THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
17 
Resolutions and Tributes to Deceased Members 
The members of the Association greatly miss at this 
meeting the benign countenance and familiar voice of one 
of its most esteemed members, Major W. F. Heikes of 
Huntsville, Ala. Mr. Heikes was called to the Great Beyond 
on the 2 5th day of last August at Cleveland, Ohio, and now 
quietly rests amid the flowers of his southern home in the, 
city of Huntsville. 
He was one of the pioneer nurserymen of the United 
States who was widely and favorably known to the nursery¬ 
men and fruit growers of this country. He was a valuable 
member of this Association, as well as that of the American 
Association of Nurserymen, in both of which organizations 
his wise counsel will be greatly missed. We extend to his 
family and friends the sincere sympathy of the members 
of this Association. 
(Resolution). 
We regret also to chronicle the death of Norman J. Cole¬ 
man which occurred 
in the early summer. 
Gov. Coleman was 
widely and favorably 
known among the 
horticulturists of this 
country. He was the 
first secretary of Agri¬ 
culture and took an 
active part in the de¬ 
velopment of the 
United States along 
agricultural and horti¬ 
cultural lines. He 
was founder and edi¬ 
tor of C oleman’s 
Rural World up to 
the.time of his death; 
which publication has 
done much for the 
development of this 
country. 
We regard his demise as a severe loss to the horticultural 
interests of the United States and one whose place cannot 
easily be filled. 
Resolved, that we extend a vote of thanks to Messrs. Stark 
for the excellent specimens of delicious apples furnished the 
members of this Association and assure them that same 
were appreciated very much. 
J. W. Hill 
E. S. Welch 
Herbert Chase 
By E. P. Bemardin. 
Resolved, that it is the sense of this Association that the 
time is now at hand that we should all abolish the replacing 
of nursery stock in our retail sales and pledge ourselves to 
work to the end that we may all eliminate this objectionable 
feature of our retail contracts at an early date. 
Adopted. 
E. J. Holman, Sec’y- 
E. S. WELCH 
Shenandoah, Iowa, President 
President Marshall’s Address 
It is needless to mention the pleasant anticipati'— with 
which we look forward to these meetings. We have 
ago, been pronounced a success both socially and ■, 
financial standpoint. Besides the profits derived fro’^ the 
program, we are also encouraged and benefited b3 ur 
pleasant visits with each other, the mingling together, gi\ ing 
and receiving sympathy and glory, each in turn, exchanging 
experiences with their results, etc., which a nurseryman is 
always willing to give and glad to receive; all these things 
are wholly beneficial as well as pleasant. 
We know the nurser3rtnan must necessarily be an optimist, 
one who will stand killing off three or four times a year and 
still come up smiling, one who can disentangle himself from 
troubles, clamor to the surface and start on his way rejoicing. 
The pessimist has fallen by the wayside long, long ago. 
For him to be a nurseryman, would be an impossibility and 
we are thankful that it has been so ordered as we need better 
metal to carry on our 
business. The nur¬ 
seryman must be a 
man who generally 
sees the bright side of 
things, must be en¬ 
thusiastic, a good or¬ 
ganizer and a pusher, 
cool and level headed 
and a generally good 
executor, wide awake 
and enterprising; must 
be blessed with an 
excess of hard common 
sense and a goodly 
amoimt of honest 
blood in his veins and 
you know this would 
generally^rnake a good 
citizen. We talk of 
the honest old farmer; 
well, he is in an honest 
business, is in partnership with good old nature and has 
never been tempted by man. I may fairly say here, that 
many of the so-called honest farmers have not enough 
honest- blood in their veins to float them in the nursery 
business for fifteen minutes. We, as an Association, have 
a few duties yet to perform. We have made a good start 
in grading and are getting pretty well down to the stand¬ 
ard grades. About all that is left along that line, is the 
finishing. This will be a great improvement over the old 
way of selling and buying trees of not many years ago. 
Further, we are still having undesirable legislation from year 
to year in many of our states and it should be followed 
up very closely as an ounce of Preventative is worth a pound 
of Cure in this case surely, and the inspectors in many of our 
Western States should be mildly given to understand that 
unless the decisions are given carefully and fairly correct, 
investigation is likely to follow. Yet, while we are doing 
this, we should be very reasonable, with the best interests 
of the orchardists in mind first, last and all the time. 
W. P. stark 
Louisiana, Mo., Member Executive Committee 
