THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
111 
THE ANNUAL MEETING 
Make Plans to Come to Rochester. Suggestions for the Program Committee 
At the Request of the National Nurseryman Several Nurserymen Have Been So Kind as to Remind Us of 
Topics That Might be Discussed with Interest and Profit at the Annual Meeting. Opinions as to the 
Number and Character of the Daily Sessions are also Presented. We Feel Sure That the Program 
Committee Appreciates this Mark of Interest on the Part of Our Correpondents and will be Able to 
Make Good Use of the Suggestions. 
MORNING AND EVENING SESSIONS. 
In a general way would say it would be best to have 
morning and evening sessions only and leave the after¬ 
noons to sight seeing, visiting and general sociability. 
Many of the visitors will want to see the wonderful nursery 
cellars and their equipments for regulating temperature and 
moisture, assembling of stock, packing, etc. They will 
want to see the great variety of ornamentals and how they 
are started, grown and handled. Some may want to see 
the Genesee Falls and go down the river to Charlotte 
Beach. A business session in the morning and a scientific 
lecture illustrated by the magic lantern is probably all that 
most members care for in this line. 
Fredonia, N. Y. Lewis Roesch. 
SHORT PAPERS. 
In regard to the programme for the next June meeting 
to be held at Rochester, our opinion is that the programme 
should be made up of as few long papers as possible. We 
have noticed that the members are most largely interested 
and can be held together better when the talks are short 
and on interesting topics. Ther^ are many points of 
interest that the members will desire to see in and about 
Rochester and we believe that the meetings will be best 
attended and the members most interested in the shorter 
talks. 
Fredonia, N. Y. T. S. Hubbard Co. 
REGULATED OUTPUT. 
If any suggestions could be presented to that meeting 
that would enable Nurserymen to avoid the serious conse¬ 
quences of long wet spells on the one hand, and long dry 
ones on the other and so as to more nearly equalize the 
product of our seasons one with another, I am sure that 
such suggestions would be very helpful. As matters now 
are we have sometimes a favorable season that brings a 
considerable surplus that Nurserymen can scarcely dispose 
of even at cost. This will be followed by unfavorable years 
in which we fail to secure a crop that would pay cost of 
production at any price and so we are subject to loss in both 
ways. You know the present unfavorable conditions the 
last few years in the matter of raising apples here in the west, 
and the present price of apple trees illustrates this point 
very strongly. We all of us very strongly appreciate the 
helpfulness we get in the meetings of the National Nursery 
Association and are glad to credit those who have 
these matters in charge for the assistance that comes to us 
through their efforts. 
Ottawa, Kans. A. Willis. 
A VOICE FROM MISSOURI. 
We are quite sure nurserymen generally will be interested 
in methods of producing, and of marketing; and the raising 
of the standard of propagation, grading, and everything, to 
a higher plane. We believe they will also be interested in 
the discussions of prices commensurate with cost, risks, etc., 
in comparison with other lines. All of these points are of 
vital interest to the trade, and while we believe that low 
prices are almost a thing of the past, yet there are some in 
the trade still clinging to old time methods and ideas, who 
still make a business of quoting trade prices to retail buyers, 
an old practice which can probably be improved only by 
education. 
In addition to growing stock of higher quality, greater 
care and skill must be used in handling it, so as to put it in 
the planters’ hands in the best possible condition. Discard¬ 
ing undesirable sorts, and educating the public to better and 
improved varieties is a matter of the most importance and 
more attention should be given it. This subject is now 
receiving greater attention in the far west than ever before, 
because they realize that it is one of vital interest, meaning 
either success or failure to the orchards. They are realizing 
that they must grow high quality sorts, that will command 
highest prices and sell at a profit when the ordinary run of 
sorts may yield the grower, packer, and shipper only dis¬ 
appointment and loss, instead of success and profit. 
Stark Bro’s. Nurseries & Orchards Co., 
William P. Stark, Treas. 
CONSIDER LEGISLATION. 
I think the subject of horticultural laws should be 
thoroughly discussed and some features in connection with 
these laws gone into very carefully. This subject is proba¬ 
bly brought to the notice of the Pacific Coast nurserymen 
more directly than it is to our friends in the east, as horti¬ 
cultural laws appear to be especially stringent and unfair 
here in the Pacific Coast states. For instance, the state of 
Washington not only makes the nurseryman put up a bond, 
but, in addition, take out a license, and also a license for each 
agent employed in that state. It does not matter if this 
