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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
WHAT NURSERYMEN EARN. 
Question of Price Levels and their Relation, Wholesale and 
and Retail—Bills of Lading Rule the World—No Other Ques¬ 
tion of State, Church or Society so Urgently Demands 
Proper Solution as that of the Fair Adjustment of 
Prices—A Timely Discussion. 
The following paper upon a timely topic was read by Presi¬ 
dent E. W. Kirkpatrick, of the Texas Nurserymen’s Associa¬ 
tion at the annual convention of that association at College 
Station, Texas, on July 23 - 26 , on the subject : 4 ‘ Price Levels 
and their Relation Wholesale and Retail.” 
Bills of Lading Rule the World—This statement contains much 
truth and this ruling is just or unjust in proportion to the justice 01 - 
in justice of prices. 
The so-called natural law of supply and demand has been, to a great 
extent, superseded by artificial laws of supply and demand. 
Special laws fix prices for certain favored classes while the masses 
have been preyed upon and robbed of millions of wealth by unjust 
adjustment of prices. The proper adjustment of prices would settle 
all disputes between employer and employed. 
No other question of state, church, or society so urgently demands 
proper solution as that of the fair adjustment of prices. This work has 
ever been referred to the instinct of greed and cunning, rather than to 
rules of law and courts of equity. 
So-called statesmen advise the workers to reduce the cost of produc¬ 
tion to a minimum. The effect of this rule is the reduction of the price 
of labor which always pinches the man who does the work, while the 
statesman votes laws for the increase of his own salary. 
Prices ought to be, can be, and will be fixed on a just and reasonable 
basis and regulated in harmony with the laws of progress. 
The price of all produce including that of the orchard, garden and 
nursery should he suflicently high to enable the owner to pay good 
prices for labor and all other articles needed, also to enable him to lay 
by a good store of wealth for use in old age. 
When a producer plants and cultivates and plants and prunes and 
waits for two years and then carefully digs and packs and labels and 
delivers a fine peach or apple tree, 5 to 6 feet high, he has earned 25 
cents of legal tender currency and the producer who sells cheaper will 
either cheat himself or his creditors. Other trees larger or more diffi¬ 
cult to handle and produce should be correspondingly higher, and trees 
smaller and which are more cheaply produced and handled correspond¬ 
ingly lower. Trees grown and handled for large wholesale orders to 
planters who are sure pay can be handled at a lower rate than in retail 
orders. Responsible dealers who assume the risk, the labor and expense 
of retailing stock are entitled to, and receive lower prices than planters, 
and all persons who have a proper appreciation of commerce under¬ 
stand the reasons upon which the rights of the dealer are based. 
This society is urged to take up the work of investigating prices by 
appointing a committee with instructions to investigate the feasibility 
of establishing price levels. 
ORANGE TREES FOR NEW JERSEY. 
Riverside is not only supplying the residents of New Jersey 
with oranges, but also with orange trees for planting, says an 
exchange. A shipment of 170 trees was sent from there last 
evening, the consignee being J. B. Duke, the wealthy tobacco 
magnate, who will plant the trees in hot houses at his country 
home at Somerville, N. J. The shipment included speci¬ 
mens of the various varieties of oranges, and trees run all the 
way in size from nursery to trees with fruit upon them. 
Holman & Bente, Leavenworth, Kan,, July 2, 1901.—“ Enclosed 
find renewal. We would not know how to get along without the 
National Nurseryman.” 
A FLORIST’S NURSERY. 
In another column in the advice given a correspondent who 
asked for an enumeration of the best stock with which to start 
a nursery, says the Florist’s Exchange, it is stated to first of 
all lay in a stock of common shade trees, fruit trees, flower¬ 
ing shrubs, etc. This correspondent lives in the country, and 
it is to be supposed his customers at the start will not be those 
who will be looking for stock mainly for the ornamentation of 
their grounds. 
Florists, as a rule, live near cities, and those who wish to 
purchase from them, do so chiefly for the improvement of their 
gardens, and the stock they need is that of a more ornamental 
character. Trees of small growth, or large growing shrubs as 
well as those of smaller stature and pretty habit of growth, 
will be in demand. Small evergreens are always sought for, 
both for permanent planting and temporary use in pots, for 
placing about the grounds, or in positions on porches and 
other places near the dwelling. There are many of these of 
different styles of growth, from the pyramid-shaped Irish yew > 
to the globe-shaped Arbor vitae. Many of these evergreens 
could be utilized where rubber plants are now used . Beautiful 
and useful as the latter is, it would be more admired if con¬ 
trasted occasionally with some other handsome evergreen. If 
both the nurseryman and the florist would embellish the 
grounds about their own establishments, by using such plants, 
trees and shrubs as they wish to sell, it would be an object 
lesson to visitors, which in many cases would result in a good 
sale. What many a customer wants, is to see a tree or shrub 
filling a position such as one he has in mind for his own 
place. The florist should visit some nearby nursery soon, 
before fall sales start, make up his mind as to a few desirable 
sorts to have in stock, then prepare a piece of ground where 
he can place such subjects, so as to make a good exhibit. The 
planting of the evergreen portion could proceed at almost any 
time now; that of deciduous stock, a month later. 
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 
Following is a list of the American experiment stations, the 
location of which is often a subject of inquiry: 
Alabama, Auburn; Uniontown. Arizona, Tucson. Arkan¬ 
sas, Fayetteville. California, Berkeley. Colorado, Fort Col¬ 
lins. Connecticut, New Haven; Storrs. Delaware, Newark. 
Florida, Lake City. Georgia, Experiment. Idaho, Moscow. 
Illinois, Urbana. Indiana, Lafayette. Iowa, Ames. Kansas, 
Manhattan. Kentucky, Lexington. Louisiana, Audubon Paik; 
New Orleans; Baton Rouge; Calhoun. Maine, Orono. Mary¬ 
land, College Park. Massachusetts, Amherst. Michigan, 
Agricultural College. Minnesota, St. Anthony Park. Missis¬ 
sippi, Agricultural College. Missouri, Columbia. Montana, 
Bozeman. Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada, Reno. New Hamp¬ 
shire, Durham. New Jersey, New Brunswick New Mexico, 
Mesilia Park. New York, Geneva; Ithaca. North Carolina, 
Raleigh. North Dakota, Fargo. Ohio, Wooster. Oklahoma, 
Stillwater. Oregon, Corvallis. Pennsylvania, State College. 
Rhode Island, Kingston. South Carolina, Clemson College. 
South Dakota, Brookings. Tennessee, Knoxville. Texas. 
College Station. Utah, Logan. Vermont, Burlington. Vir¬ 
ginia, Blacksburg. Washington, Pullman. West Virginia, 
Morgantown, Wisconsin, Madison. Wyoming, Laramie. 
