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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
A publicity that will be on the job 24 hours each day, 
seven days in the week, and 365 days in the year. A pub¬ 
licity that will bring to the attention of the millions of 
prospective buyers the benefits of tree planting. Indi¬ 
vidual efforts cannot cope with the situation. Organized 
co-operative national publicity is the remedy. 
NEW YORK STATE NURSERYMEN S ASSOCIATION 
The Summer Meeting and Outing of this Association 
was held at the Rod and Gun Club on Seneca Lake, Gen¬ 
eva, N. Y., Saturday, September 9. About seventy nur¬ 
serymen from different parts of the state attended. 
A short business meeting was held at which an inter¬ 
esting address was delivered by Mr. Vincent Welch, Sec’y 
of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce, on “Trade Organ¬ 
izations and their value,” the balance of the time was de¬ 
voted to social enjoyment, ball game and other games, 
finishing with a bountiful dinner. All voted the occasion 
a most enjoyable one and due credit for which should be 
given to Mr. John P. Rice, of Geneva, N. Y., President of 
the Association. 
PHLOXES 
Of all the herbaceous perennials there are none that 
quite equals the phloxes in showiness combined with 
adaptability. Resides these qualities they have many 
others which makes them good subjects for the nur¬ 
seryman to handle. They are extremely hardy, easily 
propagated and bloom at a time when there is not a 
great quantity of bloom in the garden. Another good 
quality, especially for the nurseryman, is that they are 
not long lived and he is called on to supply new and 
vigorous stock to his customers in comparative brief 
periods. While the phlox is a perennial in every sense 
of the word the choice popular varieties for which there 
is a constant demand deteriorate if left to themselves 
without proper care and attention. 
A garden may be planted with very choice varieties 
and in a few years nothing will be left but whites and 
majentas. It needs almost annual propagation to keep 
choice varieties up to the standard in vigor and color. 
Phlox naturally bloom in July; but the season can be 
very much prolonged by raising a fresh crop of plants 
every year. 
Root cuttings put in in early spring flower the same 
year in September and up until frost. The plants of 
course are very dwarf with only the one stem; but this 
carries a huge truss of bloom if well grown. These 
plants are ready for market in the fall and the following 
spring, and will produce stems, three to five or more in 
number, of the normal height of the variety. 
There are many species of perennial phlox which in¬ 
clude the dwarf kinds that flower in spring such as P. 
amoena , P. divericata, P. subulata, etc., but it is the 
summer flowering, tall growing kinds that have such a 
wonderful range of color that are so popular. Like the 
roses, they have been very much hybridized and there 
appears to be a big future for them. 
There are three well defined groups in gardens, the P. 
suffruticosa, of which the variety Miss Lingard is per¬ 
haps the best known, this group has many promising 
qualities and it is to be hoped will produce many more 
varieties in the future. The P. paniculata group is the 
one which has produced most of the well known kinds 
that are so popular. There are so many of them that it 
is difficult to name a preference to certain varieties. 
Elizabeth Campbell, a fine salmon pink, is well to the 
front in popularity at the present. There are good 
scarlets and crimsons ones but invariably the kind that 
has the most intense or purest in color is usually the 
poorest grower. What they gain in fineness, they seem 
to loose in vigor. 
A comparatively new group is becoming known. It 
originated in Germany and is said to be a hybrid be¬ 
tween the dwarf blue Phlox divaricata and Phlox pan¬ 
iculata. It is known as P. Arendsii and gives promise 
of being a good thing. The flowers are lavander, mauve 
or violet combinations, but with the writer the most in¬ 
teresting quality is its long season of bloom which is 
practically all summer. 
TRANSPLANTING 
There are other phases of work on the nursery be¬ 
sides transplanting but everything considered it is per¬ 
haps, the most essential operation in securing a good 
nursery product. 
It is what adds cost and incidentally value to the tree 
or plant which is being grown to be sold. These re¬ 
marks do not apply to trees or plants that are raised and 
sold within two or three years; but even with these the 
fact that they have been transplanted generally adds to 
their value. Even with vegetable plants such as cab¬ 
bage and celery the grower knows the comparative 
value to the purchaser between the transplanted plant 
and one from the seed bed. They may be little different 
in size but the sturdiness and value is very decidedly 
with the transplanted plant. With nurserymen growing 
a general line of ornamentals transplanting is not given 
serious enough consideration. In fact the slack nursery¬ 
man avoids the cost of this work whenever he can pro¬ 
duce as good looking a plant without it, knowing full 
well he cannot add quality to his products without this 
expense. 
To set a real value on plants the number of 
times they have been transplanted gives a far truer 
value than size, in fact age and number of times trans¬ 
planted sets the real value rather than size. The public 
should be taught this and more emphasis placed upon 
it in catalog making and advertising, to insure the 
first class nurseryman better returns for his effort. 
Unfortunately it is only the professional or those with 
a good knowledge of plants that realize that transplant¬ 
ing developes the root system very often at the expense 
of the top. The layman when left to make his own 
selection in the nursery has only appearance to guide 
him and naturally would select trees or plants with vig¬ 
orous large tops, not realizing they are perhaps much 
inferior for his purpose than plants close by that do not 
look so vigorous due to transplanting. 
Selling plants that have not been transplanted at 
the period when they should have been is really a dis¬ 
honest act. 
Of course it is only dishonest when the appearance of 
