THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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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 trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in 
Nursery Stocks of all kinds. It circulates throughout the 
United States, Canada and Europe. 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900 
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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, Pa., September 1921 
FUTURE Prospects for future business are al- 
BUSINESS ways of interest and we readily study 
reports that are likely to have a 
hearing upon them. In the case of fruit trees there 
would seem as though future demands should be good. 
In many parts of the United States the fruit crop will be 
much below the average which will creat a shortage and 
high prices. As one retailer had it, “I should not be at 
all surprised to see apples reach twenty-five dollars a 
barrel.” Of course this is not intended to mean that such 
a high price will be general; but rather indicative of 
shortage, the high prices will be brought about by the 
demand. 
This in turn will rather encourage the planting of or¬ 
chards. According to the census of the number of trees 
given out June 27 of this year. The number of apple 
trees not of bearing age, excluding nursery stock not 
yet set out in orchard locations. Report for 1920 was 
36,171,604 as compared with 65,791,848 in 1910. These 
figures indicate a decrease of 29,620,244 trees or 45%. 
The number of peach trees not of bearing age in 1920 
was 21,623,657, as compared with 42,266,243 in 1910. 
A decrease of 20,642,586 trees or 48%. It can be readily 
seen what a tremendous falling off in fruit planting 
there was between 1910 and 1920. Add to this the na¬ 
tural increase of the consuming power of the country, 
which should produce a shortage that would naturally 
make the demand for fruit trees very strong and steady 
for years to come. 
Similar statistics are not available in connection with 
ornamentals but we do know that since 1914 on the out¬ 
break of the war, that this branch of the business has 
been much below normal. 
While it may be quite true that nurseries have been 
apparently busy, at the same time they have been re¬ 
stricted by labor conditions to say nothing of the cessa¬ 
tion of imports due to Quarantine 37. 
It is also a fact that money centers have shifted. Many 
fortunes were lost and made during the war period. The 
new rich have not begun to express themselves with a 
demand for fine country homes, gardens and grounds. 
There is not the slightest doubt that the country is very 
much in arrears in its building and the attendant plant¬ 
ing that goes with it. In fact everything points to a long 
and steady demand for nursery products in practically 
all lines. It is hard to say how soon the demand will be¬ 
gin to make itself felt in such a way that it will enable a 
nurseryman to measure his market and adapt his plant¬ 
ings to meet the requirements. 
It does seem however that a spirit of optimism should 
guide the plans for propagation and growing of good 
things that require some years to come to saleable con- 
dtiions. 
NURSERYMEN’S A new Nurserymen’s Association 
ASSOCIATION is proposed to cover that district 
which may be roughly outlined 
as being south of Albany, N. Y., east of Harrisburg, Pa., 
north of the Potomac River and west of the Connecticut 
River. 
The nurserymen of this particular section of the coun¬ 
try have interests that are somewhat mutual and are not 
looked after by the State organizations. 
Nurserymen are thinly scattered all over the country, 
never very many in one place and perhaps such an or¬ 
ganization is needed to bring them closer together as they 
all serve the same territory and are affected in much the 
same way by quarantines and other regulations. 
It is however a question if the multiplication of so¬ 
cieties and organizations is not being overdone. If a few 
men get together to discuss any particular question un¬ 
der the sun the chances are a society will be proposed and 
very likely organized. Nurserymen have got the habit. 
Considering how comparatively few nurserymen are 
in number would it not be better to make better use of 
the organizations already in existence. 
If we must organize why not an organization to make 
the present organizations more efficient. 
Efficient management calls for close cohesion and co¬ 
operation between the different departments of a business, 
the elimination of duplication of effort as much as pos¬ 
sible, and a governing or executive head with a clean cut 
policy. 
The nursery business of the country already has the 
machinery if it could only be made to work. 
There is the American Association as the executive 
head of the whole trade to attend strictly to national af¬ 
fairs and those affairs that effect the trade as a whole. 
The district Associations such as the Pacific Coast, 
Southern, Western. New England, Eastern Associations 
to guide the affairs that are peculiar to their geographical 
location and the State Associations to hold all the mem¬ 
bers loyal to the best ideals of the whole trade. 
Then there are the Associations that look after some 
specific branch of the business like the Ornamental 
Growers, Fruit Tree Growers, Nurserymen’s Protective, 
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and a host of others connected with allied trades or for 
