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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Erwin, Boulder Cress Nursery, Atlanta, Ga.; L. E. Rehse, 
Germantown Nursery, Germantown, Tenn.; Glias. T. 
Smith, Smith Brothers Co., Coneord, (ia.; C. B. Smith, 
Smith Brothers Co., Coneord, Ga.; James G. Bailie, Fruit- 
land Nurseries, Augusta, (ia.; Claude Miller, Spartan¬ 
burg Nursery, Spartaid)urg, S. C.; K. L. Ilighfill, Greens¬ 
boro; Jno. A. Tinga, Wilmington; G. P. Hudson, Green¬ 
ville Nursery Co., Greenville, S. C.; Bobt. G. Young, 
Wholesale Nurseryman, Greensboro; Sj)eneer Bing, 
Cumberland Valley Nursery, MeMinnville, Tenn.; G. B. 
Derick, Lindley Nursery Co., Pomona; W. E. Campbell, 
Lindley Nursery Co., Pomona;; M. E. Thornburg, IIow- 
ard-IIiekory Co., Hiekory; John Wilkinson, Ilogansville 
Nurseries, Ilogansville, Ga.; L. P. Coulter, Coulter Nur¬ 
series, Newton; J. B. Verzall, Audubon Nurseries, Wilm¬ 
ington; J. B. Watkins, Jr., J. B. Watkins and Bro., Mid¬ 
lothian, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Tindell, Tindell Nursery, 
Fountain City, Tenn.; B. B. Taylor, Taylor Nurseries, 
Greenville, S. C.; A. L. Ligon, Griirmg Inter-State Nur- 
seiy, Jacksonville, Fla.; Miss Louise Bannerman, Cum¬ 
berland Nurseries, Winchester, Tenn.; Lucy Drake, 
Cumberland Nurseries, Winchester, Tenn.; W. Y. C. 
Grant, Jr., Oakland Nursery Go., Columbia, Tenn.; J. A. 
Ahern, Sierron Nurseries, Atlanta, Ga.; B. C. Chase, 
Chase Nursery Go., Chase, Ala.; E. N. Beasoner, Bea- 
soner Brothers, Oneco, Fla.; P. M. Parthemore, McFar¬ 
land Publicity Co., Harrisburg, Pa.; A. Chandler Man¬ 
ning, Mrs. M. N. Goodwin, Miss W. E. Culver, Miss 
Louise Park, Lindley Nursery Co., Pomona; A. F. Lake, 
Shenandoah Nurseries, Shenandoah, Iowa; Peter M. 
Foster, Foster and Co., Bridgeton, N. J.. Gene Boerner, 
Jackson and Perkins Co., Newark, N. J.; G. F. Mattern, 
W. T. Hood and Co., Bichmond, Va.; Miss Madge Aider- 
man, Lindley Nursery Co., Pomona; J. L. Wolfe, Cleve¬ 
land, Tenn.; Mrs. E. N. Beasoner, Boyal Palm Nursery, 
Oneco, Fla.; Mrs. E. Fred Bowe, Harrisburg, Pa.; 1. S. 
Gowan, (ireenville Nurseries, Greenville, S. G.; Ghas. 
Hawkersmith, Cumberland Nurseries, Morristown, 
Tenn.; Isaac Hawkersmith, Cumberland Nurseries, Cum¬ 
berland, Tenn.; G. M. Wood, Arkansas Nurseries, Pig- 
gott. Ark.; Betty Ann Linderman, John Linderman, 
Greensboro; W. J. Dunn, Jr., Yadkin Nurseries, Star; 
John G. Chase, Benjamin Chase Co., Deny, N. H.. E. 
Fred Bowe, McFarland Publicity Seiwice, Harrisburg, 
Pa.; W. G. Daniels, Lindley Nursery Co., Pomona; Paul 
G. Lindley, J. Van Lindley Nursery Co., Pomona; S. B. 
Howell, Howell Nursery Go., Fnoxville, Tenn.; 
Fred Landis, Lookout Nursery, Chattanooga, Tenn.; M. 
G. Si)oon, Fimesville; W. T. Hanner, North State Nursery 
Co., Julian; S. L. Spoon, Fimesville; F. G. Smith, Fimes¬ 
ville; G. M. Bentley, Entomologist, Fnoxville, Tenn.; E. 
H. Ballard, Piggott Nurseries, Piggott, Ark.; B. A. Bowen, 
Davenport Guerry Nurseries, Macon, Ga.; J. P. Barbee, 
Pomona; Fletcher Stanley, Pomona; G. E. Barbee, Po¬ 
mona; Henry Johnson, Lindley Nursery Go., Pomona; 
L. V. Garrett, North State Nursery Co., Julian. 
Exhibits 
Titus Nursery Co., Waynesboro, Va., Peach Trees; 
Interstate Nurseries, MacClenny, Florida, GrifTmg’s Inter¬ 
state Nurseries, Glen St. Mary and McGlenny, Florida, 
a large collection of Evergreens including Ligustrums, 
Oleanders, Gardenias, Abelias and other broad leaved 
evergreens. Pecans, etc.; (k Hale Nursery Co., Winches¬ 
ter, Tenn., Peach Trees; Washington Heights Nursery 
Co., Fnoxville, Term., Peach and Plum Trees; D. Hill 
Nursery Comj)any, Dundee, Ill., Selection of Evergreens; 
0. H. Tindell Nursery Co., Fountain City, Tenn., Box¬ 
wood; The Skinner Irrigation Co., Troy, Ohio, Fittings. 
PRESIDENT’S REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS 
1924 
Southern Nurserymen’s Association 
Walter W. Hillenmeyer, President. 
This is the 28th annual convention of this association. You 
will no doubt note with interest the list of previous conventions 
and officers on your programme. 
These conventions are getting to play a more important part 
in our business each year. The meeting of friends, the renew¬ 
ing of acquaintanceships, the quest of information, the better¬ 
ing of business, the pleasures of diversion and an unselfish ser¬ 
vice to your business brings most of you here. I hope every one 
of you will find in full measure only those things that are pleas¬ 
ant and profitable and that the Greensboro Convention of 1924 
will long be a pleasant memoir with you. 
Let me first speak of my personal relationship with you and 
your association. To say the least it has been most pleasant. 
To be frank, it has been most profitable. While it has brought 
its labors, my association with you has given me a broader view 
of this wonderful business of ours that has more than repaid the 
time given in slight service. To the officers of our Association 
do I wish to express my sincere appreciation of their co-opera¬ 
tion, particularly is this true of your good Secretary Ollie Fras¬ 
er. He has been the man, like most secretaries, that has ren¬ 
dered the greater service, with the lesser recognition. You have 
been very fortunate in having his service and I regret most sin¬ 
cerely his inability to continue in this capacity. 
It has been customary to review the work of the year. I will, 
therefore, touch upon several of the more important happen¬ 
ings. 
The re-establishment of the Monthly Bulletin. It has been the 
means of a closer and more active association. It has been the 
medium through which we have been able to regularly renew the 
touch of friendship as well as advise you of interesting events. 
The Publicity Campaign—The Secretary will tell you in detail 
of this. This was a very worthy movement and I hope you will 
see fit to again do this. 
The Stock Report. Many of you utilized this and while it was 
late in being issued, owing to certain local conditions (of which 
I am to blame in part), I believe it was well received and profit¬ 
able. 
Legislation. Vigorous protest by the Association and its indi¬ 
vidual members of the (Irampton Bill. The Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture’s recommendation on the bill was practically as auto¬ 
cratic and pernicious as the bill originally proposed. Then the 
Parcel Post bill which carried a 70-80% increase in postal rates 
on nursery stock and seeds. This bill also met with quick re¬ 
sponse and vigorous action was taken by your officers to prevent 
its passage. Both of these bills were lost before Congress, for 
the year at least. 
The Crown Gall Fund—The association felt that this was im¬ 
portant, notwithstanding the fact that many of its members as¬ 
sisted individually it would be well to add a small contribuiion. 
This was done. Your chairman of Board of Directors, Mr. Henry 
B. Chase, deserves the thanks of the nursery work for his un¬ 
tiring efforts on this work. He has undertaken a Herculean tasl: 
and surely did his work well. 
Another gratifying thing was to see the active part members 
of this association took in the American Association of Nursery¬ 
men’s work and programme this year. Many of the more impor¬ 
tant committees bad representatives from your association on 
them in recognition of their ability. 
It is gratifying to learn that the past year among nurserymen 
has generally been one of good profits. The growing season this 
year has been satisfactory also. The prospects for the ensuing 
year while not perhaps as good as some we have had in the past, 
seem encouraging in everything except fruit trees. Prom in¬ 
dications, these will be weak for several years. The discussion 
which we will have later on the programme will give us a per¬ 
spective of the situation in the different states. 
There are problems or matters that have come to my attention 
during the past year. These I wish to present to you either in a 
commentary way or in a few recommendations. 
1st: There seems to be a tendency to prematurely anticipate 
cheap prices. While it is true that now in many cases there are 
