THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Philadelphia 
“The Liberty Bell,”—who is not ac(|uainted with this 
venerable relie of Anieriean History? On its pedestal 
in Independenee Hall it rests, a leinindei' of the part 
Philadelphia played in American Liberty. As with many 
other old scarred veterans it must now call a silent hut 
hearty w(‘leome to our visitors. 
The traveler in Philadelphia will lind ;in abundant field 
for any interests he or she may cherish. Indejiendenee 
Hall and Betsy Boss’s old home will juove intensely in¬ 
teresting to all. For scenic beauty, Fairmount Park, 
Willow drove Park and numeruos others will prove 
worth visiting. Our Public Schools and Libraries will 
give the visiting student and teacher a fertile field to in¬ 
vestigate. 
At the conclusion of a well spent tour, a fitting climax 
is to mount to Old William Penn on City Hall and drink 
in the wonderful panorama from the four points of the 
compass. It will prove the concluding chapter of an 
interesting day. 
From a eommereial standpoint, it wilt he remembered 
that the City of Brotherly Love is the home of many of 
the largest industries of their kind in the world. Here 
are located the great Baldwin Locomotive Works, the 
Disston Saw Works, the John B. Stetson Company, and 
many more, each of w hieh represents a line of endeavor 
carried to the highest and most successful standard. 
THE DUPLICATE SHIPPING TAG 
By Bobert Sparks Walker, Bead Before llie Tennessee 
Stale Nurserymens' Associalion, Challanooya, Tenn. 
Alter all, things that appear to us as being small 
and insignilicanl, ligure materially and some¬ 
times enormously in the general results of our 
elforts. If we ever achieve anything worth 
while, it is because we give particular attention to the 
apparent trifling diminutive. Let a grain of sand gel 
into the cogs of a watch, and it ceases to work; let the 
slightest thing go wrong w ilh the motor of your car, or 
the Ignition, or the gasoline leed, and you w ill soon have 
a dead automobile on your haiuls. The successful man 
today is he who watches the minute workings of his 
machinery. It pays and is the one rule that all nursery¬ 
men have adopted, who have had great success. But a 
careful scrutiny of the business machinery always re¬ 
veals the secret that every little piece, though apparently 
in perlect working condition, is capable of being sup¬ 
planted by an improvement over its kind. 
1 am not coming bet ore you, gentlemen, today as a 
person w ho know s everything, hut 1 w ish to bring to you 
an idea and plan which cannot fail to appeal to you who 
make many shipments of plants and trees, particularly 
those sent by express. 
Having been situated for many years in a city in which 
is located the headquarters of the largest express com¬ 
pany in the South, 1 have had some experience w Inch has 
given me an idea of the many shipments that go astray, 
and it is this that has prompted me to come to you today 
w ith this suggestion of a duplicate shipping tag. Many 
ol you may already he aware that all stray shipments of 
express packages originating in the South are dispatched 
to the headquarters of the Southern Express Company in 
Chattanooga. This Company has one man whose duty 
is to use every means of ascertaining where these stray 
packages originated, and to w hom consigned. In case 
of stray shipment of trees and plants, nearly a hundred 
jier cent, ol such shipments are due to the loss of the 
shipjiiiig tag Ix'ariiig tlie name and adciress ol not only the 
shijiper hut the consignee as w<dl. To illustrate how 
ditigently tlu* Express (iompaiiy strives to lo(*ate the 
names of the proper person to whom to deliver the pack¬ 
ages, I want to give you a good example. Suppose that 
today the ollice in Chattanooga is in receipt ol a package. 
The proper ollicial opens it and linds the trees labeled, 
Frotscher, Van Deman, and Stuart. The average person 
know s nothing about varieties of trees and plants, so he 
immediately gets in touch w ith our ollice, Irom w hich he 
learns that these are pecan trees. Knowing from-what 
direction the package came, he gets into correspondence 
with the pecan tree nurseries and are thus some limes 
enabled to locate the name of the shipper. In the case 
of roses, fruit trees, or other trees and plants, the stray 
shipment causes the same amount ol troLihle. Ihis 
