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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 and Business Manager. 
Secretary-Treasurer. 
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 
THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, igoo 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES 
One year, in advance.fi.oo 
Six months. 75 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance. 1.50 
Six months. i -co 
Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements should reach 
this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts on New York 
or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested by the Business Manager, Rochester. 
N-Y. , , . 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nurserymen and horti¬ 
culturists are cordially solicited. 
Address. Editor, Flourtown, Pa. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, N. Y., as second-class matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., December, 1912. 
STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP and management of THE NATIONAL NUR¬ 
SERYMAN, published monthly, at 218 Livingston Building, Rochester, N. Y.> 
required by the Act of August 24th, 1912. 
Editor, Ernest Hemming, Flourtown, Penna.; Managing Editor, Ernest Hemming, 
Flourtown, Penna.; Business Manager, Thomas B. Meehan, Dresher, Penna.; Pub¬ 
lisher, THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUB’G CO., INC., 218 Livingston 
Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. Owners; Mrs. C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y.; Estate John 
Craig, Ithaca, N. Y.; Thomas B. Meehan, Dresher. Penna.; James McHutchison, New 
York City. [Signed] Thom.\s B. Meehan, President. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 28th day of September, 1912. 
. [seal] a. Rothwell Meehan, Notary Public. 
(My commission expires Jan. 16, 1915). 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 
President —Thomas .B. Meehan, Dresher, Pa.; vice-president, J. B. Pilkington, 
Portland, Ore.; secretary, John Hall, Rochester, N. Y. treasurer, Chas. J. Maloy, 
Rochester, N. Y. ' 
Executive Committee —H. B. Chase, Huntsville. Ala.; J. W. Hill, Des Moines, 
Iowa; P. A. Dix, Roy, Utah; T. B. Meehan, Ex-Officio, Dresher, Pa.; 
John Hall, Ex-Officio, Secretary, Rochester, N. Y. 
Chairmen of Committees 
Transportation —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 —Samuel Miller, Milton, Oregon. 
Ejchibits —F. W. Power, Orenco, Oregon. 
Arrangements —^John Hall, Rochester, N. Y.; J. B. Pilkington, Portland, Ore. 
Publicity and Trade Opportunities — Nf. P. Stark, Louisiana, Mo.; Jefferson 
Thomas, Harrisburg, Pa.; Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md.; C. M. Griffing, Jack¬ 
sonville, Fla.; G. C. Roeding, Fresno, Cal.; H. D. Simpson, Vincennes, Ind.; James 
M. Irvine, St. Joseph, Mo. 
Membership —James McHutchison, New York City. 
Conservation— 
STATE AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS. 
American Nurserymen’s Protective Association—President, J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la.; 
secretary, Thomas B. Meehan, Dresher, 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.; 
^cretary-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.- 
Mcretary, 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, Abner Hoopes, West Che.ster, Pa., 
secretary. 
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. Mavhew, Waxahachie, Texas- 
secretary-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 California Association of Nurserymen—Pre.sident, W. V. Eberly, Niles, Cal.- 
Secretary, H. W. Kruckeberg, Los Angeles,,Cal. 
The nursery business in the United States 
is going through a process of evolution 
that is exceedingly trying to those 
engaged in it. What with-Federal Quar¬ 
antine Laws, State Inspection Laws. 
Permits and Licenses governing inter-state business, the path 
of the nurseryman is not strewn with roses and he sometimes 
doubts if he is in the land of the free and the home of the 
brave. In his dreams he is apt to see the government taking 
his business away from him by the aid of the law and giving 
it to the Department of Agriculture and Horticulture, State 
Forestry schools and Farms, etc. 
The one consolation he can take out of it is, that it proves 
his business is one of vital importance to the welfare of the 
country. 
He would rest easy if he could only prove to the public and 
incidentally to the Department of Agriculture that nurseries 
are really the places that are freest from plant diseases and 
insect pest and have least to do with the spreadihg of either, 
but great truths are too simple to be understood. He prays 
for the time when the scientists and theorists will begin to 
recognize that correct cultivation is as good a preventative 
against disease among plants as right living is among the 
human race. The human race still exists in spite of epi¬ 
demics previous to the science of medicine and so will the 
chestnut tree in spite of the blight, and other vegetation in 
spite of the gypsy and brown tail moth or until it has com¬ 
pleted its cycle of existence and has been replaced by types 
more resistant to present conditions. 
Patience, patience, patience and then more patience is 
what the nurseryman must cultivate because in time the 
scientific theorist will become practical and the legislature will 
be composed of practical men that will make laws that are of 
real benefit not experimental ones that are so oppressive to 
the nurseryman. 
The greatest need in the nurserv business 
TRAINED in America is for skilled or trained help. 
HELP What nurseryman has not felt and is 
continually feeling the full force of this 
statement. Laborers are sometimes scarce and more often 
very poor quality, but methods, machinery and brains can 
to a certain extent be made to substitute for the shortage. 
In the growing of plants, knowing how, when and what to 
do at all times and under ah circumstances requires trained 
judgment. Men that know plants practically as well as 
theoretically. Men who studied with a spade in their hands 
as well as in the class room. Men who the moment they set 
eyes on a bloek of trees know what ought to be done to them 
and know how to do it, and the more able they are to teach 
others and guide them in their work the more valuable and 
scarce they are. 
The nursery business has assumed such proportions in 
America, that a defined effort should be made to encourage 
young men to follow the nursery business as a profession. 
A young man wdth brains and ambition enough to become 
a good nurseryman is just as able to become a doctor, lawyer 
or any of the other professions or trades. vSo there must be 
some inducement. 
THE 
NURSERY 
BUSINESS 
