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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 
Secretary-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. 
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Address, Editor, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, N. Y., as second-class matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., May, 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. 
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, G? 
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—J. Woodward 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. 1. 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 nurserymen of the north-east are now 
THE BUSY closing up the rush of the spring work. 
SEASON Those farther south passed the crucial 
stage sometime ago. Each year is demon¬ 
strated that the rush season can be alleviated very much by 
equipment and management. The old days of heavy field 
work crowded into a short space have mostly passed out with 
the retailer and mail order houses. The spacious and well 
equipped storage house has introduced a new regime. 
This mieans that instead of a short period of feverish strain 
the work is spread over a period two or three times as 
long with accompanying greater efficiency and satisfaction. 
Labor saving apparatus, system and storage houses are doing 
much to obliterate the so-called bug-bear, the busy season. 
The winter of 1911-12 will long be remem- 
THE RECORD bered by plant growers and farmers. It 
MAKING is safe to say that more injury to orchard 
WINTER trees, root stem, twig and bud will be 
recorded all through the northeast than 
has occurred these many years. 
The warm weather of the fore part was delusive. The 
three winter months much more than made up for any lack 
of low temperature during December. 
The net result will be widespread injury to fruit trees in 
orchard. We may expect a full quota of stem splitting, 
bark bursting, root killing and top killing in addition to the 
loss of fruit buds. This is the fruit growers burden. It will 
mean a larger demand for fruit trees for the best thing to do 
in the case of severe winter injury to stem is to replant. If 
the root is injured the case is worse. Injured tops may be 
cut back. 
Anything we might say about the desir- 
THE ANNUAL ability of attending the annual talk and 
MEETING business fest of the nurserymen will 
sound like useless repetition for we have 
harped on this string for many years. 
We need hardly address ourselves to the eastern men. 
As hosts they of course will be on deck if the mere fact of 
proximity does not bring them. 
The men of the south and the west will or should come 
because they should see something to contrast with mere 
newness, bigness and recent achievement. All these 
Boston can provide. We are free to confess to a weakness 
for Boston. We like the people, the atmosphere, the 
general flavor of the place. It has history, culture and all 
the comforts of a well organized northern city. Try it, 
brothers from the south and the west. 
The California Association of Nurserymen 
CALIFORNIA should be congratulated upon the excel- 
ASSOCIATION lent report it has recently issued. This is 
PROCEEDINGS an account of the proceedings of their first 
annual meeting, which took place in 
November, 1911; and this youthful organization might be 
said to be setting the pace for older associations in this 
matter of gaining prestige through its publications. When 
we stop to think that some horticultural organizations do 
