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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
ENTERTAINMENT 
Denver and the western nurserymen acting as hosts 
proved themselves generous entertainers. Automobile 
drives, theatre parties, and scenic tours were interspersed 
with the literary part of the program, and indeed closed the 
meeting. The tour of the last day was one of great interest 
and enjoyment. These pleasant events were run off as 
follows: 
Thursday, June 9TH—2 p. m. 
Ladies were taken in special cars to the White City, as 
the guests of the Denver Convention League and Western 
Nurserymen. 
8 P. M. 
Theatre party Broadway Theatre (opposite Brown 
Palace Hotel) for gentlemen and ladies, as guests of the 
Convention League and Western Nurserymen. 
Friday, June ioth —8:30 a. m. 
At the Moffat Depot, for a trip over the Moffat Road to 
Corona, as guests of the Western Nurserymen. 
Saturday, June iith 
Trip around “The 
Horn,”-as guests of the 
Colorado State Board of 
Immigration. Leave 
Union Depot 8:10 a. m.; 
arrive Boulder 9:10, step 
45 minutes for Automobile 
Trip. 
Leave Boulder 9:55; 
arrive Longmont 10:30, 
stop 45 minutes for Auto 
Ride. 
Leave Longmont 11:15; 
arrive Loveland 11:45, stop 45 minutes for Auto Ride. 
Leave Loveland 12:30; arrive Agricultural College 1:00 
p. m., stop one hour and thirty minutes at college and Fort 
Collins; lunch at Fort Collins (pumpkin pie and milk). 
Leave Fort Collins 2:35 p. m.; arrive Greeley 3:30, stop 
one hour and twenty minutes for Auto Ride. 
Leave Greeley 4:50, arrive Lupton 5:40, lunch. 
Leave Lupton 6:10; arrive Denver 7:00. This pro¬ 
gram was carried out. 
STORY OF THE CONVENTION 
President Stannard’s gavel called the meeting to order 
at 9:3o Wednesday morning. He then introduced Col. J. S. 
Irby, representing Mayor Speer, who greeted the nursery¬ 
men with as fine a line of welcome talk as it has been their 
good fortune to hear for many a year. He very properly 
called attention to the civic pride of Denver, her beauty, her 
progressiveness and her ideals. Said Col. Irby: 
‘‘If you find while here an unusual love of city you will 
pardon it. To most of us this is our adopted home. We 
came here for the pure air and eternal sunshine, and having 
regained our health, we love Denver because to the natural 
affection and civic pride is added the great debt gratitude. 
‘‘And that is one reason why the malicious muckraker 
and the political newspaper knocker have not injured the 
city’s fair name. You may have some of these pests in your 
part of the country—men who, having sprinkled a pinch of 
salt on the tails of all of the cardinal virtues, have captured 
them everyone, and are now sighing because there are no 
other cardinal virtues to conquer. These creatures are 
noisy, non-progressive and stagnant. They are on the 
order of the river boat to which Abraham Lincoln used to 
liken the professional agitator of his day. Lincoln said that 
this boat had such an enormous whistle that when it was 
blowing it couldn’t move and when it was moving it couldn’t 
blow. These worthies to whom I allude are so everlastingly 
busy blowing that they never get anywhere and the men 
whom they malign are doing all of the work of upbuilding 
this city and state.” 
The Colonel was followed by Mr. C. H. Reynolds, repre¬ 
senting the Denver Convention League, in equally eloquent 
strain. Col. C. L. Watrous, the veteran nurseryman and 
soldier of Des Moines, la., responded in fitting terms. He 
acknowledged the aesthetic attractions of the city of Denver 
but took occasion to re¬ 
mind the City’s represent¬ 
atives that the materials 
used in embellishing the 
waste places, as well as the 
lawns of the millionaires, 
were furnished principally 
by the nurseryman whose 
aim it was to work in 
harmony with the laws of 
nature. The way to build 
up patriotism was to build 
beautiful, comfortable 
homes; and in this work 
the plant grower was a 
leading factor. Col. Watrous drew a striking contrast be¬ 
tween the conditions educational and otherwise existing 
half a century ago, when the Great American Desert 
was regarded as an established geographical fact, and those 
obtaining at the present time. Much of the change was 
due to the influence of the tree grower. 
PRESIDENT STANNARD’S ADDRESS 
This appreciatively recognized the good work of the com¬ 
mittees of the Association and recommended that special 
provision be made to cover emergency expenses of such 
important committees as Transportation, Legislation and 
Tariff, and closed with a tribute to the efficient work of 
Ex-Secretary Geo. C. Seager. The address was referred to 
a committee who reported later that the excellent recom- j 
mendations of the President, though not formally authorized 
in this form, were practically effective, inasmuch as each 
chairman of these committees might bring urgent matters 
before the executive committees for authorization according 
to dictates of circumstances and judgment. 
REPORTS OF OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 
The reports of Secretary Hall and Treasurer Yates fol¬ 
lowed in order and will be published next month. They 
How the Ladies Saw Denver 
