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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
an ethical man, and wish no success that is not founded 
on the highest justice and morality. 
Fourth: To hold that the exchange of my goods, iny 
service and my ideas or profits is legitimate and ethical, 
and that it shall be my aim that all parties in the ex¬ 
change are benefited thereby. 
Fifth: To use my best endeavors to elevate the stan¬ 
dards of the vocation in which I am engaged. 
Whereas—There is an increasing National demand 
for plant material to be used in the orchards and for the 
beautification of our home grounds and parks, and for 
forestry purposes, and there is a need for trained men 
in this particular field of endeavor. And whereas, there 
is not at the present time, a school for the education of 
Nurserymen. 
Therefore be it resolved—That the Nurserymen of 
the Illinois Nurserymen’s Association in Convention as¬ 
sembled recommended to the Trustees of the University 
of Illinois, that they at once arrange for and institute 
such a course or courses in nursery management and 
practice as will properly qualify men for that industry. 
A. M. Augustine, President. 
J. A. Young, Secretary. 
NEW CLIMBING ROSES 
Captain George C. Thomas, Jr., a well known rose 
hybridist of Philadelphia, has been awarded first prize 
at Portland, Oregon test gardens for the best new rose 
originated by an amateur and second for the best new 
rose in the competition. 
Mr. Tliomas is the author of the well known “Prac¬ 
tical Book of Outdoor Rose Growing.” He has many 
thousands of pedigree seedlings in his gardens at Chest¬ 
nut Hill, his object being to produce a climbing rose 
that will bloom continuously throughout the summer. 
The rose for which he was awarded the prize bloomed 
from May until November, one plant giving 225 blooms 
in that period. It won 94 points out of a possible 100, 
and is known as 4-A. 
Another seedling by Captain Thomas “Bloomfield 
Abundance” was a close second winning 93.33 points. 
Captain Thomas has decided to transfer his field of 
operations from Philadelphia to California where the 
climate is so much better for carrying on his experi¬ 
ments. 
PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 
The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Association 
of Nurserymen was held in Hotel Adelphia, Wednesday, 
February 4th. In spite of the blizzard weather conditions 
there was a good representation of the nurseries of the 
State present. 
Robert Pyle was in the chair. In addition to the rou¬ 
tine business of the association Mr. A. E. Wohlert of the 
Overbrook Nurseries read a paper pleading for uniform 
terms in dealing with the retail customers. Mr. Edward 
Moon, President of the National Association was on hand 
and pointed out how necessary it was for nurserymen to 
act in a body if they wished to accomplish anything with 
the Government. He made it very plain by enumerating 
many recent laws, rules, regulations and quarantines 
that while they may have been adopted with the best in¬ 
tentions in the world, the fact remains that the business 
was slowly being handed over into the power of a very 
few men, which conditions are not likely to work to the 
best interests of either the trade or the country at large. 
To counteract this tendency everyone should be familiar 
with what was going on so they may act together to 
counteract unwise legislation. 
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One Plant of the new Neverfail Everbearing Straivberry, photographed Oct. 11th, 1919. There were twelve ripe 
berries on the plant at this date. See adv. page 69. 
