THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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The National Nurseryman. 
C. L. YATES, Propl-ietor. 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., OCTOBER, 1894. 
SEVENTY FIRMS REPRESENTED. 
Seventy of the leading nursery firms of the country, 
including every feature of the trade, were represented in the 
advertising columns of this journal in its last issue. There 
can be no better indication than this of the progress of the 
nursery business. P'ortunately the reverses of the times 
have not afiected this business so severely as they have 
other lines, and now as the country is entering upon a new 
order of things under a revised tariff, there is reason to 
believe that the gain in the nursery business will be the 
more rapid because the drop was not so great. .Up to the 
middle of the summer sales had not fallen off as expected 
and now the strengthening of confidence should effect favor¬ 
ably the collections upon which so much dependence is 
necessarily placed. • 
There are many reasons for believing that the nursery 
business will be rapidly increased. The period of low 
prices for nursery stock was a severe strain upon those 
small firms throughout the country to whose operations 
that period was mainly due and the effect of the general 
financial depression which followed closely was more than 
many of the small concerns could stand. The result is 
that the larger firms, upon which depends the stability of 
the business, find that the annoying surplus of stock which 
existed has disappeared and as a result there is a chance for 
a better grade of stock wdiich ought, and of necessity must, 
demand a better price. 
Each year there is exhibited more enterprise in the 
advancement of the trade in every branch. New methods 
are employed. Notwithstanding the feeble cry against 
novelties and the statement that the old kinds are good 
enough, there is an unmistakable tendency to adopt the 
novelties which have proved valuable and to encourage the 
originator in whatever line he may operate. This is in the 
nature of progress, 
New sections of the country are being opened to the 
possibilities of horticulture and landscape gardening, not in 
the narrow confines that have marked previous periods, but 
on an extensive scale. The great peach orchards of the 
South, the great apple orchards of the West, the thousands 
of acres opened up to rapid improvement for park purposes 
’in the suburbs of the great cities, the modern plan of im¬ 
provement of large building tracts, the growth of associa¬ 
tions of cemetery and park superintendents, the fostering of 
fruit and flower exhibits and the interest maintained in the 
discussions of horticultural, agricultural, floricultural and 
viticultural societies all over the country suggest the pos¬ 
sibilities of the nursery trade of the future. 
Seventy of the leading firms in the business advertising 
in a single issue of the representative trade journal, and the 
bustle and activity which characterize the scenes on hun¬ 
dreds of packing grounds this month as a result of those 
advertisements leads one to forget tariff and the dull times 
and to bend anew to the work of doubling the sales of the 
most prosperous record and to exert every effort to rais-e 
the standard of the trade to a higher point. 
CUT PLANTINGS IN TWO. 
Editor of The National Nurseryman ; 
We noticed the article in the September issue, “ One 
Remedy for Prices.” While the idea there expressed 
may be correct so far as it goes, “ Sell the best only,” 
that does not go far enough. The fact is there is hardly 
a nurseryman of any pretentions, East or West, that has 
not twice as much as he ought to have. And as long as 
this condition exists, stock of whatever grade will be 
offered at cost and below, in order to clean the land and 
realize something. Our opinion is that we must strike 
at the point of beginning. Plant less. Cut the plant¬ 
ings in two or three if necessary, and when the surplus 
is cut off, when the product is all ivayited, then we may 
expect to get a fair price again. There is no doubt 
of the correctness of this theory, and the only question 
is, will we next spring keep up our usual plants and 
grow at a loss } Or if necessary throw away one-half 
our stock and grow at a fair profit ? We are inclined to 
the latter. 
Lawrence, Kan. A. C. Griesa. 
The danger of importing the San Jose scale on fruit 
from California was referred to in this journal a short time 
ago. It is now reported authoritatively that California 
