THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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In planting, whether it be trees or shrubs, should we not 
set those things of intrinsic value and which make for per¬ 
manent utility and beauty. The nurseryman can do much in 
this direction. Is it wise to cater to the demand for Carolina 
poplars, box-elders, and soft maples, because they give quick 
affects? Is it desirable to spread broadcast unlimited quan¬ 
tities of golden glow and large flowered hydrangea, because 
they grow vigorously and need little care? Will not our 
dooryards become monotonous repetitions each autumn and 
will not the general expression be of the cheap and readymade 
order. 
We are offering opinions and experiences of nurserymen 
on the trend of planting in these directions in the present 
issue, and we shall be glad to continue them in future 
numbers. 
The present trend in nursery stock values seems to be toward 
the maintenance of reasonable and what might be called living 
maintain prices. This is as it should be. The nursery- 
living man occupies a very responsible position. The 
prices. orchardist depends upon him for the successful 
realization and investment of some years of expenditure and la¬ 
bor. It costs money to grow good trees true to name. Low 
prices on nursery stock pinch the grower of trees, false 
economy is induced and carelessness is encouraged. This 
eventually discredits the nurseryman and brings financial loss 
to the planter. The purchaser buys on trust as it were (many 
of them do in fact), he accepts the grower’s word, that the 
stock is what the labels represent it to be. Now, it is ex¬ 
pensive to grow stock even carelessly, but it is much more ex¬ 
pensive to grow it absolutely true to name. The mixing of 
varieties is the easiest thing imaginable, in the routine of 
nursery operations. Accuracy and skill, call for intelligent 
labor and intelligent labor means expensive labor; expensive 
at the outset but cheap in the end. The most expensive 
commodity on the market is a supply of brains of the right 
quality! 
Bargain counter stuff and job lots do not pay in the nursery 
business. It is better to clean the ground by increasing the 
size of the “dump” or brush-pile, than b}^ depressing the 
market by unloading large consignments of low grade stock. 
We are of the opinion that nurserymen realize and practice 
this principle more completely to-day than ever before. 
There is certainly more reason for their standing together. 
Let the motto then be, good stock and living prices. 
We are frequently asked what the outlook is for fruit grow¬ 
ing? How does it compare with stock raising, dairying or 
openings general farming? Questions of this kind 
for fruit come from all parts of the country. The same 
growers. type of question has been asked for the past 
quarter or a century or more. The bugaboo of over pro¬ 
duction keeps bobbing up; yet so far as we can see production 
is not travelling faster than consumption. If production, 
however, were not accompanied by constantly improving 
methods of transportation, then indeed, we should be in dif¬ 
ficulties. But our peach friend, Hale, marketed profitably 
200 cars of peaches last season and that too, in the face of a 
large southern crop and quite a respectable eastern crop. 
Our cities are increasing in population more rapidly than the 
country is. The demands for fruit are growing rapidly. The 
uses of fruit are extending. It has passed from the stage of 
a luxury to that of a necessity. Cold storage places peaches 
grown in California on the London market. It does the same 
for those grown in Georgia and the Carolinas. The great 
aieas of the Canadian iSorthwest are being opened up anti 
settled. All these considerations should give the grower of 
fruit, confidence in the future. 
It seems reasonable to believe that there are good openings 
for intelligent fruit growers in the east where the markets are 
convenient and where land at the present time is comparatively 
cheap. Again, the great stretches of land in the southwest 
await the genius and enterprise, of men like Hale, Rumph, 
Albaugh and Morrill. There is plenty of capital ready to de¬ 
velop these western regions but capital is more plentiful than 
the executive head. Brains and energy are at a higher preni 1 - 
ium than capital at the present time. We think the outlook 
bright for the progressive, industrious man. 
At the meeting of the International Apple Shippers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, held in Rochester, three years ago, Mr. W. A. Taylor, 
the a pple Pomologist of the Department of Agriculture, at 
crop of Washington, made a prophecy that the apple bin 
1904 and its 0 f the United States, would in the near future, 
location. k e f oun( j wes t 0 f the Alleghanies. This state¬ 
ment was a very reasonable one, when considered in connec¬ 
tion with the vast plantings which have been made in 
recent years, in the Ozarks, Kansas and Missouri. However, 
this may be, there does seem more uncertainty and more 
irregularity in the bearing of fruits in that section than in the 
east. Last year the crop of fruit in New York, particularly 
in the western part of the State, was large and its barrelling 
quality was probably never excelled. This year it is un¬ 
questionably fully as large but it will probably not run as many 
barrels of number one fruit as last season. New England 
has a good crop; Pennsylvania reports a very fair crop and 
Nova Scotia is said to have the largest in years. The Lake 
Champlain district has a crop of excellent quality and large in 
quantity. Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec have more 
apples and of finer quality than they have had in years. The 
Fameuse, known in Quebec, as LaBelle Fameuse, bore heavi¬ 
ly everywhere. 
Contrasting these reports with those which come to us from 
the West, enforces the belief that the “apple bin of the United 
States” in 1904, is emphatically found on the eastern side of 
the Alleghanies. The early and copious rains which occurred 
during the blossoming time, seem to have injuriously effected 
the pollination of the fruit in the West and consequently the 
crop is light. The wet weather also induced a severe attack of 
apple scab. 
As to quality, this will be up to the standard. Here and 
there, apple scab has made its appearance and some or¬ 
chards are quite badly effected. The growers who have neg¬ 
lected spraying may occasionally receive a sharp reprimand. 
The man who sprays regularly, is insured, while the man who 
sprays intermittingly, is as apt to miss, as he is to hit the 
right season. There will certainly be enough winter apples 
to go around, if properly distributed and after the glut of 
autumn fruit disappears, satisfactory prices ought to rule. 
