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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
quarantine, but which is known to occur in Italy, 
France, Germany, Belgium, Great Britain, and Ireland. 
As to returning to the old practically free entry of for¬ 
eign plants, a test over a seven-year period was given to 
the possibility of safeguarding such plant importation 
by inspection and disinfection and this test indicated the 
absolute inadequacy and failure of this method of ex¬ 
cluding new pests and forced the conclusion on this De¬ 
partment and on the plant experts of all of our States 
that the only safeguard for the future was the exclusion 
of all plant stock not absolutely essential to the agricul¬ 
tural, horticultural, and forestry needs of the United 
States. Quarantine 37 carries out this policy but makes 
as already indicated, very liberal provision for the entry 
of any necessary plant stock. 
This propaganda of Mr. John Kingdon Smith is some¬ 
what of the same order as that dealt with in a statement 
issued by this Board February 25, 1921. Inasmuch as 
you may be interested in this subject, I am enclosing a 
copy of this statement, which answers a lot of unfound¬ 
ed criticism of Quarantine 37. 
C. L. MARLATT, 
Chairman, Federal Horticultural Board. 
Members Southern Nurserymen’s Association— 
This is the stock taking season. Business men of all 
kinds, take a few days after the holiday season is past 
and study stock on hand and business prospects. They 
want to know how it all turned out and if any profit 
was made, or if not, why. 
Yes, Nurserymen fall in that class and they like to 
balance up books and accounts, just about this time and 
see what has been accomplished and take a view of the 
future. This is a very necessary thing to do, as men can 
not judge the future, except by the past. Hence neces¬ 
sary to study the past. 
What did the nurseryman do the past two years? 
What, has he accomplished and what course should he 
pursue? These are questions of very grave importance 
and must be considered carefully and thoughtfully. 
Recent correspondence with many of the southern 
nurserymen show two or three outstanding facts. One 
is that sales have been about normal, or perhaps a little 
under normal. Another is that collections have been the 
poorest in a generation. Nearly every nurseryman has 
a good part of his profits tied up in bills receivable. 
Many of them feel like it was about all tied up that way. 
These are facts that we should face. Too late now to 
change business, even if we wanted to. It takes years 
to get fully into the nursery business, and years to work 
out of it, after once well into it, so that is not the course. 
We just have to stare the facts in the face and try to see 
to it the business in future works out on a more satis¬ 
factory line. 
There is a good demand for all the nursery stock grown 
in the south, up to date, and a demand from men who 
can pay and will pay their debts. Therefore no need to 
get excited and try to give away our goods. What then? 
The best plan is to grow conservatively and sell careful¬ 
ly. Sell to men who will pay their debts, or if you sell 
to any other, you see to it that you are in position to en¬ 
force payment. 
Now sum it all up.—This is no time to increase the 
size of our business. This is no time to spread out or 
plunge. This is a time to hold our own and to plant 
carefully and consevatively, and above all to practice 
careful business in making sales. Do not let it be said 
of us a year hence, that our profits are mostly in past 
due accounts. 
Yours very truly, 
C. T. SMITH. 
THE OFFICIAL CATALOGUE OF STANDARDIZED 
PLANT NAMES 
This Official Catalogue of Standardized Plant Names is 
being published for the benefit and advantage of the 
American horticultural public at far below its actual cost, 
only the bare mechanical charges for paper printing 
and binding being included. The usual compilation cost 
and the regular publisher’s profit are wholly absent. The 
work represents the labor for many months, extending 
over five years, of the sub-committee—Frederick Law 
Olmsted, Frederick Y. Coville and Harlan P. Kelsey. This 
sub-committee has had the indispensable scientific help 
and complete office and compilation facilities of the Bur¬ 
eau of Plant Industry in the Department of Agriculture 
at Washington, together with the aid of many capable 
collaborators on various special subjects. 
The Official Catalogue of Standardized Plant Names 
includes: 
The approved SCIENTIFIC NAMES of plants in American 
commerce, and the SYNONYMS which have been most generally 
used for such approved names; 
The approved COMMON NAMES of such plants where such 
names have been formulated, and important synonymous or un¬ 
approved common names; 
Authoritative lists of VARIETY NAMES, in important classes, 
such as Rose, Iris, Peony, Dahlia, Lilac, Rhododendron, Chrysan¬ 
themum, Sweet Pea, etc.; 
The approved variety names of FRUITS, according to the 
newly revised code of the American Pomological Society. 
These important lists are included in the main alpha¬ 
betical order, or where more than five pages long, in an 
appendix; such lists being either supplied by the various 
organizations devoted to the subjects treated, as the 
American Rose Society, the American Iris Society, or by 
a known authority. 
SPECIAL PRE-PUBLICATION PRICE 
To those who send orders to the secretary prior to 
May 1, 1922, accompanied by remittance at $3.50 per 
copy ($3.75 west of the Mississippi River, in Canada 
and abroad), the Official Catalogue of Standardized 
Plant Names in the cloth-bound edition will be mailed 
prepaid promptly upon publication. Upon publication 
the price will be $5 per copy. (The pre-publication price 
is primarily intended to give opportunity to members of 
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rate.) 
Note—Those interested in interleaved copies, or in flexibly 
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Send order promptly. Address Harlan P. Kelsey, sec¬ 
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