THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Atlantic City the Next Place of Meeting 
There was a strong effort made to have the next con¬ 
vention in San Francisco. Kansas City also had its boost¬ 
ers, Rocky Mountain National Park, near Denver and 
Springfield, Ohio also had their advocates. 
The first vote proved Atlantic City the popular choice, 
the second vote giving it an overwhelming majority. 
Exhibits at the Convention 
Baker Bros. Co., Ft. Worth, Tex., Biota orientalis. 
Benton Review Shop, Fowler, Ind., catalogues. 
B. F. Conigisky, Peoria, Ill., photographs. 
A. T. De La Mare Co., Inc., New York, horticultural 
books. 
D. Hill Nursery Co., Dundee, Ill., evergreens. 
Jagerson Fuel Co., Neenah, Wis., baled cedar tow, 
shavings and screened sawdust. 
J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa., advertising lit¬ 
erature, catalogues, etc. 
Monroe Letterhead Specialists, Huntsville, Ala., letter¬ 
heads. 
A. B. Morse Co., St. Joseph, Mich., catalogues. 
Onarga Nursery Co., Onarga, 111., shrub digger. 
Parker Nursery k Orchard Co., Tecumseh, Okla., 
thornless dewberry. 
Process Color Printing Co., Rochester, N. Y., process 
color plates. 
Rock River Irrigation Co., Rockford, 111., Rico irrigat¬ 
ing system. 
Swenson Nursery Co., Siloam Springs, Ark., seedling 
peach pits. 
United Litho. k Printing Co., Rochester, N. Y., fruit 
plates and nursery supplies. 
Robert C. Young, Greensboro, N. C., boxwood and bar¬ 
berry. 
Gibson Manufacturing Co., Port Washington. Wis., 
Bolen’s power hoe and lawn mower tractor. 
President’s Address 
Paul C. Lindley, President 
American Association of Nurserymen 
Ask a man from California to talk on any subject, and 
he will usually talk about the “livest” spot in America, 
his state. There is another live spot, Carolina, and I be¬ 
lieve a little Dixie data will be an eye opener to members 
from the noisy North, woolly West, and effervescent East. 
Greensboro, my home town, is about halfway between 
Baltimore and Atlanta. In a fifty-mile circle around 
Greensboro there is a population of 577,000 people, more 
people than in any other circle of the same size, south 
of Washingon, west to Memphis, and east of the Missis¬ 
sippi river. There is only one other circle in the entire 
south with more people, a circle around Dallas, Texas. 
In this circle you will find the: 
Largest hosiery mill in the world. 
Largest denim mill in the United States. 
Largest aluminum plant in the world. 
Largest underwear plant in America. 
A city that manufactures more tobacco than any city 
in the world. 
A city that has second place in the manufacture of 
furniture in the United States. 
The home of Marshall Field’s Chicago group of mills. 
On the rim of this circle your vice-president spent his 
childhood days; though an adopted Yankee, he still shows 
the influence of the south. 
In Carolina is also located the largest towel mill in the 
world, the largest pulp mill in the United States, the larg¬ 
est damask mill in the United States, the second largest 
hydro-electric power development in the world. One 
county, Gaston, with over a hundred cotton mills, also 
has more cotton mills than any other state in the Union. 
Many of the larger mills employ landscape gardeners 
to look after their mill villages; also the progressive exec¬ 
utive heads believe “It’s not a factory home until it’s 
planted.” In variety of soils and seasons, we stand 
alone; our plant life is in greater variety than is to be 
found on the entire continent of Europe. Carolina is 
both a winter and summer playground. The sand hill 
section has planted in the past few years 40,000 acres in 
peaches, while our mountain apples a few years ago 
were awarded first prize at Spokane, Washington. 
Think of it, with one-fifth the area of Texas and one- 
half her population, North Carolina is leaving Texas, and 
all other Southern states in a program of progress. Think 
also, that North Carolina was ravaged and desolated by 
the war of 1861-5, from shore to mountain, and suffered 
from the process of reconstruction to a far greater extent 
than Texas. 
Our state and counties are spending $120,000,000 for 
good roads on a two-year building program, and $42,- 
000,000 in 1922, on public education. 
The city of Greensboro with ninety-six trains per day 
gives the Southern Railway more revenue than any other 
town between Washington and Atlanta. Has voted 
bonds to the amount of $1,300,000, and loaned the South¬ 
ern Railway for the purpose of building a new passenger 
station. Leads in municipal improvement and led all 
southern cities, when population is considered, in build¬ 
ing during the past year. Is the insurance centre of the 
south with ten life and fire companies. Greensboro is 
the birthplace of O’Henry, the well-known writer. 
I suppose many in the audience are wondering why I 
am devoting a president’s report to a talk about my home 
town and Carolina. I believe you will agree with me 
that I had a reason other than spirit of pride for our sec¬ 
tion. for not only our material resources but our men 
made our town. Backing up a strong Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, our men combined with our material resources, 
lit the fire of friendliness and made a united power, cap¬ 
able of producing such results. If there is a moral to 
this story and the American Association of Nurserymen 
booster is not working, apply for ours. 
As your president, it is my duty and my privilege to 
render you a report of the activities during the past year. 
