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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
speaking engagements at which the advantages ot pur¬ 
chasing from our members are explained. A large com¬ 
mittee to place representatives, with the message of the 
A. A. of N., on the program of eveiy Horticultural meet¬ 
ing we can reach, is under appointment and some ad¬ 
dresses have already been given. Personally I am ask¬ 
ing the opportunity to appear before the American For- 
estiy Association and the Garden Club of America. All 
of this is being done in an effort to counteract the unfa¬ 
vorable publicity nurserymen have received. 
We believe our membership to be composed of honor¬ 
able men who seek to deal justly and honestly in all their 
affairs. We are disturbed and handicapped in efforts to 
vindicate our members in the puJDlic mind, because we 
receive reports from our own members that nurseiymen 
either are doing or are about to do these very things of 
wdiich Nesbitt and Lovejoy accuse us. Members who in¬ 
timate that they have this knowledge, do not wish to give 
our Vigilance Committee evidence they possess, because 
some of these offenders either are or may become their 
customers. 
Can any nurseryman doing business with another who 
is guilty of dishonest or unfair practices afford to shield 
his customer for the sake of a continuance of his bus¬ 
iness? Will not the dishonest man when apprehended 
defend himself by the statement that he buys his trees of 
you? Thereby he attacks your reliability along with his. 
If our products were trade-marked, it might be different, 
but now shyster nurserymen A. may buy 1000 honest, 
“true-to-name” neach trees of reliable nurserymen B; 
nuts 4000 “mowing-machine budded” peaches or other 
fraudulently represented stock with them and bases his 
claim for reliability on the fact that he secures his trees 
of R. Can anv bnnnst intentioned 7’enutable member of 
the A. A. of N. afford as a matter of dollars and cents to 
himself, to cariy the burden of unfair, dishonest dealings 
on the part of any other member, without seeking to re¬ 
form him or to pursre the membership of him. by not let- 
tiner our Vigilance Committee have the evidence which he 
possesses? 
The Market Development Movement has been taken 
over by the A. A. of N. Next year each member will pay 
as dues to the Association Vi of 1% of his gross business. 
He doesn’t pay an amount as large as this for the oppor¬ 
tunity of the sociability he eniovs at the Convention. He 
will pay it largely for advertising and no matter how 
friendly he mav be with a nurseryman, that knowingly 
mislabeled his stock or indulges in other fraudulent prac¬ 
tices. he cannot afford to carry such a member along with 
him in the A. A. of N.. which should be so certain of the 
inte^ritv of its members, that it pould spend from $20,000 
to $30,000 a vear to tell the public, that when a member 
fi^rows it. it it; tiafo to buv. 
In view of the effort being made right now. by the As¬ 
sociation. in the press and on the speaker’s platform, to 
tell the public that the A. A. of N. is a Leasrue of Nursery¬ 
men whose products are safe to buv. isn’t it unprofitable 
to the member, who has evidence against anv other mem¬ 
ber and unfair to those who represent vour Assoeintiop 
publiclv. to withhold such evidence from our Vls-iL^neo 
Committee, who will judge from the facts, and help us 
to put our house in order? Membership would be of 
greater value in an Association of fifty nurserymen with 
unsullied reputations for honest, reliable dealing, than in 
an association of 1000 that provides a cloak under which 
any unscrupulous firm may masquerade, 
J. Edw.4rd Moon, 
President, American Association of Ntirseryrnen. 
Morrisville, Pa., November 20, 1919. 
RESOLUTION ON REPLACEMENT OF NURSERY 
STOCK 
To Whom It May Concern; 
The Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen during 
their annual convention held at Portland, Oregon, July 
8, 9 and 10, 1919, after carefully considering the question 
of replacement of nursery stock and the resulting abuse 
which has developed from too frequent general promises 
made in the past, decided by unanimous vote that while 
customers will be entitled to Good Condition of nursery 
stock ordered, that henceforth there shall be no promise 
made to replace nursery stock which arrives at destina¬ 
tion in good condition. 
By order of the Pacific Coast Association of Nursery¬ 
men. 
C. A. Tonneson, Secretary-Treasurer. 
Tacoma, Washington, August 21, 1919. 
Princeton, N. J., November 27, 1919. 
To the Editor, 
BUREAU FOR FINDING STOCK; 
Helping Members to Sell Surplus 
Here is a new service for Members, offered now but 
provided for as far back as the Detroit Convention, cov¬ 
ered by Article 5 of the By-Laws adopted then. Pur¬ 
suant thereto, it is now put in operation by direction of 
the Executive Committee. 
It is something progressive, constructive, of direct and 
immediate benefit to every member that will use it. It 
requires only the filing of statistics in the form required 
for uniformity in filing. 
The test of every proposed activity must be: Will it be 
of value? And next; Will it be available to every mem¬ 
ber alike? Not all can benefit in the same degree, from 
any Association work; but the opportunity must be the 
same always. Every member must be on the same foot¬ 
ing with every other member. Ours is a cooperative or¬ 
ganization. and Association benefits must be available to 
all. fairly, impartially, equally. 
This new service, the officers think, will help members 
solve the vexed problem of Surplus. 
Yours truly, 
John Watson, Executive Secretary, 
American Association of Nurserymen. 
Treasurer J. W. Hill, of the xAmerican Association of 
Nurserymen, has been ill for several days and confined to 
his home. He has recovered sufiiciently to be back at his 
desk again. 
