January 31, 1920 



HORTICULTUitl!; 



the standard articles, particularly in 

 evergreens in sizes running from 12 

 inches up, this same firm was under- 

 selling me from 50 to 100 per cent! 

 Beautiful cooperation, was it not, of 

 the one-sided variety in which the nur- 

 serymen of America is such a past- 

 master! The lesson is only too ob- 

 vious and discouraging, yet is it really 

 necessary for us still to feed upon such 

 wormwood and gall (and the Devil 

 take the hindmost) when we might 

 truly get together, and working out our 

 problems with mutual intelligence and 

 honesty of purpose, contrive to make 

 enough to vary the individualistic 

 wormwood diet occasionally with, let 

 us say. lolly-pop or a stick of chewing- 

 gum' 



Mr. Paul V. Portmiller, of .Tackson 

 & Perkins Co.. Newark. N. J., spoke on 

 the fruit tree situation. He said that 

 there was a distinct famine in fruit 

 trees at the present time and that the 

 crop is short, while the demand is very 

 strong. He said this was due partly 

 because of the fact that many small 

 growers have gone out of business in 

 the past few years, and partly because 

 seedlings are very short, both in this 

 country and across the water. He said 

 that there would be more French seed- 

 lings next year, but that the price 

 would remain high, for it seemed to 

 be a theory of the French growers that 

 as long as the Americans had ruled out 

 many plants they should be made to 

 pay high for what they did get. He 

 believed that it would be three or four 

 years before fruit trees would be plen- 

 tiful enough in this country so that 

 the prices could be reduced materially, 

 and he could not see how nurserymen 

 could charge less than thirty or forty 

 cents a tree at present, as the seed- 

 lings cost them fourteen or fifteen 

 cents before any work was done upon 

 them at all. 



The final meeting was public and the 

 principal feature was an illustrated 

 lecture on "What's New in the Garden," 

 by E. I. Farrington, editor of Horti- 

 < iLTiE. Many lantern slides were 

 used to illustrate the newer plants, 

 both shrubs and perennials, whicli 

 had ben brought into general 

 fultivation in the last few years. 



The nurserymen had considerable 

 discussion of a slogan which they pin- 

 pose to adopt and to give wide public- 

 ity. This slogan is to read, "Make 

 ours a land of fruit and flowers." A 

 sample design was submitted, but it 

 probably will be improved somewhat 

 before being finally adopted. 



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