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unfairly of our competitors, the nursery-agent’s oft-times 
too enthusiastic tables and statements of yield, size, color 
and fragrance, the utterly inexcusable practice of supplying 
two or more rare and high priced varieties out of one common 
cheap variety, our honest packing and grading relations to 
our employees, and other ethical questions must be left for 
later discussion, important as they really are. 
If I have partially diagnosed the case, it should be cause 
for optimism, for a disease once recognized and admitted 
will be surely combatted. 
Perhaps right ethics in our business, or in business gener¬ 
ally will never be universally practiced until cooperation in 
business takes the place of competition, or perhaps until 
our economic system is radically changed in many other 
respects. 
Yet actual bribery in the form of gifts and favors to 
employees of customers can and should be done away with, 
and the National Nurserymen’s Association might very well 
declare itself at this time, in no uncertain voice. Let the 
power of public opinion at least act on those who practice 
this form of dishonesty and law-breaking. Even if actual 
convictions can not be had as quickly as some of us hope for. 
It is necessary yet not sufficient for individuals to be 
personally clean in business practice, for each citizen has 
public duties to perform and public service to render, if 
nothing more than standing back of those who are striving 
for more just, more equitable economic conditions, an actually 
applied code of ethics among public officials and in private 
business life. Tainted dollars will probably continue to be 
equal in buying value to clean dollars, yet we recently have 
most abundant proof that American conscience is so aroused 
that the dollar mark as indicative of our national life and 
character will sooner or later be replaced by a coat of arms 
representing square deal, social service, and cooperative 
effort. 
Naturally, it is the easier and more profitable course to 
“play the game’’ according to current rules, No. i being 
“Do the other fellow, and do him first’’; and No. 2, “It’s no 
crime, unless you are caught.’’ 
Yet the uneasy seats of some of our distinguished senators 
and representatives in Congress and the striped design of 
clothes worn by an increasing number of well-known bankers, 
promoters, and other public and private officials who have 
played the game, not observing Rule 2, would indicate a 
growing desire on the public’s part to change the rules for 
perhaps more ethical ones. 
Each individual is partly responsible for existing rules and 
standards of ethics in business, and when we really want a 
change for the better, the change will come. 
Don’t duck behind the other fellow—it’s up to you and 
me individually, and the changing of the code is a personal 
matter; for when these things are settled individually, be 
sure collective action will promptly and effectively follow. 
The Burr Nursery Co. of Manchester, Conn., is building 
a new concrete storehouse 75x100 feet and 16 feet high on 
Oakland street, which will have a capacity of 10,000 trees 
and shrubs. 
Doings of Societies 
INTERNATIONAL APPLE SHIPPERS’ ASSOCIATION 
This important convention will be held in Detroit, 
August 9-11. The secretary of the Association is Mr. 
R. G. Phillips, Rochester, N. Y. 
The subjects which will receive attention by the con¬ 
ference are cold storage and its restrictions, storage in transit, 
standardization or grading and packing legislation, and 
apple auctions. 
A new feature of the program of this live organization is 
the banquet which will be given on the evening of Thursday, 
the loth. 
AMERICAN GLADIOLUS SOCIETY 
The second annual meeting of this society will be held 
in Baltimore on August 17. An attractive prize list has 
been arranged and a short program will be carried out. 
President C. F. Hendrickson, Floral Park, L. I. 
PACIFIC COAST NURSERYMEN 
Annual Meeting at San Jose, Cal. 
The annual meeting of this live organization was held at 
San Jose, Cal. on June 23. The attendance was a representa¬ 
tive one. Live topics were discussed by practical men. 
Officers; President, P. A. Dix, Utah; vice-president, 
C. F. Lansing, Oregon; C. H. Smith, Salt Lake City; 
J. Valance, San Francisco; Ray Hartley, Idaho; A. W. 
McDonald, Washington; Chas. Trotter, British Columbia, 
and D. J. Tighe, Montana; secretary-treasurer, C. F. 
Tonneson, Washington; executive committee, M. D. 
Soles, Salt Lake City; A. McGill, Oregon; Leonard Coates, 
Morgan Hill, Cal. 
Program 
The following subjects were discussed at this meeting; 
“Nurserymen and Horticultural Authorities,’’ by H. Me 
Donald, president Oregon Nursery Co., Orenco, Ore.; “Sane 
Inspection Laws,’’ by John S. Armstrong, Armstrong 
Nurseries, Los Angeles, Cal.; “Insurrecto Nurserymen,’’ by 
J. W. Jeffrey, California State Commissioner of Horticulture; 
“Attitude of Nurserymen toward Horticultmal Laws and 
Inspectors,’’ S. A. Miller, Milton Nurseries, Milton, Ore.; 
“Why the Nurseryman Should Stand in the Position of an 
Educator to the Fruit Growers,’’ Prof. E. J. Wickson, Dean 
of Agriculture, University of California; “Plans for Growing 
and Keeping Nursery Stock,’’ by A. McGill, Oregon Nursery 
Co., Orenco, Ore.; “Apple Seedlings in the Northwest,’’ 
by A. W. McDonald, Washington Nursery Co., Toppenish, 
Wash.; “The Value of Cleaning Seedlings Before Planting,’’ 
by C. F. Lansing, Salem, Ore.; “The Nurseryman a Pioneer,’’ 
by P. A. Dix, Roy, Utah; “Pedigreed Stock; Does it Pay?,, 
by Leonard Coates, Morganhill, Cal.; “Virtues and Faults 
of Different Kinds of Pear Stock,’’ by N. S. Bennett, Med¬ 
ford, Ore. 
