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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
serymen and ought to be kept within close limits. Where 
the bills from individual nurserymen are small it may 
be reasonable lo hold some of them as much as thirty 
days for the sake of sending in a group of bills at one 
time to a client for the latter’s convenience; but in no 
case is it good practice to hold any bill in this manner for 
more than a month after the receipt of goods. 
Landscape architects ordering plants from nurserymen 
for clients are recommended by the American Society of 
Landscape Architects to follow the practice of issuing, 
within thirty days after the receipt of both bill and 
goods from the nurseryman, a certificate of payment 
due, as in the case of certificates of payment due con¬ 
tractors, sending copies both to the client and the nur¬ 
seryman. In any case, the landscape architect should 
notify the nurseryman promptly by some means, as soon 
as he has verified the bill and recommended the client to 
make payment. In the opinion of the American Society 
of Landscape Architects there is no reason why the nur¬ 
seryman, after the receipt of such notice, should not ad¬ 
dress himself directly to the client with regard to pay¬ 
ment of the account. Furthermore, if the landscape ar¬ 
chitect should delay sending such notice to Hie nursery¬ 
man for more than sixty days after the receipt of both 
bill and stock from the nurseryman, (unless in the in¬ 
terval he shall have requested the nurseryman to agree 
to an adjustment of the hill on account of error in the 
bill or defect in the shipment.) The Amercian Society 
of Landscape Architects recognizes that I he nurseryman 
may properly notify the client direct that the bill has 
been sent the landscape architect for verification and 
that payment is overdue. 
For the protection, both of the landscape architect and 
the nurseryman, from possible misunderstanding on the 
part of the client, the American Society of Landscape Ar¬ 
chitects recognizes it as entirely proper that a nursery¬ 
man, when accepting a large order from a landscape ar¬ 
chitect on account of a client, should send a copy of the 
acceptance direct to the client so as to put the latter on 
notice. Respectfully submitted, 
Thomas B. Meehan, Chairman, 
Henry Kohankie, 
# Theodore J. Smith, 
Richard M. Wyman, 
Committee on Relations with Landscape Architects. 
The above report wasliccepted as the standard of prac¬ 
tice by the National Association of Nurserymen. 
TRANSPORTATION 
AND TRAFFIC 
REPORT 
By Charles Sizemore 
MANAGER’S 
CONSOLIDATED CLASSIFICATION, 
his Classification took the place of the Official, Sou 
crn and Western classifications and was submitted 
approval by the carriers to the Interstate Comme 
Commission in January 1919. 
In this classification the carriers proposed to raise 1 
C L rate on Nursery Stock” in Western Classificati 
wffirt 0ry 'Ti\ C,aSS “ B ” or “ 7,h ” Glass to Class “j 
Ahidi would have made from between 25 to 30% 
te7mad The ''““‘''"f in Chica «° was attended and p 
Lat made against tins change and evidence submit! 
showing why it should not be done and the burden it 
would place on the nursery business. When the classi¬ 
fication went into effect on December 30th, no change 
was made which show r s that our efforts were successful, 
although some of the assistants for the Commission had 
suggested that the rate should be raised to 4th Class to 
agree with that in the Official and Southern Territories. 
If this last change had been made it would have been an 
increase of about 50%. 
In January 1909 the carriers endeavored to change 
rating in the Western territory from Class “B,” to Class 
“A,” but Mr. W. C. Reed and myself protested same and 
with the result that it was not done. Several times since 
this change has been considered but so far we have been 
able to prevent it but we feel that some day they are go¬ 
ing to put it through as the Glassification men claim that 
Lloyd C. Stark, Louisiana, Mo., Elected President of the National 
Association of 'Nurserymen. This is the second time Major 
Stark has been elected to the President's Chair. On a 
former occasion he resigned to serve his country. 
Class “B or “7th,” class with a 16000 lb. minimum is toe 
low for a perishable commodity. 
Express Rates and Weight of Packages 
The American Railway Express Company has peti¬ 
tioned the Commission for a general advance in rates and 
in addition want to make some changes in the classifica¬ 
tion, one of these being to change the rating on nursery 
stock from second to first class which would mean ex¬ 
actly 33 1-3% increase on top of the general increase oi 
