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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
then, that if essays and addresses were read on these and 
other subjects, there would he little time for business. 
And every program committee has been embarrassed at 
what seemed to some to be preempting the time of the 
meeting and parcelling it out in advance. This plan of 
leaving it to the members themselves to handle the meet¬ 
ing just as they want to, is worth trying. 
The Dinner is at 7 o’clock Tuesday evening the 22nd. 
Be on hand for it. Tickets for the Dinner can be had any 
time Tuesday in the Secretary’s office on the second floor 
of the Congress Hotel. 
Letters received to date indicate that the attendance 
will be the largest in a number of years. 
Yours truly, 
John Watson, Secretary , 
American Association of Nurserymen. 
Princeton, N. J., May 24, 1920. 
ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
To All Members : 
There seems to be some doubt and confusion about our 
dues and the period they cover. 
In response to several requests for a ruling, we wish 
to say that it is the opinion of the Executive Committee 
that dues paid last year entitle members to all the rights 
and privileges of the floor and the right to vote until such 
time in our next Convention as the gavel shall be passed 
on to the next elected President as symbolic of the begin¬ 
ning of a new administration. 
The Executive Committee has no authority to change 
the Constitution nor alter the action of the Association 
taken in convention. It can, however, constitute itself a 
committee on credentials to determine who under the Con¬ 
stitution are entitled to vote, or when one fiscal year ends 
and another begins. It is in the capacity of such a com¬ 
mittee that we make this announcement. 
In doing this, it is the idea to list all present members 
in the Badge Book as such throughout the June Conven¬ 
tion so that all can participate in shaping the future along 
lines that all can agree upon. 
If members assembled in Chicago—and it is expected 
that there will be a record attendance this year—will 
view the nursery industry in its national aspect, bearing 
constantly in mind the fact of our varied products and 
varied methods of conducting our business, submerging 
personal interests where they conflict with the interests 
of the whole, and displaying that capacity for cooperation 
which recognizes that no successful efforts in any direc¬ 
tion can be made without yielding certain of our preroga¬ 
tives, we can reach the point of putting the trade upon a 
more profitable footing for all and make the American 
Association of Nurserymen the recognized and authorita¬ 
tive spokesman for the great nursery industry which is 
fundamentally and vitally important to the health, the 
wealth and the happiness of our country. 
Signed: J. Edward Moon, President, 
Lloyd G. Stark, Vice-President , 
E. S. Welch, 
C. B. Burr, 
T. B. West, 
E. W. Chattin, 
J. B. PlLKINGTON, 
G. G. Mayhew, 
May 13, 1920. Executive Committee. 
WHERE WILL THE CONVENTION OF 1921 BE HELD? 
Possibly there are advantages in holding the conven¬ 
tion in one place every year, but judging from the dis¬ 
cussion that took place at the 1919 convention, a good 
portion of the membership seem to favor the idea of hav¬ 
ing it in a different part of the country each year. There 
is much to be said in favor of this arrangement and many 
will regret if Chicago or any other place, for that matter, 
is adopted as a permanent place for the convention. Since 
the re-organization, there has been a tendency to drop the 
social side of the convention and allow business to dom¬ 
inate. This may, in time, have a tendency to reduce the 
attendance, as lots of nurserymen, after the strenuous 
spring shipping season, are only too glad to get away for 
a few days for a rest and recreation and take advantage 
of attending the convention largely for this purpose, aim¬ 
ing to kill two birds with one stone, as it were. It is a 
pity if this idea is entirely overlooked in deciding where 
the next convention is to be held. 
There are those, no doubt, who wish that it be taken to 
the west, others to the south, others east, and so on. The 
city that suggests itself as a change from Chicago would 
be the capitol of the nation, Washington, D. C. For sever¬ 
al years, Washington has been in the head-lines; it has 
been the source of great news; from Washington went 
the call that caused armies to spring up only laying down 
their arms when the world’s map had been changed; from 
Washington, went the demand for a new order among na¬ 
tions and whether we acknowledge it or not Washington 
is, today, in fact, the center of the civilised world, leader 
and guide of the nations. 
It is an inspiration to visit Washington. Surely, every 
American wants to see the Capitol, the Washington Mon¬ 
ument, the White House, the Memorial at Arlington, 
Mount Vernon, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library 
of Congress. Wasington is by far the most beautiful 
American city with its public buildings and monuments, 
its wide streets, its parks, its handsome homes and the 
things that make a national capital different from other 
cities. 
And the many attractions for the nurserymen! The De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, with its wonderful collection of 
artificial fruit, its hand made illustrations of flowers and 
fruits, the Botanic Garden, the Rose Garden at Arlington, 
etc. 
After these years of war and anxiety, after the turmoil 
and travail, what more appropriate and healthful to our 
patriotism than for our National Association to journey to 
the National Capital and refresh ourselves spiritually in 
its historic atmosphere? And Washington in June is at 
its greenest and freshest, before the summer heat comes, 
with an abundance of good hotels grown up like mush¬ 
rooms in late years, with opportunity to meet, possibly 
the new President and certainly all the Department offi¬ 
cials with whom we are in such close business touch? 
Washington, of all places, would tend to emphasize 
our place and position as a national Association. No 
