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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
218 Livingston Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
President,.THOMAS B. MEEHAN 
Vice-President and Editor.JOHN CRAIG 
Sercetary-Treasurer and Business Manager, ... C. L. YATES 
The only 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 
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Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nurserymen and horti¬ 
culturists are cordially solicited. 
Address, Editor, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, N. Y., as second-class matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., April, 1912 . 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 
President —J. H. Dayton, Painesville, Ohio; vice-president, W. H. Wyman, North 
Abington, Mass.; secretary, John Hall, Rochester, N. Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, 
Rochester, N. Y. , x tt xx, 
Executive Committee —E. M. Sherman, Charles City, la.; H. B. Chase, Hunts¬ 
ville, Ala.; J. M. Pitkin, Newark, N. Y.; J. H. Dayton, Ex-Officio, Painesville 
Ohio; John Hall, Ex-Officio, Sec’y, Rochester, N. Y. 
Chairmen of Committees. 
Transportation —D. S. Lake, Shenandoah, la,; Chas. M. Sizemore, Louisiana, Mo. 
Tariff —Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y. 
Legislation East of Mississippi River —^Wm. Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y 
Legislation West of Mississippi River —Peter Youngers, Geneva, Nebr. 
Co-Operation with Entomologists —L. A. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga 
Program —C. J. Maloy, Rochester, N. Y. 
Exhibits —A. E. Robinson, Bedford, Mass. 
Arrangements —John Hall, Rochester, N. Y.; W. H. Wyman, North Abington, Mass. • 
H. P. Kelsey, Salem, Mass. 
Entertainment —JWoodward Manning, North Wilmington, Mass. 
Publicity and Trade Opportunities —W. P. Stark, Louisiana, Mo.; Jefferson 
Thomas, Harrisburg, Pa.; Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md.; C. M. Griffing, Jackson¬ 
ville, Fla.; G. C. Roeding, Fresno, Cal.; H. D. Simpson, Vincennes, Ind. 
Root-Gall —E. A. Smith, Lake City, Minn. 
STATE AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS. 
American Nurserymen’s Protective Association—President, J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la,: 
secretary, Thomas B. Meehan. Dreshertown, Pa. Meets annually in June. 
American Retail Nurserymen’s Protective Association—President, Charles J. Brown, 
Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, Guy A. Bryant, Princeton, Ill. Meets annually in 
June. 
Association of Oklahoma Nurserymen—President, J. A. Lopeman, Enid, Oklahoma; 
secretary, C. E. Garee, Noble, Oklahoma. 
Canadian Association of Nurserymen—President, E. D. Smith, Winona; secretary, 
C. C. R. Morden, Niagara Falls. Ont. 
Connecticut Nurserymen’s Association-—President. W. W. McCartney, New Haven, 
Conn.; Secretary. F. L. Thomas, Manchester, Conn. 
Eastern Association of Nurserymen—President, Wm. C. Barry, Rochester, N. Y.; 
secretary-treasurer, William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. Meets annually in January. 
National Association of Retail Nurserymen—President, E. S. Osborne, Rochester, 
N. Y.; secretary. F. E. Grover, Rochester, N. Y. 
National Nurserymen’s Association of Ohio.—President, J. W. McNary, Dayton O.; 
secretary, W. B. Cole, Painesville, O. 
Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen —President, P. A. Dix, Roy, Utah; secretary- 
treasurer. C. F. Tonneson, Tacoma. Wash. Meets annually in June. 
Pennsylvania Nurserymen’s Association—President, Samuel C. Moon, Pa.; secretary. 
Earl Peters, Mt. Holy Springs, Pa. , . 
Southern Nurserymen’s Association—President, W. A. Easterly, Cleveland, Tenn.; 
secretary-treasurer, A. I. Smith, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Tennessee Nurserymen’s Association—President, E. W. Chattin, Winchester, Tenn.; 
secretary, G. M. Bentley, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Texas Nurserymen’s Association—President, J. R. Mayhew, Waxahachie, Texas; secre 
tary-treasurer, John S. Kerr, Sherman, Texas. 
Western Association of Nurserymen—President, Geo. A. Marshall, Arlington, Nebr.; 
secretary-treasurer, E. J. Holman, Leavenworth, Kan. Meets annually second 
Wednesday in December. 
The Federal Inspection Bill, about which 
FEDERAL SO much has been written, is still in the 
INSPECTION hands of the Agricultural Committee of 
BILL the House, but owing to the necessity of 
making certain changes in its phraseology, 
it now appears as H. R. 21174. 
Thanks to the indefatigable energy of Chairman William 
Pitkin, many of the objectionable features of the original 
bill and its successors have been entirely eliminated or 
modified and it now seems likely that when the bill is finally 
passed it will be in such form that it will merit the approval 
of all nurserymi.en,—or as Chairman Pitkin stated in his 
report to the Nurserymen’s Convention last June, “Safe, 
sane and practical legislation.’’ 
Present indications are that the operations of the law 
must be in the hands of the Department of Agriculture, as 
it is claimed by the legal attorneys in the Department at 
Washington that a Horticultural Commission or Board 
would have no responsibility or standing in Europe and 
as the inspection of foreign nurseries is one of the principal 
reasons for the enactment of the measure it would be unwise 
to pass a law which would be inoperative over there. 
The National Nurseryman wns the first to suggest 
the idea of a Federal Horticultural Commission as being 
the safest and most satisfactory method both to the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture and the nurserymen to carry out the 
provisions of a law so wide in its scope and character, and 
we are loth to have this feature eliminated. 
The original Simmons Bill, which the Department sought 
to have enacted into a law some three years ago, caused 
considerable friction between the Department and the 
nurserymen but fortunately both sides are now on a most 
friendly footing, working hand in hand and in harmony; 
and we have the fullest confidence that under the able direc¬ 
tions of Chairman Pitkin, Dr. Howard and Prof. Marlatt, 
the bill will finally be put into such form as to merit the 
endorsement of the nurserymen of this country and will 
contain no features which will cause hardship or loss to 
any one carrying on business on up-to-date methods. 
Some people question whether the young 
COLLEGE man who has been graduated from a col- 
TRAINED lege of agriculture is fitted by this training 
FARMERS for the practical management of an agri¬ 
cultural enterprise. They have a good 
deal of contempt for theory, which, supposedly, is about all 
the student gets. Not so the writer of a note entitled “The 
Part Which Capital Plays,’’ in a recent number of The Coun¬ 
try Gentleman. This tells the story of Farmer A, who said he 
did not make twenty-five dollars on his farm in a certain 
season, and of Farmer B, who, under equally adverse condi¬ 
tions, netted several hundred dollars. Farmer A succumbed, 
not without a murmur, presumably, but without any serious 
attempt to turn misfortune into profit, to unfavorable 
circumstances caused by unexpected loss of animals and 
damage by insects. Farmer B, when his crops were attacked 
by insects and by a hailstorm, found a desirable way to use the 
damaged grain, which in the end resulted in a considerable 
gain to him. Farmer B is the type of business man who does 
