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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
that only a handful of nurserymen are importers. We all know that 
every nurseryman planting fruit tree seedlings depends mainly on France 
as his source of supply, whether he imports direct or through others, and 
in this same article they mention the names of the Committee who went 
to Washington, and as a matter of fact, only one of that Committee, Mr. 
Rouse, is engaged in the business of importing seedlings and selling them 
to the American nurserymen. The others as far as we know import for 
their own use, and their own planting, and do not sell the seedlings again 
to the trade. 
That article accuses your Committee of bad faith, in that it refused 
to accept the bill last winter after a promise had been made to eliminate 
the question providing for foreign quarantine. The article forgets to 
state that the Association of Horticultural Inspectors, made up mainly 
of entomologists, endorsed the Nurserymen’s Bill and the nurserymen’s 
position at their Boston Convention in the winter of 1910, and instructed 
its Legislative Committee to support the bill, and that in April following 
that Committee appeared at Washington, opposed the nurserymen, and 
energetically supported Dr. Howard. The question of bad faith might 
be brought up in that connection. 
Not Opposed to Reasonable Legislation 
Your Committee has stated that they were not opposed to federal 
inspection on safe, sane, and practical lines, but that they could not 
stand for a bill that lodged arbitrary and .discretionary powers in the 
hands of Dr. Howard; and the bill known as the Nurserymen’s Bill, and 
submitted to the House Committee on Agrieulture at the request of 
Chairman Scott, is evidence on that point. 
Dr. Howard insists on a law clothing him with absolute and discre¬ 
tionary powers, and your Committee feels that Dr. Howard has handled 
this matter from the start in such a way that we have lost our confidence 
in him, and fear that if any bill is accepted by us, and allowed to go 
through, that it simply means amendments the following year, which 
can be slipped through and added on to the law, with of course much less 
effort and much less publicity than is connected with the passage of the 
original bill. 
Your Committee is referred to constantly, as a small handful of 
importing nurserymen not correctly voicing the sentiment and opinion 
of this associat'on, and is charged with selfishly checking legislation 
which it is claimed will be useful to nurserymen, fruit growers, and the 
public generally. 
It is for you so say whether these attacks are well founded, whether 
your Committee has incorrectly represented your position, or whether 
you will endorse its work, and instruct your new Committee to go ahead 
on the same lines. 
Wm. Pitkin, Chairman, 
Irving Rouse, 
J. M. Pitkin, 
J. H. Dayton, 
Abner Hoopes, 
Thos. B. Meehan, 
Committee on Legislation. 
Dated St. Louis, Mo., Jime 15, 1911. 
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION 
OF AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
Resolved: That the report of the Chairman of the Legisla¬ 
tive Committee be accepted, and that this association hearthy 
and thoroughly approves of the course of its Legislative 
Committee in connection with federal legislation during the 
three years, and further resolved that this association confers 
on its Legislative Committee full power and authority to act 
for it during the coming year in all matters of federal legisla¬ 
tion, with the suggestion that this association favors federal 
inspection of foreign nursery stock on safe, sane, and practical 
lines, and that said Committee shall use its strongest efforts 
to defeat any legislation that will place such absolute, arbi¬ 
trary, and discretionary powers in the hands of the Secretary 
of Agriculture and his Bureau Chiefs as has been proposed by 
the bills under discussion during the past three years. 
Obituary 
CHAS. H. MAGOON 
Dr. Charles H. Magoon, nurseryman, died at his home in Wake¬ 
field, la., on June i, aged 70 years. It is said he started the first 
nursery in the state, settling in Algona, la., in 1857. 
PRESTON W. BUTLER 
Preston W. Butler, a florist and nurseryman of Penfield, N. Y., 
died at his home in that town June 14, at the age of 79 years. He was 
a lifelong resident of Penfield. He was twice married, and, besides 
his wife, he leaves three daughters, Mrs. John Van Alast, of Fairport, 
and Misses Sarah and Lerena Butler, of Rochester; two sisters, 
Mrs. Ellen Holdredge, of Rochester, and Mrs. Celinda Wagner, of 
Penfield and three brothers, A. Butler and Wilbur Butler, of Penfield, 
and Benjamin of Fairport. 
Business jVlovcmcnts 
Alvin, Texas —The Stockwell Nursery Co. incorpprafed, of Alvin, 
Texas, have taken over the business of the Gulf Coast Nursery. 
Alvin, Tex. —The following are the new officers of the Texas 
Nursery Association; W. A. Stockwell, president; R. A. Holbert, 
vice-president; I. M. Johnson, secretary: Mr. Libby, treasurer. The 
Association is composed of leading nurseries in the Texas Gulf Coast 
country, and was organized a year ago in Corpus Christi, but since that 
time its membership has grown considerably and it is beginning to 
wield a wide influence .—Florists Ex. 
John Watson of Jackson & Perkins Co., Newark, N. Y., left June 
26th for a two months’ stay in Europe, visiting the nurseries in England, 
Holland, Belgium, Germany and France. 
In another column will be found an attractive advertisement of 
Jeschke Mfg. Co. of BeUeview, Ohio,—offering a new trenching machine 
which proves successful. Write them for further information, if 
interested. 
Because the women at the Chicago Beach Hotel, where the conven¬ 
tion was held last year, referred to the delegates of the American 
Association of Nurserymen as a “bunch of farmers,’’ Chicago lost next 
year’s convention and Boston was chosen.—St. Louis Exchange. 
Boston is dee-lighted and we doubt not her ladies will find some more 
appropriate and flattering cognomen for the nursery visitors. We 
don’t mind snatching something from Chicago once in a while. It keeps 
things a-moving.— Horticulture. 
RECOMMENDATION OF COMMITTEE ON 
EXHIBITS 
The committee on exhibits added the following comment 
to its report: We feel that this feature of our annual meeting 
should be encouraged, and take this opportunity to express 
to the exhibitors our appreciation of the excellent showing 
made at this meeting. We hope that the incoming committee 
on exhibits will make it a point to stimulate the interest 
already manifested in this feature, to the end that we may 
have in Boston next year, if possible, an exhibit which will 
continue to be the pride of the Association, 
