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others introducing plants. This may properly be referred 
to the American Joint Committee on Horticultural No¬ 
menclature. 
5. Earnest consideration on the matter of establishing 
an “American” or “National Horticultural Council” or 
“National Horticultural Chamber of Commerce” with 
representatives from all horticultural interests, amateur 
and professional to consider horticultural practice along 
and above lines with suitable sub-committees. Such a 
council might assume the duties of the Joint National 
Committee on Standardization of Horticultural Trade 
Practice in our second recommendation. Such a National 
Council or Chamber would represent all American horti¬ 
cultural interests in matters of legislation, transporta¬ 
tion, etc. 
(One of the greatest difficulties in carrying out uni¬ 
form trade practice in the horticultural world is the fact 
that different horticultural interests such as nurserymen, 
florists, seedsmen, market gardeners, fruit growers, land¬ 
scape architects, horticultural writers, plant breeders, 
private gardeners, park officials and many others, have 
been working thoughtlessly or selfishly along their own 
particular lines and mutual interests even if compre¬ 
hended have been ignored.) 
It is certain that the time has come when action as 
above recommended must be taken by some one. The 
work of the American Joint Committee on Horticultural 
Nomenclature shows that it is possible to accomplish 
great results through co-operative effort of those in dif¬ 
ferent horticultural pursuits. 
It is only through such a national council or committee 
representing all leading horticultural interests that the 
best results would come; it must be a broadly representa¬ 
tive body to have its action carry the weight of authority. 
6. Other matters for consideration by the Committee 
on Standardization to be reported on in its next report. 
(a) Alphabetical List of Trade Terms used in Nur¬ 
sery and Horticultural Practice with their Abbreviations. 
(b) Color Chart or Methods for Standardizing the 
Descriptions of Colors in Horticulture. 
(c) Standard Symbols for Certain Plant Descriptions 
as for Biennial, Annual, Male, Female, Fertile, Pistil¬ 
late, etc. 
(d) Rules for Grading Roses, Rulbs and Seeds. 
(e) Packing, Shipping and Material Standards with 
Rules and Decisions. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Harlan P. Kelsey, Chairman. 
John Dayton, 
John Fraser, 
Charles J. Maloy. 
E. S. Welch, 
Committee on Standardization of Horticultural Trade 
Practice 
FUTURE BUSINESS 
There are no serviceable statistics available to nursery¬ 
men and growers to tell the amount of various lines of 
nursery stock that are being grown and is likely to be 
available during the next several years. The nursery¬ 
man has to guess to a very large extent, what will be 
most likely to find a market, and propagate and plant 
accordingly. It would be of extreme value if it was 
better known what amount of different items were 
planted each year, in different parts of the country. 
Such information would help very much in the mak¬ 
ing of the planting budget. It is not likely however it 
would do away with the brush pile or cheap surplusses. 
There would always be those who would try to make a 
killing, by growing a huge quantity to undersell the 
market. 
As near as it could be discovered at the convention, 
where so many nurserymen met together from different 
parts of the country, the general impression seemed to 
be, a shortage for some years in certain lines and grades 
of nursery stock and strong indications there will be a 
surplus in others. 
These opinions were about what the conditions, due 
to the war, and Quarantine 37 would naturally lead one 
to expect. All those items, for which we used to depend 
upon the propagators and growers in the old country, 
will naturally be short for quite a while, or until such 
times as the American propagators and nursery¬ 
men begin to produce in this country, and this means 
that many kinds of choice evergreens, Magnolias, Aza¬ 
lias, Rhododendrons and such like, in large sizes will be 
almost unobtainable. Large evergreens of the common¬ 
er types will also be scarce in large sizes due to the re¬ 
stricted propagation from 1914 to 1918; but there is 
liable to be surplus in the smaller grades. This is also 
true of shade and ornamental trees. For the next three 
or four years even such kinds as the common Norway 
maple is not likely to be in surplus in grades from 1 % 
to 3 inches caliper. 
Such items as Japanese Barbery and California Privet 
in the larger grades are likely to be very scarce next 
spring but according to the quantity that is being plant¬ 
ed in the last two seasons, the smaller grades are ex¬ 
tremely plentiful. The same conditions exist in the 
fruit tree industry. Any plant whose production was 
affected by the war and the labor conditions following 
it and which takes more than three years to produce the 
plant including the stock if these were a necessary part 
of the process, will be scarce and high priced. 
It will be a pretty safe rule for the next few years to 
figure back to the year 1919 and if the plant or grade 
could not be raised since that period it is hardly likely 
to be very plentiful or low priced; but it is also Irue that 
anything that could be raised since that time is likely 
to be in good supply and many lines over done. 
To offset this we have no means of measuring a pos¬ 
sible future consumption or to know what the future 
has in store. It is possible the increase in population 
since 1914 and general progress will demand a greater 
one than we have any idea of, and that the efforts being 
made towards market development will increase the con¬ 
sumption very materially. 
In studying conditions in individual locations and the 
general trend of building and interest in horticulture 
and the continual increasing consumption of fruit, will 
produce a demand for nursery products that will prevent 
any slump, such as those of a pessimistic nature expect. 
