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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 
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Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1916, at the post office at 
Hathoro, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March S, 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., October 1920 
THE UPLIFTERS 
I wish to write 
Of the Uplifters. 
God, let my verse be free 
That / may swing a verbal club 
Fore and back-handed, earnestly, 
Without restraint of meter or of rhyme! 
Vociferous incompetents, 
That, ruling not themselves, 
Do cheerfully take on the burdens of the spheres, 
And then, when they have messed the show, 
Do chatter round and underfoot, 
While other men, who in hard schools 
Have learned to labor and to do, 
Set wearily to the untangling. 
American Industries 
September, 1920 
There is nothing encouraging c 
BETTER QUALITY satisfying in being a pelsimis 
an d it is not a pleasure to writ 
in a pessimistic way ^specially about your own busi 
ness or profession, neither is it good practice to be satis 
ned to live in a fool’s paradise or shut your eyes to fact 
and realities. 
I wonder how many nurserymen who have traveled 
and really know what should be, but will admit only to 
themselves that nursery products, considered as a whole 
are hardly 50% of what they should be. We have a 
quantity production—storage houses, where trees and 
plants are stacked up like so much cord wood, tree dig¬ 
ging machines and baling machines, tractors, nursery 
inspectors, numerous laws, quarantines and a hundred 
other things that indicate quantity production rather 
than high quality and unusual care. 
Mr. Watson recently quoted Professor Bailey’s es¬ 
timate of the proportion of fruit trees planted that arrived 
at the full production stage that was so ridiculously 
small as to make one wonder if it was really true, and if 
so, what a tremendous waste. Whatever the proportion 
really is, it must be exceedingly small and is equally 
true of ornamentals. 
What wonderful nurseries and gardens we would have 
if they only contained half the number of plants, but all 
as near perfect as possible to grow them. It goes with¬ 
out saying the actual value in dollars would be more. 
How shall we lift the growing of plants on to a higher 
plane of quality and teach the public to be satisfied with 
none but the best? One of the best public educators is 
keen competition among growers, as to who can produce 
the best for the exhibitions. In a recent report of the 
Shrewbury Show in England, the first day's 
receipts were given as approximately $45,000. 
It is easy to imagine when the public 
are interested in such numbers as this sum 
indicates the stimulation it would have on growers to 
produce quality. The American Public has only a super¬ 
ficial acquaintance with flowers and plants. Thanks to 
the enterprising florists it is beginning to know Roses, 
Carnations, Chrysanthemums and those things the flor¬ 
ist trade has educated it to know. The same process of 
educating the public is going on in regard to fruit. Qual¬ 
ity is becoming the chief consideration. How shall we 
educate it to know quality in nursery products? 
Catalogue claims of quality, anyone can make, but if 
it were necessary to prove it in open competition, it 
would produce wonderful results. 
At the hearing before the Federal 
MAKE AN ALLY Horticultural Board in Washing- 
OF THE F. H. B. ton, to consider the necessity of 
quarantining to prevent the 
spread of the Japanese Beetle, John Watson struck the 
right chord when he suggested the disuse of the word 
quarantine. The remarks of Mr. Watson were made in 
a humorous vein. At the same time, they presented a 
view of the situation which is deserving of earnest 
thought by nurserymen. 
Most of the Nurserymen and Florists who attended 
the hearing, went to it in a spirit of antagonism. They 
were naturally opposed to any action of the Federal Hor¬ 
ticultural Board that would be likely to adversely affect 
their business. 
We might as well recognize the F. II. B. is Federal 
authority. 
It is appointed tor the specific purpose of protecting 
the agricultural and horticultural resources of the coun¬ 
try. 
Its decisions are made with the best scientific know¬ 
ledge available. Protests against such decisions are 
invaiiably I utile, unless new evidence is produced to 
nullify them, which the practical nurseryman is rarely 
able to produce. 
It would be a part ot good diplomacy, or perhaps 
