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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
NEW YORK STATE NURSERYMEN’S ASSOCIATION 
The annual meeting of the New York State Nurserymen’s 
Association will be held at the Powers Hotel, Rochester, N. Y., 
February 1, 1924, at 10.30 A. M. The officers are W. H. Mastin, 
President; C. J. Maloy, Secretary-Treasurer. Executive Com¬ 
mittee, C. H. Perkins, 2d Chairman; Horace Hooker, John P. 
Rice and William Pitkin. 
PROGRAM 
Tiiuksd.w Mokning, 10.30 O’Ci.ock 
1. Call to order by the President. 
2. Reading of minutes of last meeting. 
3. Appointment of committees. 
4. The president’s address. 
5. Annual report of secretary-treasurer. 
6. Report of wholesale committee, Mr. T. C. Carson, Chairman. 
7. Report of retail committee, Mr. T. F. Andrews, Chairman. 
8. Report of membership committee, Mr. T. H. Cobb, Chair¬ 
man. 
9. Report of legislative committee, Mr. Wm. Pitkin, Chairman. 
10. Report of transportation committee, Mr. John Keane, 
Chairman. 
Adjournment for luncheon 
Tiiitksd.w Afternoon, 2.00 O’Clock 
ADDRESSES 
1. Mr. Wm. S. Riley, Commissioner of Parks, Rochester, N. Y. 
2. Mr. Clinton R. Lyddon, of Lyddon & Hanford, Rochester, 
N. Y., and President of Rochester Ad Club—“Advertising.” 
3. Mr. F. T. Burke—“How the grower, wholesaler and re¬ 
tailer can unite to sell more nursury stock.” 
4. Open discussion—“Horticultural Standards,” introduced by 
Mr. John P. Rice for the wholesaler, Mr. W. L. Glen of 
Green’s Nursery Company for the retailer. 
5. Mr. Harold Doane, Niagara Sprayer Co.—“Nursery Dusting.” 
6. Report of nominating committee. 
7. Election of officers. 
8. Introduction of new president. 
Dinner at Powers Hotel, Thursday, 7 P. M. Music and enter¬ 
tainment. 
CROWN GALL 
lielow is printed a copy of llie resolution adopted by 
the American Phytopathological Society, also by the 
Society of American Economic Entomologists at Cincin¬ 
nati. Roth the Illinois State Nurserymen’s Association 
and the Western Association of Nurserymen, in conven¬ 
tion the last week, approved this resolution and the Exec¬ 
utive Committee of the American Association of Nursery¬ 
men in session at Kansas City also approved it, author¬ 
ized the publication of the papers and discussion leading 
to this resolution and it will be sent out in booklet form 
by the secretary of the American Association as soon as 
jiossible. 
The Executive Committee also approved Section 8 of 
the resolution and appropriated the sum of $2000.00 per 
year for two years, provided the balance of the amount 
recjuired, namely, $4000.00, be subscribed by the fruit 
tree growers who are vitally interested in the crown gall 
(juestion. A good portion of this sum was pledged at 
the Western Association and a committee organized to 
collect the balance of this $4000.00 immediately. John 
Fraser, Jr., is chairman of this committee. His address 
is Huntsville, Ala., and he will send out appeals to the 
nurserymen at once and hopes to have the money in 
hand within two weeks so that the research program 
can be started immediately. 
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CROWN GALL INSPECTION 
Mr. Chairman: 
Your committee on crown-gall inspection begs to submit the 
following report: 
1. Owing to the wide distribution of Bacterium tumafaciene, 
the large number of its host plants, and the difficulty of detect¬ 
ing all affected plants, official inspection of nursery stock for 
the purpose of preventing the dessemination of the crown-gall 
organism is unwarranted. The sole object of crown-gall inspec¬ 
tion is to prevent the sale and planting of stock which will not 
produce a normal crop. If it be assumed that all plants effected 
by crown-gall are unfit for planting no method of official inspec¬ 
tion is adequate protection for the planter, because of the na¬ 
ture and wide distribution of the causal agent. Inspection regu¬ 
lations should be framed with these things in mind and a clear 
distinction should be made between crown-gall and malforma¬ 
tions due to excessive callousing, cultivation injury, woolly aphis 
and nematode injury. 
2. The amount of injury done by crown-gall varies greatly 
wdth different species of plants and, in some cases, even with 
different varieties of the same species. Also, it appears to vary 
somewhat with the character of the soil, method of culture and 
climatic conditions. Accordingly, it is impracticable to have 
uniform inspection regulations for all kinds of plants or for 
all parts of the United States. 
3. In each state the extent of the injury done by crown-gall 
to the principle economic plants grown in the states should be 
accurately determined and the findings used as the basis of in¬ 
spection regulations. Generally speaking, the persons best quali¬ 
fied to do this are the plant pathologists and horticulturists of 
the Agricultural College and the Agricultural Experiment Sta¬ 
tion. They should be consulted freely by those in charge of 
nursery inspection. 
4. In general, the injurious effects of crown-gall have been 
over-estimated, particularly in the case of the apple. Crown-gall 
injury is least pronounced in the northern and northeastern por¬ 
tions of the United States. 
5. Crown-gall inspection should describe fully, and as ac¬ 
curately as may be possible, the symptoms shown by plants to 
be rejected. To say that “all plants visibly affected by crown- 
gall will be rejected” is not sufficiently explicit. Hair-splitting 
methods of inspection are unnecessary and should not be per¬ 
mitted. Considerable tolerance should be allowed. 
6. Field inspection for crown-gall is unreliable. The only 
worth-while inspection is that made at the packing shed or at 
the point of destination. 
7. Except as a penalty for law violation, the rejection of an 
entire shipment because some plants in it are affected by crown- 
gall is unwarranted. 
8. In view of the foregoing it is recommended that this so¬ 
ciety solicit the active co-operation of the Ameiican Association 
of Nurserymen in a research program that will ultimately an¬ 
swer the questions now involved, directly and indirectly, in a 
better understanding of the nursery inspection problem relating 
to crown gall. 
Respectfully submitted, 
F. C. STEV^ART, 
American Phytopathological Society, Geneva, N. Y. 
M. J. DORSEY, 
Scientific Horticulturist, Morgantown, W. Va. 
I. E. MELHUS, 
Botanist and Plant Pathology, Ames, Iowa. 
HARRY F. DIETZ, 
Entomologist, Indianapolis, Ind. 
HENRY B. CHASE, 
Nurseryman, Chase, Ala. 
In the report of the United States Department of Ag- 
riciiRiire for December 29th, on Weather, Crops and Mar¬ 
ket, a summary of the production of apples, peaches and 
pears for 1922 and 1923 are given The totals are: 
Apples, 1922 .202.702,000 bushels 
Apples. 1923 .196,770.000 bushels 
Peaches, 1922 . 55,852,000 bushels 
Peaches, 1923 . 45.702,000 bushels 
Pears, 1922 . 20J05,000 bushels 
Pears, 1923 . 17,390,000 bushels 
Mr. S. R. Moore, nurseryman, Zanesville, Ohio, sent in 
his renewal of the National Nurseryman on January 8. 
1924, of which he has been a subscriber for several 
years. This was his birthday, being 84 years old. We 
wish him much happiness and many happy returns of 
the day. 
