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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. 
Hatboro, Pa. 
Editor .... 
.ERNEST HEMMING, Flourtown, 
Pa. 
The leading 
Nursery 
trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers 
Stocks of all kinds. It circulates throughout the 
United States, Canada and Europe. 
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Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1916, at the post office at 
Hatboro, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 
Hatboro, Penna., August, 1916. 
In the Florists’ Exchange of July 8th, 
A WRONG editorial comment on the Nurserymen’s 
IMPRESSION Convention held at Milwaukee stated 
as follows: 
“At last the members have awakened to the need 
of doing things more in accord with modern big 
business, hut in some instances they may have over¬ 
stepped the mark, as, for instance, in that part of 
their proceedings where they resolve to confine the 
wholesale prices for nursery stock purely to bona 
fide nurserymen, to the exclusion of buyers of large 
quantities of stock, among whom may be included 
many retail florists; or florists who do a large re¬ 
tail business. What is to prevent the florist tacking 
on the word ‘nurseryman’ to his title, just as so 
many tack on ‘landscape gardener?’ ” 
We feel quite sure that this is a false impression of 
the intention of the management of the Association. 
Their object is merely to confine the distribution of 
frade lists to those entitled to them, namely those who 
buy to sell again, and of course this includes the florists, 
as well as bona fide nurserymen and all other dealers in 
nursery stock. The main object is to prevent trade lists 
going to the private consumers, who plants on his own 
grounds or estate, to Parks, Cemeteries and to Land¬ 
scape architects, who turn in the nurseryman’s bill to 
their client at trade prices. Surely this is a worthy and 
desirable effort and if it only partially succeeds it will 
have been well worth while. There is nothing more 
demoralizing to trade than the present chaos in this 
respect. 
The dealer in nursery stock, whether he be florist or 
nurseryman, has no protection whatever, as his customers 
can very likely purchase as cheap as he. 
It is impossible for the retail buyer to go into a whole¬ 
sale dry goods house, or wholesale house in any other 
line, of which there is an organized trade association, and 
purchase at trade prices, and why should it not bo the 
same with the florist and nursery business? 
The Editor of The Florists’ Exchange further remarks: 
“Then again, the auction markets which do a bene¬ 
ficial service to many hundreds or thousands of 
florists, small nurserymen, and the general public, 
are likely to be penalized or boycotted, and if not 
they, then the Holland and English or foreign firms 
that supply these auctions with nursery stock.” 
No one could make objection to auction sales if 
the buyers were exclusively florists and nurserymen, 
but we do not believe that The Flosists’ Exchange would 
uphold this method of selling plants to the general pub¬ 
lic, giving them the privilege of purchasing their stock at 
the same price as the nurseryman and florist would have 
to pay. These auctioneers are selling to the general 
public at trade prices or even less. What advantage has 
the nurseryman or florist in such cases? 
There has recently been considerable agitation in Eng¬ 
land along the same lines and we believe the nurserymen 
successfully boycotted the Dutch firms who carried out 
this reprehensible practice. 
The Association may not be strong enough to carry out 
all it proposes, but they made a good start at the last 
convention, and it should have the support of all the 
nurserymen and the allied profession, the florists. 
Comment was made at the Convention 
WIIAT that the Milwaukee newspapers gave 
THE LAYMAN so little space to the convention and a 
THINKS general feeling of disappointment was 
very evident. 
Attention has been called to the following editorial 
which appeared in the Milwaukee Daily News of June 
30th while the convention was in session: 
For a layman’s write-up the sentiments expressed are 
of extremely high order and it is well worth reprinting. 
It at least shows appreciation by the Daily News of the 
work of the Convention, and it is possible that many nur¬ 
serymen did not see it. 
The Nurserymen 
More attention is likely to be given by the average 
man to political, advertising, and trade conventions 
than to a nurserymen’s convention but there is no 
association of more importance to the world than the 
associations of those men who come together from 
distant parts of the country to exchange views on the 
conservation and development of tree life and pro¬ 
duction. 
It is conjectured by some that the reason there are 
no trees on the great prairies of the west is because 
some accident in nature swept trees from the country 
and afterwards frequent prairie fires prevented- the 
growth of seedlings until they could attain a size 
which would withstand the ordinary grass fire. In 
fact experience seems to prove this theory. Sett¬ 
lers have had little trouble in bringing groves to a 
good stage of development in a short time when care 
and protection have permitted trees to grow. 
While the cultivation of fruit trees occupies the 
most of the attention of nurserymen, considerable 
time is given to the study of trees for lumber and of 
