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THE NATIONAL NURSBEYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
Established 1893 by C. L. YATES. Incorporated 1902 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
218 Livingston Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
Editor .... 
.ERNEST HEMMING, Flourtown, Pa. 
The leading 
Nursery 
trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in 
Stocks of all kinds. It circulates troughout the 
United States. Canada and Europe. 
Official 
Journal of American Association of Nurserymen 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900 
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addressed, Editor, Plourtown, Pa., and should be mailed to arrive not 
later than the 25th of the month. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, N. Y., as second-class matter. 
Rochester, N. Y. September, 1914. 
The suddenness with which 
THE NURSERY TRADE war came in Europe and the 
AND THE WAR close commercial relations 
between the warring coun¬ 
tries and the United States, has created a condition so 
confusing that no one is able, even approximately, to 
forecast the effects on trade conditions in this country. 
We cannot help hut think with concern of the ap¬ 
proaching bulb season, nurserymen and seedsmen with 
their expensive catalogues on the press with no assur¬ 
ance that the bulbs will he available, florists whose bus¬ 
iness it is to import and force the decorative plants for 
Christmas and Easter, such as Azaleas, Rhododendrons, 
etc. The nurserymen who depend on Europe for their or¬ 
namental and fruit stocks and the seedsmen for so many 
kinds of both vegetable, flower and agricultural seeds, 
all help to create a condition of uncertainty and doubt. 
While assuring reports have been received from Hol¬ 
land that bulb growers expect to be able to ship and that 
the high seas will be open to traffic, conditions do not 
warrant putting too much faith that everything will ar¬ 
rive in good shape. 
Even if the shipments of bulbs between Holland and 
America are possible, how will it affect prices? Presum¬ 
ably most of the European countries will not use many 
bulbs this season so the only market will be the United 
States. 
The effects of the war on the supply of seeds, fruit and 
ornamental stocks from Europe will be felt longer and 
have more far reaching effects on the nursery business. 
Whether it will be to the ultimate good of the American 
nursery, seed and florist trade will largely depend upon 
ourselves. Every business man knows how hard it is to 
get back trade that has been once lost if the market is 
being supplied from other sources and once America 
starts growing her own stocks instead of importing from 
Europe, Europe will lose a trade that America will gain. 
There is no doubt that many importing houses will be 
hit hard and there will be much worry until things ad¬ 
just themselves to the new conditions, yet out of it all 
one can only see ultimate good to the nursery business in 
this country, however disastrous it may prove to the 
countries at war. 
The slogan for the present should be “Propagate! Pro¬ 
pagate!” 
If the present dullness were from 
INERTIA IN real causes there would be some 
THE RUSINESS excuse for the pessimists and cal- 
WORLD amity howlers. Just because all 
times are not boom times and infla¬ 
tion of values is not going on all the time there is no need 
at least for the nurserymen to become despondent. 
His stock in trade takes time to produce and now is 
the time to keep the propagating beds going and the har¬ 
row in the nursery rows. 
It is true the tariff, the war and other causes have 
sadly disturbed things and it will take a little time for 
adjustment to take place, but all signs, as the astrologist 
would say, look very favorable for the nursery business. 
Crops are good, the country has unlimited resources, 
the war has stopped imports and will be the cause of in¬ 
terfering with travel to Europe so that Americans of 
wealth will stay at home, their interest centered in 
something else, and why not in their own gardens and 
grounds. It really looks as if this was our golden op¬ 
portunity if we only would take advantage of it. 
There is every prospect that the demand for nursery 
products will increase for the next few years and the 
supply from foreign sources will be much diminished. 
How many people who have ground 
CO-OPERATION upon which to plant know that this 
is planting time? 
What efforts are the nurserymen making collectively 
to make this fact known? 
The individual nurseryman is doubtless doing his 
best to advertise his business, but what is needed is a co¬ 
operative campaign of advertising or rather education of 
the public. 
People need telling and their interest arousing. No one 
man can do it, but if all the nurserymen were to unite 
in a given locality, they could greatly enlarge their mar¬ 
ket. 
If “Now is the time to plant evergreens” were seen in 
the street cars, bill boards, daily press, and other 
mediums of publicity, there would be more evergreens 
planted, and the nurseryman’s business would increase. 
