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The Florists^ Review 



JtTLT 30, 1922 



industry will then sure enough be back 

 to "normalcy" with a vengeance. 



At the Kansas City meeting of the 

 Western Association of Nurserymen, 

 last January, the program committee 

 insisted that I inflict the members with 

 a few remarks on "The Immediate Fu- 

 ture of the Nursery Business." Said 

 remarks were duly inflicted and had to 

 do with conditions, as I saw them, for 

 the spring and fall of 1922. Among 

 other disjointed inflictions I then stated 

 that, in my opinion, there was a market 

 in sight for all good nursery stock in 

 sight for the spring and fall of 1922. 

 You will agree with me that my state- 

 ment was correct as applied to the past 

 spring season, and I am still of the 

 opinion that the nurseryman of this 

 country will find a good market for his 

 products for the fall of 1922 and the 

 spring of 1923, but right now, while 

 conditions are good, right now, when 

 it takes real nerve to plan any curtail- 

 ment in our production, is the time for 

 us to look ahead a little and plan with 

 care and thought and conservatism for 

 the next four or five years. Right now, 

 the conditions that will confront us in 

 the fall of 1923, 1924, 1925 and 1926 

 have me guessing. True, I grant you 

 that business conditions are improv- 

 ing; that there is a tremendous amount 

 of new building in process and contem- 

 plated and that the captains of indus- 

 try are all hopeful and optimistic, but 

 in spite of these most favorable pros- 

 pects, just how much, in the next four 

 years, will a big overproduction have to 

 do with utterly demoralizing the nurs- 

 ery industry, bringing about another 

 series of low-priced, hard-up, red-ink- 

 bank-balances, non-profitable seasons! 



The Unknown Factor. 



Just how much of an increased pro- 

 duction can be taken care of profitably 

 by increased educational publicity is an 

 unknown factor. Certainly any and 

 every move that will tend toward edu- 

 cating the people to plant trees and 

 shrubs, that will help to stimulate the 

 market for our products, should receive 

 right now a little closer attention than 

 ever before. This matter of overpro- 

 duction is a feature of the nursery 

 business that can never be controlled, 

 but it is up to every one of us to stop 

 and think, and to apply sound, con- 

 servative planting plans now. By so 

 doing, we can help mightily to keep the 

 nursery industry on a basis that pays 

 us a reasonable return for our labors. 



Uniform Inspection Laws? 



There may be other things around the 

 corner, but I shall touch on only one 

 more, and that is a proposed standard 

 form of uniform nursery inspection laws 

 brought out by the cotton states' ento- 

 mologists last January. They invited 

 representatives of the Southern Nurs- 

 erymen 's Association to meet with them 

 in conference in Atlanta and discuss 

 with them the report of their committee 

 who had this matter in charge. At this 

 January conference five nurserymen 

 were present. Their committee pre- 

 sented for our consideration a proposed 

 "Ideal Standard of Rules and Regula- 

 tions," toward which all states could 

 move as opportunity offered, an idea 

 that has been present in the minds of 

 the nurserymen for many years. The 

 nurserymen were delighted over the 

 invitation to be present and cooperate 

 with the entomologists in working out 



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