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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
domestic quarantine for any “new or not theretofore widely 
])revalent dangerous insect or disease. ’ ’ It is possible it may 
become a law at this session of Congress. What amendments 
may be offered or adopted, we know not, but knowing some¬ 
thing about the hearings before the committee, and the 
influences being brought to bear, consider it practically cer¬ 
tain that the law when passed, or if not then, will soon be 
amended leaving out “new or not theretofore widely pr-cval- 
ent,” and placing domestic quarantine on same basis as 
foreign. This bill may come before the house at any time 
now, and definite instructions should be given your Legisla¬ 
tive Committee as to their action. 
It is with a good deal of pleasure I note the fonnation of 
and the active interest taken in state and sectional organiza¬ 
tions of nurserymen; may the work continue until every 
state has a live organization. Let us remember, that this 
Association is the National one, and unless 
we work in harmony many of our efforts 
will be love’s labor lost. When two organi¬ 
zations of nurserymen ask for or work for 
different things, they get nothing or 
worse. 
One of the most im])ortant things, 
in my judgment, that this convention could 
accomplish, would be the preparation of a 
satisfactory state inspection law, and the 
enlisting of the resources of all our Associa¬ 
tions, National, Sectional and State, in an 
effort to induce every state legislature to 
pass a uniform law. 
Remember, that in addition to all former 
reasons for such laws, that a National 
Quarantine Law is assured, that it is of 
supreme importance that not only yours 
and your neighboring nurserymen’s prem¬ 
ises must be clean, but that it will be 
necessary for the state to keep or force the 
owners of orchards and private premises to keep theirs clean. 
We are told that automobiles, lunch baskets, outer gar¬ 
ments, in fact almost anything passing through certain sec¬ 
tions may carry dangerous insects to another state or section, 
which may develop to such proportions, that that section or 
even the entire state may be quarantined and the shipment of 
nursery stock prohibited. Under such circumstances, it 
seems to me imperative not only that we impress on every 
grower of stock the necessity for eternal vigilance, but also 
that it is up to him by every means in his power, individually 
and collectively, to help secure such legislation as will enable 
his state not only to inspect but to destroy all infested stock. 
Our body ought to be able to help fonnulate, ]Dass and enforce 
such laws and they should be practically uniform in every 
state. 
I recommend to your careful perusal once more the able 
statesmanlike address presented for your consideration last 
year. Another year has simply added to the golden oppor¬ 
tunities all about us, to the demand for better nursery 
products and more of them, to the better education of the 
buying public, as to what they want and how and why they 
want it. 
It is certainly up to us as American Nurserymen to keep 
abreast of the times, to establish our business on an advanced 
footing that will compare in every way with the up to date 
I^ractices in other lines, to have business acumen enough in 
matters of policy, legislation, etc., to decide on what is best 
for our trade, and unitedly work for the greatest good to the 
greatest number. 
SECRETARY’S REPORT 
John Rochester, N. Y. 
To the Members of the American Association of Nurserymen: 
With the return of the second week in the month of leaves 
and roses your Secretary presents to you his report of the 
doings of his department during the past year. By way of 
preface, we cannot resist saying that we feel that you gentle¬ 
men who contribute so much to the embellishment of various 
landscapes and hom6 grounds of the United 
States are doubtless glad of this opportunity 
to free yourselves from business cares, and 
welcome this respite from the experiences 
of the packing season, and that you doubly 
welcome this occasion for the renewal of 
each other’s fellowship. I believe that in 
this Boston convention you will find the 
conditions very favorable for a genuine good 
time under the hospitable, direction of the 
local entertainment committee. 
At the last annual meeting, your Secre¬ 
tary was instructed to print the report of 
the Committee on Legislation East of the 
Mississippi, and this was done ’under the 
direction of the Chairman. A committee 
was appointed to prepare a standard list 
of grades. This committee, of which E. 
P. Bemardin was chairman, has completed 
its work and reported to the Secretary. 
The instructions given at the time of the 
appointment of the committee, namely, that its report be 
published in the trade journals, was obeyed by the Com¬ 
mittee. We have again to comment upon the work con¬ 
nected with the membership list. In his efforts not only to 
maintain the normal numerical strength, but to increase the 
numbers, your Secretary has been at great pains; but 
though we have forty new members, the present registration 
falls short of that of last year. The universal testimony is 
that the season has been almost without a parallel for 
unfavorable conditions, and we have felt that there 
might be some jristification for the apparent neglect of the 
Secretary’s importunities for renewals. We expect to see at 
this meeting a registration that will exceed that of 1911. 
One encouraging feature is that the cash received will 
exceed the receipts of last year, from present indica¬ 
tions. 
Mr. Hall then presented the fiscal report for the period 
from October, 1911, to June 3, 1912, showing receipts to the 
amount of $2,747.70. The Secretary had passed over to the 
Treasurer $2,427.00, leaving in the Secretary’s hands 
$63.75- 
MAYOR FITZGERALD OF BOSTON 
