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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
license has only been taken out a few weeks or months pre¬ 
vious to the expiration of the nurseryman’s license, which 
runs for two years, a new one must be taken out for the 
agent at the beginning of the new term. Again, if an agent 
only works a few weeks, the license has to be paid for, and is 
of no value afterwards. 
In the state of California they have a clause in the horti¬ 
cultural law that allows the inspector to quarantine nursery 
stock on the mere presumption that it is affected with some 
injurious disease or insect without the actual presence of 
the insect being shown on the trees. This works a hardship 
upon the nurseryman equal to the loss of his nursery stock 
in sections where the inspector is prejudiced, for the most 
of the nursery stock, after being quarantined fourteen days 
in the state of California can never be delivered to the 
original customer, even though there is no disease whatever 
upon it. 
Then, again, they have county laws in the state of Cali¬ 
fornia compelling nurserymen to take out heavy bonds to 
do business in separate counties. No doubt these various 
phases of the horticultural law in these different states 
would be shown to be unconstitutional if carried through 
the Supreme Court, but the individual nurserymen is hardly 
able to take care of these cases himself, and it is our opinion 
that the American Association of Nurserymen should pay 
more attention to the horticultural laws in the Pacific 
Coast. 
A Pacific Coast Meeting. 
At this time, we would like to suggest that the next 
meeting of the American Association of Nurserymen after 
the meeting at Rochester, be held at Portland, on the 
Pacific Coast. We believe we have reached the time in our 
history that if the Association is going to actually represent 
the nurserymen of the whole United States, a meeting 
should be held on the Pacific Coast. This matter has been 
put off from time to time, and we think we now have 
reached the period in the existence of the Association when 
it is due the nurserymen of the Pacific Coast that the Con¬ 
vention be held at some point convenient out here in the 
Western country, and we believe that Portland is the most 
central point for such meeting. At this time, therefore, we 
want to put ourselves on record as placing before the Con¬ 
vention the name of Portland, Oregon, as the next meeting 
place for the Convention. 
Oregon Nursery Company, 
M. McDonald. 
SHOULD CONSIDER FEDERAL LEGISLATION. 
I believe we made a great mistake last summer when we 
agreed to cease our efforts to have federal legislation looking 
to the restriction of the trade in stock infested with disease 
and dangerous insects. I notice that the Federal Govern¬ 
ment is very busy and very generous in paying out money 
whenever the animal industry is in the least danger. That 
is all looked after without much,if any expense to the men 
in the trade,while in the nursery business little is done and 
that is mostly paid for by the nurserymen themselves. I 
do not see why a great industry having to do with the 
beauty, the health and the comfort of home surroundings 
should not have the same care taken of it, that is taken of 
cattle and hogs. 
DesMoines, la. C. L. Watrous. 
CONSIDER TARIFF. 
Give the tariff a thorough discussion at your next meet¬ 
ing. The seedsmen and the horticultural product dealers 
have expressed their views on the tariff to the ways and 
means committee. Compare the report in the Florists 
Review of December 24th. We think the Nurserymen’s 1 
tariff committee will respect those views, as each man is 
entitled to speak for his own trade. 
Yours very truly, 
New York City. August Rolker & Sons, 
A PRACTICAL PROGRAM. 
The program should be always progressive, practical and 
interesting, and it should be considered worth while 
going to the convention for. I recognize the social feature 
of the Association as a very desirable one, but I do not 
believe it is sufficient to warrant the continuance of the 
Association. When, however, there can be discussions' of 
subjects of importance and presentations of'matters which 
show an advance in the growing of nursery stock, an 
advance in the methods of handling that stock, an advance 
in discovering the actual cost of that stock, and an advance 
in the methods of dealing with customers, the whole thing 
becomes well worth while. 
The Shade Tree Problem. 
There is one thought I w r ould reiterate, which is that the 
nurseryman who does not endeavor to make the town in 
which he lives a better place in which to live, is missing his 
duty as a citizen mildly, while missing his opportunity as a 
nurseryman entirely. Improvement work in American 
communities stimulates planting. The nurseryman with 
ugly grounds, poorly planted, on a street dirty and un¬ 
kempt, and with poorly handled shade trees, is suggesting 
that he does not believe his stuff is good or fit to use. 
Therefore, there should be discussions and actual advances 
at nurserymen’s conventipns in respect to civic improve¬ 
ment work, especially that form of it dealing with parks, 
public squares and the improvement of home grounds and 
streets. I do not remember to have heard at any conven¬ 
tion a capable discussion of the best shade trees for com¬ 
munities, but I do remember (having cause to) that nur¬ 
serymen throughout the country are selling the trashiest 
trees they can grow, to be planted carelessly, far too close, 
and to rise up into a condition which disgraces the craft. I • 
do not know of many tradesmen, although there are some, 
who are able and willing to advise as to proper street tree 
planting. The cases in which the nurseryman offers red 
oaks, pin oaks, ginkos, elms, tulips, ashes, oriental planes 
and sugar maples are mighty few, compared with those in 
■which the nurseryman’s advice has to do with the tree weeds 
like Carolina poplar, white maple and box elder. 
This is probably not fit to print, but it is what I have said 
to the nurserymen, and what I think. I wish we might 
