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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
NORTH CAROLINA PEACH INDUSTRY 
It is gratifying to note, that once in a while, even a 
nurseryman gets the credit of being a public benefactor 
instead of a menace to the country, needing special laws 
to govern his actions. 
It is with much pleasure we reprint the following from 
an editorial in the Philadelphia Record of August 11, 
1922: 
“The North Carolina peach industry is only 27 years 
old. A Greensboro man came to the conclusion that 
peaches could be grown profitably in the sand hills of 
the state, and he planted 400 acres. The San Jose 
scale gave trouble at first, but he mastered it. In 1918 
the shipments amounted to only 44 carloads, but this 
year it is estimated that 1^00 carloads will be shipped 
north, while the growers are looking forward to an in¬ 
crease in acreage next year. The name of the North 
Carolina peach pioneer is J. Van Lindley. It deserves 
to be remembered along with that of the man who makes 
two blades of grass grow where one grew formerly.” 
THE POTATO RUG HAS REACHED FRANCE 
According to reports in the daily press the potato bug 
has reached France. Starting in the fifties, the Colorado 
Beetle which became later known as the potato bug slow¬ 
ly found his way accross the country. He crossed the 
Mississippi in the middle sixties and in 1872 he arrived 
in western Pennsylvania. By 1875 he reached the Atlantic 
coast. 
It has taken him a long while to cross the Atlantic but 
in spite of the fact that France was early on her guard 
even to the extent of a quarantine against potatoes from 
the United States he somehow has landed. 
Quarantines did not stop him and it makes us wonder 
if they will not be just as futile in preventing the spread 
of other insects. Man upsets the law of nature by denud¬ 
ing the country of forests planting vast areas to one par¬ 
ticular kind of plant, perhaps not even indigenous to the 
locality, destroys birds, snakes and other reptiles and 
animals and then gets hysterical if some bug or pest that 
he does not particularly want, increases and multiplies. 
Pathological and entomological problems are not pe¬ 
culiar to any particular country. They are common to 
all and are two of the facts of civilization. 
International trade means that we risk being brought 
in contact with the undesireable as well as that which is 
desireable. 
NEW YORK STATE NURSERYMEN S ASSOCIATION 
The summer meeting and out ing will be held at the Rod 
and Gun Club, on Beautiful Seneca Lake, Geneva, N. Y., 
Saturday September 9, 1922, at 11 o,clock A. M. Eastern 
Standard time. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 
List of Officers and Committees. In Appointing Committees, 
President Lindley Named the Chairman, Who in Turn 
Selected His Own Co-ioorkers 
OFFICERS 
President—Paul C. Lindley, Pomona, N. C. 
Vice President—Harlan P. Kelsey, Salem, Mass. 
Treasurer—J. W. Hill, Des Moines, Iowa. 
Secretary and Traffic Manager—Charles Sizemore, Louisiana 
Mo. 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
The President and Vice-President, Ex-Officio. 
Lloyd C. Stark, Louisiana, Mo. 
W. C. Reed, Vincennes, Ind. 
Henry B. Chase, Chase, Ala. 
M. R. Cashman, Owatonna, Minn. 
Wm. Flemer, Jr., Princeton, N. J. 
FINANCE COMMITTEE 
Paul C. Lindley, Pomona, N. C. 
Henry B. Chase, Chase, Ala. 
LEGISLATIVE AND TARIFF 
J. Edward Moon, Chairman, Morrisville, Penna. 
William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. 
John Dayton, Painesville, Ohio. 
A. E. Robinson, Lexington, Mass. 
Wm. Warner Harper, Chestnut Hill, Penna. 
W. F. Ilgenfritz, Monroe, Mich. 
E. E. May, Shenandoah, Iowa. 
Henry B. Chase, Chase, Ala. 
J. R. Mayhew, Waxahachie, Texas. 
E. W. Chattin, Winchester, Tenn. 
S. A. Miller, Milton, Ore. 
W. W. Hillenmeyer, Lexington, Ky. 
MARKET DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLICITY COMMITTEE 
F. F. Rockwell, Chairman, Bridgeton, N. J. 
E. E. May, Shenandoah, Iowa. 
Albert Meehan, Dresher, Penna. 
Geo. F. Verhalen, Scottsville, Texas 
Robert Pyle, West Grove, Penna. 
Joseph J. Lane, New York City. 
ARBITRATION COMMITTEE 
M. R. Cashman, Chairman, Owatonna, Minn. 
Geo. Marshall, Arlington, Neb. 
J. H. Dayton, Painesville, Ohio. 
A. E. Willis, Ottawa, Kans. 
Earl Needham, Shenandoah, Iowa. 
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE 
L. J. Tucker, Chairman, Madisor Wise. 
E. H. Smith, York, Neb. 
Henry B. Chase, Chase, Ala. 
Paul C. Stark, Louisiana, Mo. 
J. R. Mayhew, Waxahachie, Texas. 
E. M. Sherman, Charles City, Iowa. 
Donald Wyman, North Abingdon, Mass. 
NOMENCLATURE COMMITTEE 
Harlan P. Kelsey, Chairman, Salem, Mass. 
J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Penna. 
Dr. Frederick V. Coville, Botanist, U. S. Dept, of Agriculture 
Washington, D. C. (Honorary) 
COURSES IN NURSERY TRAINING IN AGRICULTURAL 
COLLEGES 
John S. Kerr, Chairman, Sherman, Texas. 
PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
Albert F. Meehan, Dresher, Penna., Chairman, and “Baby 
Ramblers.” 
SPECIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO CO-OPERATE WITH 
U. S. DEP’T OF AGRICULTURE, IN DEVELOPING 
AMERICAN SUPPLY OF RAW MATERIAL 
H. B. Chase, Chairman, Chase, Ala. 
Homer Reed, Louisiana, Mo. 
F. A. Wiggins, Toppenish, Wash. 
H. Harold Hume, Glen St. Mary, Fla. 
E. S. Welsh, Shenandoah, Iowa. 
