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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
Established 1893 by C. L. YATES. Incorporated 1902 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
Hatboro, Pa. 
Editor .ERNEST HEMMING, Flourtown, Pa. 
The leading trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in 
Nursery Stocks of all kinds. It circulates throughout the 
United States, Canada and Europe. 
Official Journal of American Association of Nurserymen 
A WARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION , 1900 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES 
One Year in Advance .$1.00 
Six Months .75 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance .$1.50 
Six Months .$1.00 
Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested by the 
Business Manager, Hatboro, Pa. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Photographs and news notes of interest to nurserymen should be 
addressed, Editor, Plourtown, Pa., and should be mailed to arrive not 
later than the 25th of the month. 
Entered in the Post Office at Hatboro , Penna., as second-class matter. 
Hatboro, Penna., June, 1916. 
Don’t be slack about the Convention. 
THE Every nurseryman knows what nur- 
CONVENTION sery business needs most is close co¬ 
operation among its members to in¬ 
sure better prices, better markets and better distribution. 
It is needless to point out, because it is potent to all, 
that those trades in which there is the closest co-opera¬ 
tion and systematic control are the ones that are the 
most successful and progressive. 
The selfish policy of “Everyone for himself and the 
devil take the hindmost" never did bring good results and 
never will. 
The American Association of Nurserymen is the one 
hope by which the future may be guided and controlled. 
Do not think because you have a successful business you 
are under no obligation to your brother nurserymen. 
You have not a single stick of stock for w hich you are not 
in some way indebted to your predecessors, or a method 
of cultivation or propagation that is not due to painstak¬ 
ing efforts and experiences of others, and to keep right 
up to the minute you must keep in close touch with what 
the other fellow is doing and thinking about now. 
The Convention is the one annual opportunity for do¬ 
ing this, so do not miss it. If you are not a member be¬ 
come one. and it you do not get full value for your dues 
there is something w rong with you, but whether you do 
or don't, you owe the Society your support for the work 
it is doing on your behalf. 
Come to the Convention and if you have a grievance 
let it be known. If it does not get corrected, it will at 
leasl be know n and start others thinking. 
It is neither possible nor advisable that everyone get 
up on I lie floor and address the meeting, but rubbing 
shoulders and personal interviews all help form public 
opinion and your being there will put more confidence 
and backbone into the w orkers that so unselfishly give so 
much time and energy for the general good of our bus¬ 
iness. 
CHANGE OF ADDRESS OF THE PUBLISHING OFFICE 
OF THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
From now on the publishing office of The National 
Nurseryman will be at Hatboro, Montgomery County, 
Pa., instead of 218 Livingston Building, Rochester, New 
York. The change will give increased efficiency as it 
will bring the editing, printing and publishing all to¬ 
gether and be an immense saving of time and labor. 
With the closing of the Rochester office we wish to 
give lull credit to Miss Martha A. Stoller, who has so 
ably managed it since the death of the founder of the 
journal, Charles L. Yates. Aliss Stoller came to work 
for The National Nurseryman ten years ago and upon the 
sudden death of Mr. Yates took full charge. How well 
she took hold and carried on the work is well known to 
all who have had dealings w ith us. Aliss Stoller is resign¬ 
ing her present position to manage a home, and if she suc¬ 
ceeds as well, we have not the slightest doubt there is 
much happiness in store for her. We feel sure that all 
nurserymen who had business dealings with her, will 
join us in wishing her much happiness. The wedding 
is to take place in Rochester on June loth. 
BULLETINS 
From Curtis A 'ye Smith, Council for American 
Association of Nurserymen. 
A mistaken idea exists among some Minnesota nur¬ 
sery stock dealers and florists that they are required by 
the Minnesota law to purchase their supplies from Alin- 
nesota nurseries and not from nurseries or dealers in 
other states. This impression is epitomized by the prom¬ 
inently displayed paragraph on the letter-head of a Alin- 
nesota nurseryman, reading, 
“Nurserymen have to furnish their customers with 
nursery stock from a bona fide inspected Alinnesota nur¬ 
sery. according to law . passed by the state legislature at 
the 1913 session." 
If this were true, the provision would clearly be un¬ 
constitutional as a discrimination against stock grow n 
in other states In re Sehechter, 63 Led. Rep. 693; Minn, 
v Barber. 136 U. S. 313. 322). 
The Minnesota Legislature in 1913 amended the law of 
1913. section T. so that the Minnesota dealer or florist 
can. by filing an affidavit that he will buy and sell only 
stock duly inspected by an official state inspector, not 
necessarily a Minnesota inspector and filing with the 
state entomologist a list of all sources of stock, sell his 
stock freely. 
The Federal Horticultural Board, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, has just issued (May 13, 1916) Rules N 
Regulations Governing the importation of nursery stock 
into the United States effective July 1, 1916 and super- 
