THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
“Third. Resolved, that the date of our annual meeting 
be changed to the first Wednesday on or after the 20th of 
of June of each year. 
“Fourth. Resolved, that our president consider care¬ 
fully the personel of the transportation committee, select¬ 
ing as far as possible, men who are experienced in dealing 
with railroad officials, and that as few changes be made in 
the transportation committee from year to year as is 
possible, with a view to securing from their work the 
greatest benefits. 
“Fifth. Resolved, that our transportation committee 
be requested to give particular attention to the following 
necessary work: 
“(A). Endeavor to secure from the traffic association 
car rates on ‘part lots.” 
“(B). Take up with the O. R. & N. railroad the matter 
of a more prompt freight schedule on nursery stock; also 
with any other lines against which there seem to be any 
complaint. 
“(C). Take up with the S.P . and 0 . R. & N. railroads 
the classification of nursery stock, endeavoring to secure 
from them on application of the western classification 
covering minimum weights, etc., as used by the Northern 
Pacific and certain other transcontinental roads. 
“(D). Employ competent party to prepare schedule of 
car and less than car rates on nursery stock from and to 
certain central shipping points in coast territory to be 
suggested by transportation committee, and to also furnish 
classification of nursery products in their respective classes 
as ‘plants,’ ‘shrubs’ or ‘trees’ for the guidance of our mem¬ 
bers, copy to be supplied each. 
“Fifth. In as much as it has become the practice of 
some of the seedling dealers to sell seedling stocks and 
grafts indiscriminately to many farmers or orchardists who 
are growing a few trees as a side line; and in as much as 
these men are not and never intend to be nurserymen, but 
are simply endeavoring to grow a few varieties of trees to 
sell at such prices as it will bring; and in as much as this 
practice is demoralizing the nursery business of the coast 
and is shortsighted on the part of said dealers and unjust 
to their nursery customers who buy from them in large lots. 
“Therefore be it Resolved, that we, the Pacific Coast As¬ 
sociation of Nurserymen condemn such practice and refuse 
to patronize such seedling dealers and to hereafter confine 
our purchases of seedling stocks to the dealers who sell 
only to the nursery trade; 
“And be it further, Resolved, that a copy of these 
resolutions be sent to each of the seedling dealers of the 
United States, and that a copy be printed in the National 
Nurseryman.” 
COMMENTS ON PROPOSED NURSERY IMPORT INSPEC¬ 
TION BILL. AN OPEN LETTER 
New York, May 2d, 1910. 
Committee on Agriculture, H. R., 
Washington, D. C. 
Dear Sirs: 
With more than thirty years of practical experience in 
the nursery business and somewhat intimate knowledge 
of the conditions of both the domestic and foreign business, 
permit me to call your attention to some of the impractical 
and inconsistent features of the Simmons Bill, H. R. 23252, 
now before you. 
1st.—It is absurd for any nurseryman or importer 
doing an extended business to make “an application stating 
the number and kind of nursery stock to be imported,” 
unless duplicates of all orders placed for foreign stock, 
whether by cable or letter, be transmitted to the Secretary 
of Agriculture;—a technical proceeding of governmental 
interference with private business, as unreasonable and 
unnecessary as it is inconsistent with the spirit of our form 
of Government. 
2d.—In Section 7, the provision for detention “in 
quarantine a necessary time to determine the result of 
such disinfection” would, in practical workings result in 
most cases to simple and direct confiscation—an object 
presumably not intended by the advocates of the bill nor 
one that would, if thus understood, be tolerated by you. 
3d.—The authority conferred upon the Secretary of 
Agriculture “to quarantine against any importations from 
said district” is a dangerous precedent, an arbitrary and 
wholly un justifiable imposition, which, in effect, might 
cause needless injustice and loss; and in view of the other 
protective features of the bill would, unquestionably do 
much more harm than good. Indeed, in case of fright or 
a wave of hysteria with subordinate officials, very serious 
injury would follow without any compensating benefits. 
The desirability of an efficient national law for the 
proper regulation of nursery stock importations in co¬ 
operative harmony with the approved inspection laws of 
the states, is by the progressive men in the nursery business 
generally recognized: But, I beg to submit that care should 
be taken in conferring arbitrary power and creating new 
conditions, not to make the proposed remedy worse than 
the insect pest diseases which the law aims to prevent. 
Unless the bill is amended in the sections above indicated 
it is quite within the possibilities and quite probable that 
this may be the result. 
Very respectfully, 
(Signed) Frederick W. Kelsey. 
GEORGIA PEACH CROP 
It appears as a result of the season’s experience that 
the Fruit Producers Exchange was a material aid in hand¬ 
ling in a profitable manner the large Peach crop harvested 
in Georgia the past season. Lime-sulphur too played an im¬ 
portant part in warding off rot and curculio. Georgia 
peach growers are feeling encouraged. 
PERSONALS 
C. C. Mayhew of Sherman, Texas, spent two weeks in 
Rochester in July, visiting the Nurseries in Western New 
York. 
J. H. Dayton, of Storrs & Harrison Company, Paines- 
ville, Ohio, spent a few days in Rochester the first part of 
August, and called on his brother nurserymen in the Em¬ 
pire State. 
