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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
removed, the buckles undone, and the receptacle re¬ 
moved, following which earth is packed around the earth 
ball containing the unimpaired roots. Even long-leaf 
pines, which are among the most difficult trees to trans¬ 
plant, have been handled with this device. 
AS I SEE IT 
By M. T. Nutt 
“Quarantine 37” has precipitated a craze for propa¬ 
gating evergreens and it is safe to say that cuttings were 
set by the millions last year. Nurserymen who never 
grew any evergreens before are now propagating from 
100,000 to 200,000 and look upon them as “War Brides.” 
In about five years salable sizes will be as plentiful as 
mosquitoes in Jersey and prices,—well, we have been 
through it before and I guess we will survive. But these 
propagations are of the commoner, easily rooted sorts. 
Mainly Retinisporas and Arbor Vitaes. William Flemmer 
of Springfield, N. J., has the right “dope” on the ever¬ 
green idea. While he is growing some of these com¬ 
moner sorts, he is putting his main efforts into the prop¬ 
agation of the choice varieties, Junipers, Blue Spruce 
and the like; and as usual, he is making a success of it. 
He has just completed a grafting house, modeled after 
his own ideas, and I reckon it will be worth while look¬ 
ing it over next Spring after his winter work is done. 
A visit to the F. & F. Nurseries is not only always a 
pleasure but you learn a lot too. 
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Some nurserymen have queer ideas of salesmanship. 
Some weeks ago I took an order for a lot of evergreens 
among which there were some I had to buy. Not know¬ 
ing just where I could pick up the lot I sent out about a 
dozen “fliers” for quotations. 
Here is the reply I got from one nurseryman,—a prom¬ 
inent one too. “I am in receipt of your favor of the 
12th, inquiring about Evergreens. There are a number 
of items which we cannot supply. I am checking those 
which we can do and if you are interested in these, we 
would be pleased to hear further from you.” 
Now while he was writing that letter it would have 
taken him no longer to write me prices on just what he 
could do, as it was, I had to write him again and he had 
to write a reply all of which might have been easily 
covered in his first letter. 
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President Mike Cashman of the American Associa¬ 
tion seems to have difficulty in finding a member willing 
to accept the Chairmanship of the Legislative Commit¬ 
tee. He invited “Charlie” Perkins to hold down the 
job for another year, but “Charlie” could not see it that 
way. Then it was passed on to “Ed” Moon but “Ed” 
thought that the action of the association at the Chicago 
Convention in turning down the “Progressive Move¬ 
ment” did not leave much opportunity for the Chairman 
of the. Committee to “do things,” so he passed it up. 
Ed is a worker and has no time for a job in which 
nothing can be accomplished. 
Anyhow I think “Ed” has the wrong idea. Even in 
the days before we had an “attorney” and an “Execu¬ 
tive Secretary,” there were ample funds available to 
take care of the expenses of the Chairman and members 
of the Legislative Committee and who is there but will 
say, “Well done thou good and faithful servant.” 
Why not try “Jim” Pitkin? “Mike” and “Jim” would 
be a great combination. It’s been whispered for several 
years that their ideas are more than harmonious, or 
perhaps “sympathetic” would be a better word. 
WIND 
Anyone who has a great love of plants and expends 
the greater part of his life working among them, is like¬ 
ly to acquire a knowledge about them that is not record¬ 
ed in books, in other words he cannot impart his ex¬ 
perience in its completion, nor convey to another in a 
few hours what it has taken himself years to acquire. 
Experience is something you can only acquire your¬ 
self. It is impossible to gain it by proxy. He can how¬ 
ever give pointers, suggestions and talk about his ob¬ 
servations so that others may be guided to experiment 
and observe along the same lines. With this idea in mind 
the writer in his experience has often been impressed 
with the effect of the wind upon plants, there is certain¬ 
ly sufficient grounds to think the subject worth while 
for a scientific study by the Eperimental Stations. 
The casual observer knows that if a tree is loose in 
the ground it will not do well, and of course the explan¬ 
ation is obvious. If the trunk of the tree move there must 
be some slight motion imparted to every fibre of root. 
The plant physiologists tell us that the plants take up 
their food while in solution. They eude an acid through 
the cell walls to act, upon the particles composing the 
soil which are dissolved and taken in through the cell 
walls by the plant and into the plant through the sap, 
giving the necessary food for the growth of the tree. It 
is reasonable to suppose that the slightest movement 
works to a great disadvantage to the growth of tree in 
this process. 
Practical planters know that the cause of many fail¬ 
ures in tree planting, especially when done in the fall, 
is due to this cause rather than any other. Plant a tree 
with a reasonable amount of roots and insure by some 
mechanical contrivance to prevent the least motion of 
the trunk in the wind success is pretty well assured. 
Just to what extent this movement of woody plants in 
the wind affects their growth is not generally under¬ 
stood. 
In practice we stake plants but the operation is more 
often considered from a view point of training and to 
prevent breakage than to encourage growth yet the close 
observation will find that it also has an effect upon the 
growth of the tree. Looking at the subject in its broader 
aspects we know that shelter or protection from wind 
has favorable effect, although it is not always attributed 
to the detrimental egect of motion caused by the wind. 
We see in a sheltered position plants do wonderfully 
well. In green houses results can be obtained that are 
not altogether attributable to temperature and moisture. 
We know the effect of violent wind that whips the fol¬ 
iage and twists and breaks the growth but we do not 
