THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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to present this invitation, knowing that he expects to be 
present at your meeting. Very truly yours, 
F. H. Stannard, 
President American Association of Nurserymen 
IN FAVOR OF DENVER 
Editor National Nurseryman, 
Sir: 
We understand there is a fair prospect of Denver being- 
selected for the next meeting place of the American Associa¬ 
tion of Nurserymen, through a movement started at 
Rochester, and that the Pacific Coast Association will be 
invited to meet the American Association here, in the event 
that Denver is selected as the next meeting place. We do 
not think we can say anything in regard to Denver with 
which the members of the Association are not familiar, but 
will simply say that climate, scenery surrounding, added to 
will be no fee for this license. The only thing required is 
that the application blanks should be filled out and signed 
by each agent, and forwarded to the office of the State 
Agricultural Department at Augusta, Maine, whereupon 
license will be issued.” 
The application blanks can be procured by each agent 
from the above named office, or if desired, blanks will be 
furnished to the firm in quantity, for use of their agents. 
Yours truly, 
Wm. Pitkin 
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON TARIFF 
Your Tariff Committee took up the preliminary tariff 
work, by holding a joint meeting with the Tariff Committee 
of the Eastern Nurserymen’s Association last September. 
We were all very anxious to find a method that was feasible 
for levying specific duty on all trees and shrubs that were 
Peony season at the Rosenfield Peony gardens, West Point, Neb. 
a beautiful city make Denver the ideal Convention City. 
We understand that our Mayor, Chamber of Commerce 
and other Commercial Organizations, have or will extend 
invitations to both Associations, and we wish also to extend 
an invitation to both and assure every member that Denver 
will take care of the convention in a manner equal to if not 
better than any city in the country. 
Yours very truly, 
The Northern Nursery Co., 
By A. M. Ferguson. 
LEGISLATION 
Editor National Nurseryman, 
Sir: 
During May as Chairman of the Legislative Committee at 
that time, I took up the question of a law passed by the 
Legislature of the State of Maine during the past winter, 
relative to the nursery interests, and as there seemed to be 
some question about one or two points of the Law, I have 
had some correspondence with the Maine officials, and am 
informed today that—-‘‘Each person who solicits orders for 
nursery stock in Maine, will have to have a license. There 
being imported under the Dingly Act on a 25% ad Valorem 
basis. After long consideration and careful study it was 
unanimously decided that no such arrangement could be 
made, as it would either take a paragraph bigger than the 
entire Tariff Act, or it would result in 10% duties on some 
things and 30% on others, neither of which propositions did 
we believe the government would stand for. However, at 
the instance of Messrs. Meehan, Moon and others we 
requested the Ways and Means Committee to fix a specific 
duty on certain classes of trees and shrubs, which was 
turned down by that Committee, as were our other proposals 
except that they gave us the $1 specific duty we asked for on 
Mazzard, Mahaleb and Myrobolan Seedlings. 
In the meantime the florists and seedsmen were hauling 
us over the coals, the florists taking special exception to 
our 4 cent rate on roses and duty on rose stocks. A joint 
meeting with the Tariff Committees of the Florists and 
seedsmen was arranged at Buffalo where our budding dif¬ 
ferences were patched up by our agreement giving the 
florists and seedsmen a free hand in the tariff schedules 
affecting their duty in return for their non-interference in 
our schedules. 
