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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
ELM CITY NURSERY COMPANY SELLS LAND 
Property bounding Alden, Edgewood and Central ave¬ 
nues and Elmwood road, occupied by the Elm City Nur¬ 
sery company, was sold yesterday for about $80,000 by 
Ernest S. Coe to Robert Schroder, through the office of 
Wade & Fitzgerald. The property, which consists of only 
a large tract of land, is to be developed by the new own¬ 
er, who will later erect about 35 or 40 one-and two-fam¬ 
ily bouses on it, which will cost from $12,000 to $20,000 
each. The Elm City Nursery company has moved its en¬ 
tire plant to Woodmont, combining both places into one. 
QUARANTINE 37 
January 17th, 1921. 
The National Nurseryman 
Flourtown, Penna. 
When I first read the now well known letter signed by 
the committee on Horticultural Quarantines, Mr. J. H. Mc¬ 
Farland, chairman; I was to say the least surprised, as I 
could not have imagined that so many men could be en- 
duced to sign a document dealing with a subject they ap¬ 
parently knew nothing about. One of the signers had im¬ 
ported plants under “special permit” and therefore should 
have known better. True enough he had evidently asked 
permission only for the importation of from six to a doz¬ 
en of each of some 10 or 12 varieties of plants in which 
lie is commercially and otherwise interested, perhaps 
that is all he wanted. If he had asked permission to im¬ 
port 100 or one thousand of each variety, I am sure per¬ 
mit would have been granted, but I suppose he thought 
such a liberal policy was impossible and therefore asked 
permission for only a hatbox full and the permit was 
promptly granted. 
My personal experience for several seasons is as fol¬ 
lows: I must have been one of the first to tackle the F. H. 
R. as one of my many permits was numbered No. 9. I have 
had all my requests approved but one. The F. H. R. has 
permitted me to import all I have asked permits for and 
I have always asked for full measure, not because I 
believed the F. II. B. would pare down the permit, but 
simply for the reason that I wanted to be safe and ask for 
enough. I later had opportunity to more carefully con¬ 
sider the number of plants I could safely handle (and 
pay for) I would pare down my order to possibly one 
fourth of the number for which I held permits. 
The young stock, that was small and immature suffer¬ 
ed a lot before it came to me and arrived in poor condition, 
partly on account of the trip to Washington, but largely 
on account of the very long time on the road due to our 
poor facilities on the railroads last year. 
One lot of 1000 was destroyed as the stock was said to 
be infested. 
While I do not believe more than possibly 5 per cent, 
could have been infested, if that many, I am willing to 
admit that had I been invested with the responsibility of 
the F. H. B. I would have acted just as they did even if 
it did cause loss and inconvenience to one or more citi¬ 
zens, I would also destroy stock on suspicion in order to 
be safe. 
Employees of the F. II. B. are not infallible, some may 
even be ignorant, but so are some of us nurserymen yet 
we manage to please nearly all our trade. 
Quarantine 37 is popular now, it does not suit impor¬ 
ters ; I was one, but I have turned over a new leaf and I 
am now a grower, thanks to the Federal Horticultural 
Board. 
A. E. WOHLERT. 
NEW YORK STATE NURSERYMEN S MEETING AND 
BANQUET 
“The annual meeting and banquet of the New York 
State Nurserymen’s Association will be held at the Pow¬ 
ers Hotel, Rochester, N. Y., Thursday, February 17th, 
1921. The meeting will be addressed by nurserymen of 
national prominence.” 
JOHN WATSON RESIGNS SECRETARYSHIP OF THE 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 
Major Lloyd C. Stark, President, 
The Executive Committee, and 
The Members of the 
American Association of Nurserymen. 
My dear Friends, 
Thus early in the new year, I wish to bring to your 
attention the present condition of the Association, a con¬ 
dition so favorable as to warrant me now in laying be¬ 
fore you a matter that I have had in mind for some time. 
You have in your treasury at this date, $16,500 cash, 
a larger sum than the Association has ever had on hand 
at one time in its history. 
You have a membership which, while not as large in 
numbers as in some of those earlier years when mem¬ 
bership meant only attendance at your annual conven¬ 
tion and was therefore transient only, is now a stronger 
membership: strong in aim and purpose and in credit 
and standing. 
The action taken in your last two conventions and 
particularly last June placed this group of nurserymen 
in an enviable position, action that was spontaneous and 
therefore doubly to your credit and the unanimity of its 
expression by a vote of more than 15 to 1 assures the 
permanency of your program and the success of your 
Association. 
When I was tendered the secretaryship of your As¬ 
sociation in 1919 over many older, wiser and more cap¬ 
able men, the offer came from each member of your 
Executive Committee individually; and I recall with 
gratitude such as you will understand, that while I had 
the offer under consideration, I receved letters from 
more than a hundred and fifty members of the Associa¬ 
tion who were generous enough to my short-comings to 
urge me to accept. I felt under obligation to accept. Only 
two years before, I had had the honor of serving you as 
your president. In that capacity, I had proposed some 
undertakings in the matter of selecting and standard¬ 
izing the membership, a proposal that found acceptance 
in your adoption of Article IX of your constitution. I 
had later on been fortunate enough to be present when 
the market development movement was started and your 
favor kept me closely identified with that work. When 
the program was taken over by your convention in 1919, 
and changed to suit the different conditions, I must 
