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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. 
A WARDED 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 Rocke ter, as second-class wall waiter. 
Rochester, N. Y., August, 1905. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind.: vice-president, Orlando 
Harrison, Berlin, Md.: secretary, Geo. C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y.: 
treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—Thomas B. Meehan, Dreshertown, Pa.; Theo. Smith, 
Geneva, N. Y.; J. H. Dayton, Painesville, Ohio. 
Transportation—W. C. Reed, Vincennes, Ind,; J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la.: A. L. 
Wood, Rochester, N. Y.; C. T. Smith, Concord, Ga. 
Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; H. T. Jones, Elizabeth, N. J.; H. P. 
Kelsey, Boston, Mass. 
Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; W. T. Hood, Richmond, Va.; N. W. 
Hale, Knoxville, Term.; R. C. Berclcmans, Augusta, Ga.; William Pitkin, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Programme—John S. Kerr, Sherman, Tex.; H. S. Chase, Huntsville, Ala.; C. J. 
Brown, Rochester, N. Y. 
Publicity—Ralph T. Olcott, Rochester, N. Y.; John C. Chase, Derry, N. H.; 
Stanley H. Watson, Houston, Tex. 
Exhibits—J. H. Skinner, Topeka, Kas., J. C. Hale, Winchester, Tenn.; C. C. 
Mayhew, Sherman, Tex. 
Editing Report—J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa.; C. J. Maloy, Rochester, 
N. Y.; George C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y. 
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, 0.; 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 Youngers, 
Geneva, Nebraska; vice-president, A. Willis, Ottawa, Kansas; 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, 1905. 
Southwestern Nurserymen’s Association —President, J. W. Preston, King¬ 
fisher, Okl. Terr.; secretary, J. A. Taylor, Wynnewood, Ind. Terr. 
• Texas Nurserymen’s Association —President, E. W. Kirkpatrick, McKinney, 
Texas; vice-president, B. L. Adams, Bonham, Texas; secretary-treasurer, John 
S. Kerr, Sherman, Texas. 
Pacific Coast Association of Nurseryman —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. Holly 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. 
We are informed that our friends in Texas arc already mak¬ 
ing preparations for the convention of the American Asso¬ 
ciation of Nusserymen in Dallas next year. The Texas 
Nurserymen’s Association met at College 
Texas nursery- Station, July 25 to 2S. Mr. E. W. Kirk- 
men active. patrick of McKinney is president and 
Mr. John S. Kerr of Sherman secretary. 
At this meeting resolutions w T ere adopted which will do much 
to systematize the work of preparing for the coming convention. 
Committees on finance, attendance, arrangement and enter¬ 
tainment, and reception were appointed. The committee on 
finance are expected to raise a fund to provide for contingent 
expenses; the committee on attendance will act as an ad¬ 
vertising agency and will use every endeavor to secure a full 
attendance from Texas and the entire Southwest. The com¬ 
mittee on arrangement and entertainment will look after 
such matters as transportation and excursions. The reception 
committee wall look after the social side of the meeting and 
attend to the personal comforts of the guests. This business¬ 
like manner of attacking the problem augurs well for the 
success of the meeting. 
Nurserymen are all familiar with the periodical kicks regis¬ 
tered by purchasers regarding the careless and imperfect 
manner in which their orders are said to have been packed. 
Sometimes these remonstrances are well 
the handling founded and again they represent a fault 
OF NURSERY finding spirit rather than a real grievance. 
STOCK. We propose, in an early issue, discussing 
this matter of methods of packing. We 
would like a very full and frank presentation of experience 
and practice on the part of nurserymen throughout the 
country. 
We believe that matters of practice like this should receive 
our attention as fully and completely as those supposedly 
weightier factors in the nursery business, such as propagation 
and selection of varieties of fruit. Our patrons have responded 
to requests of this kind very freely in the past and we trust 
that they will be equally generous in this case. 
One of the editorial difficulties in running this journal has 
been the constantly increasing pressure upon our reading 
columns (the pressure upon our advertising pages we are 
quite resigned to). Every issue a lot of 
a few personal interesting matter is omitted. Mr. String- 
remarks. fellow’s interesting address is a case in 
point. When the time for the next issue 
arrives much of this is stale or out of date. Now we do 
not like to disappoint writer or reader and we would not 
willingly do so. We might enlarge the paper but with our 
present circulation we cannot afford the expense. Subscrib¬ 
ers will note that while the normal size of the National 
Nurseryman is 24 pages most of the numbers for the year 
just closed have been 28 or 32 pages. We would like to main¬ 
tain the 32 page size constantly.—nay more we would like 
to issue fortnightly—but both of these propositions are 
out of the question unless w r e secure a larger circulation. 
Nurserymen cannot afford to be without this journal. This 
is admitted, yet many of them require three or four reminders 
before renewing their subscriptions. In saying this we are 
not scolding or “knocking” we are simply stating a fact, but 
