THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
possibilities of the Rose, Ganna, Carnation, Sweet Pea, 
Lilacs, and those kinds that have been developed, but if 
one cares to search back into their origin and see what 
they have been developed from there is inspiration and 
promise in almost every roadside weed. 
ORCHARDS SUPPLANT FRENCH WHEAT FIELDS 
The land around Peronne, France, that once yielded 
great quantities of wheat, will now he planted only to 
orchards. For a radius of twenty miles around Peronne 
not a spear of wheat has been grown for more than four 
years. This sector of the front saw some of the fiercest 
lighting of the war. The land is pitted with millions of 
shell holes and is crossed and recrossed in a bewildering 
maze of hundreds of miles of crooked trench lines. 
Farming was impossible during the past year. The 
disinterring of the dead and the clearing away ol thou¬ 
sands of tons of debris have occupied all the time of the 
government reconstruction agents and the returned peas¬ 
ants. The latter, unable to make the scantiest living 
from their once fertile fields, have been fed and clothed 
largely by the American Red Cross. 
Government agricultural experts who have examined 
the land have pronounced it unfit for wheat growing. 
Stark brothers Nurseries k Orchards Company, who 
have been at Louisiana, Missouri, in the nursery bus¬ 
iness one hundred and four years are preparing to get 
into the seed game and will issue their first seed catalog 
this summer. 
This firm has built up a large organization in conduct¬ 
ing the nursery business and this organization will be 
materially increased to take care of the seed end of the 
business. A large and modern seed house will he built 
adjoining the nursery office and they will operate on 
rather a large scale. 
C. S. Rarto, of Painesville, Ohio, an experienced seeds¬ 
man, will become a member of Stark Brothers’ orgaiza- 
tion and will devote his entire time to the seed end of the 
business. 
Many of us will have sympathy with the business 
man, who according to the Philadelphia Bulletin had a 
form letter prepared to send in reply to the numerous 
requests for donations: 
“For the following reasons I am unable to enclose my 
check : / have been held up, held down, sand-bagged, 
walked on, sat on, flattened out and squeezed. 
“First by the United States Government for Federal 
War Tax, the Excess Profits Tax, the Liberty Bond 
Loans, Thrift Capital Stock, Merchant’s License and 
Auto Tax and by every society and organization that the 
inventive mind of man can invent to extract what l may 
or may not have in my possession. 
“From the Society of John the Baptist, the G. A. B., 
the Woman’s Belief , the Navy League, the Bed Cross, the 
Black Cross, the Purple Cross, the Double Cross, the 
Children's Home, the Dorcas Society, the F. M. C. A., the 
V. W. C. A., the Boy Scouts, the Jewish Belief, the Bel¬ 
gian Belief, and every Hospital in town. 
The government has so governed my business that / 
don't know who owns it. / am inspected, suspected, ex¬ 
amined and re-examined, informed, required and com¬ 
manded, so / don't know who / am, or why I am here. 
All that / know is that I am supposed to be an inex¬ 
haustible supply of money for every known need, desire 
or hope of the human race, and because I will not sell all 
I have and go out and beg, borrow or steal money to give 
away, l am cussed, discussed, boycotted, talked to, talked 
about, lied to, lied about, held up, hung up, robbed and 
nearly ruined—the only reason I am clinging to life is to 
see what in ll - is coming next.” 
On April 1st, 1920, the firm of H. M. Simpson k Sons, 
Vincennes, Ind., was dissolved by mutual consent. Two 
partnerships were formed as its successors. 
The Knox Nursery k Orchard Co. has taken over the 
nursery end of the business, and will here-after conduct 
the nursery business. The members of this partnership 
are Harry D. Simpson, Robert A. Simpson and Luther 
McDonald. Mr. McDonald is manager of the Company. 
The Simpson Orchard Co., a partnership consisting of 
Harry D. and Robert A. Simpson, will conduct the or¬ 
chard part of the business. 
We bespeak for the new Companies the business of all 
our friends, and assure you that the business will he con¬ 
ducted in the same business-like way, that has been our 
policy heretofore. 
YOUR LIBERTY BOND 
The United States Government borrowed money from 
you to finance the War. You hold the Government’s 
promise to pay you hack. This promise is called a Lib¬ 
erty Bond or Victory Note. On this Bond is stated the 
conditions under which the Government borrowed the 
money from you. 
For instance: If you hold a Bond of the Third Liberty 
Loan, it states that on April 15th and October 15th of each 
year until maturity, you will receive interest on the 
amount you paid for the Bond. Other issues bear other 
rates of interest and other maturity dates, all of which 
are clearly stated on the Bond. 
Now, if you keep your Rond until the date when the 
Government pays you in full for it, you do not need to 
worry if, in the meantime, the price is low one day or 
high the next. You and Uncle Sam are living up to your 
agreement with each other, and neither will lose by it. 
On the other hand, if you sell your Liberty Bond now, 
you will find that the man you sell it to will not give you 
a dollar for every dollar you paid for it. The price has 
been brought down because so many people are offering 
to sell their Bonds. If the market is flooded with toma¬ 
toes, you can buy them cheap, hut if everyone is clamor¬ 
ing for tomatoes and there are few to he had, the price 
goes up. The same is true of Liberty Bonds. Short- 
