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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
bedding in cold froiiu's \v1hm’(' tlu*v can In* (*()V(‘r(Ml wilii 
sash and ^iv('n other proh'Clion is the inidhod that will 
suit many ol' them. Some kinds will not evtm stand 
this treatment, ('sj)ecially those kinds that an' of a ereej)- 
in^ natuia' and do not form a good crown or rootstock. 
You will more than likely find that it is h('tt('r to dig 
as iK'eded in the spring. 
Till'] CLIMHKKLAM) NUKSEKIKS DOES SOME 
NATIONAL ADVEin iSINO 
There came to our desk a circular letter from the (]um- 
herland Nurseries, Winchester, Tenn., that is something 
out of the ordinary and shows at least this partieulat 
nursery knows the kind of information that needs to he 
disseminated hy National Advertising. 
Create a demand for apples and the demand for trees 
w ill take care of itself. 
The letter contains so much pithy information, we pub¬ 
lish it in full: 
Navy buys pineapple 
“Washington, Aug. 9 (To Philadelphia Public Ledger) 
—The Navy Department today placed orders for 1,687,500 
pounds of canned pine-apj)le, a year's supply for the At¬ 
lantic fleet and East coast Navy yards and stations. Five 
linns with canneries in Honolulu received the order. 
Orders for a similar supply for the West coast yards will 
he placed later.” 
Why should the government buy an exotic fruit tike 
the pine-apple and neglect the American apple, over¬ 
looking the importance of feeding our tighting men food 
wdiich is native to the soil in which they were reared? 
To class the apple as a luxury, to he relegated to the 
canteen, is a colossal dietetic blunder. Have you read 
Mr. Herbert Hoover's statement that 
“The apple is a very important article of diet, 
more important even than the potato, especially 
in time of war, and much of the sutlering in 
Belgium was due, not to lack of suflicient food, 
hut inability of the Belief Commission to sujiply 
fruit.” 
Congressmen and senators might demonstrate their 
usefulness hy jiassing a law to the effect that— 
“Apples should re issued as daily ration to every 
American sailor and soldier during the progress of 
THE W'AR.” 
Letters from all over indicate that our customers have 
a fair 1917 fruit crop and have been getting good prices. 
The prices we feel have come about largely through in¬ 
telligent co-operation of growers. 
At the nursery this year, we had an unsatisfactory 
planting period, hut since June the growing season has 
been very compensative and stocks of all kinds hav(' 
made an uncommonly fine growth. 
Two years ago, through an apparent over-jiroduction 
(it is a long story and a sad one for nurserymen' prices 
on apple trees sloughed off to a good deal less than cost 
of jiroduction, and inevitably, under the “curve" hy 
which supply and demand seem to work, the planting of 
apple stocks was reduced to a minimum; coupled with 
these reduced plantings the country has ex[)erienced two 
had springs for planting and very poor stands. The 
consequence is that the national association of nursery¬ 
men in June reported that ajiple trees were in shortest 
supjily of any nursery staple this season. 
As for us, though, we have been “hulls on the apple 
tree," knowing that it would come hack, and have kept 
our stocks up, so that for the fall of 1917, we are able io 
announce our usual (juota in what we believe are the 
best apjile trees that we have grown in several years. 
The man who believes in thrift (if he thinks a mo¬ 
ment) will see the wisdom of making his reservations 
for a|)t)le trees early, while the stock is complete and 
quality tin' very best. 
“After the wl\r w'e shall still have a country." 
All thought is now concentrated on the huge job to 
w hich America has set herself. She has gone into the 
pool, the great contract over-seas. She is making enor¬ 
mous debts. Industries are expanding to handle ex¬ 
panding business and meanwhile adding to bonded in¬ 
debtedness. 
Do NOT FORGET, that hecaiise of all these expenditures 
that add nothing to the world’s wealth, lean years will 
follow after the war. You w ill see restrictions on oper¬ 
ating capital, the demand for labor w ill soften, and be¬ 
cause these men that have been enticed away from the 
farm and the orchard w ill not he able to “see” revision 
dow iiward of wages, they w ill come drifting hack to the 
fields from which they started; farm labor will he plen¬ 
tiful and relatively cheap. 
But there w ill he the same old crow ds hanging to straps 
in street-cars, the same out-pourings from factories and 
offices and shops and schools, the same crowals, except in¬ 
creasing in numhers. And all of them calling for their 
three square meals a day. Wars may come and wars 
may go hut 
Man must eat. 
.\nd as all life, all good comes from the soil, so all heal¬ 
ing and all financial re-adjustments, w ill'have their he- 
ginnings in the products of the soil. 
And no food products are more essential to health than 
the fruits of the tree. You know Moses laid down the 
first horticultural law, he placed a special obligation 
upon mankind for the preservation of the fruit hearing 
tree, in time of war,— 
“—thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof, by 
forcing an axe against them; for thou mayest 
eat of them; and thou shalt not cut them down; 
for the tree of the field is man's life,” • : 
"Carry on" means not only that the bloody fight shall 
he fought to a victorious end; hut that all the essential 
and constituent phases of the world's work shall go on. 
All food producing generations must be preserved, pro¬ 
vision made for future food needs. 
Take the apple. In 1910. only 46% of the farmsteads 
in the United States had hearing apple trees. We nur¬ 
serymen all know that the planting has been far below 
normal in late years. Production had declined 16% 
and the jiopulation increased 2U/. under the last census. 
In the past seven years, the iiopulation increase has been 
around fifteen millions; hut the home production of 
apples has further declined. Figures do not lie. they 
tell the. story of fundamental needs—and also opportun¬ 
ities. 
Delicious. Staymans Borne Beauty, Crimes. McIntosh, 
Jonathan, York, Black Ben, Smokehouse, M. B. Twig, 
