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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, Flourtown, Pa^ 
The leading trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in 
Nursery Stocks of all kinds. It circulates throughout the 
_ United States. Canada and Europe._ 
AWA RDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES 
One Year in Advance . 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance .£p00 
Advertising rates will he sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
° f payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. 
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 b 
addressed Editor, Plourtown, Pa., and should be mailed to arrive not 
later than the 25tli o f the month. __ 
Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1916, at the post office at 
Hatboro, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March S, 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., April 1920 
Subscribers to “Nurserymen's Fund for 
Market Development” 
The first sentence of a Press Bulletin 
CONFIDENCE from the Chamber of Commerce of the 
NEEDED United States says: “Seeing in in¬ 
crease production a means of restor¬ 
ing normal business and price conditions, etc.’’ The Su¬ 
preme Council of London urges the world to get to work. 
Editorial comments in all the leading papers seem to 
have come to the same conclusion, that what is needed to 
get back to normal conditions is more work and more 
production, and incidentally less talk. To accomplish 
this the government must do its part to bring about con¬ 
ditions which will encourage it. Nothing so quickly 
checks industrial prosperity as uncertainty as to the con¬ 
duct of business and the supply and rewards of labor. 
Unless the business man has reasonable expectations of 
profitable results from an enterprise he is not likely to 
launch it. With this in mind what assurance has the 
nurseryman and horticulturist, that if he does risk his 
capital and devote his energy and brains in an Horticul¬ 
tural enterprise, the government will not interfere in 
some way and bring his efforts to naught. 
The nurserymen are far from being confident of the 
future and perhaps what has done more than anything 
else to shake their faith is the numerous quarantines and 
regulations governing their business. 
Government inspectors and reports regarded as ends in 
this transfer a democracy into an autocracy of- office 
holders and inspectors, which are very apt to prosecute 
business rather than protect and develop it. 
W hat is most needed is assurance that honest effort 
will be assured of the rewards of its labors. 
At the present time there is no horticultural establish¬ 
ment doing an interstate business, whose development is 
not being retarded by the attitude of the Agricultural De¬ 
partments of the different States and the Federal Horti¬ 
cultural Board. 
If these governmental departments could get together 
on a policy that would foster the horticultural business 
interests, along national lines rather than local ones, it 
is a safe prophecy the business would develop by leaps 
and bounds and appropriations for carrying on the work 
of the governmental departments would be correspond¬ 
ingly increased and be more readily available. 
Much has been said and written 
NATIVE PLANTS in favor of a more general use of 
our native plants instead of im¬ 
ported or exotic kinds. 
Little however, has been done to encourage the de¬ 
mand for them, and that little of rather a destructive na¬ 
ture to our native flora. 
The country has been and is being ravished of such 
plants as the Rhododendron maxima, Kalmia latifolia, 
ferns, in fact any plant that has an ornamental value and 
is readily accessible that could be put upon the market. 
Nurserymen are not the least offenders in this respect, 
but it is to be hoped under the necessities imposed by 
Quarantine 37, shutting off the supply of nursery grown 
foreign importations, steps will be taken to propagate 
and improve the many fine things that are native to this 
country. 
Even in pre war days it seemed foolish to import 
Kalmia latifolia from Holland and it was a difficult mat¬ 
ter to explain to the layman why it was done, when there 
were so many growing wild in this country. The plants- 
man, of course knows how much more valuable a plant 
grown in the nursery is, when compared with a collected 
one. 
Even the practice of collecting, planting them in the 
nursery, growing tllem for a period before selling them 
to the consumer is really a poor one. 
It is not deserving of the name of true horticulture but 
rather savors of dollar chasing and about on a par with 
other methods of wasting the resources of the country. 
It is not uncommon to see, where a large estate is be¬ 
ing laid out, the country around scoured for suitable 
trees and plants, so that one man may have them in his 
enclosure. 
One could wish for more of the spirit that considers 
the native plants a common heritage and the individuals 
right to exploit them commercially be only acquired by 
growing them. 
Some of the rare and choice plants like some of the 
birds and animals are already in danger of becoming ex¬ 
tinct, fortunately in the case of the latter the law is al¬ 
ready operating to protect them, but with plants the in¬ 
terest is not very general along this line. 
Apart from any sentiment whatever and looking on the 
subject from a purely commercial point of view, pro¬ 
pagators and growers of native plants are the ones who 
will decide the extent of their use. 
It remains for the American nurseryman and grower 
to take hold of desirable native plants, propagate and 
grow them, and offer the consumer well grown stock, in¬ 
stead of jobbing in collected plants, a practice which has 
little to recommend it. 
