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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
I lie cuttings lined out for budding purposes, including 
the Manetti cuttings for stocks. The weather has been 
rather unfavorable, continuously cold, dry and windy, as 
every nursery man knows are not ideal for planting out 
in the field. 
Among other things noted was an exceptionally fine 
lot of French Hydrangeas in assorted varieties, also box¬ 
wood and other choice evergreens. 
A large block of Thuya Orientale nana aurea planted 
in front of the office was especially noteworthy. Produc¬ 
tion of grafted lilacs receives attention, some line stock 
being produced. 
Standard roses were also much in evidence. When 
asked if they were growing large flowering clematis, for 
which the Jackson & Perkins Company are famous, Mr. 
deWilde said he expected to make a test planting this 
season to see how it handled in this locality. 
Some of the box plants in the lield had been injured by 
the early frost the fall previous but on the whole all 
plantings look very full and satisfying. 
HAIL INSURANCE FOR NURSERYMEN 
Hartford, Conn., May 22, 1923. 
National Nurseryman Pub. Co., Inc., 
Hatboro, Pa. 
Gentlemen: The “Hartford” takes pleasure in inform¬ 
ing you that it is prepared to offer a practical insurance 
contract protecting nursery stock of all kinds against 
loss or damage by hail. The need for this protection is 
widespread, and the number of inquiries received from 
nurserymen indicates a rapidly increasing interest in bail 
insurance. The reason for this is obvious. 
Of course there are many risks with which nursery¬ 
men have to contend. Rut, at the same time, most of 
them can be controlled or eradicated. Not so with a 
hail storm. Before it, you are absolutely helpless. 
Your only recourse against crippling hail losses lies 
in sound insurance protection. The “Hartford” has made 
a very careful study of your problem in this connection 
and, in offering the protection to you, feels that it will 
serve your needs in an entirely satisfactory manner. The 
nursery hail contract is clear—and extremely simple— 
and the cost of the insurance is surprisingly low. Inves¬ 
tigate it. You will find that you can well afford the rela¬ 
tively small outlay necessary to secure not only certain 
protection in case of loss, but what is an even greater sat¬ 
isfaction—peace of mind. 
When you order a Hartford policy, you are insuring 
in a company that has, since 1810, paid over three hund¬ 
red million dollars ($300,000,000) in insurance losses 
and that has never failed to make good every honest 
claim. 
The Hartford agent in your vicinity has been supplied 
with detailed information concerning hail insurance on 
nursery stock. A word from you will give our agent an 
opportunity to fully explain this form of protection, or 
we shall be glad to take up the matter with you further 
from this office. 
Yours very truly, 
G. A. Russell, 
Assistant Secretary. 
PLAN TO PLANT ANOTHER TREE 
Dedicated to J. A. Young, the Northern Light of Nursery 
Publicity 
“Plan to Plant Another Tree,” 
Don’t stop at one, but make it three, 
“It’s Not a Home Until It’s Planted—” 
They’ll be a joy, take that for granted. 
Home’s not complete without the shade, 
It matters not how much you paid; 
Trees are sure to give a finish, 
Extremes of heat and cold diminish. 
The Rirch, Magnolia and Thorn 
Are fine for planting on the lawn 
Vines for the porch, shrubs at the base 
All help to make a finished place. 
The Maple, Sycamore or Plane, 
Add to the beauty of the lane, 
Are very hardy and quick to grow, 
While Beech and Oak are rather slow. 
In planting don’t forget the children, 
Fruit and nuts all help to fill them, 
With this, with me, you will agree— 
Don’t stop at one, but make it three. 
E. H. 
BOX 
From time immemorial boxwood or box has been used 
in gardens. It is a plant whose qualities have insured it 
a fixed place in gardens. Perhaps the one outstanding 
quality, as compared with the general run of plants, is 
its long life. It is rather surprising it escaped special 
mention in Goldsmith’s Deserted Village, because if 
there is one plant that will survive to show “where once 
the garden smiled” it is the box. 
If tbe setting of that wonderful poem had been in this 
country, especially in the Southern States, it surely 
would have been mentioned, as many of the old homes 
have little to show of departed glories but the box, and 
this often, even amid neglect and abuse, is still beauti¬ 
ful enough to make the casual observer stop and think. 
It is so surviving and so distinct amid the other growth 
that occasionally it is the most impressive feature of the 
place. 
Most people have heard of the box at Mt. Vernon, the 
home of George Washington. It is closely woven into the 
setting of Colonial homes, its use for bordering paths 
and beds of their formal gardens was so general. 
With all the introductions of newer plants from the 
four corners of the earth, the changed fashions and new¬ 
er methods of gardening, the box still holds a premier po¬ 
sition among evergreens as a general favorite. These old 
plants are diligently sought by landscape gardeners and 
others and often bring fancy prices and moved at great 
cost to embellish the grounds of the wealthy. This al¬ 
most proves the box a merchantable plant, for an indefin¬ 
ite period. What other plant holds this unique position? 
