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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
members or not, are invited. 
All nurserymen jot down this date before too late, 
And remember the 3rd and 4th of September. 
Bring the Madam; send the foreman. 
See Bates, of Lord & Burnham, if you need a propagating 
house. He put the “Green” in Greensboro. 
This is a catalogue conference. Other conferences, concerning 
various sections of the association, will be arranged for during 
the convention. 
Oh for a way to make cold type talk! It seems almost cruel 
to attempt to write a word picture of our coming Southern Con¬ 
vention. 
Because of our location, over night from most any point, the 
attendance is sure to be far greater than any previous conven¬ 
tion. This means the meeting of more old friends, the making 
of many new ones—a big, broad, and bright spot to remember 
V hen you return home. Just think of the thrill of watching 
HELLENMARIA preside! 
All Rotarians be on hand Tuesday for Rotary meeting. Lions 
Wednesday, Kiwanians Thursday, and A B C’s the “Atta Boy 
Club,” in session every day in the week. 
The program is jam up for the whole week. A little sample 
is—guests of the Youngs and Van Bindley Co. Wednesday aft¬ 
ernoon for beer and barbecue dinner and auto ride tb their nur¬ 
series. 
“He never took a day of rest, 
He couldn’t afford it. 
He never had his trousers pressed. 
He couldn’t afford it. 
He never went away care free, 
To visit Greensboro to see 
How fair a place N. C. might be. 
He couldn’t afford it. 
“In convention halls he was never seen. 
He couldn’t afford it. 
To other nurseries he had never been. 
He couldn’t afford it. 
He died and left his heirs a lot. 
But no tall shaft marks the spot 
In which he lies—his children thought 
They couldn’t afford it.” 
Don’t be like the “Couldn’t afford it” man—COME! 
Cordially, 
J. VAN BINDLEY. 
URLENSBORO IS CALLING YOU 
Pack your troubles in your old kit bag and for the 
good of your business and the good of business in gen¬ 
eral come to the annual convention of the Southern Nur¬ 
serymen’s Association—O’Henry Hotel—Greensboro, N. 
G., September 3-4, 1924. 
It’s not the sights and things that make a convention, 
it’s the men you nieet and exchange ideas with. 
Gome, Won’t You? 
On Wednesday, Van Lindleys and ourselves are going 
to feed you at a genuine barbecue. The pigs are fatten¬ 
ing on apples and Paul says the lambs are on clover. 
The Ronum apples are getting ready for the cider and we 
hojie you will come and while you are full and we hope, 
in a good humor, we wish to show you some of the little 
things we have for you. 
While the convention will he held at the O’Henry Hotel 
and while it is safe to make reservations, there are other 
hotels with the following rates: 
Guilford Hotel—Single, -$2.00 and -$2,50. 
Guilford Hotel—Double, -$3.50 and -$4.50. 
Ilulline Hotel— Single, -$1.25, $1.50, $1.75 and $2.00. 
Remember the date—3rd and 4th. 
All nurserymen and friends of horticulture are invited. 
John A. Young & Sons Itohert G. Young 
Nurserymen Wholesale Nurservman 
QUARANTINES 
The follo\\ ing appeared in the Western Florist, Nur¬ 
seryman and Seedsman of August, 1924 and is of interest 
to nurserymen all over the country as it is an example of 
insj)ection and quarantine carried to an extreme. 
The gratifying i)art about it is that it is through such 
cases the whole subject of governmental regulations and 
quarantines will be brought to a focus and find itself. 
Much money will he spent, much wasted, much in¬ 
justice worked and much ignorance revealed, but out 
of it all it is to be hoped, sure methods will he evolved 
that will supervise the well being of the Horticulture 
and Agriculture of the country, w ithout so much evidence 
of hysterics on the part of government officials as at the 
present is so prevalent. 
AN IMPORTANT CASE 
W. Dwight Pierce, Ph. D., Banning, Calif. 
I am writing'this article while at Prescott, Arizona, attending 
the hearings in the United States District Court, District of Ari¬ 
zona, of the case Thomas J. Smith vs. Arizona Commission of 
Agriculture and Horticulture. 
The contentions in this case involve several points of procedure 
in the enforcement of that type of laws generally classified as 
nuirantine laws. I have vritten a little about the case but it 
is well for all horticultural interests to be intimately acquainted 
with it, for many of the acts in question are performed or at¬ 
tempted by regulatory officials in all states. 
In March, 1924, a Federal Horicultural Board inspector, s.eek- 
ing evidence of pink boll worm, was inspecting some fields of 
dead standing cotton of the 1923 crop, near Rilloto, Arizona, and 
he found a specimen of the wild cotton weevil, Anthonomus gran- 
clis thurberial Pierce. This weevil is native in the near-by moun¬ 
tains on a so-called wild cotton, Tliurleria tUesgesioides. The 
writer described it in 1913 and warned that if its native habitat 
in the mountains was molested, the weevils might seek cotton. 
Cotton has been grown in the valley almost every year and this 
is but the second time that the weevil has been found in the 
cotton. 
The writer was called by the growers and after careful study 
of the situation, added two fields to the list of three made by the 
Federal inspectors. Five men putting in days of examination 
found five fields to contain eleven specimens of weevil. 
As a result of these discoveries the Arizona Commission of 
Agriculture issued, on April 15, one of the most drastic orders in 
the whole history of horticultural regulation. They ordered a 
non-cotton zone embracing an entire county and parts of two 
others, and ordered that all cotton growing in this immense area 
b? destroyed. The cotton then in cultivation was confined prin¬ 
cipally to one large irrigation project, and approximately 7600 
acres of cotton were ordered destroyed. Much more would have 
been planted, but for this order. Very large areas in the non¬ 
cotton zone are capable of cotton production. 
The farmers, feeling the absolute injustice of the matter, re¬ 
fused to destroy their crops as it was too late to plant anything 
else and so they obtained a restraining order and then a tem¬ 
porary injunction. 
Now on July 15, the Court is hearing the testimony and argu¬ 
ments for a permanent injunction to prevent the state from tak¬ 
ing such arbitrary action, and also a pleading on the constitu¬ 
tionality of the law which would permit a commission to destroy 
property without giving the owner a due hearing. 
Out of this case, whatever its decision, there must come modi¬ 
fications not only to the Arizona Crop Pest Law, but to all such 
laws in other states, and undoubtedly it will affect animal quar¬ 
antine and inspection laws. 
The case at present will be tried on the basis of facts from the 
side of the plaintiff and theory from the side of the defense. 
The dry hot climate of Arizona has played a guardian angel 
over the harassed cotton farmers, and at the date of trial, the 
crop is over half made, as fine a crop as was ever seen at this 
stage, and not a weevil can be found in it. 
Based on the plaintiff’s claim that the weevils did not exist in 
the present crop the court granted the preliminary injunction. 
To bolster its case the state asked the Federal government for 
help and seven inspectors came and have been giving a fine-tooth 
comb inspection of the fields, without being able to find any evi¬ 
dence of the weevil. In addition five government technical ex¬ 
perts have been called to testify on the technical theories in- 
