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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



NOVEMBEIl 11, 1909. 



New York State Grown Roses for Forcing 



CENCRAL VARIETY OF NURSERY STOCK 



W. & T. SMITH COMPANY 



63 Years 



GENEVA, N. Y. 



TOO Acres 



Mention The Review w lien you write. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMEBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUBSEKTHEIV. 



Officers for 1900-10: Pres., F. H. Stannard, 

 Ottawa, Kan.; Vlce-Pres., W. P. Stark. Louisi 

 ana. Mo.; Sec'y, John Hall, Rochester, N. Y.: 

 Treas., C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. Thirty- 

 fifth annual meeting, Denver, June, 1910. 



LET'S PULL TOGETHER. 



[A synopsis of a paper by J. 11. Dayton, sec- 

 retary of the Storrs & Harrison Co., read before 

 the American Association of Nurserymen in 

 June, and so well liked by the southerners who 

 beard It that it was read again at the recent 

 meeting of the Southern Nurserymen's Associii- 

 tion, at Huntsvllle, Ala.] 



To judge from the letters published, 



the papers read at some of the fruit 



growers' and horticultural societies, the 



remarks made and laws introduced into 



some of our legislatures, the sole object 



man is able to carry on his operations 

 only by the ignorance or cupidity of the 

 buyer. The consumer who will use as 

 much brain work in buying nursery stock 

 as his wife does in buying clothing for 

 the kids, will get what he buys and pays 

 for. 



However well established our reputation 

 seems to be for deeds that are dark, do 

 you not think a little honest striving to- 

 other might eliminate some abuses, de- 

 stroy some bad habits and set us a little 

 nearer right in the eyes of the consumer? 



Unsatisfactory Returns. 



We will all agree, when we take into 

 consideration the inevitable task of grow- 

 ing and handling perishable stock, the 

 experience and care that must be exer- 

 cised to produce good stock, the capital 

 that must be provided and locked up in 



J H Dayton. 



of every nurseryman is to do up his cus- 

 tomers, mislabel and kill as many of his 

 trees as possible before shipment. The 

 truth is, that, outside of the few genuine 

 mistakes that are bound to occur in any 

 businos«. fho swindling doalor or nursery- 



growing blocks for from one to ten years 

 or more, that the returns are not and 

 have not been at all commensurate, and 

 that in any series of years more stock 

 leaves the actual grower's hands at an 

 ■ nctnal los^ than at a profit. Who over 



POT GROWN 



jBydfangea Otaksaf 



V, 5-inch, fine stock. . .$15.00 per 100 S 



4-inch, fine stock. . . 10.00 per 100 m 



ITHECARLHAGENBURGERCO.! 



Weat Mentor, Ohio 3* 



heard of a rich nurseryman who obtained 

 his filthy lucre from the profits in grow- 

 ing stock t 



Who is to blame? Well, you and I, 

 if we are honest about it, will shoulder 

 the responsibility and acknowledge it is 

 our own fault. We cannot figure to a 

 certainty the cost of our products, as 

 does the manufacturer, who is able to 

 control conditions and to insure both hi» 

 finished product and raw material, but 

 can we not establish a table of values 

 and fix a basis below which everyone will 

 understand he' is felling at a loss? Can 

 we- not educate ourselves as to the true 

 value of our stock and the prices we 

 must obtain, if it is sold at a profit? In 

 fact, do you not know that active, in- 

 telligent cooperation among nurserymen 

 could be made to establish us on a gen- 

 uine business basis and establish confi- 

 dence among ourselves and in our deal- 

 ings with the public? 



A Solemn Choice. 



Commerce is not war and the good bar- 

 gain benefits both parties. I understand 

 the first fruit trust was organized in the 

 Garden of Eden, with his satanic majesty 

 as promoter. Perhaps the disastrous re- 

 sult of that speculation is one of the rea- 

 sons why it seems almost an impossibility 

 to secure active, honest cooperation 

 among the growers of agricultural and 

 nursery products. I remember hearing 

 Mr. Collingwood make a statement some- 

 thing like this: "If you should lock up 

 seven farmers (he might have said nur- 

 serymen) in a room, give them a week to 

 deliberate and their choice of coming out 

 to pool their issues, buy and sell their 

 products as one, directing one or two of 

 their number to attend to their business 

 as otficers; or to be hung, there would be 

 seven hangings on the seventh day." 



Is not now a good time for concerted 

 action in a common cause? Cannot we 

 agree on some things we know and ac- 

 knowledge to be wrong, eliminate and 

 bury them so deep that their specters 

 will never again trouble even the dreams 

 of our trade? Cannot a few things, that 

 we all know would improve our business 

 and put money in our pockets, be adopted 

 and lived up to by enough of our mem- 



