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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
Established 1893 by C. L, YATES. Incorporated 1902 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
Hatboro, Pa. 
Editor .ERNEST HEMMING, Easton, Md. 
The leading trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in 
Nursery Stocks of all kinds. It circulates throughout the 
United States, Canada and Europe. 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES 
One Year in Advance .$1.50 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance .$2.00 
Six Months .*.$1.00 
Advertising rates will he sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this oiflce hy the 20th of the month previous to the 
date of issue. 
Payment in advance rectuired for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested by 
the Business Manager, Hatboro, Pa. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of Interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Photographs and news notes of interest to nurserymen should be 
addressed, Editor, Easton, Md., and should be mailed to arrive 
not later than the 25th of the month. 
Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1916, at the post office at 
Hathoro, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March S, 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., September 1924 
HUD SELECTION Whatever may he the arguments 
})ro and con on the subject of pedi¬ 
greed trees and hud selection The Nurserymen’s Bud 
Selection Association of California shows a very definite 
effort on the part of the California Nurserymen to bring 
their jiroducts up to a high standard of dependability. 
Even if it could he proved that buds are from proven or 
])edigreed trees, it does not insure the qualities from the 
mother tree being freed in her offspring. The care 
the Bud Selection Movement insures makes it more than 
worth while. 
Under such care in propagation and culture, errors due 
to human frailty are reduced to a minimum. The evil of 
missnamed trees is removed and what is more important 
that feeling in the public mind that produces such legis¬ 
lation as the Crampton Bill. 
The proper place to correct an evil is at its source and 
the source of much evil in the fruit tree industry begins 
with carelessness in propagation. 
Quoting F. W. x\nderson. President of the Bud Selec¬ 
tion Association, “The evil of trees untrue to name has 
been met in California by the leading nurserymen co¬ 
operating to end the chaos in nomenclature and certify¬ 
ing and guaranteeing trees as to trueness to name to 
the extent of the demand for such action. 
We venture to jiredict that the Crampton Act would 
never he heard of again if the National Association 
would take similar action to “remove the beam from their 
own eyes.” 
We stand ready to cooperate and help in any manner 
possible and will gladly extend our facilities to serve all 
nurserymen everywhere.” 
PLEASED TO Unheralded and without fiourish of 
MEET YOU trumpets the first issue of “News for 
Nurserymen” a business publication for 
the members of the American Association of Nurserymen 
came to this office. We heartily welcome it and trust it 
will become a power in the trade hy guiding the policies 
and establishing the code of ethics adopted hy the asso¬ 
ciation until the entire nursery trade of the country is 
brought under the influence of the National Association. 
Ds power, under its present intended distribution will 
he necessarily limited, as it is evidently limited to circu¬ 
lation among members of the A. A. N. but as time goes 
on we hope it will grow and get a broader vision of its 
field of action. 
Even at the risk of being considered insincere in our 
welcome, we must say we think the publicity committee 
could have adopted the nursery trade paper as their 
official mouth piece more economically and even to better 
advantage than by a separate publication. They at least 
would have the advantage of reaching non-members of 
the American Association. 
The idea held by some of the members a few years ago, 
that the American Association of Nurserymen could 
follow the methods of big business and be modelled on 
the plan of a closed corporation, is fairly well exploded. 
To measure uj) to its heritage and opportunities, it 
must maintain its leadership in all that is best for the 
trade and this without thought of gain for its members 
other than which accure from mutual association among 
themselves. 
WHAT IS HAPPENING The West Coast Nursery In- 
IN THE SOUTH ? dustry will have to look to its 
laurels if it wants to keep 
its reputation for leadership for initiative, enterprise and 
progress, - i 
Something is happening in the South. It used to he 
that all south of the Mason and Dixon Line just followed 
along. Now the Southern Nurserymen’s Association is 
making a noise that sounds like progress and business 
on its own initiative. From all indications the liveliness 
at Greensboro is characteristic of many other localities. 
Judging from the letters and other literature being sent 
out by the various members of the Southern Nursery¬ 
men’s Association there will be a real live convention, 
September 3, 4, at Greensboro. N. C. The officers are 
real live workers. 
Sorry we cannot reproduce the line drawings that 
accompanied the following. Paul of Pomona must be a 
man of many parts. 
GOING TO GREENSBORO 
Greet old friends and meet new ones at the annual convention 
of the 
SOUTHERN NURSERYMEN’S ASSOCIATION 
O’HENRY HOTEL, GREENSBORO, N. C., SEPT 3-4, 1924 
YOU’RE INVITED 
Convention Headquarters : 
O’Henry Hotel Make Re,servations Now 
Rates: $2.50, $3, $3.50, $4, Single 
$4.50 and up Double 
Other hotels: Guilford, Clegg, HiiRne. 
Leave your car at Guilford Motor Car Co. 
How to profit by a convention: 
1. Thru Adaptation. 
2. Thru Application. 
3. Thru Meditation. 
4. Thru Participation. 
5. Thru Communication. 
6. Thru Comradeship. 
All nurserymen and friends of horticulture, whether association 
