THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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The National Nurseryman 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
218 Livingston Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
President. THOMAS B. MEEHAN 
Vice-President and Editor, .JOHN CRAIG 
Secretary-Treasurer and Business Manager, ... C. L. YATES 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nur¬ 
sery Stock of all kinds. It circulates throughout the United 
States, Canada and Europe. 
Official Journal of American Association of Nurserymen. 
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Rochester, N. Y., April, 1909. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President—Charles J. Brown, president of Brown Bros. Co., 
Rochester; vice-president, C. M. Hobbs, Bridgeport, Ind.; secre¬ 
tary, Geo. C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Forestry—-J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la. 
Transportation—F. H. Stannard, Ottawa, Kansas. 
Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y. 
Legislation—Wm. Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. 
Co-operation with Entomologists—Hon. Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md. 
Program—-Jas. M. Pitkin, Newark, N. Y. 
Publicity—J. M. Irvine, St. Joseph, Mo. 
Exhibits—Thomas B. Meehan, Dreshertown, Pa. 
Arrangements—Geo. C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y. 
Editing Report—Geo. C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y. 
Entertainment—Wm. Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. 
National Council of Horticulture—Chas. J. Maloy. 
STATE AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS. 
American Nurserymen’s Protective Association —President, R. C. Berckmans 
Augusta, Ga.; secretary, Thomas B. Meehan, Dreshertown, Pa. Meets annually 
in June. 
American Retail Nurserymen’s Protective Association —President, Charles J. Brown, 
Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, Guy A. Bryant, Princeton, Ill. Meets annually in 
'June. 
Association of Oklahoma Nurserymen —President, J. A. Lopeman, Enid, Okla. Terr.; 
secretary, C. E. Garee, Noble, Okla. Terr. 
Canadian Association of Nurserymen —President—-E. D. Smith, Winona; secretary, 
C. C. R. Morden, Niagara Falls, Ont. 
Connecticut Nurserymen’s Association —-President, John S. Barnes, Yaleville; 
secretary, Frank E. Conine, Stratford. 
Eastern Association of Nurserymen —-President, W. C. Barry, Rochester, N. Y.; 
secretary-treasurer, William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. Meets annually in 
.January. 
National Association of Retail Nurserymen —President, Wm. Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. 
secretary, F. E. Grover, Rochester, N. Y. 
Nurserymen’s Mutual Protective Association —President, N. H. Albaugh, Phoneton 
O.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y. Meets annually in June. 
National Nurserymen’s Association of Ohio —-President, J. W. McNary, Dayton, O.; 
secretary, W. B. Cole, Painesville, O. 
Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen— President, W. D. Ingalls, North Yakima 
Wash.; secretary-treasurer, C. A. Tonneson, Tacoma, Wash. Meets annually in 
June. 
Pennsylvania Nurserymen’s Association—-President, Thos. B. Meehan, Dreshertown, 
Pa., secretary, Earl Peters, Mt. Holy Springs, Pa. 
Southern Nurserymen’s Association—-President, Charles T. Smith, Concord, Ga.; 
secretary-treasurer, A. I. Smith, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Tennessee Nurserymen’s Association—-President, J. C. Hale, Winchester, Tenn.; 
secretary, G. M. Bentley, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Texas Nurserymen’s Association —-President—E. W. Knox, San Antonio, Texas; 
-ecretary-treasurer, John S. Kerr, Sherman, Texas. 
Western Association of Nurserymen—President, E. P. Bernardin, Parson, Kas.; 
secretary-treasurer, E. J. Holman, Leavenworth, Kan. Meets in July and 
December at Kansas City. 
An invitation to assist with the annual 
CONNECTICUT meeting of the Connecticut Pomological 
POMOLOGISTS. Society not long ago gave us an oppor¬ 
tunity to revisit that organization after a 
lapse of some four or five years and in¬ 
cidentally to compare present conditions with past condi¬ 
tions. At our earlier visit, as we remember it, there w r as a 
small and rather listless audience. At the Hartford meeting 
in January there were certainly not less than five hundred 
persons present at any session and certainly one or two 
hundred more than that in total attendance. The interest 
was keen, the discussions pointed and right up-to-date. 
What is the reason for this change? It is undoubtedly 
chargeable in the first place to the vigor of the administra¬ 
tion, and secondly to the example of a few successful fruit 
growers, as Barnes Brothers of Yalesville, J. H. Hale of 
South Glastonbury and Mr. Lyman, the noted peach man. 
But why should we expect anything else? Connecticut 
men will tell us that they have the best opportunity for 
fruit-growing in the world. That is a good thing for every 
fruit grower to believe of his own section, and there is no 
doubt that the advantages are very important; there is an 
abundance of cheap land, there is an increasing demand for 
good fruit; there is a ready home market, and good trans¬ 
portation. 
At this Connecticut meeting, a novel feature proved to be 
the fruit banquet. At this function, fruit in some form 
appeared in every course of the menu. Whether the ration 
was properly balanced or not we did not inquire, considering 
that one meal would do no serious injury to our make-up. 
We did wonder at the close, however, whether it would not 
be advisable on general principles to partake of a little of 
the old-fashioned remedy, a trifle of baking soda, as a neces¬ 
sary neutralizing agent. There was one man who was 
unquestionably happy, and this was our friend, H. W. 
Collingwood, who has in season and out of season enlarged 
upon the nutritive and beneficial qualities of the baked 
apple, or indeed of the apple in any form. We did not 
hear him admit that he secured his fill that evening, but 
there was no reason why he could not. 
r The inevitable after-dinner speeches were presided over 
by J. H. Hale, who took the opportunity of having the last 
as well as the first word, to roast every one to his satisfac¬ 
tion at least. He certainly kept things moving in a rapid 
way, for Hale is a man who does things on time. 
The Connecticut Pomological Society has struck a new 
era in its history and will undoubtedly be a factor of increas¬ 
ing influence in the commercial pomology of the Nutmeg 
State. 
We cannot allow this opportunity to slip for a remark or 
two on another question. No one who has traveled up and 
down the historic Connecticut valley, and no one who has 
admired as he properly can the attractive pastoral pictures 
presented on every hand, can fail to have experienced or 
expressed a regret, if nothing more, at the ruthless way in 
which the landscape is being desecrated by the free exploita¬ 
tion on the huge tobacco barns and other farm buildings of 
signs advertising all kinds of wares from patent medicine 
to cereal products and alcoholic beverages. 
