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FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co,, Incorporated 
Vol. XXIV. HATBORO, PENNA., JULY, 1916. No. 7 
The Milwaukee Convention 
T he f orty-first annual convention of the American 
Association of Nurserymen opened up under the 
most favorable conditions. The weather was 
ideal. Members began to arrive in great numbers, 
the day before the Convention opened, com¬ 
mittees got busy and everything was busi¬ 
ness. The old order of things has passed away. While 
the same geniality was everywhere present there was an 
air of businesslike seriousness that made everyone feel 
that things were going to he accomplished. 
The first meeting under the new constitution proves it 
to be a really new organization which is going to be a 
power in the nursery world. Henceforth it will not be 
a case of the Association soliciting membership, but 
rather the Association passing on the fitness of the appli¬ 
cation for membership. 
The first session was a very inspiring one as all the 
speakers and papers seem to have caught the spirit of co¬ 
operation. 
The Rev. C. S. Harrison, York, Nebraska, was not well 
enough to be present so the invocation at the opening ses¬ 
sion was made by a local clergyman. 
The Mayor of Milwaukee made a very happy address 
of welcome in which he called attention to the lack of 
education of the fact that the nurseryman’s products 
were so essential to the public health, in fact as necessary 
as the hath tub and regretted there were not books or 
phamplets on the subject. 
He extended a warm welcome to come again and hoped 
those present would take a “look” at that which made 
Milwaukee famous. 
John Watson’s rsponse was only such as he could 
make. 
The President’s address which we publish on a separ¬ 
ate page was received with warm approval, especially 
those sections which referred to Standardization of Prices 
and the Tariff. 
On motion a telegram was sent to J. R. May hew, Waxa- 
hachie, Texas, who was so largely instrumental in the 
reorganization of the Association, and who has recently 
submitted to a serious operation “regretting his absence 
and wishing him a speedy recovery.” 
Mr. Wyman’s paper had ginger enough to satisfy the 
temper of its hearers and John Dayton, who opened the 
discussion said “Amen.” 
Henry Chase, Chairman of the Executive Committee, 
John Watson, Newark, N. Y. 
President, American Association of Nurserymen. 
among other resolutions proposed “that associate mem¬ 
bers be excluded from executive sessions ol the Associa¬ 
tion” and although this meant the exclusion of old mem¬ 
bers such as Mr. Benjamin Chase, of label fame, a former 
president of the Society, J. Horace McFarland, an earnest 
worker in the Association for many years and the trade 
papers, it was generally recognized that allied trades and 
