THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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not settle back and consider himself defeated because, after 
an initial attempt on his part, things do not seem to go his 
way; nor does he flinch at a temporary outlay of money 
which common sense tells him will shortly bring him profit. 
The policy of this man spells progressive. This is the man 
who attends the meetings of societies whose work bears on his 
business, who reads trade papers and farm journals,—not 
those with the smallest subscription price, but those con¬ 
taining the largest amount of information of interest and 
value to him—and who invests capital in implements and 
fertilizers which are going to save time and increase quality 
and size of crops. To us the most interesting part of this 
article is contained in the last two sentences: “It is the 
young men who have gone through college and have returned 
to the farms who are changing conditions. They have the 
benefit of contact with business activity, together with the 
training to think quickly, that promises well for the improve¬ 
ment of the farms.” We are incidentally led to wonder 
how many nurserymen give their sons and daughters an 
opportunity to take a course in a college of agriculture. 
For some time a movement has been on 
NEW YORK foot for the federation of Nev.^ York State 
FLORISTS Floricultural interests. The state has 
ORGANIZE supported for many years a number of 
live, progressive clubs, but no effort had 
been made up to this year to co-ordinate or harmonize the 
work of these clubs. The credit of launching the movement 
is to be accorded to the New York Florists’ club, the largest 
and most influential of the states’ floricultural units. This 
club issued a call for a meeting of delegates in February. 
The meeting was held at Ithaca and an organization known 
as the New York State Federation of Floral Clubs effected. 
This organization will be primarily an educational and legis¬ 
lative body. It will consider such matters of general public 
interest as experiments and investigation in behalf of floricul¬ 
ture, and legislation. The Florists’ Bill now pending at 
Albany will be x^ushed, while the question of a Horticultural 
Building at the State Fair Grounds will also receive attention. 
On the whole, this may be regarded as the initial step making 
for organized effort in behalf of floriculture. 
Some of us are inclined to be stay-at- 
THE homes. “And why not?” you may say. 
MEETING “The nursery fraternity is composed of a 
HABIT group of busy men. Our stock needs 
careful and constant attention, and if 
there be a short period in the year when we are free from the 
work of gjlanting seed, of cultivating, of grafting, of storing, 
and the thousand and one other things that constitute a 
nurseryman’s daily routine from beginning to end of the 
growing season, then we are under the necessity of preparing 
for another year. No sooner does the close of one season 
come than we must begin to work and plan for the next, and 
we must be on hand, no matter what the time of year, to see 
that everything goes right.” But now, are you very sure 
about that? Is it true that you will get the best results by 
always staying on your own grounds, and not getting away 
and learning something of the other fellow’s experiences? 
But,” you say, “we belong to our state nurserymen’s asso¬ 
ciation. We have been a member for years, we get our 
reports regularly, and find some mighty good stuff in them.” 
But this isn’t the whole thing, after all. You will find that 
it will do you more good to hear those papers, to take part 
in some of the lively discussions, where your jjractice or your 
experience with some perplexing problem will be of as much 
interest to some fellow nurseryman as his is to you, than to 
read these things over from the cold, unfeeling pages of a 
printed report, where the personality of the speakers is 
largely obscured. If you will take a few days off with your 
family for the next national or state nurserymen’s meeting, 
see new scenes and new faces, get acquainted with some of the 
men whom you have heretofore known only by name, and 
have an opportunity to talk over yourjproblems or'your 
successes both in and out of meeting, the pleasure and profit 
of the occasion will remain with you for months or years. 
Don’t allow yourself to get into a rut. About the hardest 
work you ever did will be to pull yourself out of it. 
Note and Comment 
DR. TRELEASE RESIGNS 
It may be of interest to American nurserymen, especially 
to those who had the opportunity of visiting the Missouri 
Botanical Gardens at the time of the 1911 meeting of the 
American Association of Nurserymen, or at some other time, 
to learn that Dr. William Trelease has resigned his position 
as Director of the Garden, on account of his desire to devote 
his time to botanical research work. Dr. Trelease’s connec¬ 
tion with the Shaw Garden in the capacity of Director has 
continued for nearly a quarter of a century, his appointment 
having been made in 1889 on the recommendation of Asa 
Gray. 
SMUDGING IN FLORIDA 
We hear a good deal about orchard heating in the great 
fruit sections of the West, but not much has been written 
concerning the heating of plots on which vegetables are 
grown as a protection against frost. However, late this 
winter, Florida vegetable producers resorted to smudging 
to save their crops. After one cold snap had damaged their 
vegetables to the exent of fifteen or twenty per cent., they 
prepared themselves; and when warned by the weather 
bureau officials that Jack Frost was en route, they were 
ready to receive him, with mulches and smudge pots in their 
beds of young vegetables. Despite the precautions, beans 
and tomatoes were rather badly hurt, but other crops were 
mostly saved by these modern protective methods. In 
Louisiana lettuce showed frost damage. 
AMERICAN APPLES IN GERMANY 
It seems that the result of complaints by German apple 
importers has been greater care on the part of American 
dealers. Consular reports state that the total of fresh apples 
exported from the United States to Germany during 1911 was 
more than double that shipped the previous year. 
