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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Book f^VT^w 
“HOUSE AND GARDEN’S BOOK OF GARDENS” 
There is a wonderful amount of information given in 
the horticultural magazines. Each issue represents a 
large amount of labor. The illustrations represent a big 
expenditure. It has often come to the mind of the writer 
that so much valuable information and costly labor de¬ 
serves a more permanent, or shall we say accessable form 
of record. Periodicals are rarely kept for study and 
reference. This thought evidently inspired the magazine 
—House and Garden—to issue a book compiled from the 
material published in their journal. A copy has just 
come to hand containing over four hundred illustrations 
of special flower types, plans and suggestions for land¬ 
scape work, a complete gardener’s calendar of the year’s 
activities, planting and spraying tables and a port folio 
of beautiful gardens in various sections of the United 
States and foreign countries. 
It is a handsome work and invaluable to all interested 
in gardening; to the nurseryman the illustrations are a 
treasure house of suggestions. It is published by House 
and Garden, 19 West 44th St., New York, priced at five 
dollars. 
HIGHLAND LIGHT AND OTHER POEMS 
It is not often a book of poems comes to a trade paper 
for review. It perhaps would be better for us all if we 
gave a little more time to see what the poets have to say 
and tried to use a little more poetry in our business and 
every day life. 
Where could one find a better description of conditions 
the nurseryman’s craft is trying to overcome. 
“God! What a country: 
Flat, rusty, desolate fields, 
Flecked with p iddles of dingy snow, 
Houses unpainted, haphazard in a wilderness of man’s 
making, 
breeders of creeping madness; 
Towns—cities perhaps— 
Made of factories, freight yards, hovels and churches; 
And all—fields, people, towns— 
Utterly flat and dreary.” 
Apart from the value that such a word picture may 
have to the nurseryman in his business, the inspiration 
obtained by reading Highland Light cannot be measured. 
Its sincerity and simplicity satisfies the soul. 
Highland Light and Other Poems by Henry Adams Pel- 
lows is the title of the book published by the MacMillan 
Company, New York; Price -$1.75. 
—Editor National Nurseryman. 
It speaks well for the firm of Henry Disston & Sons, 
Inc., Philadelphia, to publish a pruning book evidently 
lor the purpose of creating an interest in their pruning 
saws and tools. 
The work consists of one hundred five pages, only nine 
pages being devoted to tools, the balance treating on the 
subject of pruning in a very thorough manner. 
1 he editor—Roland R. Gilman—drew his information 
from the besl possible sources and has compiled a very 
creditable work. What makes is specially valuable for 
the amateur is the accompanying illustrations. It is cor¬ 
rectly described as “an illustrated statement of tested 
methods of pruning and a warning against the mistakes 
so commonly made.” 
It is an indication that a firm which gets out such a 
work evidently for advertising purposes must use every 
possible means to give the pruuer the tools that will do 
the work. 
Ihe catalog of II. Den Ouden & Sons, Roskoop, Hol¬ 
land, has just come to hand. It is printed in English 
and priced in American money which seems to be a waste 
ol good material considering quarantine 37. It is a very 
distinctive book and lists a splendid lot of stock. That 
makes the plantsman read with envy. 
An unusual feature is an insert of illustrations of their 
Topiary Specimens numbered and named so that one may 
order by picture. Ibis feature is evidently intended for 
llio English market as they are priced in English money 
and illustrate wonderful work. 
Ihe world has not produced a grander or more pic¬ 
turesque, nor more honorable and trustworthy class of 
fellows than the veteran nurserymen of America and I 
think I may say of the world, (for aught I know). 
They stand out rather conspicuously for their good 
works and do not need any one, self appointed or other¬ 
wise to atone, apologise or explain for them. The Trade 
Mark fits them. 
The same kind words do not apply to all dealers, 
agents, peddlers and vendors of nursery stock whose 
chief capital stock is the good name of the honest pro¬ 
ducer, but who from mercenary motives misrepresent 
and deceive the public for a paltry gain or a season’s 
business and move on to new fields before their misdeeds 
are iuny revealed. 
Herein is the 1 rade Mark a sign of honor and quality 
because a nurseryman is a fixture in the community. It 
takes years to grow a merchantable crop of trees and the 
harvest time which soon reveals the fruit of his labors, 
finds him busily engaged growing more of the good pro¬ 
ducts to supply the ever increasing demand of satisfied 
customers. 
All the important nurseries of the country that I know 
are the result or outgrowth ol generations of patient 
skill and ability in nursery lines and are not built nor 
sustained on misrepresentation or fraud. 
Is not the 1 rade Mark a fitting distinction easily within 
reach of all nurserymen worthy of the calling? 
If there be any misguided members within the fold, is 
not this the issue. I he line is clearly drawn, will they 
not mend their ways or withdraw and the door is open to 
all biethren and follows who subscribe to fair methods 
and the motto over the door reads, “Welcome.” 
Edward Teas. 
