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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
Established 1893 by C. L. YATES. Incorporated 1902 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL, NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
218 Livingston Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
Editor .ERNEST HEMMING, Flourtown, Pa 
The leading trade journal issusd for Growers and Dealers in 
Nursery Stocks of all kinds. It circulates throughout the 
United States. Canada and Europe. 
Official Journal of American -Association of Nurserymen 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES 
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Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
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Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
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Business Manager, Rochester, N. Y. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Photographs and news notes of interest to nurserymen should be 
addressed, Editor, Plourtown, Pa., and should be mailed to arrive not 
later than the 25th of the month. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, N. Yas second-class matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., May, 1915. 
It is difficult to make a suni- 
THE PAST SEASON’S mary of the past spring's nur- 
BUSINESS sery business of the whole 
IN ORNAMENTALS United States, except to say 
that it has not been uniformly 
good all over. In fact it has been decidedly spotty. In 
'those localities where it has been reported good, it has 
not bulked heavy, but rather made up of small orders. 
Considering everything, it has been a good deal better 
than expected, and the uncertainty, of last winter, is 
gradually giving place to the conviction that the worst is 
over, and from now on a gradual improvement may be 
expected. 
He would be a brave prophet, who would predict a 
boom in the near future, but everything favors a gradual 
improvement. 
It is very doubtful if a boom is really a good thing for 
our business—what is needed is a steady, continuous 
growth, and improvement, which will force us to grow 
better stock at higher prices. 
A sudden heavy demand for stock which takes several 
years to grow, encourages imports and brings on the mar¬ 
ket poor and indifferent stock: while a steady, discrimin¬ 
ating demand rewards that nurseryman who grows the 
best in the best possible manner, and this suggests the 
winning policy of the future. 
Will B. Munson, Denison. Texas, 
GETTING Chairman of the Membership Com- 
NEW MEMBERS mittee of the American Association 
of Nurserymen writes ‘‘The mem¬ 
bership committee have been planning all winter on just 
what methods to adopt in increasing the membership.” 
All agree that it is not much use to make appeals during 
the shipping season, as nurserymen are too busy to give 
consideration to matters not immediately connected with 
their business, but after the spring rush is over to make 
a vigorous effort to arouse the interest of the non-mem¬ 
bers. 
The committeemen are all earnestly working with this 
object in view, but after all the seven committeemen 
should not be expected to do all the work but should have 
the hearty co-operation of every individual member. 
Those who do belong to the Association know its aims 
and objects and its value to the individual as well as to 
the nursery interests of the United States. 
The American Association of Nurserymen not only 
binds nurserymen together, giving them strength to re¬ 
sist attacks from antagonistic interests, but it gives them 
a power that can make itself felt and a voice that can 
make itself heard whenever occasion arises. 
For this reason alone every member should feel 
obligated to do some personal work to bring all outsiders 
into the fold to make the power stronger and the voice 
louder. 
Among the methods talked over by the committeemen 
for getting new members, the personal letter was consid¬ 
ered the most effective and if every member would only 
write one personal letter to a brother nurseryman of his 
acquaintance there would be little doubt of the result. 
Paul C. Van Lindley says "I want to suggest that the 
nurserymen who have never joined the Association and 
-who will not attend any Convention be convinced that a 
Badge Book' is worth more than the $5.00 per. It is the 
only way to get a complete list of reliable names at such 
a reasonable price. It also puts their name in the book 
where it will be seen by all other nurserymen and likely 
Lead to an increased business. 
On separate page we publish an open 
INSPECTION letter from George G. Becker, State En- 
OF tomologist of Arkansas, stating there had 
NURSERIES been no appropriation made for carrying 
out their nursery inspection law and that 
it was necessary for him to make a charge for nursery 
inspection, so as to enable the nurserymen of Arkansas 
to ship out of the state. 
Whatever nurservmen may have thought at one time, 
there are few now who do not fully realize that inspec¬ 
tion laws, properly carried out. are in every way bene¬ 
ficial. 
They are a check on the careless and indifferent, are 
educational, and bring the practical working of a nur¬ 
sery in closer touch with the professor and his micro¬ 
scope and test tube to the nurseryman’s and orchardist’s 
advantage. There is good in everything. It is only the 
abuse or misuse of a thing that works a hardship, as 
when the letter instead of the spirit of the law is enforced. 
Mr. Becker deserves to serve under a more liberal con¬ 
gress and his efforts, on behalf of the nurserymen, should 
not go without recognition. 
We have been taken to task by Mr. C. 
THE PINE L. Marlatt, Chairman of the Federal 
QUARANTINE Horticultural Board, for unjustly crit¬ 
icising the action of the board in put¬ 
ting the pine quarantine into effect without giving the 
nurserymen time to present their case. Mr. Marlatt 
pointed out at some length that full opportunity has been 
