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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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Six Months .75 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance .$1.50 
Six Months .$1.00 
Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested by the 
Business Manager, Rochester, 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 be 
addressed, Editor, Flourtown, Pa., and should be mailed to arrive not 
later than the 25th of the month. 
Entered in the Post Ojffice at Rochester, N. Y., as second-class matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., May, 1916. 
Without being a pessimist, 
MORE SPECIALISTS nearly every nurseryman is 
NEEDED convinced that the nursery bus¬ 
iness is not quite as it should 
he, and many are the causes and remedies suggested. 
As a rule when things are radically wrong the causes 
are fundamental and the remedy simple, although it may 
he drastic. Our business like Topsy has just grown or 
developed along the lines of least resistance. Like any 
other thing that developes without a well conceived plan, 
it is hardly likely to he satisfactory as the different parts 
begin to grow closer together and are dependent on each 
other. There was a time when the railways, cities and 
other large commercial enterprises were in much the 
same condition as the nursery business is now. In fact 
some are yet and will be until a master mind organizes 
them and adapts them to present conditions. 
One of the great faults to be overcome is waste, as in 
over-production, duplication of effort and lack of ideals, 
and we shall have to look towards a scheme that will ob¬ 
viate these. 
We can hardly look for a Rockefeller, or Hill or a 
Kaiser to acquire control and guide the destinies toward 
a definite goal. Our business is a democracy, and the 
mass must he taught to work towards a single purpose. 
Success of an organization depends on its individual 
members subordinating their individual desires to the 
good of the whole. 
We are all American enough to believe this is possible 
and practical. In looking around for examples it is 
worth noting that our allied profession, the Florist bus¬ 
iness, is very like our own and most will admit it has 
made greater progress in co-operation and exploitation 
and development of its markets than has our own. 
Perhaps one of the least recognized reasons for this is 
the specialist. In the early days the old time florist 
tried to grow a little of everyhing and grew nothing well 
in comparison with what he produces now. As the 
demand for flowers and decorations increased, better 
stock and more of it was demanded and the rose, carna¬ 
tion, violet and chrysanthemum grower came into exis¬ 
tence, until now the specialist is the rule rather than the 
exception. 
The nursery business has now reached that stage when 
the demand for one thing is sufficient to warrant invest¬ 
ment to produce it in perfection. It is true there are 
already many specialists hut there needs to he more. 
Fruits are perhaps the furthest developed along this 
line hut the ornamental section of the business is sadly 
lacking in this respect. We need more Rhododendron, 
Azalea, Paeonia, Phlox, Delphinium, Street tree, Mag¬ 
nolia specialists, in fact the list is endless and the pos¬ 
sibilities unlimited. 
Decide on a good thing and grow it well so as to be¬ 
come headquarters for it, and these great United States 
can hardly fail hut use all the stock than can he produced, 
and at remunerative prices. There never was a closed 
market for the best. It is hard to imagine a glut of A 
No. 1 stock of a choice thing. 
Doubtless all nursery- 
THE REQUEST OF TI1E men in the Eastern 
FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL States received the cir- 
ROARD cular letter from Dr. C. 
L. Marlatt, Chairman 
of the Federal Horticultural Board, Washington, D. C., 
requesting them not to ship white pines, currants or 
gooseberries west of the following list of States: The 
Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. 
The request should be religiously complied with as the 
Federal Horticultural Board has full power to enforce a 
quarantine to protect the western white pine forests 
from the white pine blister rust. 
This is an opportunity for the nurserymen to prove to 
the Federal Horticultural Board they are thoroughly in 
sympathy with its aims to protect the commonwealth and 
willing to co-operate in any practical effort to that end. 
One of the most businesslike 
REMOVAL OF things the American Associa- 
RECENT tion of Nurserymen ever did 
FREIGHT EMBARGO was the retaining of Mr. Cur¬ 
tis Nye Smith as counsel for the 
Association. It is already beginning to bear fruit to 
the great advantage of the nursery interests as instanced 
by the prompt lifting of the embargo on freight transpor¬ 
tation due to congestion. 
This was especially severe on the New England Roads. 
Mr. Smith held a conference with officials of the New 
York Central and New Haven Railroads and succeeded 
in having the embargo lifted. 
Credit should also be given to such influential men as 
Mr. .1. II. Hale, of peach fame, who is a member of the 
Public Utilities of Connecticut., and actively interested 
himself on behalf of the nurserymen. 
