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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
SOUTHERN NURSERYMEN S ASSOCIATION HOLD 
THEIR ANNUAL CONVENTION 
The twenty-fourth annual convention of the Southern 
Nurserymen’s Association was held at the Lafayette 
Hotel, Lexington, Kentucky, Thursday, September 14th. 
President Charles Simpson in the chair, called the 
meeting to order. The invocation was delivered by Dr. 
Benj. J. Bush, after which Hon. Wood G. Dunlap, Com¬ 
missioner of Public Property, was introduced and deliv¬ 
ered the address of welcome, which was responded to 
by Charles T. Smith, of Concord, Ga. 
After the roll call by the secretary, the minutes of last 
meeting were read and approved, followed by President 
Simpson’s address. A committee was appointed to con¬ 
sider the recommendations made by the president and 
later reported recommended that the incoming president 
be instructed to appoint an arbitration committee to ad¬ 
just any grievances which might arise from time to 
time between members of the association and others if 
possible. Also recommended the appointment of a strong 
vigilance committee to endeavor to protect the associa¬ 
tion, the nursery business, and the public from unfair 
infringements or practices by members of the nursery 
business or allied industries. 
Paul C. Stark, of Louisiana, Mo., was on the program 
for an address on the “Cash With Order Plan.” A paper 
on “Standardization” by John Fraser, Huntsville, Ala., 
which we print on another page, and on motion a commit¬ 
tee on standardization was appointed, consisting of John 
Fraser, C. T. Smith and J. R. Mayliew, to co-operate with 
the same committee of the American Association in order 
to bring about uniform standardization laws. 
II. F. Ilillenmeyer, of Lexington, long a member of the 
Southern Nurserymen’s Association, and one of the old¬ 
est nurserymen in the United States, was called upon to 
give some reminiscenses. Mr. Ilillenmeyer spoke of the 
difficulty surrounding the nursery business in the ear¬ 
lier days, of some of the stocks used for grafting and bud¬ 
ding and improvements made in same since that time. 
His talk was very interesting and instructive. 
Just before adjournment Mr. George Holsinger, secre¬ 
tary of the Western Association of Nurserymen, made a 
brief talk in which he called attention to the stock reports 
issued by that association and their value to nursery¬ 
men. 
The motion was made by C. T. Mayhew extending sym¬ 
pathy to Milton Moss, who has been confined to St. Vin¬ 
cent’s Hospital in Birmingham for several weeks and in¬ 
structed the secretary to send a basket of flowers to 
Mr. Moss with best wishes of the members. 
After adjournment of the morning session all Rotarians 
and a few nurserymen who were not Rotarians attended 
the lunch of the Lexington Rotary Club at the Phoenix 
Hotel. President - turned the gavel over to 
Louis Ilillenmeyer, of Lexington, who introduced for a 
few moments talk, Paul Lind ley, president of the Ameri¬ 
can Association of Nurserymen; Henry Chase, of Chase, 
Ala., who spoke on the advantages of doing business in 
the South; Clarence Siebenthaler, Dayton, Ohio, who 
spoke of the value of landscaping to the community, and 
E. Fred Rowe, of Harrisburg, Pa., who spoke of adver¬ 
tising and publicity. After which honorary degrees in 
the order of the “Yellow Dog” were conferred on the en¬ 
tire Rotary Club during the initiation of the president 
and two other members, the initiation being conducted by 
Chief Row Wow Henry Chase, assisted by John and Ollie 
Fraser. 
During the afternoon session a very able address was 
made by 0. Joe Howard on “Ethics.” Paul Lindley, presi¬ 
dent of the American Association of Nurserymen, ad¬ 
dressed the convention on “Closer Co-operation with the 
A A. of N.,” in which he recommended that the Southern 
Association affiliate with the American Association and 
print on its letter heads, “Affiliated with the A. A. of N.” 
Charles T. Smith, of Concord, Ga., spoke on “Recent and 
Threatened Legislature,” in which he told of the restric¬ 
tions of the new Georgia law and some of the drastic 
laws and regulations which nurserymen might expect, 
unless some way was found which might prevent same. 
He gave as his opinion that there was no future for the 
nursery business unless fairer laws and regulations were 
enacted; that the nurserymen might just as well decide 
to go out of business as to undertake to comply with all 
of the restrictions which were placed upon him and 
which would probably be placed within a very short time. 
This was the only note of pessimism throughout the 
whole meeting, yet each one present realized the truth of 
Mr. Smith’s remarks. L. M. Jenney, of Roseacres, Miss., 
gave some very valuable information in his paper on 
“Broad Leaf Evergreens of the South.” 
Great disappointment was felt that Mr. John Watson 
could not be present at this meeting and deliver his ad¬ 
dress on “Some Effects of Standardization.” 
Walter W. Hillenmeyer gave a very interesting and 
able presentation of his subject, “New Methods and Ad¬ 
vantage of Summer Planting.” Mr. Hillenmeyer illus¬ 
trated the use of a wire basket in which shrubs are plant¬ 
ed; grow one year or more and can then be transplanted 
at any time, no matter if in full growth and bloom. This 
paper was thought of such value that Mr. Hillenmeyer 
was requested to present the subject again at the next 
meeting of the association. 
There being no evening session the members amused 
themselves in various ways. Walter Hillenmeyer invited 
a number of his personal friends to a stag dinner at his 
home and it is said by those who attended that this was 
one of the most delightful features of the convention. 
Following called to order for the morning session on 
Friday. V. D. Hill, of Dundee, spoke on “Evergreens for 
the South;'' J. A. McGlintock, Pathologist University of 
Tennessee, spoke on “Notes on Investigation of Soil Nem¬ 
atodes in Georgia,” also read the paper of Dr. G. D. Sher- 
bakoff, from the same department on “Prevention of 
Crown Gall on Apple Trees in the Nursery.” 
John A. Young, secretary of the Illinois Association 
of Nurserymen and originator of the “Plan to plant an¬ 
other tree” idea, was asked to address the convention on 
this subject and gave a very strong, forcible talk, in 
which the possibilities were outlined. Motion was made 
that the Southern Association indorse this plan and ap¬ 
propriate a sum of money to be decided upon by the 
Executive Committee and donate same to the Illinois nur¬ 
serymen as part of the amount necessary to spread this 
