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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
DKLAYKl) IM1H)1{TS 
Niii’seryiiu'ii who nro (‘\j)Octing nursery stock from 
llollaiul hav(' rec('iv('(l the following letter:— 
COPY OF I.FTTFK FROM 
Department of State, Washington, March 21, 1917. 
Cientlemen:— 
The Department has received a eahlegram dated March 
17, 1917, from the American Charge’ d’Affaires at The 
Hague, Netherlands, the substance of which is as follows: 
‘‘Olliee of Commereial Attache’ is informed by 
Protective Association of Holland Nurserymen that 
it is said one hundred and twenty thousand dollars 
worth nursery stock for account consignees in 
United States held up at Rotterdam and that unless 
shipped within two weeks this stock will he badly 
injured. Association adds defay in shipment due 
to fact that Dutch vessels have thus far received per¬ 
mission from British government through Overseas 
Trust to sail for United States only in ballast. A 
further eonsignment of nursery stock to the value of 
two hundred and eighty thousand dollars sold to 
linns in the United States for deliveiy this season to 
become the property of firms in the United States 
who assume all risks in regard thereto upon ilelivery 
to the Holland America Line should be ready for 
shipment in the near future.” 
Among the firms w ho are interested in these shipments 
of nursery stock as transmitted by the Charge’ d’Atfaires 
at The Hague is the name of your linn. 
I am. Gentlemen, 
Your obedient servant. 
For the Secretary of State; 
(Signed) Alney A. Adlee, Second Assistant Secretary. 
vania and New; Jersey, as well as in Kentuck}' and ad¬ 
joining States. 
There is no doubt it dislikes to be disturbed; lienee the 
reason for its transplanting being so often a failure. It 
needs removal with a good ball of soil attached to its 
roots, and should be pruned back well at the same time. 
Then give it a place in a piece of woods, as nearly as pos¬ 
sible like the situation from which it came, and tend it 
well for a long time after planting, and it should live, as 
numerous instances have proved. 
What a sale there would be for plants of this little 
beauty had florists quantities of it established in pots and 
then had the plants in tlower, for Easter let us sav. Thev 
would bring any reasonable price, and biyers would be 
glad to get them.— Joseph MeeMn in the “Florists Ex¬ 
change. 
Review, Hote Comment 
“Between the decrease of saloons and the increase of 
munitions factories, the day laborer for nursery work is 
rapidly becoming extinct.” 
The above statement recently appeared in one of the 
leading Florist papers. It may be true but it is not nice 
reading. The implication that the average nursery la¬ 
borer is a product of the saloon indicates a pretty low 
grade, and if this is so, why is it? 
Nurserymen may not be able to hold labor against the 
inducements of the munition factory, but they certainly 
ought not to be satisfied with the saloon bum. 
EPIGAEA REPENS 
The beautiful trailing evergreen Epigaea repens, 
known almost the eountiy over as Trailing Arbutus, is 
rarely found on nursery lists, for the reason, chiefly, 
that it is a true w-ilding, disliking cultivation. Still, it 
can he cultivated, and here and there one finds plants of 
it domesticated. 
Of the beauty of this evergreen there is no doubt, and 
then the fact of its flowers being among the very earliest 
of Spring adds much to its renown, young folks vying 
with each other in trying to be the first to find a spray of 
it in flower. 
Epigie belongs to the ericacaous order of plants, an 
order which gives us so many of our most beautiful 
shrubs. In growth it lies close to the ground, spreading 
in all directions, forming large masses of green foliage. 
The flowers are white or pinkish white, varying some¬ 
what in this respect, some plants having flowers of a 
markedly pink color. The plant is peculiar in being 
covered with a downy pubescence in all its parts. 
The Trailing Arbutus is found from Newfoundland 
southward, and is abundant in many parts of Pennsyl¬ 
Our Mr. N. J. W. Eichholtz has left Holland on S. S. 
Noordam, January 13th to make a trip through U. S. in 
the interest of our firm. 
His address will be during February, March, April, 
May and June, care of Maltus 6: Ware, 14 Stone street. 
New' York City, N. Y. 
At present we have a severe winter here which has 
stopped the export to America quite suddenly. 
The Elm City Nursery Company. YVoodmont Nurseries. 
Inc., inform us that they w ill now be able to proceed with 
the development of their extensive new nurseries at 
Woodmont. Conn., as the New Haven Railroad's plans, 
which would have taken all their nursery properties, 
have been so changed as to make this possible. The Nur¬ 
sery Company are to be congratulated, as the location at 
Woodmont is an exceptionally good one. 
PYRAYIIDAL ARBOR VITAE 
500 Beautiful 4 to 5 feet plants. 
Irish Juniper 5 to 6 feet. 
SPECIAL OFFERING 
JOHN A. YOUNG & SONS, 
Greensboro Nurseries, - - Greensboro, N. C. 
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