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vention when the new president went in office. 
Mr. J. R. Mayhew made a strong plea for adherance to 
the forward policy laid down. 
At this session was adopted the platform in regard to 
legislation printed on another page. 
During the Thursday morning session Mr. F. Crane- 
field spoke on behalf of the American Pomological So¬ 
ciety suggesting the Nurserymen’s Association become an 
affiliated member. 
The affiliation of all allied industries with such an old 
and honorable body whose head is Prof. L. H. Bailey 
would give much weight in those matters in which all 
were interested such as the registration of new fruits, 
nomenclature, legislation, etc. 
The resolution to become an affiliated member was 
approved. 
The movement encouraging the planting of memorial 
trees originated by Mr. J. Edward Moon was generally 
endorsed by the convention. 
Report of Committee on College Training 
To the American Association of Nurserymen: 
Your committee on College Courses of Nursery Train¬ 
ing, appointed at the convention of 1919 has interviewed 
members of the Association and the heads of college fa¬ 
culties and finds enthusiastic support of the proposition 
for establishment of courses in colleges designed to fit 
young men especially to engage in the nursery business. 
It is recommended: 
I. That a full four year’s course be considered; also 
a short course, the latter in behalf of foremen and ap¬ 
prentices in nurseries who have not the time for the 
longer course. 
II. That on account of many conditions such courses 
should be provided in four sections of the country: The 
Middle Atlantic States; the Great Lakes region; the Pa¬ 
cific Coast region and the Southern region. 
III. There is a ready market for employment of grad¬ 
uates in such courses, in the growing and selling depart¬ 
ments of nurseries and at wages comparable to those 
paid in Agriculture, Forestry, Civil Engineering, etc., 
for training of a similar nature. 
IY. The most headway in definite plans has been 
made in the cases of Cornell University in New York 
state and the University of Illinois, the heads of which 
have submitted for consideration tentative outlines for 
four year courses of study covering development in na¬ 
tural history and the sciences upon which the nursery 
industry is based, coupled with business training. It is 
suggested that students be encouraged to specialize in 
both fruit and ornamental nursery practice. As showing 
the interest in this subject on the part of young men, 
members of this committee have been asked where train¬ 
ing approaching the nature of that discussed in this re¬ 
port can be had at the present time. Inquirers have 
been referred to the Bussey Institute of the Arnold Ar¬ 
boretum and to the Cornell and Illinois Universities be¬ 
cause of courses already established there hearing upon 
the general subject. 
Y. Special lectures upon special trade subjects 
should be a feature of the courses; and nurserymen are 
urged to be ready to aid in this work. Nurserymen, too, 
should encourage students to work in nurseries for prac¬ 
tical experience during their vacations, thus aiding in 
payment for tuition; provision may also be made for em¬ 
ployment in season at institutions like Arnold Arbore¬ 
tum, Highland Park in Rochester, N. Y., and the Missouri 
Botanical Garden in St. Louis. 
YI. Scholarships to encourage young men who have 
not necessary funds should be created by nurserymen 
and the committee strongly recommends scholarships 
for travel and study in technical schools of Holland, 
France, and England, the Kew gardens, etc. 
VII. Nurserymen will need to cooperate actively 
with the universities in procuring from state legisla¬ 
tures the necessary appropriations of funds to provide 
such courses. 
VIII. It is recommended that the short courses re¬ 
ferred to be made available in the immediate future—as 
early as in the coming fall if practicable. 
Your committee suggests that its work thus far be re¬ 
garded as of a progressive nature and that such work be 
continued. Henry Hicks, Chairman. 
Weight of Express Packages 
Mr. E. H. Stevens, vice president of the American Ex¬ 
press Companies, told the convention of the work and dif¬ 
ficulties under which the Transportation Companies had 
been laboring during the last few years and asked the 
nurserymen to limit the size of express packages to 300 
pounds as heavier packages had a tendency to disrupt the 
service and cause delay. 
Upon the understanding that the 300 pounds be the 
approximate limit rather than the actual limit, the reso¬ 
lution was adopted by the convention. 
Mr. Donnelly, President of the American Associated 
Advertising Clubs of the world gave an interesting ad¬ 
dress, and convincingly explained that the Association’s 
trademark and slogan —Trustworthy Trees and Plants, 
advertised and lived up to, could not but fail to pay in 
every phase and in every sense the words imply. 
0. Joe Howard, chairman of the Market Development 
committee made his report with dry southern humor that 
did much to clear the atmosphere and bring the reaction¬ 
ary sentiment to express itself. 
Mr. Tuttle of the Tuttle Advertising Agency, with long- 
ribbons of covers of publications pasted together graph¬ 
ically showed how 24 million readers had been told about 
Trustworthy Trees and Plants and what the National As¬ 
sociation has done in the interests of the consumer, at a 
cost of about $4,500. 
Upon motion of J. R. Mayhew it was resolved not to go 
into executive session behind closed doors as had been 
customary heretofore. 
This was almost unanimously approved. 
Upon legal advice the Report of Committee on Policy 
adopted June, 1919 was rescinded and committee ap¬ 
pointed to look into the advisability of having the Asso¬ 
ciation of Nurserymen made a corporate body. 
A committee was appointed to make the necessary in¬ 
vestigations. Members will have the committees find¬ 
ings placed before them before the next convention to 
enable them to vote intelligently on the subject. 
Th discussion on Market Development failed to bring 
the reactionaries to their feet to any great extent and the 
opposition, which had seemed so ominuos during the con- 
