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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc 
218 Livingston Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
President. THOMAS B. MEEHAN 
Vice-President and Editor, .JOHN CRAIG 
Secretary-Treasurer and Business Manager, ... C. L. YATES 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nur¬ 
sery Stock of all kinds. It circulates throughout the United 
States, Canada and Europe. 
Official Journal of American Association of Nurserymen. 
AfVARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, igoo 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 
One year, in advance,.^i.oo 
Six months. .75 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance,.1.50 
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Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements should reach 
this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts on New 
York or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested by the Business Mana¬ 
ger, Rochester, N. Y. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nurserymen and 
horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Address. Editor, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class matter. 
Rochester, N, Y., July, 1911, 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President—J, H. Dayton, Painesville, Ohio; vice president, W, H. Wyman, North 
Abington, Mass.; secretary, John Hall, Rochester, N. Y; treasurer, C. L. 
Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee —E. M. Sherman, Charles City, la.; H. B. Chase, Hunts¬ 
ville, Ala.; J. M, Pitkin, Newark, N. Y. ; J. H. Dayton, Ex-Officio, Psinesville, 
Ohio; John Hall, Ex-Officio, Sec’y. Rochester, N. Y. 
Chairmen of Committees. 
Transportation —D. S. Lake, Shenandoah, la.; Chas. M. Sizemore, Louis 
iana. Mo. 
Tariff —Irving Rouse, Rochester, N' Y. 
Legislation East of Mississippi River —Wm. Pitkin, Rochester, N.Y. 
Legislation West of Mississippi River —Peter Youngers, Geneva, Nebr. 
Exhibits— J. W. Schuette, 5600 GravoisAve., St. Louis, Mo. 
Arrangements —John Hall, Rochester, N. Y.; J. H. Dayton, Painesvule, O., 
F. A. Weber, Nursery, Mo. 
Editing Report —John Hall, Rochester, N. Y.; Prof. John Craig, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Entertainment —F. A. Weber, Nursery, Mo. 
Forestry —A. 1. Brown, Geneva, Nebr. 
Trade Opportunities —Jefferson Thomas, Harrisburg, Pa. 
Nurserymen’s Share in Civic Improvement—J. Horace McFarland, Harris¬ 
burg, Pa. 
Root-Knot —E. A. Smith, Lake City, Minn. 
Membership —John Watson, Newark, N. Y. 
STATE AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS. 
American Nurserymen’s Protective Association—President, J. W. Hill, Des 
Moines, la.; secretary, Thomas B. Meehan, Dreshertown, Pa. Meets annually 
in June. 
American Retail Nurserymen’s Protective Association—President, Charles J. Brown, 
Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, Guy A. Bryant, Princeton, Ill. Meets annually in 
June. 
Association of Oklahoma Nurserymen—President, J. A. Lopeman, Enid, Oklahoma; 
secretary, C. E. Garee, Noble, Oklahoma. 
Canadian Association of Nurserymen—President—E. D. Smith, Winona; secretary 
C. C. R. Morden, Niagara Palls, Ont. 
Connecticut Nurserymen’s Association—President, C. W Atwater, Collinsville, 
Conn. Secretary, John S. Barnes, Yalesville, Conn. 
Eastern Association of Nurserymen—President, Wm. Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; 
secretary-treasurer, William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. Meets annually in 
January. 
National Association of Retail Nurserymen—President, E. S. Osborne, Rochester, N. 
Y.; secretary, F. E. Grover, Rochester, N. Y. 
National Nurserymen’s Association of Ohio—President, J, W. McNary, Dayton, O. 
secretary, W. B. Cole, Painesville, O. 
Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen—President, Geo. C. Roeding, Fresno, Cal.; 
secretary-treasurer, C. A. Tonneson, Tacoma, Wash. Meets annually in 
June. 
Pennsylvania Nurserymen’s Association—^President, Samuel C. Moon, Pa., secre¬ 
tary, Earl Peters, Sit. Holy Springs, Pa. 
Southern Nurserymen’s Association—President, R. C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
secretary-treasurer, A. I. Smith, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Tennessee Nurserymen’s Association—President, A. I. Smith, Knoxville, Tenn.; 
secretary. G. M. Bentley, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Texas Nurserymen’s Association—President—J. B. Baker, Ft. Worth, Texas; 
secretary-treasurer, John S. Kerr, Sherman, Texas. 
Western Association of Nurserymen—President, E. P. Bernardin, Parsons, Kans. 
secectary-treasurer, E. J. Holman, Leavenworth, Kan. Meets in July and 
Dacemb^ at Kansas City 
The charge is made in the alleged edi- 
THE tonal column of a would-be trade con- 
THEORETICAL temporary that the editor of The 
EDITOR National Nurseryman is a theorist, 
and not a practical man. This is inter¬ 
esting, even amusing. At the outset, we will be obliged to ad¬ 
mit that we have been guilty of advocating doctrines twenty 
or more years ago that were then regarded by some people as 
theories. For instance, we preached the gospel of orchard 
tillage as a method of releasing plant food. At that time 
the cultivated orchard was the exception. Today in the best 
fruit growing sections the uncultivated orchard is the 
exception. We advocated spraying to destroy certain plant 
and insect parasites. At that time the practice did not 
form a part of the program of one orchardist in a thousand. 
Today it is almost universal among the progressive fruit 
growers. We plead guilty to urging the use of legumes as 
soil regenerators. At that time clover cover crops in 
orchards were rarely used. Today tillage with cover crops 
is known to be the best general method of managing the 
orchard soil. And so it was with drainage recommended to 
improve the soil’s texture, with thinning the fruit to con¬ 
serve the vigor of the tree and regulate the cropping. Yes, 
we plead guilty to earnestly advocating all these “theories” 
in and out of season. Nay, more, our confession is not yet 
complete; for we have been guilty of practicing them in 
our own orchards for the past quarter of a century. 
This “theorist” thanks his stars that the promulgation of 
such alleged doctrines has never separated him from the 
practical issues and it is his greatest pleasure to feel as much 
at home with the plantsman in the propagating room, as in 
the nursery row or packing house; for, as a practitioner, he 
has been through all these departments. And it is also his 
privilege to have as close an acquaintance with the fruit 
grower and his practical problems in the orchard, the packing¬ 
house, or the market, as with the nurseryman. Such 
problems have been and are his own. 
His business interests in orcharding are such as to place 
him in intimate contact with financial and economic problems 
sure to arise from time to time. Such experience gives him a 
keen realization of the difficulties of the so-called practical 
men, many of whom are as well supplied with theories—for 
what man should not use his imagination ?—as the recognized 
teacher. 
We present our apologies to our readers for using so much 
valuable space in a somewhat personal explanation incited by 
the trivial remarks of a mere paragrapher. This donation of 
good space simply illustrates the fact that the personal ele¬ 
ment, e’en though it may be touched by the uninformed and 
irresponsible, is the one which invites ready rejoinder. 
" The report of the chairman of the legis- 
THE FEDERAL lative committee, presented by Mr. Wil- 
INSPECTION liam Pitkin, of Rochester, and adopted 
by the Association, clearly defines the 
attitude of the Association in relation to 
federal inspection of imported nursery stock. The nursery¬ 
men and their official organ have been grossly misrepresented 
by a self-styled “independent and fearless” journal which 
