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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, Easton, Md. 
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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men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Photographs and news notes of interest to nurserymen should be 
addressed, Editor, Easton, Md., and should be mailed to arrive 
not later than the 25th of the month. 
Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1916, at the post office at 
Hatboro, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., March 1923 
GOOD PROSPECTS Through the wish being father to 
the thought, we are often misled 
info thinking that prospects are good, when there is no 
foundation in fact for their being so. We interpret every 
little report and event as confirming our wish, when in 
reality they may he just as logically applied to disprove 
as to prove. 
At the present, however, events, reports and conditions 
from all over the country point to very good prospects in 
the nursery trade, not only in the matter of temporary 
influx of dollars and cents into channels leading to nur¬ 
serymen’s pockets hut what is more important, there is 
everywhere shown an earnest desire to put the trade on 
a firmer and better basis. Honesty and square dealing 
is being talked about more than price. Sound business 
methods are being searched out to take the place of 
haphazard practices that have hitherto been too common. 
The curious feature about it is the awakening or what¬ 
ever it may be called seems to be spontaneous in all direc¬ 
tions. The viewpoint of the nurseryman has been shifted, 
it has become broadened. A few years back he could only 
see a limited amount of business for which there would 
he a mad scramble and it was up to the individual to get 
his share by hook or by crook. Today he sees unlimited 
business with possibilities of developing it everywhere 
and he begins to glimpse his own importance in the 
scheme of things for development of better living condi¬ 
tions and surroundings for the people. 
His ambition is changing from one which almost ex¬ 
clusively consisted of earning a living or gaining a com- 
petance or perhaps an honorable position among his fel¬ 
low craftsmen, to that of a service to humanity, with the 
acquisition ol dollars merely an incident to the process. 
Those who doubt these conclusions have only to ana¬ 
lyze the theme and spirit of the recent meetings of the 
various nurserymen s associations to become convinced 
there is a very decided impetus in that direction, which 
is making itself felt throughout the trade. 
The trade is beginning to think and act collectively 
and when it does this, being composed of a preponder¬ 
ance of right thinking, square dealing men, it will be 
difficult for the crook to thrive within its influence. 
A standard of practice will develop that all must sub¬ 
scribe to if they wish to be recognized by the trade, in 
fact, it is developing fast and the prospects are good for 
a sound profitable business for the next several years at 
least. 
CODE OF The Code of Ethics adopted by the Western 
ETHICS Association of Nurserymen, at the thirty- 
third annual meeting held at Kansas City, is 
likely to have a far reaching effect as there will he a ten¬ 
dency to fall in line, by other associations. 
A code is a good thing to have, it crystallizes opinions 
and brings modes of action into defined lines. There is 
really nothing in the Code of Ethics adopted that a good 
citizen and honest business man would not unconsciously 
adopt without its having been written or his having sub¬ 
scribed to it. So as far as that type of nurseryman is 
concerned it is needless. But, humanity is variously 
composed and its value will be real to the weak brother 
whose ideas of good business are undeveloped. Many 
men instinctively honest, generous, and even altruistic by 
nature remain true to themselves outside of business, hut 
in business practice are governed by a much lower code 
of action, often not from choice but forced upon them by 
custom, the actions of others or maybe because of an er¬ 
roneous opinion that “It is Business.” It will give him 
the assurance that the standards of others are high and 
perhaps inspire the confidence that is lacking without a 
written code. 
The code itself has been written in much fewer 
words—“Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you 
do ye even so to them,” is shorter and even a better busi¬ 
ness code. But business is practiced along more selfish 
lines so that it is perhaps hardly ready for such an ex¬ 
treme innovation. But the sooner the Christian code can 
be adopted and practiced the better it will be for all 
of us. 
The many nurserymen friends of Paul Bindley, 
Pomona, North Carolina, will join with the National 
Nurseryman in its expression of sincere sympathy for 
Mrs. Bindley and himself in the loss of their little daugh¬ 
ter, Henrietta. 
We have not the details except that she passed away 
in the Gordon-Keller hospital, Tampa, Florida, on Mon¬ 
day morning, February 12. 
C. IB Burr and Company received a good many car 
loads ol English and Holland Manetti as well as various 
kinds of fruit stocks. All stock arrived in splendid con¬ 
dition. This is probably accounted for in large measure 
by the fact that they are doing a large seedling business 
and combine their shipments, using solid cars both in 
Europe and this country, thereby saving delays in trans¬ 
portation. 
