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FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated 
Voi. XXIX. HATBORO, PENNA., JULY 1921 No. 7 
Forty-Sixth Annual Convention of the American Association of Nurserymen 
A S early as Friday of the week preceding the Con¬ 
vention, nurserymen began to gather at the Con¬ 
gress Hotel, Chicago, to get ready for the Forty- 
sixth Annual Convention. 
By Monday they began to arrive in goodly numbers 
from all over the States. By the time the Convention 
opened on Wednesday, June 22nd upwards of 200 had 
registered. 
The weather was extremely warm and humid and 
called forth many unfavorable comparisons from visitors 
from sections of the country that have the reputation of 
being warm. 
By the time the opening session was called to order by 
President Lloyd C. Stark, committee meetings and con¬ 
versations had pretty well crystalized sentiment in favor 
of the conservative element and that their policy would 
prevail in the future policy of the affairs of the Associa¬ 
tion. 
The Convention was opened by the Rev. Dr. Howard A. 
Johnson, president of the Chicago Church Federation, 
asking Divine guidance and blessing on its efforts. 
This was followed by an address of welcome by Capt. 
Arnold Jerns, of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce, 
who compared the nursery industry with the nursery of 
childhood in its important relations to the welfare of the 
country. 
He told of the impressions left on his mind by the gar¬ 
dens and horticultural beauties of France while over¬ 
seas with the A. E. F. and ventured the opinion that sub¬ 
consciously many out of the millions of young men that 
went overseas brought back a desire to emulate them 
that would have its effect in the stimulation of landscape 
work and planting about the homes in this country. 
President Stark called upon J. W. Hill, Des Moines, 
Iowa, to introduce the Hon. E. T. Meredith, ex-Secretary 
of the Department of Agriculture who spoke in place of 
the Hon. H. C. Wallace, the present head of the Depart¬ 
ment. 
Mr. Hill, who in eulogizing the State of Iowa, caused 
much amusement by claiming the farmers’ wives an¬ 
nually gathered eggs to a greater value than that of the 
entire citrus industry of California. 
Mr. Meredith’s address was much appreciated by his 
audience. He spoke very highly of the personel of the 
Department of Agriculture, which contained many unsel¬ 
fish men who were working for a much less salary under 
the government than they could command in private bus¬ 
iness. They put service to humanity before selfish inter¬ 
ests. He pointed out how the U. S. D. of A. touched the 
interests of every person in the country and made a plea 
for his hearers to use their influence for increased appro¬ 
priations for right purposes and to kill off wasteful ap¬ 
propriations such as the free seed distribution and exces¬ 
sive printing and distribution of the Department’s Year 
Book. 
He advised the nurserymen not to drop interest in their 
goods immediately after they were sold hut to follow up 
the care of the plants after they were in the customer’s 
hands. 
A representative of the United States Chamber of Com¬ 
merce gave a very fluent address and spoke of organiza¬ 
tion methods as they have developed in the last few years 
and explanied how necessary cooperation was to ensure 
business accuracy and efficiency. 
Dr. Karl F. Kellerman associated with Dr. C. L. Mar- 
latt on the Federal Horticultural Board spoke in place of 
the latter who was unable to attend. 
Dr. Kellerman explained the functions and policy of 
the Federal Horticultural Board as it affected the nur¬ 
sery industry, which were to prevent the introduction and 
spread of disease and pests and at the same time do as 
little injury as possible to business. 
He explained how the board was regulatory in policy 
and its mandates must necessarily be constantly changed 
to meet the exigencies as they arise. 
The board’s attitude towards the importation of fruit 
seedlings had been most liberal, as the industry de¬ 
manded it, but imported stocks coming into the country 
do not appear to be cleaner than formerly. This would 
indicate a necessity for a gradual decrease of imports, 
which in time would be limited to entirely new things. 
He asked the nurserymen to keep in mind that quar¬ 
antines were cooperative, drawn up to do the least dam¬ 
age and the most good and on this account the Board wel¬ 
comes suggestions and criticisms. 
It was a subject for congratulation that the Federal 
Horticultural Board and the nurserymen were getting- 
closer together. 
During the afternoon session Prof. L. B. Scott, of the 
U. S. D. of A. gave an address on the “Growing of Fruit 
Tree Seedlings,” and called attention to the fact that the 
$20,000 appropriation for fruit stock investigations was 
a direct outgrowth of Quarantine 37. 
The U. S. D. of A. was now cooperating with the nur¬ 
serymen in their experiments and investigations through 
the committee appointed by the nurserymen, of which 
J. H. Skinner, Topeka, Kansas, was chairman. 
There is no room for doubt that fruit . stocks cannot 
be raised in this country. Experiments were being made 
with layering yearly trees. 
A stock hardier than the French crab was wanted for 
the north and a stock resistant to the woolly aphis for the 
Pacific Coast. If none could he found better than the 
French crab what variety was most suitable, as there 
were many varieties of the French crab. 
Mr. S. B. Detwiler spoke on the “Blister Rust Control” 
