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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
An Attractive Nursery Office 
AU'racUve Niirseri/ Offices of the Elmhurst Landscape and Nurseri/ Co., Argentine, Kansas. 
All attractive nursery ottice and grounds is a valuable 
asset, to a business that is often overlooked. Its adver¬ 
tising value can hardly be over-estimated if we judge it 
from the storekeeper’s standpoint. 
ImiiKMise rents aie jiaid by storekeepers for stands on 
busy streets where they may display their goods to the 
jiassing public. 
Since the advent of the automobile the prospective jmr- 
chaser of the nurseryman’s goods has been brought to his 
door and no ojijiortunity should be missed to display his 
goods in the most etfective manner. 
The illustration shows the otfiees of the Elmhurst Land¬ 
scape and Nursery Co., Argentine. Kansas, and shows a 
very attractive office and grounds indicating an u[)-to-datt‘ 
business and that they are fully alive to the value of this 
form of advertising. 
The old comjilaint that the nurseryman was at a dis¬ 
advantage in displaying bis wares before the public be¬ 
longs to a past age. The automobile has made the high- 
w^ays the jiarade ground of the buyers of nursery stoek. 
VAN (lELDEUEN & GO. 
New" York, Sejitember 15tb, 1917. 
Mr. W. JLV an Eyk. member of the w"ell know n nursery 
linn of Van (lelderen k Co., at Boskoo]), Holland, is one of 
the unfortunate Hollanders who are waiting in New York 
for a steamer to take them baek home; Mr. Van Eyk ar¬ 
rived in this country on June 20th by S. S. Hyndam, and 
is all through w ith his work. Besides taking orders for 
next s('ason and collecting liills, Mr. Van Eyk devoted 
(juite a little time to straighten out the S. S. Nieuw-Am- 
st(‘rdam affair, the hoodoo steamer w ith more than 5000 
cas(‘s of nuj’sery stock on, w hich left Botterdam for New' 
York on tin' 51st of January and returned baek in ])ort 
of Botterdam on the 5rd of February and had to be un¬ 
loaded afterw ai'ds; but he is glad to state, that he thinks 
to have reached a very fair agi’cement w ith the nurseiy- 
nn'ii here' w ho had goods on that steanu'i’, a lifty-lifly de.rl 
on the yi’oper loss is what Mr. Van Eyk is going to juit 
uj) to the members of the Holland Nurserymen’s Pi’oteetivr' 
Association; Mi‘. Van Eyk says he found the nui'seiymen 
in this country very fair in the matter, and calls them a 
line lot of perfect gentlemen. 
In regard to the shipping ])ossibitities for next season, 
Mr. Van Eyk is not very optimistic about fall sbipments, 
owing to tbe fact that there are very few available steam¬ 
er's on tbe other side now' to carry the goods across; but 
be bas good bojres for tbe spring sbipments, because fac- 
cording to newspaper reports) Holland will get tbeir 
usual supply of food-stuff, etc., from this country again 
after December 1st. that w ill give tbe nurserymen steam¬ 
ers to carry goods here duriirg the next spring. 
In regard to conditiorrs of the nurseries in Holland. ii 
can be staled that one-third of tbe nurseries ah'eady are 
ruiired by negleet of energy or capital or are just turned 
over into vegetable gardens, and if this war keejis up 
mueli longer, tbere will be very few nurser-ymen w ho can 
keep their business up as usual, in fact, tbe Holland nur¬ 
serymen ar'e u]) against it hard. 
In regar’d to business over her'e. Mr. Van Eyk says, that 
he has never gone home yet w ith a better lot of orders than 
he has this time, and if only shipping w ill be jxrssible. he 
hopes to make irj) rjiiite a little on the tremendous loss 
they had last spring, owing to the impossibility tlu'ii to 
ship goods at all. 
