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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The N ational 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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addressed, Editor, Flourtown, Pa., and should be mailed to arrive 
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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., October 1921 
NO BOOM It is said the present times are only hard by 
IN SIGHT comparison to the soft times we had when 
we could sit in the office and turn down 
orders, unless we were given permission to ship at our 
convenience and at our own price. 
Some report business “good” to keep up their own 
spirits and because they know a poor mouth does not 
improve things. 
It is a good policy if they hustle and make it come true. 
General conditions are improving slowly but individual 
firms will have to do their own improving. 
There is no boom in sight to carry the slackers along. 
Advertise, hustle and lay yourself out to give service 
putting your customers’ interests well to the front of your 
own selfish inclinations. 
The buying public is still smarting from the gouging 
they experienced recently. 
Me are all a little sore at the proprietors, when they 
had us on the hip, even though we may have inadvert¬ 
antly done a little ourselves. 
1 o get the public back into the buying humor we must 
avoid any suggestion of profiteering in the prices of the 
goods we have to sell. 
Service is good and will bring business when it is gen¬ 
uine. 
Quality is a good business getter when it is superior 
to the other fellows for the same priced goods. 
But price is the deciding factor when money is scarce. 
A MICROSCOPE labors ot the scientists in studying, 
classifying and recording those mi¬ 
croscopic forms of animal and plant life are going to 
bear fruit. 
I he average man has little sympathy or use for those 
who devote their lives to the study of fungus diseases and 
minute organisms, and are apt to think it an unprofitable 
expenditure of time and money that could be used to 
much better advantage in other lines of effort. 
There is every reason to believe the organisms that are 
invisible to the eye without the aid of a microscope are 
just as numerous as those we can see with the naked 
eye. There are over 50,000 species of fungus known 
due to the labors of patient workers who receive little 
glory or remuneration. 
W e see the effects of these minute plants or animals 
rather than the organisms themselves and often the 
effects are in the form of diseases. 
While it perhaps is perfectly natural for the lower 
forms of life to prey upon the higher we do not like them 
to interfere seriously with the production of wheat and 
other economic plants that are so necessary to our exist¬ 
ence. 
Quarantines may temporarily check the spread of some 
insect or fungus but the real remedy will come by way 
ot the patient, plodding scientist with his microscope. 
The British are establishing a Bureau of Mycology 
With headquarters at Kew, they are awaking to the need 
of attacking the subject in earnest to try to check the 
tremendous losses in economic plants from what are 
known as fungus diseases. 
We in the Eastern United States have recently seen 
what a fungus disease can do, when it wiped out all the 
chestnut trees in such a short space of time. 
Our own Departments of Agriculture, National and 
State, are doing their share of this world’s work and who 
knows how soon the glory and honor now bestowed on 
the warrior will be transferred to the round shouldered 
student with his microscope. 
A NEW INVENTION FOR BALLING TREES 
In the Scientific American of July 9th there is a device 
tor retaining the ball upon trees and evergreens when 
being transplanted. It is the invention of Lionel Wiel, 
Goldsboro, N. G. 
It is possible this invention may prove successful un¬ 
der certain conditions of transplanting, but it hardly ap¬ 
pears to be such that it will be of much use to the nur¬ 
seryman especially when it comes to shipping any dis¬ 
tance. A tree or evergreen that has been properly grown 
on a nursery, having been transplanted at intervals be¬ 
comes used to the operation, and is well equipped with 
fibrous roots or sufficient roots ot a kind that will retain 
all the earth necessary tor successful transplanting. 
When such a plant is dug with a ball which is properly 
bound \\ itb narrow strips ot burlap and sewn with twine 
it can be shipped any distance and handled very roughly 
indeed before the ball is broken or the soil shaken from 
the roots. II trees are dug with ball and properly bur- 
lapped, there is no need lor a container that would be 
likely to cost more and be less easily handled than those 
1 urned out by nurseries who make a specialty of handling 
a tree in this manner. 
The receptacle consists ot a metal casing, properly 
hinged, which is placed around the roots and earth ball 
of the tree to be transplanted. Metal slides at the bottom 
of the receptacle prevent the dirt from falling out of the 
tapered receptacle. Straps and buckles hold the earth 
ball firmly in place. In transplanting the tree a hole is 
first dug, after which the tree or plant with the receptacle 
still about it is placed in position. The bottom slides are 
