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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
WORK OF COMMITTEES 
Although there has not yet been great activity among the new committees appointed by President 
Stannard, the following extracts from letters of various chairmen will prove of interest 
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE 
As Chairman of the Legislative Committee, I am work¬ 
ing along the lines of my worthy predecessor, Mr. William 
Pitkin. He has promised to work with me and I expect 
that he and the others who did such good work at Washing¬ 
ton last winter will continue to help me with the federal 
matters, and I shall expect to call upon local representa¬ 
tive men in the different states to assist when legislation 
in their own states is being considered. 
Chas. J. Brown. 
ENTERTAINMENT 
I have as yet done nothing towards the entertainment 
for the next convention, but will take the matter up 
shortly and select the other members of this committee. 
The time has been too short to take any definite steps 
regarding the kind of entertainment we will be able to pro¬ 
vide. It will of course be impossible to come anywhere near 
the elaborate entertainment provided at the Rochester 
convention, unless the western nurserymen subscribe 
liberally to the entertainment fund; but with the high 
mark set by the Rochester convention and the Dallas 
convention a few years ago, your committee will have no 
easy row to hoe, but assure you that we will go as far as we 
can. 
F. A. Weber 
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF HORTICULTURE 
As chairman of committee on Co-operation with Na¬ 
tional Council of Horticulture, I have to report that since 
the appointment was made, without any appropriation, I 
had not felt like attempting to do much more than get in 
touch with the officers of the Council and make observations 
upon their work during the year so as to be in position to 
make recommendations to our Association next year about 
the amount of appropriation, if any, to be made for this 
purpose. 
During this very heated term it would not be reasonable 
to expect them to be doing very much in the way of print¬ 
ing matter calculated to induce planting of nursery stock. 
In the autumn and winter will be a better time. I shall 
endeavor to gather what facts I can, to lay before the 
Association in Denver next year. 
C. L. Watrous 
TRANSPORTATION 
As Chairman of the Transportation Committee, I am 
having our Traffic man give close attention to everything of 
interest to the trade. Later there may be something of 
interest to report and if so we promptly make it known. 
W. P. Stark 
PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
As chairman of the Program Committee of the American 
Association of Nurserymen, I have nothing of special interest 
to report. Now that Denver has been selected as the 
place of next meeting, it is the hope of the committee to 
enlist some of our Pacific Coast brethren and secure them for 
papers on the program at the next meeting. An effort is 
also being made to have a large representation from the 
Pacific Coast Association. 
Communication is received from Mr. W. F. R. Mills, 
secretary of the Denver Convention League, expressing ap¬ 
preciation in the selection of Denver as our next meeting- 
point. He states that arrangements will be made for 
meeting place, committee headquarters, etc., without 
expense to the Association and that the local committee on 
entertainment will see that we are properly taken care of 
while in their city. 
Denver knows how to entertain the “stranger within 
her gates” and I feel sure that no mistake has been made in 
selecting the “mile high city” as our next meeting place. 
J. W. Hill 
CO-OPERATION WITH ENTOMOLOGISTS 
As nurserymen will notice on page 60 of the report of 
the proceedings of the 34th annual convention of the 
American Association of Nurserymen the committee of 
Co-operation with the Entomologists was discharged, there¬ 
fore, there is no report to make, however, if there is any¬ 
thing we can do for the interest of the association at any 
time, it will be our pleasure to do so,, whether with the 
entomologists, nurserymen or whatever line it may be. 
Orlando Harrison 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
Since I have been away from home most of the time 
since the Rochester convention, I do not know of anything 
of particular importance to come before the executive 
committee for action. We have practically nothing to do 
with originating plans of work, only passing on work that 
is referred to us. 
T. H. Dayton 
EXHIBITS 
As yet I have not made a start on the work of the 
Exhibit Committee. I have been waiting to see where the 
convention would be held that I might pick out the balance 
of the committee to work to the best advantage for the loca¬ 
tion selected. I shall put on at least one Colorado man, 
and a special effort will be made to have an exhibit of the 
fruit grown in Colorado, man, and a special effort will be 
