THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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accurate and fair picture of the types of complaints which have 
come to the attention of the Vigilance Committee during the 
past year. The net result is, perhaps, no worse than would be 
true of other forms of business in which the customer is seldom 
seen face to face. But, it is far worse than it ought to be for 
the best interests and the future of the nursery business. We 
ought not to follow but lead in the application of Christian 
ethics to our business relationships. Trustworthy Trees” 
should become one of the beacon lights of the modern creed of 
the business world. 
Your committee has tried to catch and interpret the spirit 
of modern trends in business. Everywhere there are signs that 
cooperation is destined to be a dominant factor in the business 
of the future. A business such as ours which strikes close to 
the roots of the American home, which is definitely related to 
the art of the countryside and the beauty in nature, and which 
contributes to the food supply of the nation, cannot be a truly 
great business until it is founded upon the ethical principles of 
fair dealing and cooperative effort. We must go forward united 
under the banner which represents our collective characters: 
“Trustworthy Trees.” 
“For when the One Great Scorer comes 
To write against your name, 
He writes not what you won or lost, 
But how you played the game.” 
MEMBERSHIP FEES 
A new schedule of membership fees for the A. A. of 
N. has been adopted as follows: 
Membership Fee $10.00. Plus additional dues based 
on the annual gross volume of business without deduc- 
tions of any character. 
$10,000 to $25,000 
$10.00 
25,000 to 50,000 
20.00 
50,000 to 75,000 
30.00 
75,000 to 100,000 
40.00 
100,000 to 150,000 
60.00 
150,000 to 200,000 
85.00 
200,000 to 250,000 
110.00 
250,000 to 300,000 
135.00 
300,000 and up 
150.00 
The Weller Nursery Go., Holland, Mich, writes: We 
are pleased to say we have had e 
i splendid spring trade. 
The demand for perennials was so large that at the end 
ol April we did not have a single plant left to sell, and we 
had to refuse many large orders. And prospects for the 
coming fall and spring are indicative of a much bigger 
shortage, owing to a heavy loss of seedlings thru con¬ 
tinual freezing and thawing during the early spring. 
We have had a splendid planting season with plenty of 
rain and many cloudy days, but our stock of seedlings 
was cut to about half and according to reports from 
other perennial growers conditions are about the same all 
over. The stock we have however been able to plant out 
is doing fine and unless something unusual happens we 
will have a splendid growth. 
TIIE SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION OF 
NURSERYMEN 
The Southwestern Association of Nurserymen will 
meet in Annual Convention at Dallas, Texas on Tuesday 
and Wednesday, September 27th and 28th. This Asso¬ 
ciation covers the States of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, 
Oklahoma and New Mexico and numbers in its member¬ 
ship some of the largest nurseries in the country. 
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RELATIONS WITH 
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS 
At the (’onvention held in Chicago, last June, I presented a 
report of a joint agreement prepared by a committee of the 
American Association of Landscape Architects and your com¬ 
mittee. This report was approved and accepted by the conven¬ 
tion assembled and was printed in full in the annual report of 
the association recently sent to our members. 
But the report was never adopted by the Society of American 
Landscape Architects. 
No joint meeting of the committees was held this year, hut I 
was invited to attend a meeting of the Landscape Architects 
Committee held in New York, Tuesday, May 31st, which I at¬ 
tended. 
At that meeting I was advised that the American Association 
of Landscape Architects had adopted the report as presented by 
your committee at cur last convention,—with some slight 
changes. 
These changes are as follows: 
The American Society of Landscape Architects, while recog¬ 
nizing the propriety of the Nurserymen’s claim for prompt 
payment, finds that the time inevitably required for landscape 
architects to secure the returns to their offices of a record of 
the receipt and inspection of stock shipped to each client 
from various nurserymen, and to approve bills for the same 
and forward them for payment by their clients, is not infre¬ 
quently such that it is impracticable to secure payment of the 
nurserymen by their clients within the thirty days of the re¬ 
ceipt of the stock; therefore the Society gives notice that 
without some amendment it must withdraw its approval of 
Clause C of the draft statement of “Obligations which are 
normally implied by the placing and acceptance of an order 
for nursery stock.” 
The American Society of Landscape Architects reaffirms its 
approval of Clauses A and B of that statement, and would ap¬ 
prove the addition thereto of the following note in place of 
Clause C. 
Note: In case of stock ordered from a nurseryman by a land¬ 
scape architect as agent for a client, it is the duty of the 
landscape architect to use due diligence in securing prompt 
payment of the bills by the client and, unless negotiations 
are pending with the nurseryman in regard to counterclaims, 
to make sure that the client is duly notified of the nursery¬ 
man’s proper claim for payment within a maximum of sixty 
days after the receipt of both stock and bill for same. 
(For the information of members, Clause C referred to above 
as approved by the Society in January, 1920, is as follows: 
C. Payments: In the absence of special agreements to some 
other effect payments for nursery stock are expected to be 
made within 30 days after delivery both of consignment and 
bill for same.) 
The following changes be made in paragraph 2 of the “Mem¬ 
orandum in regard to payment of bills for nursery stock 
ordered by Landscape Architects on account of clients.” 
1st Sentence; between “practice” and “of issuing” insert 
“(Unless negotiations are pending with the nurseryman in 
regard to a counterclaim)” and instead of “within 30 days” 
insert “as soon as practicable and in any case within 60 days.” 
3rd Sentence, after the word “notice” insert “and after in¬ 
forming the landscape architect of his intention and giving- 
opportunity for reply in case there is special grounds for ob¬ 
jection.” 
4th Sentence, insert after “direct” as follows: “after notify¬ 
ing the landscape architect of his intention and giving reason¬ 
able time for reply.” 
So that the paragraph will read as follows: 
“The Landscape architects ordering plants from nursery¬ 
men for clients are recommended by the American Society of 
Landscape Architects to follow the practice (unless negotia¬ 
tions are pending with the nurseryman in regard to a counter¬ 
claim) of issuing as soon as practicable and in any case 
within 60 days after the receipt of both bill and goods from 
the nurseryman, a certificate of payment due, as in the case 
of certificates of payments due contractors, sending copies 
both to the client and to the nurseryman. In any case, the 
landscape architect should notify the nurseryman promptly by 
some means, as soon as he has verified the bill and recom¬ 
mended the client to make payment. In the opinion of the 
American Society of Landscape Architects, there is no reason 
why the nurseryman, after the receipt of such notice and 
after informing the Landscape Architect of his intention and 
giving opportunity for reply in case there is special grounds 
for objection, should not address himself directly to the client 
