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FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated. 
Vol. XIX. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY, 1911 
No. 5 
THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF AMERICAN 
ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 
St. Louis, Mo., June 14, 15 and 16, 1911 
Headquarters, The Southern Hotel. Secretary HalFs Circular 
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“The hawthorn-trees blow in the dew, of the morning,” THE CONVENTION CITY FOR 1911 
St. Louis has an altitude of 480 feet above sea level. 
The time for the coming together of our membership is It is built on rolling ground, rising, at some points, 200 feet 
near at hand, and, with echoes of the splendidly-successful above the level of the Mississippi River, and possesses a 
Denver convention still fresh in our memory, we are called frontage of nineteen miles on the “Father of Waters.” 
upon to announce the thirty-sixth annual gathering of our Beyond the third terrace the surface spreads out in a 
Association. 
When we review the record of 
achievements by this organization, each 
one of which has secured large benefits 
to the trade generally, we are surprised 
that there are so many nurserymen, in 
every State of the Union, who are still 
unidentified with the Association. Surely 
they do not fully appreciate what a mem¬ 
bership with us means! It is no small 
privilege members enjoy in being able to 
annually touch elbows with their brethren 
from far and near, and to listen to valu¬ 
able papers and discussions on topics of 
vital importance to each. Whilst certain 
portions of the time are thus occupied, 
the management, fully believing in the 
old adage that “All work and no play 
makes Jack a dull boy,” caters also to the 
social and recreative, and a reference to 
the program prepared by the Entertain¬ 
ment Committee will furnish an idea of 
their plans. 
“In union there is strength” may be an “old saw,” but 
it is none the less true, and we repeat what we said in last 
year’s circular; “We are satisfied that there are many 
nurserymen still to be secured as members, and as a result, 
a corresponding increase in interest and in influence to be 
developed.’ 
We ask that each recipient of this document resolve to 
give immediate response. You can if you will. And your 
doing so will greatly facilitate the work of your Secretary 
in the registration of members and in the compilation and 
rompt publication of the Badge Book. 
W P. STARK 
President American Association of Nurserymen 
picturesque plateau. The climate is 
temperate and healthful. 
The city is noted for the number and 
beauty of its public parks, which have an 
aggregate area of 3,200 acres, promi- nent 
among which are the Tower Grove Park 
and the famous Missouri Botanical Gar¬ 
dens. 
In its public buildings St. Louis has 
much to be proud of. It boasts of a 
$2,000,000 city hall; a $6,000,000 U. 
S. Government Building, and a Chamber 
of Commerce building of sandstone in 
the Renaissance style. It has over 400 
miles of streets, and its wide avenues 
and palatial residences are very attrac¬ 
tive. The great bridge over the Miss¬ 
issippi is a marvel of engineering skill. 
CONVENTION HEADQUARTERS 
The selection of The Southern Hotel 
as headquarters was made after much 
consideration by the committee, including the president 
of the Association, the latter saying of it, “The ideal place 
for the nurserymen.” The management of the hotel say: 
“The Southern covers an entire city block; is thoroughly 
fireproof; has about 400 large rooms every one with an 
outside exposure, about 150 of them with private bath. 
* * One large diningroom operated on the American 
plan, to comfortably seat 500 people, not a post or pillar 
in the room; also a smaller one operated on the same 
plan; four very handsome diningrooms used for our 
European caf6s and restaurants. Our hotel lobby, the 
largest of any in the world, in the form of a Maltese cross. 
