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which we did not think it advisable to publish. — Editor. 
The trees according to specihcatioiis were to be 11/2 
inch diameter, twelve inches above the ground. This 
list contains four wholesale nurseries and one linn which 
does a wholesale and retail business. One of these 
wholesale linns have already received quite a large order 
from this company. We have been buying from this 
linn for many years. Is there any reason we should feel 
especially friendly when we lind that a wholesale com¬ 
pany with whom we did business outbid us so far that 
we lost out entirely. 
Another wholesale firm in Illinois, was favored with a 
good sized order from us this Spring. It came to our 
notice by accident that they were sending wholesale 
lists to our town. To conlinn this, we had one of our 
own stenographers living in a neighboring town send 
for a wholesale price-list. In due time this wholesale 
price-list was accompanied by a letter to the effect that 
they were not allowed really to send out a wholesale 
price-list, but were doing it anyhow. This wholesale 
price-list was 20 per cent, higher than their regular price¬ 
list, but it contained a printed white slip stating that the 
prices were subject to a 20 per cent, discount so that any 
firm or individual could get large or small lots of stock at 
identically the same prices as we would have to pay. Is 
there any reason why we should be friendly to this ])ar- 
ticular company ? 
It has just come to our notice that another nurseryman 
has been working up sentiment in Galesburg, Illinois, we 
think he has the Kolarians back of tin* movement, to buy 
shrubs, trees and general nursery slock in wholesale lots, 
presumably Irom him and give the citizens of Galesburg 
the benefit. Things are coming to a pretty pass when 
matters ol this kind are going on unchallenged and if 
matters ol this kind are allowed to go on as they are, it is 
only a question of time when the retailer will be shot to 
pieces in a business way and he can truthfully say to 
himself, “What good is the American Association of Nur¬ 
serymen doing me and what is the use of paying dues and 
making an annual pilgrimage to the seat of the Conven¬ 
tion.” 
I am satisfied from what I have learned lately that un¬ 
less something that means something is done next June 
that will be of assistance to the retail nurserymen, that 
there will be wholesale resignations from the association. 
Most of the retail nurserymen up in the western part have 
felt for a good while that unless they organize along lines 
that will work for their own benefit they are never 
going to accomplish anything. 
The Proposed National Quarantine 
Forming opinions and passing judgment with incom¬ 
plete or erroneous information, is a pastime we are all 
more or less guilty of, and this seems to be largely the 
trouble in relation to the proposed quarantine. The 
“National Nurseryman” addressed letters to a number of 
leading nurserymen, in various parts of the country, to 
lind out the attitude of the trade on the subject. 
Apart from the opinions expressed, there appears to be 
a general misconception as to the status of the proposed 
quarantine. In the first place, it is only a proposed 
quarantine, and it was not proposed by the Federal Hor¬ 
ticultural Board or in fact by any one in authority where¬ 
by it is likely to be acted upon and become law in the very 
near future or as long as the Legislative Committees of 
the National Association of Nurserymen and Society of 
American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists are 
actively opposing it. 
The International Forestry Conference at their annual 
meeting held in Washington, D. C., January 18th and 
19th passed the following resolution: 
Resolved, that the American Forestry Association favor 
the principle of absolute national quarantine on plants, 
trees and nursery stock to take effect at the earliest date 
which may be found commercially expedient. 
In the first place, it is a far cry from the American For¬ 
estry Association passing a resolution to that resolution 
becoming a law of the United States, and in the second 
place the resolution does not call for a quarantine until 
it becomes commercially expedient. 
If one stops to think there is really not much cause for 
alarm that such a quarantine is likely to go into imme¬ 
diate effect. 
It is wise however at all times to be fully prepared and 
it is every nurseryman’s and florist’s duty to be fully 
posted, so that should an attempt be made to pass a quar¬ 
antine law, he would be in a better position to help to pre¬ 
vent ill considered measures becoming law. 
As pointed out editorially in our last issue, what we do 
not want is panic stricken legislature based on theory that 
may work incalculable harm to our business without ac¬ 
complishing its purpose. 
The majority of the letters received by the National 
Nurserymen oppose the resolution passed by the Amer¬ 
ican Forestry Association. 
An Indiana nurseryman says: “We believe that the ne¬ 
cessary supply of fruit tree seedlings cannot now be 
grown in the United States, and that many nurserymen 
would be unable to keep up their supply of plants, if 
they could get none from Europe. We consider the 
French cherry seedlings superior to those grown in this 
country.” • 
An Illinois nurseryman says: “We depend upon 
Europe for so much raw material in nursery stock, and it 
would work considerable hardship on the American 
nurseryman’s interests, if a quarantine were passed at 
this time.” 
A New York nurseryman says: “We are inclined to 
believe that American nurserymen could be independent 
of foreign source of supply providing we had reasonable 
time to get ready.” 
A North Carolina nurseryman gives an emphatic “No” 
giving the reasons, “that we need some of the stock 
grown in the old country and they need the business.” 
A New Jersey nurseryman: “We certainly do not 
favor an absolute (}uarantine, which would mean a posi¬ 
tive embargo on horticultural products, we do believe, 
however, that American nurserj^men are entitled to some 
consideration in the way of protection and that they 
