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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The Nat ional Nurseryman 
Established 1893 by C. L. YATES. Incorporated 1902 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
Hatboro, Pa. 
Editor .ERNEST HEMMING, Easton, Md. 
Tlie 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 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES 
One Year in Advance .$1.50 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance .$2.00 
Six Months .$1.00 
Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the 
date of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested by 
the Business Manager, Hatboro, Fa. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Photographs and news notes of interest to nurserymen should be 
addressed. Editor, Easton, Md., and should be mailed to arrive 
not later than the 25th of the month. 
Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1916, at the post office at 
Hatboro, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March S, 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., January 1924 
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I SEASON'S GKEETINGS I 
I The Good Wishes expressed, at Christmas in | 
I the shaj.e of cards and tetters among the trad ' | 
I amounted to a benediction. | 
I The “National Nureryman" received munij of | 
I them. I 
I The joy ire feel at such evidence of good fel- | 
I toivship among the trade adds much to our | 
I faith Hint we shall alt have a flappg and Pros- | 
I perous New Year. | 
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IT IS NOW UP TO Standardized Plant Names are 
TIIL NUHSLUYMAN now ended into a handy volume 
that is available to all who desire 
it. Unselfisli men have labored long and well to bring 
about something that seemed im[)ossible a few years ago. 
They have brought into being a book that eondenses the 
labors of generations of seientists and botanists. Nur¬ 
serymen can now talk to each other and their customers 
in a language that will be understood and is delinite. 
Standardized Plant Names, when accepted and used 
l)y tlie nursery trade, leaves all the uncertainties and 
(juibbles of plant nomenclature with the botanists where 
they belong. The nurseryman, as a business man, is 
only inten'sted in names liy which he can positively iden¬ 
tify his goods to his customers. Whether the name is 
l)otanically correct is not so impoi tant as that it is not a 
name that will confuse or deceive his customers. 
Standardized Plant Names is not a book, it is an in¬ 
stitution and one that will sti'ady the nursery business 
and bring about jnecision and contidcmce. 
Tlie authors have Imilded w(dl in that they have avoid¬ 
ed liuality and made Standardized Plant Names a pro¬ 
gressive institution that time and experience will mould 
to the needs of the trade. 
It is now up to the nurserymen to do their part and 
make it an active agent in the affairs ot their particular 
business. 
Nurserymen must tell their jirinters of its adoption by 
the trade and the necessity of using it in making catalogs. 
There should be a cojiy on the desk of every stenog¬ 
rapher, one in the hands of the nursery foreman; in tact 
if it is to do the work exjiected of it, it must be jiut in 
active use. It will accomjilish nothing on the otlice book 
shelf. 
NUIISEHY It is gratifying to note the nursery public- 
PUBLICITY ity tliat the trade rs getting through the 
daily press. It is seldom one picks up a 
paper that there is not some reference made to nursery 
business, either directly or indirectly; considering, how- 
ever, the inpiortance of plants to our well-being they 
should still be noted a good deal more. They should enter 
more into our daily life and interests. 
In the vicinities of large nurseries there is more like¬ 
ly to be a general interest in plants and planting. In 
the issue of the Greensboro Daily News of Sunday 
morning, December 2nd. it was interesting to note there 
w^as a full page advertisement of the J. Van Lindley 
Nurseries Company, Pomona, North Carolina, in an AD 
offering plants by telling of “The Ministry of Gardens” 
explaining how' both the body and soul are revived by 
contact with nature, through a restful evening being spent 
in a garden, after the nervous strain of daily toil. On ' 
another sheet w as a one-quarter page advertisement of 
the Oettinger Lumber Company giving away, without | 
cost, 1000 rose bushes, with the object of making Greens¬ 
boro the Rose City of the East. Of course it was an in¬ 
direct method of advertising the Lumber Company but i 
it w as doing equally as much advertising, or Market De¬ 
velopment, for the Nursery products. On still another 
page one-half column of the ,1. Van Lindley Nursery i 
(Nnnpany arousing interest in roses. On the editorial ' 
page was an editorial under the caption “To Make 
Greensboro More Beautiful.” It is a good sign when i 
different concerns combine with the nurseryman to ' 
make the home town more beautiful. This is real market 
development. ■ 
ENCROACHMENT The congestion of large cities and 
ON CITY PARKS the trallic problems are beginning to 
encroach on the parks. According 
to the New York Times attempts are being made i 
to run a subway through a section of Central Park ' 
to relieve congested traflic. A hearing was held before 
the Board of Estimates, when Frederick W. Kelsey, wlio ; 
is director of the Parks and Playgrounds Association and , 
head of the F. W. Kelsey Nursery Company, 50 Church I 
street, fought very eloiiuently against any encroachment ■ 
on the park and urged rather restoration and not de¬ 
struction. 
He called attention to a decadence which had already 
taken place in Central Park, comparing its former glories 
with the present condition. The uncongenial soil and 
other conditions unfavorable to continued growth of the 
