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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
ing to illustrate the slogan ‘‘It’s Not a Home Till It’s 
Planted.” This will be ready for submission to the mem¬ 
bership at the Chicago convention and will he used in 
place of the present drawing in next year’s work. 
REPRINTS OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLES IN DEMAND 
BY INDIVIDUAL NURSERYMEN 
Another part of the publicity service has been supply¬ 
ing individual members with reprints of the articles sup¬ 
plied to newspapers. These are printed on single sheets 
about 10 inches long which conveniently fold up to go 
into an envelope with a letter or to be enclosed with cir¬ 
culars, bills, shipments or by agents. 
As these reprints in quantity cost only $1.10 a thous¬ 
and, they have been widely used by a number of the 
members of the American Association and should be still 
further utilized by those who have not yet taken advant¬ 
age of them. One member, from the use of some of these 
reprints, secured an order for a thousand dollars’ worth 
which he would not have otherwise received. Results 
like that cannot be guaranteed in every case, but the use 
of these articles will, undoubtedly, stimulate a lot of 
business which would otherwise not be obtained. 
REALLY BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE 
One of the things which the report of the Market De¬ 
velopment Committee at the convention will cover will be 
the results of an experiment in getting the planting idea 
into the schools. This was done in a local way as a 
basis for work on a broader scale the following year. 
The idea was, in brief, to offer prizes in a competition 
between schools and between individuals on the subject 
of “It’s Not a Home Till It’s Planted.” 
The results have been very interesting and there seems 
to be no doubt that this plan could be used effectively in 
almost every city in the land. 
In addition to the outlining of this plan, there will be 
other booklets recommended for next year’s use and a 
complete program for the coming year’s publicity work. 
It will include, among other things, the addition of anoth¬ 
er set or two of lantern slides to those now owned by the 
association. 
The demand for these slides has been very much 
greater this year than at any time since the association 
first bought them, six or seven years ago. They have 
been out of the office either in use or being sent from one 
place to another practically every week for the last six 
months. 
It is aimed to make the work of the National Planting 
Service harmonize with and supplement in every way 
possible the good work being done by other organizations 
such as the “Plan to Plant Another Tree” movement, 
and the American Tree Association. 
Mr. A. Chandler Manning, of Boston, Mass., landscape 
architect, is now connected with the J. Van Lindley Nur¬ 
sery Company, Pomona, North Carolina. 
JACKSON PERKINS COMPANY’S BRANCH NUR¬ 
SERY AT SHILOH, N. J. 
The branch nurseries of the Jackson & Perkins Com¬ 
pany, Shiloh, New Jersey, are a noteworthy enterprise 
that is likely to have an important bearing on the pro¬ 
duction of those plants that prior to Quarantine 37 were 
imported. 
The nurseries were started in January 1921, and are 
now about 180 acres under cultivation, six acres of 
which is under the overhead irrigation system. There 
are two propagating houses, 75x21 feet, and three sash 
houses, 150x11 feet. 
Of course there is nothing remarkable in the above 
items, tliey merely represent capital invested, and doubt¬ 
less there are many parallel new nursery enterprises in 
different parts of the country, but it is the class of plants 
for which the nurseries were established that makes 
them somewhat unique. The enterprise was started 
with the object of growing rhododendrons, azaleas, in¬ 
cluding tin' Azalea indicia, and Azalea Kureme, as w ell as 
the Pontica and Mollis groups and other ericaceous 
plants. 
Jackson & Perkins Company was very fortunate in a 
selection of their man to take charge of this enterprise, 
Mr. R. deWilde. While Mr. deWilde is a Hollander 
and thoroughly imbued with Dutch processes in propa¬ 
gating and growing, at the same time he has such a thor¬ 
ough and broad knowledge of plant growing that he is 
rapidly Americanizing his processes and adapting him¬ 
self to American conditions, as he says, the conditions are 
so vastly different from the Holland nursery centers that 
practically everything he tackles is new and presents 
problems that have to be solved. The soil and climatic 
conditions are decidedly different, add these to a lack of 
experienced labor and a shortage of many essentials that 
have to he in some way provided or satisfactory substi¬ 
tutes discovered. 
One of the greatest problems he has had to contend 
with is a shortage of stock plants and stocks, upon which 
to graft. The regulations under which they are imported 
are so severe that heavy losses have been the rule. It 
will take quite a few years before either abundant 
stocks, upon which to graft, or stock plants, from which 
to obtain the scions are in full supply, but even though 
the business of growing these plants is only in the ex¬ 
perimental stage it has gone quite far enough to give 
every promise of success. Growing stocks for grafting is 
the prime necessity. 
Mr. deWilde lias had remarkable success with bis 
stocks so far, upon which be intends to graft the Azalea 
indica, a finer lot one would not wish to see. 16,000 
rhododendrons, mostly Pink Pearl were grafted in lilt 1 
w inter and ready to line out this spring. Azaleas in the 
different classes are showing a good stand so that on the 
whole there is good reason to be satisfied with last year’s 
propagation of this type of plants. Of course great 
quantities of other plants are being grown which the 
writer thinks Mr. deWilde largely looks upon as “Pot 
Boiler” rather than in the same class with the rhododen¬ 
drons and azaleas. 
The budded roses in the field arc a good stand as also 
