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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, Easton, Md. 
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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should reach this office by the 20tli of the month previous to the 
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the Business Manager, Hatboro, Fa. 
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, Easton, Md., 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., October 1922 
TALK SUCCESS A business man would not hire a 
NOT FAILURE salesman who was always talking 
and thinking failure. If you want to 
sell a tree you do not tell the customer about the diseases 
that will likely attack it, the back-aching labor requir¬ 
ed to dig a hole in which to plant it, or dwell on the 
length of time it will take before it comes to maturity 
or venture the opinion he might die before be receives 
any benefit from it. Yet to a great extent this is practi¬ 
cally what is being done by the nursery business as a 
whole. 
There is too much prominence given to the subject of 
quarantines, diseases, pests, failures. 
The pathology of horticulture is in the limelight more 
than horticulture itself. 
Our professors of horticulture, entomologists and biol- 
gists keep their eyes so close to the microscope they only 
see the lower forms of life, their perspective is all out of 
focus with plants as they actually are. 
They discover monsters, become panic stricken at a 
potential danger and quite forget the world and nature 
is kept running by the same laws that have always kept 
it in operation. 
Our scientists are doing splendid work, but they take 
themselves a little too seriously. 
Farmers and gardeners fed the world before the path¬ 
ologist existed, and will continue to do so either with bis 
help or without it. 
If the pathologist would only do bis work without the 
assistance of so much depressing publicity, what a boost 
it would give to horticulture. 
It is very much to be doubted if the San Jose Scale did 
as much towards destroying the home orchards of the 
country, as did the effect of the publicity given the scale. 
Those of us who are old enough, ’remember the dire 
prophecies in relation to the fruit industry, when the San 
Jose scale first became known. The quarantines and reg¬ 
ulations that were put into effect with all the attendant 
waste and cost. 
Home orchards were neglected and planters discour¬ 
aged. 
Now we are told the scale proved to be a blessing in 
disguise, because we get better fruit. 
The blessings of the cotton boll weavel, the chestnut 
blight and some of the other plagues are not yet evident, 
but, we still have lumber and cotton and all the other 
things we have been accustomed to except those things 
we are not able to get on account of the quarantines, 
In other words there always have been plagues and al¬ 
ways will be as it seems to be the plan of creation that 
one form of life increases at the expense of another. 
The profession of horticulture and agriculture is little 
else but encouraging one group of plants to grow and at 
the same time discouraging another group which we 
call weeds. We now extend the practice to include in¬ 
sects, but why keep the weeds and insects so much in 
the limelight. 
Let us encourage our pathologists with their micro¬ 
scopes, our chemists with their experiments. 
Let us have more and better inspection and all the 
sanitation that is practicable and vote them all the mon¬ 
ey they need to carry on their good work, but above all 
let us be governed by a sane perspective and not allow 
the fear of the unknown to interfere too largely with our 
plans for the future or the business processes of the 
present. 
As a trade or profession let us talk about and adver¬ 
tise our goods, the vital necessity of them to human hap¬ 
piness and welfare, the joy of growing them. 
Talk about the honest enterprising nurseryman, not 
the unscrupulous cuss. 
About roses, not rose bugs. 
Apples, pears and peaches, not scale, blight and crown 
gall. 
Beautiful shade and forest trees, not caterpillars and 
borers. 
Velvety lawns, not dandelions and crab grass. 
Fresh crisp vegetables, not weeds and failures. 
The pleasure and interest of growing things, not the 
backache and labor. 
We cannot have the one without the other and it is 
only the lazy fool and the failure that would expect it. 
We can think and talk negatives until rules and regu¬ 
lations paralyze our business and farmers and nursery¬ 
men turn into pathologists and bring production to a 
standstill. 
Ours is the finest profession in the world in that it 
has such a splendid opportunity for service, adding to 
the well being and happiness of humanity. 
It is up to us. 
“THEY SHALL In the Annual Letter of Information 
NOT PASS’ from the Federal Horticultural Board 
are given about 35 pages of closely 
printed names of diseases and pests collected from im¬ 
ported plants and plant products from January 1, 1921 to 
December 31, 1921. 
Truly an appalling list. It is to be hoped that but few 
