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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. 
218 Livingston Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
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. 
Official Journal of American Association of Nurserymen 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES 
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Advertising 1 rates will toe sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office toy the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
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Business Manager, Kochester, N. Y. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Photographs and news notes of interest to nurserymen should toe 
addressed, Editor, Plourtown, Pa., and should toe mailed to arrive not 
later than the 25th of the month. 
Entered, in the Post Office at Rochester, N. Y., as second-class matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., February, 1916. 
In a bulletin from tlie Office of In- 
SELECTION formation U. S. I). of A., the Assis- 
MEAJNS PROFIT tant Secretary of Agriculture makes 
the following statement. 
“Catch but one bad ear in testing seed corn and you 
save a good day’s wages. Find the average number of 
bad ones and you save a week’s wages in a winter’s 
afternoon.” 
This is a statement that can be applied with even 
greater force to the nurseryman in his selection of seed 
for sowing, wood for cuttings or plants for lining out or 
planting out in the nursery rows. 
While the farmer risks one year’s labor in raising a 
crop of corn, the nurseryman risks several or perhaps 
eight or ten, as many trees and plants take that long to 
bring into marketable condition and the loss is corres¬ 
pondingly great. 
In raising a crop of Norway Maples from seed it is 
well worth while to be careful of the type of tree from 
which the seed is gathered, as every practical man knows 
from observation there is great variation and the seed¬ 
lings will more or less follow the type of the parent, and 
with each successive transplanting a careful grading, 
throwing out crooks and culls always pays. It is better 
to throw away a tree of %-inch caliper than to grow it 
until it is three inches or so and then throw it away. 
When we can grow a block of trees 100 per cent, good 
there will be more profit and satisfaction and so we must 
only plant those that give the best promise of success. 
It can be safely stated that all progress and improve¬ 
ment in plants is by selection, and if this selection was 
carefully and intelligently carried out in all plantings, 
quality and profit would soon be soaring. 
Every propagator knows the value of good stock plants 
from which to take the wood for cuttings, yet how often 
is wood taken without thought as to type of plant or even 
quality of wood and by and by the nursery gets filled 
with a poor grade of plants in which there is neither 
pleasure nor profit in growing. 
The real source of profit in plant growing is found in 
using our brains early in the game. 
It is better to raise just sufficient all good than twice 
the number of which fifty per cent, are poor. 
Save the labor and wages at the beginning by careful 
selection. 
A ladies civic association at 
ENHANCE THE BEAUTY Richmond, Virginia, just 
OF YOUR TOWN adopted a scheme that de¬ 
serves emulation in other 
localities and with other plants. 
They have adopted a day on which to plant dogwoods, 
the aim being to have the locality become famous for its 
dogwoods as they believe it will much enhance the 
beauty of the place. 
The ladies are right, one need not draw on the imagin¬ 
ation very much to be convinced that a suburb or residen¬ 
tial section of any city would soon become famous with 
flowering dogwoods in every yard, and nurserymen 
should do everything in their power to encourage such 
movements. In fact the idea has enormous possibilities. 
Why should not a New England town become famous 
for its lilacs or a southern city for its Crepe Myrtles or 
Magnolias. 
Washington, D. C. will in time be famous for its street 
trees as well as its public buildings. 
Charlestown, S. C., is already known as the place 
where you can see Azaleas to perfection, due to the efforts 
of one man. 
The main thing is to decide on the plant that is adapted 
to the locality and worth while and then encourage the 
planting of it in large quantities. 
On a separate page we publish no- 
THE PROPOSED tice of a proposed quarantine on 
QUARANTINE Ribes on account of the White Pine 
ON RIBES Blister Rust. It is proposed to 
quarantine against all the var¬ 
ieties and species being imported into this country from 
abroad and Canada, but in the case of the state quaran¬ 
tine only the Black Currant is mentioned specifically as 
being the carrier of the disease. 
The quarantining of those localities where small fruits 
are extensively grown in the nurseries is going to ser¬ 
iously affect the business and the nursery interests 
should not fail to be on hand before the Federal Horticul¬ 
tural Board at its hearing on February 4th to see that 
their interests are looked after. 
According to information from the U. S. D. of A. 
“The white pine blister rust, like citrus blight and 
blister blight, is an imported disease which was intro¬ 
duced into this country on nursery stock before the pas¬ 
sage of the Federal Plant Quarantine Law. Ninety per 
cent, of the infections now in America came from a 
single German nursery. The disease, it is said, can be 
controlled in the Eastern States, where it now exists, but 
if it finds its way into the Western forests there is no 
likelihood that its spread can be successfully checked. 
At the present time these forests are free from blister 
rust and it can only be introduced into them through nur- 
