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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
It is certainly diflicult to convince friendly nations of 
the justice of this order. 
IMPOSSIBILITY OF SECURING DOMESTIC GROWN ORNAMENTALS 
Azaleas, Rhododendrons, boxwood, bay trees and many 
other slow growing- plants excluded by this order and 
very much desired by the American people cannot be suc¬ 
cessfully grown in commercial quantities in this coun¬ 
try. This is a question of lack of expert as well as com¬ 
mon labor, of capital, and of securing customers to pay 
the exceedingly high prices for these domestic grown 
stocks. Rumors of American grown stocks are unfounded. 
POLITICAL OBJECTIONS 
This Order No. 37 has already raised vigorous protests 
from several friendly foreign governments. An order 
which tells a nation that it can ship fruit stocks and 
seeds, although liable to diseases and pests, because such 
fruit stocks are actually necessary to this country, and 
excludes healthy stocks of ornamentals is bound to be 
considered unjust and unreasonable to sucb foreign na¬ 
tions. Since the issuance of this Order No. 37, word has 
come from official sources that because of this order ex¬ 
portations of fruit stocks and seeds to America will be 
stopped. Foreign nations .have not objected to some 
twenty Federal orders against specific diseases or pests 
but tins order is an entirely different matter. 
THE CASE FOR THE AMERICAN CONSUMERS 
Congressman Mann appears to be the only person who 
has directly appeared for the American Consumer. The 
General Public bas not yet beard about this order which 
will unnecessarily deprive them of hundreds of beautiful 
vines, shrubs, and plants. When they do appreciate this 
loss, there will be an insistent demand on Congress for 
the reason why an administrative board has such plen¬ 
ary legislative powers. 
Wherefore this Association requests the Secretary of 
Agriculture to revoke Order No. 37, and, to promulgate 
further orders providing for a more efficient foreign and 
domestic inspection system. This Association is firmly 
convinced that American citizens are entitled to demand 
that the administrators of the Plant Quarantine Act of 
1912 shall exhaust all feasible methods of inspection and 
control before a resort to the general exclusion of foreign 
grown horticultural products. 
Respectfully submitted, 
American Association of Nurserymen^ 
Ry Tbomas R. Meehan, 
Dresher, Pennsylvania. 
Acting Chairman Legislative Committee. 
Curtis Nye Smith, 
Counsel, American Association of Nurserymen. 
February 14, 1919. 
DEATH OF JOHN B. MOREY, JR. 
Just as we go to press, we are advised of the death of 
John R. Morey, Jr., of Dansville, N. Y., which occurred 
early this week. 
Mr. Morey had been ill for some time with tuberculosis 
of the throat and suffered intensely. 
Funeral services were held in Dansville, Tuesday, 
March 4. 
A full account of Mr. Morey’s life will appear in the 
April number of the National Nurseiyman. 
ANNUAL DINNER OF THE NEW YORK STATE 
NURSERYMEN’S ASSOCIATION 
Sponsored by The Ananias Club—A Get-together Meeting 
to Study the Opportmiities in the Reconstruction 
Period for Nurserymen 
That was the banner under which some seventy-five 
nurserymen of Rochester and vicinity got together on the 
evening of February 22nd at tbe Seneca Hotel in 
Rocbester, New York. The dinner was arranged by the 
Rochester Nurserymen in connection with the Executive 
Committee of the Nurseiymen’s Fund for Market De¬ 
velopment. The program was as follows: 
Toastmaster —William Pitkin 
Introduction—C. H. Perkins, 2nd, Newark, N. Y., 
President New" York State Nurserymen’s Association. 
Reminiscences—James Pitkin, Newark, New" York. 
Market Conditions—John H. Dayton, Painesville, Ohio. 
Empire State’s Place in the Nursery Industry— 
John Watson, Princeton, N. J., Chairman Executive 
Committee, Nurserymen’s National Service Bureau. 
Nurserymen’s National Service Bureau—F. F. Rockw ell, 
New" York City, Manager of the Development Campaign. 
Pow"er of Co-operation—Robert Pyle, West Grove, Pa., 
President Ornamental Growers’ Association. 
The National Viewqioint—J. Edw"ard Moon, 
Vice-President, American Association of Nurserymen. 
Pointers on a Billion Dollar Industry—Louis Allen, 
President Allen Sales Corporation, New York. 
C. R. Burr, W. J. Maloney, J. P. Rice, T. J. Smith, C. J. 
Maloy and other speakers expected. 
Entertainment Committee: James Pitkin, Chairman; 
C. H. Perkins, 2nd, C. R. Burr. 
Arrangements: C. J. Maloney. 
Some of the old-timers said that this was the biggest 
meeting of Nurseiymen that Rochester had ever turned 
out. The Geneva men came over in force. 
As the meeting of the New York State Nurserymen 
lasted until about six o’clock before the guests for the 
Ananias dinner were seated, but that was the only thing 
that was slow about the whole proceeding. Mr. William 
Pitkin started the ball rolling with a series of remarks 
which did credit to the memory of the Ananias Club 
which has been famous in nursery circles. 
Mr. C. H. Perkins, President of the New' York State 
Nurserymen’s Association, interrupted the songp and 
general festivities long enough to introduce the subject 
of the new Federal Horticultural Board quarantine pre¬ 
venting the shipping of a long list of products including 
“gladolias, dahlias and other perennials” outside of the 
states of New York and Massachusetts. After some dis¬ 
cussion condemning the methods which the Federal Hor¬ 
ticultural Board had been follow ing, it was voted by the 
members of the New York State Association present to 
send a committee to Washington for the hearing on this 
proposed embargo to see if it would not be possible to 
have the embargo restricted to infested districts rather 
than to the entire state. Mr. James Pitkin, of New"ark, 
New York, gave some “reminiscences” for U .3 year of 
1950, or thereabouts, looking back to the days before the 
nurserymen w'ere organized, and still had to make some 
