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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
meiit station together with your noted horticultural so¬ 
ciety ail radiating governing and guiding lights leading to 
highest goals of well directed endeavors, 1 would neither 
presume nor assume, even il J felt never so competent, to 
impart any specilic instructions, on best methods of hor¬ 
ticulture. Still I appreciated the force of an expression 
of one of the most successful apple growers of my ac¬ 
quaintance in favor of cultivation, lie said that every 
giower should cultivate and cultivate and then cultivate 
some more. My belief is that the grower should give his 
work attention and attention and then some more atten¬ 
tion. 
When a cold wave with rapidly falling temperature 
swept over the country late in last April it was regret¬ 
table to have seen that many orchard men did not have 
the inexpensive materials for lighting smudge fires, 
which would have sent clouds of smoke over their trees 
warding away falling frosts, and there were all too few 
evidences of firing by orchard heaters. Then owing to 
high prices for labor and spraying materials too many 
orchards were left to the mercy of multitudes of orchard 
pests. Was it any surprise or marvel that the countless 
orchards notably neglected left without any degree of 
care and attention were either ruined by orchard enemies 
or were practically barren at time for harvest? With the 
incessant, imperative demands for increased production 
the orchard men should awake and stretch every nerve 
to produce and produce and then produce some more. 
Visitors to Tennessee feel something akin to reverence 
for the state as they realize they are treading on historic 
ground. The state has a glorious past and its future is 
luminous with brilliant possibilities. In its history we 
see many notable names inscribed on rolls of fame. It 
has given the United States three presidents noted for 
force and executive ability. The names of Jackson, Polk 
and Johnson, two of the number filling the office of gov¬ 
ernor of the commonwealth before being exalted to the 
highest office in the land, are familiar to all students. And 
the name of Jackson stands out in bass relief from the 
others. He stood behind the guns at New Orleans and he 
stood behind the guns in the office of President. His 
shots in both places will echo and reverberate through all 
corridors of time. 
ILLINOIS STATE NURSERYMEN’S ASSOCIATION 
Third Annual Convention Illinois State Nurserymen s 
Association wit be held at Chicago, Hotel LaSalle, 
February II and 12, 1920 
This is going to be the biggest, best and most important 
convention the Nurserymen of Illinois have ever held. 
No Nurseryman of Illinois who amounts to anything in 
his own estimation or that of his associates in business 
can afford to miss it. 
A. M. Augustine, Secretary. 
Normal, Ill. 
The Englewood Nursery Co., of Leonia, N. J., has been 
incorporated, with a capital stock of -$60,000. The incor¬ 
porators are Thos. II. Heminsley, of Englewood; C. W. 
Schroter, of Leonia, and W. H. K. Davey, of Belleville. 
IMPORTS, AND QUANTITIES OF STOCK AVAILABLE 
IN THE FUTURE 
Read Before the Western Association of Nurserymen 
January 22, by James McHutchison 
D ON’T blame the French growers for the present 
high prices of French fruit and rose stocks, they 
arc nareiy getting men nan nacK. me mgu 
prices are uue nisi io scarcity, seconu io me increaseu 
oi prouueiion, noili resulting irom me war—lor u 
miouiu ne reineiimereu mat me siocks uug tins winter 
were started wlme nance was sun at war, with every 
ame-Jjouieu man planning and worKing ana 
lignting more ior me immediate export oi 
me invading Hun man ior me later ex¬ 
port oi such peaceable items as Fruit btoexs. 
oeeds were scarce and mgli priced, limitations were sun 
m enect on me production and transportation oi all non- 
essential items, and who couid loresee today s demands? 
vviien tne armistice was signed in i\ovemner lyre it 
changed me situation completely; men were rapidly re¬ 
turned to peaceiui vocations, international marxeis ior 
iruii opened whicn stimulated the planting oi iruit trees 
in an countries, ureat Jtsntam, nussia, ltaiy, bcan- 
umavia, Australia, ail wanted their share oi me small 
crop and were willing to pay almost any reasonable 
price lor their pro-rata share—but it was then too late 
in tne year to procure more seeds or to plant them lor 
iyiy crop even if they were procurable. 
in competing with other countries as buyers of fruit 
stocks, America is at a distinct disadvantage by reason 
of Quarantine No. 37 which places importations of nur¬ 
sery stock absolutely under the control of live bureau 
chiefs in the U. S. Department of Agriculture. If these 
officials were in touen with business life or the com¬ 
mercial needs of the nation, the French growers would 
feel reasonably safe in producing for American markets, 
but since this Board stopped shipments of all varieties of 
ornamental slocks, many of which were grown exclus¬ 
ively for American markets and are unsalable in France 
or Europe, and paid little or no heed to the arguments and 
protests from the American buyers or the French sellers, 
the French grower does not know when the axe may fall 
on the exportation to America of fruit and rose stocks, 
so he is not over-anxious for American trade. 
Be it said to the everlasting credit of the French grow¬ 
ers that they did not meet our ill-considered and unwise 
quarantine by adding the price of the ornamental stocks 
that must be destroyed to the price of the fruit stocks we 
must have, as they could easily have done with adequate 
justification. On the contrary the prices to American im¬ 
porters are no higher than to importers in other countries, 
though these buyers do not expect credit from French 
firms this season. This is proven by the prices of Hol¬ 
land grown fruit stocks, which are now selling at about 
60% higher prices than the French grown, though their 
value is assessed at about 25% less in normal seasons. 
The demand on France for fruit tree stocks was enor¬ 
mous this season, as the growing of fruit trees was al¬ 
most suspended in all civilized countries during the four 
war years; now every country wants fruit stocks—and 
France requires stocks to replant its own devastated pro- 
