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Executive Committee, who may till such vacancy by ma¬ 
jority vote. 
Section 8. The Vigilance Committee shall consist of 
a chairman and six members, a total of seven, to be ap¬ 
pointed by the President. It shall investigate thorough¬ 
ly all cases brought to its attention by members, non¬ 
members , planters or purchasers of fraudulent or dis¬ 
honest dealings on the part of nurserymen arid all others 
engaged in the sale of nursery products. They shall re¬ 
port their findings to the Executive Committee and when 
such a course is justified the Executive Committee shall 
be expected to protect the interests of the one offended 
and secure for him a suitable adjustment of his case 
under authority of Section 5. They shall endeavor to 
correct misleading, extravagant and unethical statements 
in nursery advertising, catalogs, descriptive matter, etc. 
Section 9. The Arbitration Committee shall consist of 
a chairman and four members, a total of five, to be ap¬ 
pointed by the President. It shall be their duty to arbi¬ 
trate any matters of controversy between members of this 
association. Both parties to the controversy shall trans¬ 
mit to the chairman the necessary brief, correspondence, 
invoices , statements, etc., and both sets of papers shall 
be perused by each member separately and his verdict 
transmitted to the chairman in a sealed envelope. The 
findings of a. majority of the committee shall govern. 
If but one party to a controversy submits his brief and 
papers and the second parly, after thirty days’ notice 
in writing by the chairman still fails to submit his pa¬ 
pers, the committee must proceed with the case on the 
one set of papers in hand.. The refusal of any member 
to arbitrate a difference between members or abide by 
the decision of the Arbitration Committee, may be ground 
for suspension or expulsion of such member from the 
rolls of the association. 
THE PACIFIC COAST ASSOCIATION OF NUR¬ 
SERYMEN 
The Twentieth Annual Convention of the Pacific 
Coast Association of Nurserymen was held at Portland. 
Oregon, July 11, 12 and 13, well attended by represen¬ 
tatives from California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, 
Utah and the Province of British Columbia. 
The stabilizing policies put into operation two years 
ago are to continue on a more extensive scale. Practical 
demonstrations of maintaining a normal balance be¬ 
tween supply and demand has been carried into effect, 
grading and the standard quality of nursery stock im¬ 
proved and methods are adopted to make co-operation 
on the part of all nurserymen who are members of the 
Association more effective and certain. 
The office of executive secretary is continued with 
enlarged duties and the standard of dependable nursery 
products maintained: 
Officers for the ensuing year are: President, Chas. T. 
Hawkes, Caldwell, Idaho. 
Vice Presidents—E. C. Wright, Kimberly, Idaho; C. 
B. Miller. Milton, Ore.; F. W. May, Yakima, Wash.; M. 
R. Jackson, Fresno, Calif.; C. H. Smith, Centerville, 
Utah; Richard Layritz, Victoria, B. C. 
Executive Secretary—C. A. Tonneson, Burton, Wash. 
Meeting place, 1923, Boise, Idaho. 
President’s Address 
By Howard Evarts Weed, Beaverton, Oregon 
It seems to be taken for granted that when one has 
been President of an organization for a year, he has or 
should have something to say regarding some features 
of flic business for which the organization exhists. On 
the program this is dignified by the term “President’s 
Address,” but to my thinking such a paper is much like 
the vermiform appendix—it should he either cut out en¬ 
tirely or made as short as possible in order that the real 
business of the convention may be transacted. 
This, as you all know, is our twentieth annual session. 
Started by such pioneers as McDonald, Brownell, Miller 
and others who are still with us, no year has gone by 
without an annual convention in which various features 
of the production and sale of nursery products have 
been discussed. The fact that our membership keeps 
slowly increasing speaks well of our association. Start¬ 
ed by fruit nurserymen at a time when there were prac¬ 
tically no ornamentals used, the time has now come in 
which the association is fairly well divided between the 
fruit and ornamental producers. This year those inter¬ 
ested in ornamentals have been given a greater part in 
our program, with the idea in mind that our sessions 
will he as educational as possible. 
I am sure that you will not expect me to say anything 
regarding the fruit interests—a subject which I know 
nothing about. But when it comes to ornamentals, it 
makes a different story for I am always talking orna¬ 
mentals. In fact I am a good deal like the school boy 
who could always make a speech, but always brought 
in the immortal words of Patrick Henry, “Give me 
liberty or give me death.” So one day the teacher gave 
him a subject only five minutes before he was to lie 
called on thinking that it would be impossible for him 
to bring Patrick Henry into the talk. Here was the talk. 
“Ladies and Gentlemen: Today I am asked to talk on the 
subject of Colic. In order to understand this subject, 
we must know what Colic is and what it causes. Colic 
is primarily some obstruction in the digestive track and 
causes great pain in certain parts of the body. It goes 
from bad to worse and finally causes so much pain that 
the entire system cries out in the immortal words of 
Patrick Henry ‘Give me liberty or give me death.’ ” 
However, there are some features regarding the 
growing and planting of ornamental plants in the Pa¬ 
cific Northwest to which I desire to call your attention. 
The early pioneers of this section had to dig their living 
from the land as best they could and were not interest¬ 
ed in any artistic setting for their homes. But as popu¬ 
lation increased, roses and a few other ornamental 
plants were planted and it was soon realized that all 
these grew luxuriantly. And as population still further 
increased there has come about an increasing demand 
for a great number of ornamentals and in an increasing 
variety. 
It has been said that, history repeats itself. We all 
know that the luxury of yesterday is considered the 
necessity of today. Civilization may now be said to 
