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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
('I’ios and observations along the same line. 
It is the belief of your eoinmittee that the siihjeet is 
so large and of sueli iinportanee that a eoinmittee should 
he appointed at this eonvention to continue and enlarge 
the work of investigation. We therefore recommend: 
1. That a strong committee he appointed to make a 
brief, comprehensive survey and report to Secretary Size¬ 
more’s otTiee for dissemination in printed form to all the 
members of the association, such common-storage meth¬ 
ods as have thus far been found successful under the 
\arying climatic conditions in our country. This report 
to he made, if jiossihlc, before the winter season sets in 
so as to he of value to the membership for next season’s 
work. 
2. That the same committee immediately confer with 
Dr. Corbett and his staff to determine what additional 
eiiuipment may he necessary at the Arlington, Virginia, 
plant to iiermit the carrying on of cold-storage experi¬ 
ments with nursery stock, ascertaining the estimated cost 
of such jilant in five or more years’ work along above 
lines, putting the association through its Legislative Com¬ 
mittee behind an aggressive campaign for a congression¬ 
al appropriation through the Agricultural Department for 
carrying on the above experiments. 
liespectfully submitted, 
F. A. Wiggins, 
William Flemer, Jr., 
E. S. Welch, Committee. 
ff^lOO IN GOLD OFFEIIED FOR SLOGAN TO MAKE 
NEWARK LETTER KNOWN 
The nursery industry of Newark, working with and 
through The Courier, offer a prize of one hundred dollars 
in gold for the best slogan to advertise Newark, New 
York, as the home of nursery stock. The competition is 
oiien to eveiyone, and any number of slogans may he sub¬ 
mitted by one person. All slogans submitted must in¬ 
clude “Newark, New Y^ork.” The contest starts today, 
June 26, and ends Monday, Sept. 1, 1924. The judges of 
(he contest are Mr. George Perkins, Mr. W. C. Rurgess 
and Mr. 11. R. Rogers. All slogans should be mailed to 
“Slogan Contest Editor, The Courier, Newark, N. Y.” 
It is a safe guess that few people, even residents of 
Newark, realize the volume of business transacted in nur¬ 
sery stock here, or the long reach of its selling efforts. 
Starting in 1854, the nursery business has grown 
steadily until now nearly six thousand people are em¬ 
ployed by Newark nurserymen in producing and selling. 
For the last ten years the sales have amounted to more 
than tf!l4,000,000, and Newark has come to be known 
throughout all the United States as one of the centers of 
the nursery business. Our country owes Newark a debt 
that could not be paid in dollars, for it is to Newark nur¬ 
serymen that at least part of the credit is due for the 
heautiful streets, parks and homes to be found every¬ 
where. 
In early days nurserymen eontined their selling efforts 
largely to orehardists. That is, to people who planted 
trees for profit. Now-a-days, due in a large degree, to 
the educational work of our nurserymen, home owners 
demand shrubs, hedges, roses and other ornamentals. 
They are not satistied w ith merely building a house, they 
insist that the setting of the house must be right. All 
this has resulted in an enormous increase in the demand 
for nursery stock, and it has greatly broadened the busi¬ 
ness of the nurserymen. At the first only fruit growmrs 
w ere prospective customers—now" practically every fam¬ 
ily wdth a dooryard is a prospect. Fruit trees no longer 
head the list in volume of sales—the home flowers have 
taken first place. 
The w"ork of informing and educating the people, con¬ 
ducted by New"ark nurserymen involves such things as 
the Radio Nursery Talks, given from KDKA, East Pitts¬ 
burgh, Pa., and the sending out of more than two million 
pieces of mail annually. 
It is the plan of New ark nurserymen to use the prize¬ 
winning slogan on every piece of mail matter sent out, 
and it will be repeated hundreds of times by each one of 
their more than five thousand selling agents. 
The rules of the contest are as follows: 
1. The prize—$100.00 in gold. 
2. Who are eligible as Contestants? Everybody. 
3. The slogans must be short and snappy and must 
contain “New"ark, N. Y.” 
4. Any number of slogans may be submitted by each 
contestant. 
6. Each slogan should be w"ritten on a single sheet of 
paper, signed with the name and address of the con¬ 
testant. 
6. Contest starts June 26, and ends Sept. 1, 1924. 
7. Slogans should be mailed “Slogan Contest Editor,” 
The Courier, Newark, N. Y. 
THE PACIFIC COAST ASSOCIATION OF NURSERY¬ 
MEN MET AT YAKIMA, WASHINGTON 
The Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen met at i 
Yakima, Washington, July 15, 16 and 17th and the fol- ! 
iowdng are the officers elected for the 1924-25 term: 
President—A. Rrownell, Portland, Oregon. Y4ce presi¬ 
dents—J. J. Ronnell, Seattle, Washington; John A. Mc¬ 
Gee, Oreiico, Oregon; Mrs. Florence Wright, Kimberly, 
Idaho; M. R. Jackson, Fresno, California; C. 11. Smitli, ' 
Centerville, Utah; Richard Layritz, Victoria, R. C. i 
Executive Committee—F. W. May, Y^akima, Washing¬ 
ton; C. Mahno, Seattle, Washington; II. E. Weed, Reav- [ 
erton, Oregon. 
Member Roard of Trustees: 3-year term, F. A. Wig- ! 
gins, Toppenish, Wasliington (re-elected). Executive 
secretary, C. A. Tonneson, Rurton, Washington (re-elect¬ 
ed ). 
Convention city for 1925—Portland, Oregon. 
At the convention of the Pacific Coast Association of 
Nurserymen, held at Y^akima, Washington, on tlie 15th, 
16th, and 17th of July, an honest-to-goodness thrashing 
out, of mutual questions, was evidently participated in 
by most of the members. j 
Although lengthy argument and many statistics were j 
brought into play concerning natural losses by nursery- j ' 
men we find that the general trend of thought w"as opti- l i 
mistic. Mr .F. A. Wiggins, one of the trustees, evidently I 
in high standing, jiredicts that the country is on the {|< 
verge of much better times and that now is marvelous 
w"hen compared w"ith the business of 1890 and 1910. i 
Discussions rambled from government planting of trees 
