THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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fore the public so it will be heard among the others. 
Nurserymen as a body meet annually or at distant peri¬ 
ods and talk over what is to be done and then go back 
home in the country and devote their attention to their 
own local affairs. They co-operate in intention but not in 
effort, except in a very minor degree. Unlike the flor¬ 
ists the nurserymen are widely separated and spontane¬ 
ous co-operation in such efforts as Market Development 
is not easy. We should, however, do better than we have 
with such splendid opportunity waiting for enthusiastic 
action. The mails are running regularly and a two-cent 
stamp with a little time will keep in touch and produce 
the driving power to enable Mr. Rockwell and those ap¬ 
pointed to tell the public what it would add to their 
health, happiness and prosperity if they would plant 
more nursery stock. 
STEALING TREES 
It is not uncommon to see reports in the press of rob¬ 
bery of “hooch,” jewelry and other merchandise, but it 
is rather unusual to see evergreen trees included among 
the things so desirable as to induce men to become 
thieves. 
It is with mixed feeling of indignation and exul¬ 
tation we read the following clipped from the press: 
Two men driving a Ford truck loaded with a seven-foot ever¬ 
green tree were placed under arrest on Friday night last by 
Officer James Mannion, of the Cheltenham police, at Ainsley ave¬ 
nue and Cld York road, Melrose Park. They gave their names 
as Richard and John Moser, of Philadelphia, uncle and nephew, 
who stated that they were landscape gardeners and had come 
out that evening to view the building being erected at this cor¬ 
ner preparatory to doing landscape work. A shovel was found 
in the truck and the men were carrying a flashlight. On investi¬ 
gation the police found that the evergreen tree in the men’s 
truck had just been dug from the lawn of Henry Linde on the 
opposite corner. It is hoped by this arrest to clear up the mystery 
of the theft of evergreen trees from several estates in the vi¬ 
cinity recently. At a hearing the men were fined $50 and $10. 
THE NURSERYMAN'S STORE WINDOWS 
The nurseryman’s retail catalogue is his store window. 
Practically it is the only way he lias to display his goods 
to the public. 
T hey are as varied and maybe their upkeep is as 
costly as the display windows of the stores in the city. 
Many costly editions are distributed annually; books 
that represent a tremendous amount of valuable knowl- 
edge 5 the result of years of patient work and experience. 
It is too bad they are looked upon by the majority of 
recipients as a periodical and a thing that may be had for 
the asking. They deserve a better standing and what is 
more, they are improving all the time, each year the 
nurseryman tries to send out something better, and writes 
and compiles his catalogue from the angle of “service to 
the customer. Truth dominates, actual 1 reproductions of 
photographs, modestly worded descriptions and no effort 
or expense spared to guide the puichaser in selecting 
the plants that will suit his needs and give him the best 
results are the rule rather than the exception, yet how 
ready people are to class nursery catalogues as circus 
literature subject to 50% in all its illustrations and state¬ 
ments. 
Today two noteworthy catalogues came by mail, one 
from Rlue Grass Nurseries, II. F. Ilillenmeyer & Sons, 
Lexington, Kentucky; the other from J. R. Pilkington, 
Portland, Oregon. 
A sticker on the cover of the former indicates the fear 
in the heart of Mr. Ilillenmeyer when sending out his 
child into an unappreciative world: “Don’t put me in 
the waste basket” is the plea; of course, not thus crudely 
expressed. 
Personally I think the plea was needless because any¬ 
one receiving it and catching sight of the fruits and 
flowers in colors, the half-tones, the plans, would be a 
liopeles propect if he threw it away. 
Mr. Pill dngton, in his catalogue has enlarged on the 
“Before and after using our, etc.” A series of photo¬ 
graphs show development of a property year by year for 
several years, a very forceful pictorial argument for 
planting the home grounds, besides a lavish use of illus¬ 
trations for the edification of the reader. 
The variety of plants listed is apt to make the nursery¬ 
man living in less-favored localities very envious. 
MOVING A LARGE TREE 
The Shrewsbury Nurseries, Inc,, Eatontown, N. J., 
successfully moved an unusually large tree. The tree 
operated upon was a magnificent Tilia pMyphyllos, the 
large leaved European Linden, standing over fifty feet 
high, with forty feet spread of branches and bole circum¬ 
ference of seven to eight feet, growing on the property of 
Bernon S. Prentice, of Rumson road, near Sea Bright. 
Mr. Prentice has one of the finest places on the Rum- 
son road, which he is continually improving. This fall 
he intends to enlarge his house, but before doing so it 
was necessary to remove the Linden which stood where 
the new addition will go, and the work was entrusted to 
the Shrewsbury Nurseries. To transplant a tree of this 
size is quite an undertaking, especially at this time of the 
year when there is no frozen ground to aid the process; 
therefore unusual methods were adapted. A trench was 
first dug sixty feet long and eighteen feet wide, starting 
ten feet from the tree, four feet deep near the tree and 
[hree feet deep at the far end. ,4 tunnel was then dug 
under the tree nine feet wide and two feet deep, leaving 
a roof of earth supporting the tree three feet thick. In 
this tunnel was first laid a floor of heavy planks on which 
was built a platform eight feet wide and sixteen feet 
long, of six by eight inch timbers, bolted together and 
resting on eight-inch wooden rollers. A trench was then 
dug completely around the tree, leaving a ball of earth 
about sixteen feet across. The retaining walls between 
the tunnel and trench were carefully undermined, allow¬ 
ing the tree to settle gradually on the platform. 
The means of locomotion used to propel the tree to its 
new location was a house mover’s crab, operated by man 
power, and while it took a large gang of men eight work¬ 
ing days to prepare the tree for moving, the actual time 
consumed in transporting this huge mass of solid earth, 
estimated to weigh twenty tons and supporting the tree, 
was only one hour and twenty minutes. Arriving at its 
destination, the central timber of the platform was pivot¬ 
ed on two heavy screw jacks and the tree tilted by means 
of blocks and falls to enable the platform to be dismem¬ 
bered and removed and the tree comfortably settled in its 
new home. Apart from a few broken ropes, everything 
