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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National Nurseryman. 
C. L. YATES, Proprietor. RALPH T. OLCOTT, Editor. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., 
305 Cox Building, Rochester, n. y. 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nursery Stock of 
all kinds. It circulates throughout the United States and Canada. 
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Rochester, n. Y., June, 1894 . 
PROTECT THE ORIGINATOR. 
In another column is published a plain statement from 
one of the best known grape originators in the country, 
Jacob Moore, the originator of the Brighton grape. Mr. 
Moore has studied the methods of some who have been 
engaged in the nursery business and it is not likely that any 
one will gainsay the truth of his statements. He has suf¬ 
fered at the hands of the dealer and the grower who substi¬ 
tutes. Fortunately for the originator of fruits and for pur¬ 
chasers of nursery stock generally, the protest upon the part 
of the great body of conscientious nurserymen, as well as 
the planters, against the practice of substitution, has had 
a beneficial effect. It is probable that this evil is becoming 
less each year, or at least that it is not practiced so gener¬ 
ally nor so boldly. All over the country are reputable 
nursery growers and dealers who are guarding their reputa¬ 
tion carefully in this respect and to whom a discussion of 
substitution is of interest only in that it may suggest 
renewed activity against those who persist in its practice. 
Substitution has much to do with the failure of new 
varieties to prove all that is claimed for them. The pur¬ 
chaser of nursery stock asks lately for “the old varieties.” 
He has tired of experimenting with sorts alleged to be new, 
but proved to be old. This leads to the question ; Are 
new varieties worth their cost, which was so ably dis¬ 
cussed in a paper by Professor L. H. Bailey, recently pub¬ 
lished in this journal. If it is admitted that novelties are 
worth their cost, as Professor Bailey has shown, then the 
nurserymen’s interest is in encouraging the production of 
such new varieties at least which are needed for gaps, for 
new regions, various soils, new markets and new household 
purposes. The nurseryman, if only from a selfish motive, 
should work hand in hand with the originator of fruits or 
ornamental stock. He cannot afford to antagonize the 
interests of the originator in any degree. 
It is doubtful that laws will be passed soon for the pro¬ 
tection of the originator, as Mr. Moore has suggested, 
though if other methods fail, that will be the result. A 
practical way is^a determination upon the part of nursery¬ 
men to advance the interests of the originator wherever possi¬ 
ble, even to the exposure of fraudulent methods in so 
thorough a manner as to make success with such methods 
impossible. A healthy sentiment backed by the co-opera¬ 
tion of all who are determined that right shall prevail, is a 
law unto itself. The subject is thoroughly understood in 
the trade. The necessity is for active measures. 
Mr. Moore says: “Honorable nurserymen will not in 
any way be offended by my remarks, and there are many 
such. Only the guilty may feel hurt; nevertheless the 
former sometimes unwittingly deceive purchasers in this way: 
Tlie honest nurseryman may have a call for plants of some 
new sorts, of which he has no stock and purchase of some 
unscrupulous party who will label plants to suit the order. 
Not being acquainted with the appearance of the variety or 
the reputation of the party he buys from he supplies his 
customers with the falsely labeled plants under the impres¬ 
sion that they are genuine. Hence the necessity of exclu¬ 
sive rights to a new variety by its originator and introducer, 
also the necessity of making it a misdemeanor to label plants 
falsely with intent to defraud, as an additional protection for 
purchasers of plants of common varieties as well as new 
ones. Many upright nurserymen are opposed to granting 
exclusive rights to new productions. Apparently only a 
few are long-headed enough to perceive its advantages to 
themselves. There is reason to believe it would prove the 
greatest stimulus to the nursery business and to horticulture 
generally that could be devised. More than twenty years 
ago a patent rights agent remarked to me, referring to the 
hostility of the Western New York Horticultural Society to 
this measure, ‘ Those nurserymen stand right in their own 
light. They would profit far more by it than the origina¬ 
tors.’ ” 
THE OUTLOOK. 
There are indications that prices on nursery stock will 
be increased in the fall and next spring. The surplus in 
most lines has been disposed of and there is promise of a 
demand which will steadily increase. Many are unable to 
look at the prospect in this light, but there are some whose 
judgment, usually good, leads them to think there is hope 
for a still better trade. The spring sales were not discour- 
aging ; the calls for fall stock are coming in and it is prob¬ 
able that the Wilson bill which is holding everything back 
will be out of the way before the summer is past. One of 
the main points to be considered is the price of grain. With 
wheat at 55 and 60 cents per bushel, farmers are looking 
