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FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
Copyrighted 1909 by the National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated. 
Vol. XVII. ROCHESTER, N. Y., APRIL, 1909 No. 4 
THE THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN . 
June 9, 10 and 11, 1909.—Hotel Seneca, Rochester, N. Y. 
Nurserymen May Look Forward with Confidence to the Realization of the Greatest Convention in the 
History of the Association. Rochester Nurserymen who are Hosts on this Occasion May be Counted 
Upon to Make Good. The Region Abounds in Features of Interest to the Plantsman. Every Visitor 
Can Feel Assured That His Time May be Profitably and Pleasantly Employed. President C. J. Brown 
Has Appointed the Following Committees to Care for the Details of the Convention. 
COMMITTEES 
Committee on Finance —Wm. C. Barry, Irving Rouse, Nelson 
Bogue, Geo. C. Perkins, Geo. S. Josselyn, Theo. J. Smith, John B. 
Morey, Wm. J. Maloney. 
Committee on Smoker — E. S. Osborne, Charles L. Tates, O. G. 
Chase, J. M. Pitkin, O. E. Graham, Walter W. Wyman, Charles H. 
Vick. 
Committee on Rides, Excursions and Lonesome Roads— 
Chas. J. Maloy, M. B. Fox, B. F. Allen, F. E. Grover, Charles H. 
Hawks, R. D. Luetchford, A. L. Wood. 
Committee on Entertainment of Ladies —Horace Hooker, 
R. G. Salter, J. F. Dale, E. S. Mayo, A. A. Mosher, Thos. F. Brown, 
C. H. Chase, Mrs. C. J. Brown, Mrs. G. C. Seager. 
Committee on Decorations —A. H. Salter, J. M. Charlton, Geo. 
F. Crosman, J. M. Keller, Fred W. Vick, Fred Schlegel. 
Executive Committee —Wm. Pitkin, J. M. Pitkin, Charles J. 
Brown, Charles J. Maloy, E. S. Osborne, Horace Hooker, Wm. C. 
Barry,A. H. Salter, Geo. C. Seager. 
Press Committee —H. C. Goodwin, Prof. John Craig, Chas. A. 
Green. 
General Reception Committee— Every Nurseryman m Wes¬ 
tern New York. 
HEADQUARTERS 
The new Hotel Seneca has been made headquarters. It is one 
of the finest in the United States and affords better facilities for such 
a gathering than have heretofore been offered to our members. 
The rates agreed upon are given as follows: 
40 rooms, $1.50 per day, one person; two, $2.50 per day. 
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Three persons can be accommodated in the three and foui dollar 
rooms in which case the three dollar rooms would be $5.00 per day 
for three persons, and the four dollar rooms $6.00 per day for three. 
Club breakfasts and luncheons served in Men’s Grill Room from 
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Secretary Seager says: 
“Almost every year there have been difficulties as to reservations 
and accommodations. It is hoped to avoid them this year. Im¬ 
mediately on receipt of this circular, write the Secretary, Geo. C. 
Seager, Rochester, N. Y., making such reservations as you wish. 
These reservations will be made in the order received. If you are 
willing to double up, two or three in a room, one in a bed, so state. 
The rate in this way, as you will note in the letter of the hotel is 
better. In case rooms at rate you prefer are taken, shall we reserve 
a higher price room? We have a large number of rooms guaranteed 
and the higher priced rooms will be reasonable when two or more 
occupy a room. The list will be turned over to the hotel June 1st, 
and those who do not reserve before that date will have to take 
chances with the hotel after that time. 
Meals will be served on the European plan, but the cost of meals 
and your room will not average higher than most have been paying 
on the American plan. Upwards of 400 can be taken care of at the 
Seneca, and if we have more than that number which will probably 
be the case, there are other hotels in the immediate neighborhood.” 
PROGRAM 
“The program is not to be crowded this year. The committee 
has decided to give more opportunity for social and business inter¬ 
course. It is proposed to have one session each day from 9 o’clock 
in the morning until 12:30 in the afternoon. There are many 
things of interest for the nurserymen in Rochester, and it is planned 
to give ample opportunity for seeing them.” 
Mr. J. M. Pitkin, chairman of the Program committee 
writes that: 
“Our list of speakers include Dr. W. H. Jordan, Director 
New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva; Mr. 
T. B. Wilson, of Halls Corners, N. Y.; Hon. Raymond A. 
Pearson, Commissioner of Agriculture of State of New 
York; J. H. Dayton, Painesville, 0 .; E. S. Osborne, 
Rochester, N. Y.; J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la.; Samuel C. 
Moon, Morrisville, Pa.; Geo. S. Josselyn, Fredonia, N. Y.” 
