THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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The National Nurseryman 
Established 1893 by C. L. YATES. Incorporated 1902 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBUSHING CO., Inc. 
Hatboro, Pa. 
Editor .ERNEST HEMMING, Flourtown, Pa. 
The leading trade Journal issued for Growers and Dealers in 
Nursery Stocks of all kinds. It circulates throughout the 
United States, Canada and Europe. 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900 
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Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1916, at the post office at 
Hatboro, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., February 1918 
As to just what the conditions 
SPRING BUSINESS of business for the nurserymen 
will be, the coming spring, no 
one knows, and one man’s guess is as good as another. 
No one has inside information and there is no precedent 
to guide us in forming an opinion. 
We can, however, analyze the conditions as we know 
them and draw our own conclusions. 
In looking over the field or market, it is not altogether 
discouraging at least not so much so as some would have 
us believe. 
The farmers on the whole are prosperous and there is 
no reason at all why they should not be good buyers. 
Orchardists perhaps may be classed as doubtful, there 
are numerous reasons why new plantings will he limited, 
they may not be good ones, but the fact that most men are 
hesitating about spending money in new ventures will 
he the controlling one. 
The planting on large country estates is sure to he re¬ 
stricted as building has largely come to a standstill and 
the source of income of the wealthy has been much dis¬ 
turbed, the same may be said of the better class of sub¬ 
urban residences, according to building reports it is not 
promising for much activity. 
The planting of parks and cemeteries should be about 
normal. 
Municpal plantings perhaps will be restricted as there 
is always a tendency to withhold appropriations for such 
work during unsettled conditions. 
Factories are on the whole prosp('rous, and every effort 
should he made to encourage them to improve the sur¬ 
roundings, the same may he said of the small homes. 
To summarize the market. It may not he an urgent one 
but there is still a big field for endeavor if the nursery¬ 
man will rise to the occasion. 
From all reports nursery stock will not lie in surplus, 
labor shortage, reduced imports and a general curtailing 
of jilantings have all had a tendency in reducing it so 
there is every reason to believe there will h(‘ as much d(i- 
mand as there will he stock to satisfy it. 
The transportation [nohlem has been viewial with mis¬ 
giving by many nurserymen hut it is foolish to worry Ix'- 
lore it is necessary. There is not likely to he any (mii- 
hargo on nursery stock, as the last thing the govmnnKmt 
wants to do is to interfere any more than possible \^^itli 
legitimate business. 
The Entomologists and Nur- 
TIIAT WEEK’S BILL sery Inspectors want all im¬ 
portations of nursery stock 
prohibited because of real or imaginary dangers that 
might result by introducing insects or disease upon it. 
Why stop at nursery stock? 
Would it not he wise to have included in the })roposed 
hill other materials that might act as vehicles? In fact, 
the safest plan would ho to stop all communication w ith 
foreign countries, hut alas and alack, there is no means 
of preventing the birds, winds, and wild animals from 
bringing the pests that may he lying in w ait in Canada on 
the North and Mexico on the South, to ravage our fair 
land. 
Then that fearful danger of interstate commerce. 
Who knows but there is some terrible pest lying dormant 
in the Rocky Mountains that w ill develo]) into a dreadful 
scourge when brought to a congenial host in lower alti¬ 
tudes. The mere transplanting of a plant from one part 
of the state to another may bring together the dual liost 
necessary for overw helming increase to some pernicious 
fungus. It is really dangerous to be alive. 
It makes one shudder to think what may have hap¬ 
pened to our vast forests, or the fruit growing industries 
and the farms before the entomologists were trained to 
watch over them. So the only w ay to prevent some dire 
calamity is to increase the numher of insjiectors and en¬ 
tomologists and reduce the numher of nurseryiiKMi and 
horticulturists and maybe farmers, because even the lat¬ 
ter grow things that are subject to disease, especially the 
amateur kind. 
Of course, there is a common sense alternative, but it 
WT)uld re(juire broad-minded entomologists, conscientious 
inspectors, w ell trained nurserymen and law -abiding im¬ 
porters each and every one to co-operat(‘, w ith a view to 
getting intelligent results in combatting j)ests and dis¬ 
eases, but such methods would he too logical, natural and 
simple. 
Nurserymen are still up in the air 
THE as to w hat conditions will govern 
TRANSPORTATION the transportation of nursery 
PROBLEM stock the coming spring. 
In December they wen* begin¬ 
ning to congratulate themselves on the fact that nurserv 
stuck w as to he classed w ith seeds and fec'ds in tin; prior¬ 
ity order issued from Washington, thus having pi'eferen- 
tial shipment along w ith goods in the same class over all 
