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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. 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES 
One Year in Advance .$1.50 
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Advertising rates will he sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office hy the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
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Business Manager, Hathoro, 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 he 
addressed, Editor, Flourtown, Pa., and should he mailed to arrive not 
later than the 25th of the month. 
Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1916, at the post office at 
Hathoro, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March S, 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., September 1920 
That fruit stocks will he scarce and 
HIGH PRICES high in price for some time to come 
OF FOREIGN is a foregone conclusion. Govern- 
FRUIT STOCKS ment research coupled with domes¬ 
tic production may in time supply 
all requirements, but that is for the future to decide. 
For the next few years at least the situation is not 
promising. 
The regulations governing their importation from for¬ 
eign sources, if they do not actually discourage, will not 
cheapen them hy any means. 
Add to this the very high prices being asked for them 
in France, the main source of supply, and it means high 
prices and scarcity of fruit trees for some time to come. 
It is useless and even unjust to feel resentment at the 
Frenchmen for advancing the price, when we ourselves 
are to blame for the situation he finds himself in. 
Presumably the French nurserymen are in business 
to make a profit. If his market for certain lines of his 
goods is taken away from him as it has been by our 
quarantine 37 and these have to go on the brush pile, to 
preserve himself from loss and bankruptcy he must very 
naturally recuperate his loss on the goods for which 
there is an urgent demand, to the greatest possible ex¬ 
tent. 
A 
even 
business can hardly lx; accused of profiteering or 
of taking a mean advantage under such circum¬ 
stances. 
If a nurseryman does not make a good profit on some 
items, how can he stand his losses and continue in 
business? 
The adoption of a trademark 
TRUSTWORTHY “Trustworthy Trees and 
TREES AND PLANTS Plants” and the appointment of 
a Vigilance Committee by the 
National Association to see that all members using that 
trademark lived up to its requirements is for the specific 
object of protecting the customer from the unscrupulous 
nurseryman and dealer, men who deliberately lie and 
cheat. 
They should with equal force protect the honest nur¬ 
seryman from the unscrupulous ignorant buyer. There 
are few nurserymen who have been in the business any 
length of time who have not received letters, somewhat 
as follows: 
“The trees you shipped me are nearly all dead. They 
must have been diseased. I thought I was dealing with 
a responsible nursery or the plants you shipped came 
without any soil on the roots. If they do not live, I shall 
expect you to replace them.” 
Everything may have been done that was practically 
possible in growing the stock, digging, packing and ship¬ 
ping, but after the plants have once passed out of the 
control of the nurseryman, he is helpless and is often at 
the mercy of an unscrupulous or ignorant buyer. Plants 
are so extremely perishable that in many instances one 
hour’s exposure to sun and a dry wind is fatal. 
A good illustration of the ignorant buyer came before 
die writer the past season. 
A shipment of assorted field grown roses was made to 
a party who attempted to arrange and plant them accord¬ 
ing to a plan. The packages were opened up and so as to 
be sure to have them planted according to plan, they were 
sorted out and laid in the sun and wind until they could 
be leisurely planted. Any plantsman can guess the re¬ 
sults, almost a complete failure, with all the blame on the 
dishonest ? nurseryman. 
Then there is the lazy or ignorant planter who does not 
know enough or is too lazy to plant properly, who ex¬ 
pects to get results without effort on his part, who blames 
Ihe nurseryman because his trees and plants put out a 
few leaves, linger and then die. When the true cause is, 
he has not supplied the conditions under which 
it is possible for the plants to grow. The delay and ex¬ 
posure while en route, to excessive heat, cold or drying 
wind is a factor which causes much loss for which the 
nurseryman is blamed. 
Dry hot weather following the planting too, is often 
the cause of failure, rather than poor stock. In fact, the 
causes are endless that contribute to failure for which 
the nurseryman may be accused of having shipped un¬ 
trustworthy trees, to say nothing of “the unknown quan¬ 
tity” which even the expert with conditions of his own 
selecting can not always guard against. 
The spirit of the Trademark Trustworthy Trees and 
Plants and all that it implies and the efforts of the Nation¬ 
al Association through its Vigilance Committee is for the 
sole purpose of insuring the purchaser of nursery stock 
a square deal, by enabling him to distinguish Ihe nursery¬ 
man wno uoes nusmess in an nonest 
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swindler. Further than this, they are not likely to be abh 
to go without grave danger of working an injustice t< 
their own members. 
There never was a nursery nor ever will be whose em 
