ 
terest outside of the printers’ and catalog exhibits. It is 
too bad this phase of the convention is not better devel¬ 
oped for seldom does opportunity occur to bring to the 
notice of so many nurserymen things in which they may 
be interested. 
Secretary Sizemore will no doubt give the final results 
of his work with the transportation companies looking 
towards the reduction of rate and revised classification. 
F. F. Rockwell will tell of the progress in Market Devel¬ 
opment and have data enough from results already ob¬ 
tained to prove the movement is entitled to heavier invest¬ 
ment, All the above and other matters of course are to 
be expected, but it is the unexpected developments which 
occur at such a gathering that make history. The experi¬ 
ence with the past few years will be a valuable asset in 
pointing the way of progress. 
Whatever may be the interest that decides the nursery¬ 
man to attend conventions the one that draws the strong¬ 
est is the pleasure of meeting and shaking hands with old 
friends. 
SECRETARY SIZEMORE WORKING HARD FOR A 
REDUCTION ON FREIGHT RATES 
Charles Sizemore, Secretary and Traffic manager of 
the American Association of Nurserymen is working 
hard to secure a reduction in freight rates. He appear¬ 
ed before the Interstate Commerce Commission and 
presented argument as to why reduction should be 
granted. 
He secured the cooperation of Prof. II. V. Gould, 
Pomologist, of the U. S. D. of A., and George T. Bell, 
lawyer and Interstate Commerce Expert in preparing a 
brief. Prof. Gould’s statement to the commission makes 
interesting reading for nurserymen which was as fol¬ 
lows : 
I desire to call your attention to the fact that the nursery¬ 
men’s business is not an end in itself. It is merely a begin¬ 
ning. He produces what may be correctly termed “raw ma¬ 
terial.” The consummation of the nurseryman's business, the 
finished product, is the fruit that was on the breakfast table 
this morning, or that which goes into the apple pie awaiting 
consumption at dinner time tonight; or it may be the ornamen¬ 
tal trees and shrubs which adorn the street or the park you 
most admire; and it is because of the beauty of that adorn¬ 
ment that you admire it. 
Very briefly I want to indicate the vastness of the fruit in¬ 
dustry which is dependent on the nurseries for its normal ex¬ 
pansion and for its perpetuation. The figures of the 14th Cen¬ 
sus and certain Crop Estimate figures are a means to this end. 
Of the deciduous fruits—-apples, peaches, pears, and plums and 
prunes, there were on January 1, 1920, about 216,000,000 trees 
in bearing and about 73,000,000 trees not of bearing age. 
Of the citrus fruits—oranges, grapefruit and lemons, there 
were more than 17,000,000 trees of bearing age, January 1, 1920, 
and nearly 7,000,000 not of bearing age. 
Of our two leading deciduous fruits—apples and peaches— 
the 14th Census showed a decrease of about 36,000,000 bearing 
apple trees during the decade 1909-1919; and nearly 30,000,000 
in the number of trees not of bearing age; a decrease of about 
29,000,000 peach trees of bearing age and more than 20,000,000 
in peach trees not of bearing age, as compared with the cor¬ 
responding figures of the 13th Census. I hasten to say, how¬ 
ever, that these very material decreases in both bearing and 
non-bearing apple and peach trees may not have as much sig¬ 
nificance as might appear from a purely statistical standpoint. 
For instance the decrease of a few millions of trees in home 
orchards, farm orchards, and other places where they are not 
cared for, has no very material affect on actual crop product¬ 
ion; and it is assumed that a very considerable part of the 
