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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
Established 1893 by C. L. YATES. Incorporated 1902 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING 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 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES 
One Year in Advance .$1.50 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance .$2.00 
Six Months .$1.00 
Advertising rates will he sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the 
date of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested by 
the Business Manager, Hatboro, Pa. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Photographs and news notes of interest to nurserymen should be 
addressed, Editor, Plourtown, Pa., and should be mailed to arrive 
not later than the 25th of the month. 
Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1916, at the post office at 
Hatboro, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., April 1922 
THE Judging from correspondence recently 
TRADEMARK made public between Secretary Herbert 
Hoover, as chief of the Department of 
Commerce, and the Hon. Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney 
General of the United States, relative to the use of a 
trademark by trade associations, the American Associa¬ 
tion of Nurserymen is to be congratulated on its decision 
to discontinue the use of the one that was adopted. 
It took courage for the Association to drop the trade 
mark when by doing so its action was likely to be con¬ 
strued as an admission that they were unable to guar¬ 
antee the trustworthiness of their products. Events, 
however, are proving it was the proper thing to do as 
its use was a dangerous thing for the members of the 
Association; besides putting members of the Association 
in a false position, its use, according to the Attorney Gen¬ 
eral, would have been against the spirit of the law. 
To quote the Attorney General: 
“I can see no objection to co-operative advertising designed 
to extend the markets of the particular article produced or 
handled by the members of an association, but when the several 
producers or dealers use uniform trade labels, designs and trade¬ 
marks it seems to me the inevitable result would be a uniformity 
of price. Where two competing articles are advertised in pre¬ 
cisely the same way and bear exactly the same label or trade¬ 
mark, it certainly would be difficult for one to be sold at a 
higher price than the other, although its quality may be superior. 
In a way this is illustrated in the cement industry. There a 
standard of quality has been adopted. That is, it is necessary 
for all cement to comply with a certain standard, but in prac¬ 
tice no manufacturer undertakes to make, or at least no one 
advertises that he does make, a grade of cement superior to 
that standard. The result is that there is no competition in 
the sale of cement so far as quality is concerned. It seems to 
me, therefore, that it would be well to eliminate the latter 
clause in paragraph six, to wit, and may the associations engage 
in such form of promotion by furnishing trade labels, designs 
and trademarks for the use of its individual members.” 
A GREAT WORK The Official Catalog of Standardized 
COMPLETED Plant Names is completed and about 
ready for distribution. The prospec¬ 
tus is out showing the plan upon which it is compiled. 
It has been said that “a committee is a body of men ap¬ 
pointed to do something that one man could do much 
better.” 
However true this may be, Tbe American Joint Com¬ 
mittee on Horticultural Nomenclature have proven an ex¬ 
ception to the rule. 
All of us who have had to do with plant names have 
a glimmering idea of what J. Horace McFarland, chair¬ 
man, and Harlan P. Kelsey, secretary, and their associ¬ 
ates on the committee have been “up against,” but what 
they really have accomplished will slowly be revealed to 
us and the generations to follow. 
It will prove a long stride towards bringing the science 
or organized knowledged of plants into commerce and 
every day use. 
The great scientist, Charles Darwin, recognized the 
necessity of such a work to bring order out of the chaos 
of botanical nomenclature for scientific reasons and left 
his fortune to compile the Index Kewensis. 
The American Joint Committee on Horticultural No¬ 
menclature has now done the same thing for the com¬ 
mercial world and all those who are interested in plants. 
It has earned the lasting gratitude of the nursery and 
allied trades. 
AS I SEE IT 
Ry M. T. Nutt 
At different meetings and other gatherings of nursery¬ 
men, the question of preventing surpluses, by restricting 
plantings under “gentlemen’s agreements,” or otherwise, 
is coming to be a general topic of conversation. It sounds 
fine and the theory is good and doubtless, if conscien¬ 
tiously and honestly carried out by all those “coming in” 
would prevent surplus production and the waste of much 
good stock, or what is worse, its sale at prices less than 
cost of production, but- 
I quote from a recent editorial in the Saturday Even¬ 
ing Post, anent the cotton situation in the South. 
“Last spring cotton growers resolved collectively to 
reduce acreage. Nearly half a crop of old cotton lay in 
warehouses, covered with frozen credits. European con¬ 
sumption during the next year was forecast as low. Do¬ 
mestic utilization could not be expected to rise greatly. 
The policy was supported by the banks. Why pile up 
more cotton in credit warehouses?” 
“The crop-estimating bureau of the National Govern¬ 
ment look the movement at its face value largely, made 
surveys of conditions and issued forecasts of a very low 
crop of cotton. When the bolls came to the gin the yield 
was found to be much larger than forecast. The antici¬ 
pated reduction of acreage—a quarter—was not realized. 
Apparently growers did not reduce acreage to the extent 
agreed upon; half of the amount supposed to lapse was 
planted.” 
To bold plantings of nursery stock to a point where it 
would all be assimilated at a fair price would indeed be 
an ideal condition, but who is to be the arbiter of what 
percentage each nurseryman is to plant, and will each 
nurseryman then obey the “suggestions” or will the ex¬ 
perience be the same as was the case in this year’s cot¬ 
ton crop? 
