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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 
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, 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., November 1922 
JOIN THE AMERICAN ASSO- On a separate page 
CIATION OF NURSERYMEN Paul Findley, President 
of the American Asso¬ 
ciation of Nurserymen, appeals to the trade for an in¬ 
creased membership in the Association. 
We all like to be associated with a real live, progres¬ 
sive organization or movement. Success comes so easy 
when numbers are all pushing and pulling one way and 
when success means benefits to ourselves personally, it 
gives added zest to our interest. 
The American Association of Nurserymen caught the 
spirit of the times, reorganized itself, and has planned 
and started a movement to lift the trade out of pre-war 
ruts and place it where it belongs, among the leading 
trades and professions of the country. 
The schools are helping us by teaching the rising gen¬ 
eration the vital connection of plant life with human life 
and in many ways arousing the interest of the child in 
growing things. 
The Federal Government is helping us through its De¬ 
partment of Agriculture and numerous bureaus. 
The State governments are helping us through their 
experiment stations and in other ways. 
The Municipal governments are helping us by laying 
out public parks and boulevards as show grounds for 
our products. 
The Wealthy are helping us by laying out private 
parks as demonstration grounds. 
The Press of the country is helping us by interesting 
its readers about plants on every opportunity. 
Surely we are not too dumb as a trade to put ourselves 
behind our trade association, with all our energy, to en-* 
able it to coordinate all these forces and make them work 
to our advantage. 
If ever the stars in their courses fought for anything, 
they are fighting for the nurserymen at the present. 
In the words of President Lindley, working as a body 
through the National Association, we could dress up “The 
United States,” as individuals we will potter along with 
our own little plant until some movement or government 
body, takes the job of serving humanity away from us. 
The nurseryman who does not think and believe he is 
serving humanity by making the world a better place to 
live in, is in the wrong occupation. 
The thousands of homes with surroundings as bare 
and as ugly as sin are a reflection on the nursery trade. 
The music trade has made a better showing with its 
victrolas. 
The thousands of children born and raised without 
knowing the joys of having flowers in the yard have 
cause to reproach the nurserymen for failing where the 
candy men and toy makers succeeded. 
The nurserymen as a body have not wakened to the 
fact that successful merchandising is something distinct 
and separate from producing things to sell. 
If they as individuals can produce the stock they must 
unite to sell it or their output will be limited. 
The interest of the consuming public in their goods 
must be aroused. It must be made easy for them to buy. 
The American Association of Nurserymen with its 
Market Developement, and Publicity Plans has all the 
machinery necessary. All it needs is the cooperation of 
the trade. 
Become a member and give a hand and have a voice in 
the movement. 
In the American Association of Nurserymen the trade 
has a body of men, leaders in the business, who are will¬ 
ing to give their time and brains to benefit all. 
Individually they are working for their own interests 
and successfully too, collectively they are anxious to 
work for you as well as themselves. 
Members of the “National” association should see to 
it that every nurseryman in their locality or acquaintance 
who is not already a member receives a personal invita¬ 
tion to become one. Not a form letter, but one begin¬ 
ning, “Dear Jim,” and point out its real value to himself 
as well as the trade as a whole. 
NURSERY COURSE 
The special course for nurserymen which was carried 
out so successfully at Massachusetts Agricultural College 
last year will be repeated this winter. The school is con¬ 
ducted co-operatively by the New England Nurserymen’s 
Association and the College, assisted further by the State 
Nurserymen’s Associations of Massachusetts and Connec¬ 
ticut. The term begins January 2, 1923, and runs for ten 
weeks. There will be courses in horticultural botany, 
soils and fertilizers, nursery practice and landscape con¬ 
struction; also a course of special lectures by practical 
nurserymen. Applications for registration or for further 
information should be addressed to Professor Frank A. 
Waugh, Amherst, Massachusetts. 
