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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Other products, and this war will be a lesson to our 
American people to grow more at home, and not depend 
on foreign countries for so much of our supplies that we 
can produce abundantly and grow well in this section. 
Yours truly, 
P, J. Berckmans Co., 
Berlin, Md., September 4, 1914. 
So far as my observation goes, the European war will 
have no effect whatever on the nursery business. We 
specialize on peach, apple, shade and ornamental trees. 
I think it is a good time for American people to sell their 
own products and this may be the means of the American 
people waking up to the fact of how they can take care of 
themselves, in many ways and especially in the nursery 
line. 
Yours truly, 
Orlando Harrison. 
Norristown, Pa., September 10, 1910. 
It is up to us all to keep in an optimistic frame of mind 
and when our customer talks war, talk trees and make a 
sale and you will help the other fellow make a sale also 
but do not talk war it’s hell and that’s bad business. 
So far as I can see, I can truthfully state that we are 
going to be as busy as last fall, we have as many orders 
booked and as many hanging lire, so I feel quite con¬ 
fident that another splendid season will crown well di¬ 
rected efforts in business getting. 
I wish to acknowledge that my little ad. in the Na¬ 
tional Nurseryman, has brought good results. 
Adolf Muller. 
Shenandoah, Iowa, September 12, 1914. 
It is difficult to give an opinion of value as to what 
effect the European war will have on trade conditions. 
No doubt, it will have some effect. If iVmerican nursery¬ 
men should not be able to import any French stock, it 
will result in a shortage in the future in many kinds of 
stock, especially in cherry and plum trees. The outlook 
for trade for the ensuing fall and spring is very good. 
Betailers have generally made good sales and I antici¬ 
pate an active demand for most kinds ol stock. 
As usual, in some lines the supply will be greater than 
the demand, but on the other hand, there are many 
kinds of stock that will be scarce. We can hardly hope 
that trade will be up to last years’ standard, yet should 
have a good years business. 
Yours truly, 
E. S. Welch. 
Chase, Alabama, September 4, 1914 
No doubt the unusual conditions owing to the 
European war will effect collections this fall in the 
South, because of the fact that the Southern planter will 
not be able to market his cotton at a fair price. The 
southern retail nurserymen have booked a big business 
for delivery this fall and winter, and we are all hoping 
that the Government will devise a plan that will really 
help the Southern planter to carry his cotton. If the Gov¬ 
ernment could control the planting of cotton next year. 
reducing the acreage by say 50 per cent, if this war con¬ 
tinues until January 1st, and 75 per cent, if it is going on 
at planting time, it would result in great benefit to the 
South, in that the cotton planter would be forced to go 
into grain, hay, live stock, corn and wheat. If there be 
no attempt to control the acreage next year, and a fair 
crop of cotton is made to come on to the market on top of 
this year’s surplus, which cannot be exported, cotton 
would a year from today be almost worthless. 
Under these conditions Southern bankers are not go¬ 
ing to advance money freely on this year’s surplus cot¬ 
ton. We feel that the South will be the only section of 
the country seriously affected by the war. 
Chase Nursery Company, H. B. Chase, Pres. 
Manchester, Conn., September 11, 1914. 
There has been some falling off on our sales for Fall 
and next Spring’s delivery. Up to the middle of August 
our sales were not as good as last year, but now we seem 
to be getting about the same amount of business. 
Our wholesale trade seems to be about normal. Of 
course, if we do not get our stock from the other side, we 
are going to be hammered, and it is going to make it bad 
for all of us next spring, but we all hope for the best. 
We trust that the war will be over in time so that we will 
have no difficulty in getting our French seedlings in this 
spring. 
Yours very truly, 
C. B. Burr & Co. 
Geneva, New York, September 11, 1914. 
We cannot see how the nursery business should be ef¬ 
fected by the European war except in the matter of im¬ 
portations, and it is too early at the present time to deter¬ 
mine what the effect of the war will be on importations 
from France. At the present time there seems to be a 
very active demand for all classes of nursery stock. 
• Very truly yours, 
W. & T. Smith Company. 
Lake City, Minnesota, September 5, 1914. 
We do not think the war will seriously affect the nur¬ 
sery business in the territory which we cover, which con¬ 
sists of several states in the northern middle west. Give 
us good crops and fair prices, and we are not afraid of 
war, politics, or inter-national complications, as there 
will be lots of money and lots of business where money 
is, for people who go after it. 
We think, however, that the war will affect the supply 
considerably. Fortunately, we do not import very much 
nursery stock, and have a splendid general assortment of 
ornamentals and fruits of our own growing for our gen¬ 
eral retail and wholesale trade. Those items which we 
do not grow and are principally imported, we shall not 
attempt to sell. 
Nurserymen as a whole, we believe, must depend upon 
what is grown in this country for their general supply. 
A few scattered shipments may come through safely 
from abroad, and Holland will furnish considerable 
stock, but at the best the importations will be reduced to 
a low point, and there will be a general clean-up in this 
country in nearly everything, except possibly apples, the 
