TITE NATIONAT, NURSERYMAN 
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The National Nurseryman 
Established 1893 by C. L. YATES. Incorporated 1902 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
Hatboro, Pa. 
Editor .ERNEST HEMMING, Flourtown, Pa. 
The leading trade Journal issued for Growers and Dealers In 
Nursery Stocks of all kinds. It circulates throughout the 
United States, Canada and Europe. 
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Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1916, at the post office at 
Hathoro, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., April 1917 
President Watson has just issued 
THE NATIONAL a circular letter we believe to nur- 
ASSOCIATION OF serymen who are non-members of 
NURSERYMEN the American Association. It is 
so comprehensive a statement of 
the aims and objects of the Association that it should be 
sent to every member as well. It drives home the fact 
that the association does not represent one firm or a group 
of linns, hut is earnestly aiming at making it a closely 
knit organization serving the best interests of the nur¬ 
sery business in the United States. There is no room 
for petty jealousies or selfish intrigue in an association 
which is working for the good of the whole trade. If it 
is to accomplish its objects it should have the confidence 
and unswerving support of all the members along the 
lines stated in Mr. Watson’s letter. 
Mr. Watson quotes veiy freely from the “Awakening 
of Business” by Hon. Edward M. Hurley, Chairman Fed¬ 
eral Trade Commission, Washington, D. C. It proves 
pretty conclusively that the National Association of Nur¬ 
serymen is working along the lines that have the en¬ 
dorsement of the best opinions in the business world on 
the subject. As Mr. Hurley says: 
“One of the great and crying needs among American 
business men to-day is a broad view of business in gen¬ 
eral and a comprehensive grasp of the needs of industry 
as a whole. Too many American manufacturers and 
merchants centre all their energy and attention upon 
their particular establishment and the work of making 
profits from it. Men at the head of factories need the 
point of view of what might be termed the statesmanship 
of business. They need to appreciate the fact that their 
plant is a part of a great industry; that their individual 
welfare depends very largely upon the welfare and prog¬ 
ress of the industry as a whole, and of industry in gen¬ 
eral. Whatever promotes the welfare of other con¬ 
cerns in industry and the welfare of that broad group of 
people which we call the public, is bound to react fav¬ 
orably on individual concerns.” 
As Mr. Watson closes his letter he summarizes as fol¬ 
lows : 
“It is co-operation, getting together, working for the 
common good, and thereby gaining more individual profit 
than is possible without united effort; and it is to secure 
more of this cooperation among ourselves and from 
those not yet joined with us, but whose interests are the 
same as ours, that this letter is sent you. We, who are 
members, know that the Association as organized at pres¬ 
ent and with the work being done and that laid out for 
the future, we are getting far more value than our dues 
can measure. And we realize too, that many of the 
things we have planned can be worked out most effec¬ 
tively for our own good and the good of the whole trade 
if we have the cooperation of all the good finns, large and 
small, in the business. If you will look over the list of 
our committees, you will see that they incldue prominent 
nurserymen, scattered throughout the whole countiy; 
they are all successful in the management of their own 
affairs, and in directing this Association you can expect 
them to be equally successful; they are wholesalers and 
retailers; producers and distributors; some sell through 
agents and some by catalogue, so that every department 
of the business has equally a voice in the management of 
the Association. It could not be otherwise. The Amer¬ 
ican Association of Nurserymen speaks for no class; it 
represents no section, it serves no special interests. We 
invite the membership and the cooperation of every repu¬ 
table nurseryman in the country, who believes that the 
association and the cooperation of men engaged in the 
same line of business can be helpful to the trade they 
represent and therefore to all its members.” 
It is hardly necessaiy to dilate on the 
THE TIMES trouble-laden times. It is patent to 
everyone. Even the most super¬ 
ficial thinker, although he may not express it, knows the 
old order of things is passing away. Past history tells 
how individual countries have passed through the birth 
pains of new eras to go on to further prosperity and hap¬ 
piness or sink to degradation, according to their recogni¬ 
tion of the eternal verities. 
Through education, invention, science and art, the 
whole world has been drawn closely together, so that ad¬ 
justment to the new order of things is world wide. 
The ignorant, timid and superstitious see only disaster 
and the end of all material things, but the wise, fearless 
and enlightened see only the vision of a glorious future, 
and nerv^e themselves to guide and help towards its com¬ 
ing. 
As with nations, so it is with business. If the goal is 
not selfish, and honesty and integrity govern the policy, 
it matters not how dire may be the forebodings or fear¬ 
some the outlook, the future is always bright because the 
Almighty rules. Faith and foresight are just as essen¬ 
tial in business as in religious matters, and if the fore¬ 
sight is very restricted just keep on working hard. 
