THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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horticulture. It is an investment that cannot show a loss 
except by niggardly and insufficient appropriations. 
During the war we heard much about essential indus¬ 
tries. The Department of Agriculture with its numerous 
bureaus is the one department essential to the develop¬ 
ment of the country’s resources. 
Nurserymen are aware how the war and its effects have 
depleted the trained personel of their private businesses. 
Exactly the same conditions have been experienced by 
the Agricultural colleges, Experiment Stations and 
Bureaus of the U. S. D. of A. 
Our legislature should be alive to the condition and not 
allow ideas of false economy to influence them and per¬ 
mit the efficiency of the Department of Agriculture to de¬ 
teriorate. 
It takes generations to build up a trained personel 
such as comprise the U. S. D of A. and to permit such an 
organization to become disintegrated through parsimony 
is anything but good statesmanship. 
45 th Annual Convention of the American Association of Nurserymen 
The Convention will be held June 23rd, 24th and 25th, 
1920, with Headquarters at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, 
Ill. 
Meetings will be held each day at 10.00 A. M. in the 
Florentine Room on the second floor of the Hotel. 
Rooms 
Rooms should he reserved at once because all hotels 
are apt to he crowded this summer. 
Program 
There will be no set program but rather a series of 
business meetings to give all members an equal oppor¬ 
tunity to express themselves rather than allot the conven¬ 
tion’s time to a few. 
Rooms 
The Congress Hotel gives the free use of a large con¬ 
vention hall and three committee rooms and appreciation 
of these courtesies, no less than the comfort and conveni¬ 
ence of members, will prompt them to stop at I he hotel 
selected lor the Convention by the Committee on Arrange¬ 
ments. 
Rates 
The following rates are quoted by the Congress Hotel: 
Rooms with hath for one person.$5 per day and up. 
Rooms with bath for two persons.$7 per day and up. 
Rooms without bath for one person. . .$3 per day and up. 
Rooms without bath for two persons. .-$5 per day and up. 
Write promptly to The Congress Hotel, Chicago. Illinois 
and tell them what sort of room to reserve for you. 
Exhibits 
Members who wish to make exhibits should notify Mr. 
A. M. Augustine, Normal, Illinois, Chairman Arrange¬ 
ments Committee, who will be glad to see that exhibits 
are taken care of and properly placed. 
Every member should attend the convention, feeling 
that it is being held for his special benefit and if he has 
any problem, resolution, amendment or action to propose 
to the convention, he should lay his proposition before 
the membership in advance to insure it being brought up 
before the meeting. 
Secretary’s Office 
The Secretary’s office will be on the second floor of the 
hotel, adjoining the convention hall, where members are 
requested to call immediately on arrival to register and 
receive their badges and badge books. Arrangements 
have been made to make the Secretary’s office the head¬ 
quarters of all visiting nurserymen where stationary, 
writing materials and stenographer will be available. 
Dinner 
The big get-together dinner will be held on Tuesday 
evening, the 22nd, 7.00 o’clock. That evening should be 
kept open. Tickets for the dinner can be had at the Sec¬ 
retary’s office. 
Ladies 
The hotel management has generously placed at the 
disposal of the ladies, a large and pleasant room, adjoin¬ 
ing the convention hall, where they can arrange to make 
up their parties for sight seeing or meet their friends or 
any other program they wish to carry out. Every provi¬ 
sion will be made for their comfort. 
NO FORMAL PROGRAM 
To the Editor, 
I am sending you with this a copy of the Announce¬ 
ment, respecting arrangements for the Association’s Forty- 
fifth Annual Convention sent to all members. 
You will notice that no formal program has been ar¬ 
ranged. The Association, since becoming a business or¬ 
ganization, has each year found it more and more difficult 
to give its business the time necessary for full discussion 
and mature deliberation, both very important where ac¬ 
tion affects policies and programs that touch upon and 
put into new channels the business of its members. We 
have many very interesting and important subjects to dis¬ 
cuss and determine at Chicago, and instead of devoting 
the three days to prepared essays, it has seemed more ser¬ 
viceable to the members’ interests to leave the track clear 
for business. Some of those subjects undoubtedly will 
be: Market Development, Business Ethics, Advertising, 
Publicity, Costs, Credits and Collections, Surplus and 
Shortages, Seedlings and raw materials, Inspection and 
Quarantines, Replations with professional Landscape Ar¬ 
chitects, the professional Landscape Gardener, Coopera¬ 
tion with Seedsmen and Florists, Exhibits with allied in¬ 
dustries, Standardization of Plant Names, Standardiza¬ 
tion of Grades, The Planter’s View-Point, The Agricul¬ 
tural and Horticultural Press, Storage, Packing, Trans¬ 
portation, Express weight limits, Nursery training in Ag¬ 
ricultural Colleges, Tariff, Arbitration, State Competition, 
Compensation for Stock destroyed as a precautionary 
measure, Provision for Planting Federal Grounds. 
That makes a rather formidable list of subjects and yet 
there will be other matters, undoubtedly, that members 
will want to bring before the convention. It is clear, 
