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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
the developing of some special plant such as the Rose 
Society, Gladiolus, Peonia and Dahlia Societies. 
The nurseryman cannot belong to them all and do jus¬ 
tice to himself, his business or the associations. There is 
too much duplication of effort, time and money. 
What a tremendous power there would be if a Mar¬ 
shall Foch could coordinate and guide their efforts, es¬ 
tablish permanent headquarters and be on the job twelve 
months in the year and this national or governing body 
drawing its support from the local organizations. 
In other words model the Nurserymen’s Associations 
along the lines of effective government. 
Is it practicable? If so is it not more desirable than 
multiplication of societies that only work at certain per¬ 
iods of the year and in a desultory way. 
IS THE CAUSE If we all knew how many dyed in 
HYSTERIA? the wool real crooks there are in the 
nursery business, how many well in- 
tentioned but followers of a mistaken policy how it 
would simplify things. We do not know and the result 
is every business transaction is hedged around with safe¬ 
guards, laws, regulations, customs, precedents, sus¬ 
picion and all uncharitableness to protect the many inno¬ 
cents against the few until the costliness of the protection 
exceeds the value of the business itself. 
The leaders of the world’s business have just been in¬ 
vited to pow wow to see if some way cannot be found to 
disarm the mind and incidentally cut down the cost of 
being prepared for fear one power is not going to pull 
one over on the other power. 
With all the brains, education, knowledge, and wis¬ 
dom and we must add Christianity there is in the world, 
is it not a hugh joke if it were not so tragic? That the 
few abnormal actors should be able to produce such 
chaotic conditions among us. 
Has not humanity got what might be best described as 
“a plain case of nerves” and like an hysterical person 
multiplies and magnifies the bogy of fear and goes to 
extremes in making laws, rules and regulations govern¬ 
ing every action of life? 
Is it not about time men began to try the other ex¬ 
treme and act as if all men were honest, at least in in¬ 
tent? We at least should not suffer so much as we do at 
present acting as if every human motive were sinister, 
that no one is honest except through fear of the law. 
We need not strangle our common sense in any one 
way any more than in the other. 
FALL PLANTING 
The advantages of Fall Planting are of perennial 
interest to the nurseryman. 
As to the proper time at which a tree or plant may be 
transplanted is a question the nurseryman is called upon 
to answer more often than any other. 
To the average person who does not know very much 
about planting for some unknown reason, the calander 
is the governing factor. Yet as every plantsman knows 
the calendar has nothing to do with it. 
The things that govern successful transplanting are— 
condition of the plant to be operated upon which is in 
turn governed by geographical location, temperature and 
moisture. 
If the plant has completed its growth and is prepar¬ 
ing for the winter conditions it may be moved at a mini¬ 
mum amount of risk. 
The better way to answer the question would be to say 
when a plant cannot be handled to an advantage. First, 
when the ground is frozen making it difficult to dig and 
ship them, second, when the plant is making active 
growth and is covered with tender foliage. 
Any other period may be considered a suitable time to 
plant. 
Of course there is always some risk attending all trans¬ 
planting where the weather conditions cannot be under 
control but these are no greater in the fall of the year 
than at any other period. 
There is as great a percentage of loss due to drought 
following planting in the spring as there is from cold fol¬ 
lowing planting in the fall. 
The experienced planter knows what conditions are 
likely to cause failure and prepares to overcome them. 
The chief causes of loss following fall planting may be 
largely overcome. 
In the case of trees if it is possible to absolutely stay 
them so there will not be any movements from the wind 
until the roots properly anchor the tree to the ground 
there is little danger of loss of any tree that is indigenous 
to the locality, with trees that orginally came from a 
milder climate the precautions of mulching or other pro¬ 
tection to prevent the dry frosty wind from shrivelling 
the tissue, such as mulching and screening may be neces¬ 
sary. 
Certain trees that have soft thick fleshy roots are apt 
to decay such as magnolias if planted in the fall, this is 
especially true in clayey soils where the water can pocket 
around them. 
Evergreens are usually moved with a ball of earth 
which serves as sufficient anchor unless they are very 
large and loss is more likely to be caused from dry frosty 
winds shrivelling the tissue. 
Ice covered ground around them invariably causes loss 
in the winter even when well established. 
Small plants whether herbaceous or woody suffer 
most loss through the action of the frost lifting them 
from the ground. 
In analysing these causes of failure of fall planting it 
will be seen they are mainly due to a lack of anchorage 
or firmness in the ground and for this reason the earlier 
in the season it is done the better. 
Trees should be planted just as soon as they have made 
their growth as early as September or October according 
to the kind of tree. 
At this season of the year the ground is warm and the 
trees will make fibers and will practically gain a year in 
comparison with planting in the late spring they will be 
in place to make a full season’s growth without a check 
next summer. 
This is also true of evergreens and other plants. 
There is so much to be said in favor of planting in 
early fall that nurserymen should do everything in their 
power to encourage it. 
From the nurseryman’s point of view there are some 
