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of their forms, at all events, produce the most food for the least 

 labor and for the longest time after the initial investment is made. 

 Being an isolated business man from the very nature of his enter- 

 prise the nurseryman is somewhat slow to inaugurate a new, pro- 

 gressive program to increase his output and to meet the demand. 

 But he must do his part in fostering and developing the renais- 

 sance. New methods of selling must be evolved. If the market is 

 opening before him in the way that has been unfolded in the pre- 

 ceding remarks, he too needs to become aggressive. 



The new gardener will stand in need of education not only in 

 methods but in materials. The nurseryman's opportunity will be 

 developed according to his intelligence and persistence in keeping 

 himself in the limelight of public notice and offering goods that 

 satisfv. 



Something more than Vegetables. 



Thousands of these people who have been gardening are ready 

 to go a step beyond the mere cultivation of vegetables. Indeed 

 they will be lost unless their interest is fed new worlds to conquer. 

 It is a trite, but perfectly reasonable observation, that having 

 once tasted the joys of gardening as a matter of necessity or patri- 

 otic duty, they will be ready to continue for enjoyment and recrea- 

 tion. 



I think it reasonable that the after war gardeners will in due time 

 turn more or less from vegetable production to the growing of 

 fruits, flowers, and ornamentals. Fruit production has not been 

 maintained during the past four years and none of the land newly 

 brought under cultivation has been set in fruit. New planting 

 has ceased, old plantations have been neglected. This to such a 

 degree that many nurserymen have done little propagation during 

 recent years. 



The price of nursery stock will unquestionably be higher and for 

 some time to come commercial planting of orchards will be on a 

 reduced scale. This is the opportunity for both the home gardeners 

 and of the nurserymen catering to them. Having found that 

 growing plants is after all not such a difficult or serious affair they 



