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FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated 
Vol. XXVIII HATBORO, PENNA. JULY 1920 No. 7 
Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Convention of the 
National Association of Nurseryman 
If the weather had been made to order for the conven¬ 
tion, it could not have been better, bright yet cool, per¬ 
haps best describes it. 
Quite a contrast to the usual sizzling experiences of 
the old timers of former conventions. As early as Sun¬ 
day nurserymen began to drift into Chicago from all 
parts of the country and register at the Congress Hotel. 
Monday and Tuesday, committees were busy framing 
up their reports and getting ready for the sessions of the 
convention. 
In the lobby old friends were meeting and talking over 
happenings of the past year. Satisfaction over the past 
season’s business seemed very general, in fact not a few 
expressed themselves as having stripped their nurseries 
and were more inclined to worry about restocking than 
sales. 
All agreed the transportation difficulties of the past 
season had been extreme and there did not seem to be 
promise of great improvement for the fall. The motor 
truck saved the situation in many instances, and would 
very likely in the future have much to do in prescribing 
the limits of the nurseryman’s business. 
The advantages of delivery by motor truck and the dis¬ 
advantages of quarantines would both tend to localize 
business. 
By Tuesday evening upwards of 250 members had 
registered and it began to be evident the meeting would 
be an interesting one. 
Too much credit cannot be given to the officers of the 
Association in the selection of the hotel and the arrange¬ 
ments made for the comfort and convenience of visiting 
members. 
Executive ability was evident on every hand. 
Tastefully printed posters, quoting from the editorial 
pages of the “Farm Journal, “Minnesota Horticulturist,” 
and the “American Fruit Grower” added to the decora¬ 
tive beauty of the convention hall and lobby of the hotel, 
calling attention to the prestige already accumulating in 
the public mind in favor of a National Nurseryman’s As¬ 
sociation that stood for integrity in its dealings with the 
consumer. 
THE DINNER 
The get-together dinner was well patronized and 
Pr esident Moon took the opportunity to call on various 
speakers who had been actively interested in the affairs 
of the Association, to give an account of their sins of 
commission and omission during the past year. 
Among these were Paul Lindley, chairman of the Vig¬ 
ilance Committee who tactfully confessed his own guilt 
against the laws of this tribunal and admitted the com¬ 
mittee had only been cleaning spark plugs and had not 
monkeyed with the magneto. 
P. J. Lovejoy, correspondent for the “Country Gentle¬ 
man,” who in his writings for that journal has been 
rather severe on the nurserymen as a class, was called 
upon to retract or explain. In a very clever and humor¬ 
ous speech he drove home his point in many minds, that 
where there was so much restrictive legislation, quaran¬ 
tines, etc., there must be a cause for them and advised 
the nurserymen to stick together, as a body, so as to 
separate the competent from the incompetent and the 
honest nurseryman from the scalawag. 
Mr. Tuttle of the Tuttle Advertising Agency supple¬ 
mented by Mr. Rockwell told the Association with such 
remarkable showing as they have already made in ad¬ 
vertising the Association and the Market Development, 
they cannot let go, the work must go on. 
David N. Mosessohn, Executive Director of the As¬ 
sociated Dress Industries of America, who had been in¬ 
strumental in organizing the leading dressmakers into 
a cooperative body urged the nurserymen to get away 
from the small town idea. Success will only attend a 
broad generous policy, where honesty and square deal¬ 
ing govern every action of an associated body. 
This was supplemented by John Watson who likened 
the organization to a poker deck of cards. A single ace 
could not do much unless there was another associated 
with it, and cooperation to work so as others could work 
with you. 
Wednesday, June 23 
The opening sessions of the convention was unusually 
well attended when President J. Edward Moon called the 
meeting to order and asked for a few moments of silent 
prayer. 
PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS 
When entering upon the duties of President of 
this Association I remarked that it would be grati¬ 
fying to hear from members frequently during 
the year and doubt if ever a President has heard from you 
as often as correspondence has come to me. These letters 
have been encouraging and stimulating—most of them 
were intended to be-—a very few were disagreeing in 
some particular with the activities of the Association, yet 
they were encouraging, too, for the members were inter¬ 
ested, and without individual member interest an Asso¬ 
ciation is on the down grade. With the interest displayed 
here, ours is not headed that way. 
Another remark made upon assuming office was that my 
predecessor had set an example that I would do well to 
follow—and let me say right here that a great many times 
during the past year it was realized that the progress we 
