THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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A BUSINESS MATTER. 
During the holiday season there have been many impor¬ 
tunities to subscribe for publications intended for amusement 
entertainment or general information, all of which are well in 
their place. But the successful business man will not neglect 
to provide himself with special information pertaining to his 
trade. 
A few years ago the nurserymen of the country were obliged 
to depend upon the horticultural journals for such information 
as might there appear relative to their business. That infor¬ 
mation was exceedingly meager. Indeed, it was only such as 
happened to get into print. Five years ago the National 
Nurseryman began the work of gathering and disseminating 
matter of practical value to the nurseryman and its efforts 
have been received with much appreciation. It stands to-day 
the only trade journal for nurserymen, circulating throughout 
the United States and Canada, and in many foreign fields. 
Its aim is to present every development of interest to the nur¬ 
serymen and to serve as a medium for the exchange of ideas 
and the sale of stock. 
The journal during 1898 will maintain its policy which has 
been highly commended and will seek to add such features 
from time to time as seem to be of the greatest advantage to 
its readers. Correspondence and suggestions on topics of in¬ 
terest to the trade are cordially solicited. A constantly cor¬ 
rected mailing list keeps the journal in the hands of the active 
nurserymen, our facilities for accomplishing this result being 
unequalled. The subscription price remains the same, $r per 
year and it seems a small investment when it is considered 
that a single issue of the journal has often proved of much 
greater value than the entire subscription. 
A subscription to a trade journal is a business investment; 
a subscription to other publications is matter of entertainment. 
ARE BETTER PRICES COMING? 
Editor National Nurseryman : 
This question is asked by every nurseryman in America. 
Why should the price of nursery stock be placed in the current 
of prices with other things, is another question not generally 
thought of by many nurserymen. Through the panic of the 
last three years we find fruit of all kinds holding up better 
than anything else in commerce, and in fact, apples have the 
best showing in prices from 1869 to 1897, together with the 
best purchasing power of any one commercial product of the 
farm, and the man who had fruit to sell during the hard times 
of the last three years, was the man who had the least to say 
about hard times. 
Orchards of 40 acres, six and seven years planted, have 
produced this season $3,000 to $4,000 worth of apples. The 
same orchards did not cost five cents per tree from planting 
time up to this time. 
Why then cannot the planter duly afford to pay the nursery¬ 
man a living price for the trees at least ? To produce apple 
trees at the present prices means hard times to the nursery¬ 
man, S. H. Linton. 
Marceline, Mo. 
Subscribe for the only trade journal for nurserymen, the National 
Nurseryman. 
LIVELY TRADE IN MISSOURI. 
Editor National Nurseryman : 
We have just closed the largest trade that we have had in 
any one season since we came to this state, six years ago. 
We had to work almost day and night to keep up with the 
demands. But the prices were so low that they scarcely paid 
expenses of digging and delivering. 
Prospects for spring trade are good, with prices a little 
better. Nursery stock of all kinds went into winter in good 
condition, as the dry weather in the fall stopped the growth 
and ripened the stock nicely. 
Linton & Kaup. 
Marceline, Mo. 
EASTERN NURSERYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
President William C Barry presided at a special meeting of 
the Eastern Nurserymen’s Association in Rochester, N. Y., on 
December i6th. There was an attendance of twenty-five, 
including R G. Chase, E. C. Smith and D. H. Henry, Geneva ; 
E. C. Pierson, Waterloo ; E. Moody, Lockport. 
Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y., was delegated to represent 
the association before congressional committees regarding 
legislation for the control of the San Jose scale. 
A FABLE AND A MORAL. 
The Rural New Yorker publishes the following at the head 
of its editorial page : 
“ There was once a certain nurseryman who had 25,000 peach 
trees which he considered good enough to sell, though green 
buyers could not see the yellows in them. He did sell them, 
but wanting 5,000 trees for his own planting, he sent off to buy 
them in a locality where yellows were unknown. Not one of 
his own trees would do. They were grown for sale. Now, is 
Wise Scoundrel a good name for this man ?” 
TWO OF MANY. 
From time to time we have published some of the many 
voluntary expressions regarding the value of the advertising 
columns of the National Nurseryman. At the opening of 
the new year we take pleasure in making prominent two of the 
latest of these unsolicited commendations : 
National Nurseryman Pub’g. Co., Rochester, N. Y. 
Dear Sirs —Your bill for six months’ of my advertisement of Honey 
Locust is received and it is with great pleasure that 1 send you draft 
for amount, as I have received very flattering inquiries for this cold 
climate hedge plant and want my advertisement continued. Inquiries 
come even from Manitoba. Very truly yours 
Havana, Ill., Dec. 17, 1897. A. E. Windsor. 
National Nurseryman Pub’g. Co. 
Gentlemen :—It may interest you to know that I have just received a 
large cash order from Australia as a result of my advertisement in your 
journal. I And the National Nurseryman a very valuable medium 
for the sale of nursery stock. 
Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 24, 1897. A. L. Wood. 
