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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Tnc. 
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- 
Rochester, N. Y., March, 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 S.uera 
Ore.; George A. Sweet, Dansville, N. Y. 
Transportation — E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind.; M. McDonald, Salem, Ore.; 
Herberts. 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. Oleott 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 Wholesale Nurserymen’s Association —President, F. H. Stannard, 
Ottawa, Kan.; secretary, E. J. Holman, Leavenworth, Kan. Meets in July and 
December at Kansas City, Mo. 
Southern Nurserymen’s Association— President, W. T. Hood, Richmond, Ya.; 
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. 
1 exas Nurserymen’s Association —President, E. 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. Tonneson, Tacoma, Wash. Meets annually in 
June. 
Pennsylvania Nurserymen’s Association —President, W. H. Moon, Morrisville, 
Pa.; secretary, Earl Peters, Mt.'JHolly Springs, Pa. Next annual meeting at 
Harrisburg, in January. 
National Association of Retail Nurserymen —President, William Pitkin 
Rochester, N. Y.; secretary,'John B. Kiley, Rochester, N. Y. 
As the time for the June meeting approaches, members 
should bear in mind their obligations to the Association and 
its officers. Secretary Seager is now preparing the member¬ 
ship and badge book. It will greatly 
the badge facilitate his labors if advertisements and 
book. fees are promptly forwarded. The work 
of getting out this book is considerable, 
and its quality can be much improved, if the Secretary is 
allowed sufficient time to make it up to his own satisfaction. 
With the West Baden convention, the thirtieth year in the 
work of our important Association will be rounded out. We 
ought to make this year a banner period in the history of 
our organization. Let the members considerately assist 
the Secretary in preparing the badge book in good time, and 
making it as attractive and useful as possible. 
It is almost impossible to pick up an agricultural or horti¬ 
cultural paper these days without finding a record of the 
oppressions and impositions of the great transportation com¬ 
panies. In the issue of the “Com- 
the burning moner” for January 20th there is a 
transportation melancholy review of the destruction of 
QUESTION. industry after industry by unfavorable 
discrimination, or excessive freight rates. 
In Pennsylvania, suit has been brought against the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Railroad for some $50,000 damages, by firms who have 
failed owing to alleged freight rate discrimination in recent 
years. 
A despatch from Atlanta under date of January 7, says 
that fifteen years ago there were between twenty-five and 
thirty wholesale grocers in Atlanta. Today, although the 
city has grown in population and in wealth, there are only 
thirteen wholesale grocery firms in the city. Their suspension 
is said to have been due in nearly every instance to discrimi¬ 
nating freight rates, and specific instances are cited. Records 
of failures due to the same cause come from Emporia, 
Kansas; Lincoln, Nebraska; Buffalo, and Baltimore, from 
Columbus, Ohio; from Fort Wayne, Indiana; San Jose, 
California; and Mobile, Alabama. 
If all the apparently valid cases of this kind were recorded 
it would make an exceedingly extended list. Fruit-growers 
and tree-growers are both vitally interested, tree-growers 
particularly, for the reason that their goods are bulky. Pub¬ 
lic sentiment must back the co-operative action of manufac¬ 
turing and rural organizations. But public sentiment must 
first be aroused. It is being awakened, but very slowly. 
The hands of the transportation committee of the Association 
should be strengthened by the moral support of every mem¬ 
ber of the society. Co-operation, in this instance, should be 
the watchword. 
One of the best and most convincing bits of evidence bear¬ 
ing upon the substantial progress of plant breeding has been 
recently presented by the action of the Carnegie Institute in 
providing the noted plant breeder, Bur- 
plant bank, with an endowment which will 
breeding. enable him to carry on his investigations 
and studies in the future without the 
necessity of watching ceaselessly the financial side of the 
question. Mr. Burbank has made many important additions 
