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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
205 Cox Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
President, .THOMAS B. MEEHAN 
Vice-President and Editor, ........ JOHN CRAIG 
Secretary-Treasurer and Business Manager, . C. L. YATES 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nursery Stock 
of all kinds. It circulates throughout the United States and Canada. 
Official Journal of American Association of Nurserymen. 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION , 1900. 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 
One year, in advance.$1.00 
Six months,.. -75 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance,.1.50 
Six Months,. .1 00 
Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Address Editor, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class mail matter- 
A CASE OF THE 
OFFICE SEEK¬ 
ING THE At AN. 
Many of our readers are familiar with the story of the 
“Awakening of Harrisburg” as told in The Outlook and other 
magazines. It is full of interest, and shows the possibility of 
united and persevering effort on the part 
of a small but earnest body of citizens. 
Harrisburg was hygienically unclean, she 
was unbeautiful and she did not care. 
She was unhealthful and did not 
heed. The situation was taken in hand 
by a group of unselfish, broad-minded 
citizens who threw themselves into the 
campaign with a zeal and enthusiasm that knew not defeat 
nor discouragement. The fight was protracted. But they 
won. A Park Commission was appointed and given a quarter 
of a million dollars to cleanse and beautify the city. 
One of the active workers in this campaign was J. Horace 
McFarland so well known in our association. It is gratifying 
to announce that in a recent election to fill a vacancy in the 
Park Commission Mr. McFarland was elected without political 
influence and totally by public deference to his eminent 
qualifications for the office. In these days of political office 
holding it is delightfully refreshing to have an opportunity 
of observing the recognition of real fitness and worth in this 
agreeable manner. 
Rochester, N. Y., May, 1905. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, E. W. Kirkpatrick, McKinney, Tex.; vice-president, C. L. 
Watrous, Des Moines, la.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, 
N. Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; M. McDonald Salem 
Ore.; George A. Sweet, Dansville, N. Y. 
Transportation — E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Tnd.; M. McDonald, Salem, Ore.; 
Herbert S. Chase, Huntsville, Ala.; W. H. Moon. 
Committee to meet Western Freight Classification Committee at Manitou, Col.— 
Peter Youngers, E. Albertson. 
Committee to meet Eastern Freight Classification Committee in New York—Wm. 
H. Moon, Howard Davis, James McHutchison. 
Committee to meet Southern Freight Classification Committee—Herbert S. Chase, 
R. C. Berckmans. 
Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; Thomas B. Meehan, Dreshertown, Pa.; 
H T. Jones, Elizabeth, N. J. 
Legislation — C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; N. H. Albaugh, Phoneton, O.; 
N. W. Hale, Knoxville, Tenn.; R. C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.; George A. Sweet, 
Dansville, N. Y. 
Programme—Harlan P. Kelsey, Boston; Herbert S. Chase, Huntsville, Ala.; John 
S. Kerr, Sherman, Tex. 
Publicity—Ralph T. Olcott Rochester, N. Y.; Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md.; 
J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa. 
Exhibits—R. C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.; J. C. Hale, Winchester, Tenn.; M. B. 
Fox, Rochester, N. Y. 
To edit report—J. Horace McFarland, C. L. Watrous, George C. Seager. 
STATE AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS. 
American Nurserymen's Protective Association President, R. C. Berckmans, 
Augusta Ga.; vice-president, A. L. Brooke, secretary, Thomas B. Meehan, 
Dreshertown, Pa.; treasurer, Peter Youngers. Meets annually in June. 
Nurserymen’s Mutual Protective Association —President, N. H. Albaugh, 
Phoneton, O.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y. Meets annually 
in June. 
American Retail Nurserymen’s Protective Association —President, Charles 
J. Brown, Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, Guy A. Bryant, Princeton, Ill. Meets 
annually in June. 
Eastern Association of Nurserymen —President, W. C. Barry, Rochester, N. Y.; 
secretary-treasurer, William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. Meets annually in Jan¬ 
uary. 
Western Association of Wholesale Nurserymen. President, Peter Young¬ 
ers. Geneva, Nebraska; Secretary, D. J. Holman, Leavenworth, Kansas. 
Southern Nurserymen’s Association— President, W. T. Hood, Richmond, Va.; 
vice-president, Henry Chase, Huntsville, Ala.; secretary, J. C. Hale, Winchester, 
Tenn. Meets at Asheville, N. C., in August, 1904. 
Southwestern Nurserymen’s Association —President, J. W. Preston, King¬ 
fisher, Okl. Terr.; secretary, J. A. Taylor, Wynnewood, Ind. Terr. 
Nurserymen’s Association —President, F. M. Kirkpatrick, McKinney, 
Tex.; secretary, John S. Kerr, Sherman, Tex. 
Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen— President, S. A. Miller, Milton, 
Ore.; secretary-treasurer, C. A. lonneson, Tacoma, Wash. Meets annually in 
June. 
Pennsylvania Nurserymen’s Association— President, W. H. Moon, Morrisville 
Pa.; secretary, Earl Peters, Ml. Holly Springs, Pa. Next annual meeting at 
Harrisburg, in January. 
National Association of Retail Nurserymen —President, William Pitk 
Rochester, N. Y.; secretary,' John B. Kiley, Rochester, N. Y, 
THE QUESTION 
OF IMPLEMENTS 
The manufactures of farm and orchard implements have 
made notable progress in the United States in the last quarter 
of a century. Farm implements made by American manu¬ 
facturers find their way into all quarters 
of the globe. In addition to the general 
expansion there have been important 
changes in ideas regarding tillage, and 
these have stimulated the invention of 
special types of implements. Perhaps 
the most important advances have been 
made with subsoilers and surface weeding implements, the 
one intended to improve the physical make-up of the soil by 
pulverizing, increasing root foraging area, and augmenting 
water holding capacity, while the other, the surface imple¬ 
ment, conserving the soil’s moisture by preventing evapora¬ 
tion. 
The ideas of cultivators regarding tools and notions relating 
to tillage are changing. Among the fundamental concepts 
are (1) The correct preparation of the ground. This relates 
not only to its plant food content, but also and especially to 
its physical make-up. (2) The type of summer cultivation 
shall be shallow rather than deep. This is a natural corollary 
of the first, because if ground is properly prepared, the neces¬ 
sity of deep cultivation is removed. Summer tillage has 
then for its primary object the conservation of moisture, and 
for its secondary purpose the suppression of weeds. 
As to the kind of implement, it is safe to say that there is 
no one style any more than there is one definite method. 
Cultivators recognize that a grade of steel and finish that will 
work satisfactorily in the gravels and clay loams of the East 
may be quite useless in the sticky drift of the prairie states. 
A study of these things is well worth while, because it is 
closely connected with the economics of nursery practice. 
For that reason we have given some space to a consideration 
of it in this issue. 
