THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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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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Hatboro, Pa., August 1923 
THE A. A. OF N. We go to conventions, hear the 
president make his address or per¬ 
haps read it as published in the trade papers and then 
promptly forget all about it. This is not quite as it should 
be. An address by the president of the association usual¬ 
ly contains words of wisdom that deserve thought and 
consideration, if not action. 
One very pertinent remark made by Paul G. Lindley 
at Chicago called attention to the definition of a nursery¬ 
man or rather he asked “Did you ever try to define a nur¬ 
seryman? The head waiter here in the Congress Hotel 
can walk into any newspaper office in Chicago, contract 
for pages of copy and be a nurseryman, a lock box in the 
post office, a vacant lot, office and plant. - ' 
The same query may be asked of other trades or bus¬ 
inesses, but it is our duty as nurserymen to see that any¬ 
one claiming the title of nurseryman at least should be 
made to qualify or give the buying public some oppor¬ 
tunity to be able to distinguish a bona fide one from a 
counterfeit. 
Mr. Lindley points out how easily this may be done by 
the use of initials of American Association of Nursery¬ 
men. The three letters of A. A. of N. printed on every 
piece of literature we send out and on the reverse side 
of labels by all the members of the American Asociation 
of Nurserymen would soon begin to have its effect on 
the mind of the public. It would accomplish legally 
and without effort what the Association tried to do with 
it’s Trade Mark, namely—give the purchaser an oppor¬ 
tunity to know that he was dealing with a bona fide 
nurseryman, from whom he could expect a square deal. 
The ethics and qualifications necessary tor anyone 
become a member of the Association would be the guar¬ 
antee to the buying public. The privilege ot using tie 
insignia could even he extended to State District Assoc¬ 
iations, that would subscribe to the American Association 
standards and rules. 
To quote Mr. Lindley, “All broad minded nursery¬ 
men realize that something more is needed, that we must 
he better organized and our name and Association put 
before the planting public, if we, the square deal fellows, 
are going to make progress and prosper.” 
NEW ZEALAND In the proceedings of the 16th Annual 
NURSERYMEN Conference of the New Zealand As¬ 
sociation of Nurserymen an address 
was made by Dr. R. J. Tillyard, entomologist and chief 
of the biological section of the Cawthron Institute, 
Nelson, New Zealand. 
It seems the New Zealand Nurserymen are going 
through the same agitation and experience in regards to 
the introduction of plant diseases and insect 
pests as we in the United States. New Zealand has set 
aside a nearby island upon which to receive all plants 
intended for introduction to New Zealand. It is planned 
for importations from other countries to be grown on 
the island to prove their freedom from diseases and pests 
before being admitted to the main land. 
Entomologists, evidently, all over the world take them¬ 
selves very seriously. It is very amusing to read Dr. 
Tillyard’s account of the introduction of the Japanese 
Beetle into the United States. 
“To take an illustration from America regarding the dange: 
from outside. The green Japanese beetle was brought in despite 
quarantine, and in an accidental way. It seemed pretty harm¬ 
less, and it was not a pest in Japan. It came on the Japanese 
iris, in a valuable consignment imported by a wealthy horticul- 
turalist. Within two years the beetle ruined the horticultural 
establishment of the importer, and it was spreading like a whirl¬ 
wind. A special appropriation of 100,000 dollars had to be made 
by the legislature to combat the beetle, and a large number of 
scientists had specially devoted themselves to dealing with the 
danger, but no remedy had so far been discovered, for the bee¬ 
tles avoided poisons. They had eaten every green leaf in one 
part of New Jersey, and every single root had been chewed by 
the larvae. One-third of the State had been made desolate, and 
fifty entomologists at high salaries—much higher than the ex¬ 
tremely modest salaries paid in New Zealand—had failed to 
cope with it. All this from three or four little eggs imported 
on some specially valuable iris!” 
If all their alarming statements are as overdrawn as 
the above they may be very much discounted. The Doc¬ 
tor states that one-third of the State of New Jersey has 
been made desolate by the Japanese Beetle. We doubt 
if the average man passing through the devastated ter¬ 
ritory would describe it as desolate. 
We have not heard of the “horticultural establishment” 
above mentioned going out of business and we venture 
to say, the said business suffered more financially from 
the entomologists than it did from the ravages of the 
beetle. 
While diseases and pests are serious and should be 
combated with all reasonable and practical means there 
is no need to become alarmed or to think that even it the 
entomologists went into some other business that the 
country would become a howling wilderness. 
Farmers and horticulturists would continue to grow 
and harvest crops and feed the population. 
