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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Photographs and news notes of interest to nurserymen should he 
addressed, Bditor, Flourtown, Fa., and should he mailed to arrive not 
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Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1916, at the post office at 
Hathoro, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March S, 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., May 1918 
Subscribers to **Nurserymen's Fund for 
Market Development*' 
Values have changed so rapidly 
IMlhlPAUM since the world war began that it 
Full THE FUTUllE is dillieult to adjust ourselves to 
the new present conditions, and 
still more so to loreeast and to prepare for the future. 
There have been more beliefs, ideas and notions gone 
to the scrap heap than ever before in the world’s history, 
;md it is absolutely necessary that we ([uiekly adjust 
ourselv(‘s to the new" lines of thought and action that are 
dominating the world. 
Some look for the end of all things, others look for the 
niillenium, hut as likely as not this old world will keej) 
on going for a few" more centuries, giving mankind an 
opportunity to work out its own destiny, along perfectly 
natural lines. 
While it is useh^ss to worry as to w"hat is in the future, 
the nurseryman at least has his daily work to do and as 
he grows trees and plaids that lake several years before 
he can exchange them for bread and butter, he must na¬ 
turally tigure a little ahead. 
Proph esying is usually an unprolitahle occupation, and 
one man’s guess is as good as another. There are some 
things, however, that are obviously going to influence 
the nursery business and it is well to measure as near as 
possible their probable elfect and he prejiarcd to act ac¬ 
cordingly. Everyone who is familiar with the action of 
the (lovernment through the agitation of the entomo¬ 
logist feels pretty sure that in the near future there w ill 
h(^ law s prohibiting all impoils of plants, w ithout enter¬ 
ing into the pros and cons of the necessity of it, the nur¬ 
seryman w ho plans the future w ith this jirospect in mind 
is only taking ordinary precautions. There arc evidently 
some concerns, such as Cottage Cardens Nurseries who 
have established an eight hundred acre nurseiy establish¬ 
ment in California with the avowed pnriiosi! of raising 
that kind of stock which hitherto was Ix'ing impoitial 
from Europe, who havi; ri'alizi'd it for some time. Such 
foresight is mendy a good grade of husini'ss simsc. 
Another thing that will have an infliKMici' on the hns- 
iness is the fact that nurseryiiKm th(Mns(*lv(‘S an* waking 
up to lh(5 necessity of adv(*rtising in a national way. 
Was there ever such an (dijecl h'sson as the Liberty 
Loan if we are not too stupid to leain it, and it is a safe, 
guess that if National Advertising assunu's any pi’opoi- 
tions, the demand for nursery stock will incn'ase ti'i;- 
mendously. 
Another phase of conditions that w ill mon; or h'ss af¬ 
fect the business is a change in vaku's. 1 do not mi'an 
hy this money values. We are still ajit to think in l<'rms 
of dollars and dimes, hut it is hardly jiossihlc; to sland(*r 
the maidiood and womanhood of those who liavi^ gone 
over to light in the world war hy accusing them of this. 
We know for sure they value something mon^ than 
money and this of itself would indicate that a business 
built purely on mercenary lines and motives is not the 
business of the future. Another thing that w ill alTect tin; 
future is the cessation of production and wastage? of war. 
The business w ill not only have to catch up lost lime, hnt 
will have to make tremendous strides in the sci(*nce of 
horticulture to keep shoulder to shoulder w ith the march 
of progress in other lines. 
It has been truly said that under the pres(*nl conditions, 
nurserymen may he said to he hanging on hy their l(‘(“lh, 
hut the change is liable to come at any moment when 
every neiYC will have to he strained to kee[) in the front 
ranks of production of their particular line. 
Alba IL Johnson, Pr(*sid(‘nt of 
ECONOMICS the Ilaldwin Locomotive* 
OF THE SITUATION Works, Philad(*li)hia, in con¬ 
cluding his addr(*ss he'foie* 
the United States Chamher of Commerce, spoke* of the* ael- 
mittedly inadequate motive peewer of our present e*epiij)- 
ment as follows: 
“During the depression pre?ceeling the war lhe*i'e* was 
a small surplus of peiwer wiiich, as sheeuhl have^ he*e*n 
feireseen, wuuhl he ahseerheel in Irallic with the lirst in¬ 
crease of activity. As a rule*, railroaels have purchase*el 
locomotives largely under the spur eif excessive trallic 
and have ahstaineel freem jiurchasing eluring perieeels e)f re*- 
duced earnings. This is contrary tee the eceeneimics eef the* 
situatieen. Enlargements of facilities sheeiilel he* maele* in 
times of elepressieen, first, that is the cheapest time* lei eh) 
it; seceenel, it is the meist cenivenient time te) eh) it; anel 
third, it is the time when the manage*i’s can give* meesi at¬ 
tention te) eloing it; anel lourlh. the emj)le)yme*nl e)f laheer 
arising out of large railway purchases tenels te) mitigate* 
the severity e)f a general depression. The reason the* 
railroads have ned done this since* 1007 is that iineler the* 
regulatory policy which weid inte) effect at the lime, rail¬ 
way managers have ne)t been able to accumulate sui- 
pluscs sufTieient in their judgment to wairant heelel ceen- 
struction in time*s of small earnings, anel e*s[)e*cially be¬ 
cause future earnings have not been susceptible* e)f ap- 
j)re)ximate calculatieen even where the ve)lume e)f Irallie* 
cemld he estimated in advance. Adeeiuale preevisieen of 
motive power, like adeeiuate provision of eelher rolling- 
stock and other facilities, can only be assured w hen Con- 
