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TPIE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National 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. 
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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should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the 
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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., March 1924 
OVER-PRODUCTION From every soiiree eome reports 
tliat indicate good business, good 
prices and naturally increased plantings and expansion 
in the nursery trade. Every nurseryman knows that 
sooner or later production wilt reach a point where it 
will he in excess of consumption and then competition 
will become keener and prices will begin to break. 
The unfortunate part about it is no one knows just 
when this is going to haiipen. It may he not for several 
years. There has been, and is still going om a tremen¬ 
dous lot of home building. The standard of living is 
constantly rising, which will call for a greater consump¬ 
tion of nursery stock and the fruit products, etc., that - 
eome from it. This might possibly make it a long time 
before a saturation point is reached that would tend to 
break prices. 
What a fine thing it would he if the trade, as a whole, 
only knew just at what point to call halt in production 
and act upon it. 
Stock reports of the various associations will be of 
some value in indicating quantities that are becoming 
available, these should he extended in every way possible, 
even to showing what was in the process of being pro¬ 
pagated in various parts of the country. But even this, 
of itself, would not he suffieient as one man’s guess is 
usually as good as another, as to about when there is 
enough. 
It is, however, a part of ordinary business sense to 
keep a weather eye ojien for the first indication that stock 
is becoming in excess of the demand. 
W. G. McKay, chairman of the Committee on Distribu¬ 
tion of the American Association of Nurserymen, has 
addressed a letter on the subject to all memhers of the 
association which we publish on a separate page. This 
should he read and considered by every nurseryman in 
the country, whether he he a member or not. heeause 
sooner or later over-production will affect his own par¬ 
ticular business where he is most vulnerable, namely in 
the prices he will he able to get for his plants. 
STANDARDIZED Standardized Plant Names is now an 
PLANT NAMES accomplished fact and one which 
will sooner or later make itself felt 
in every nursery. It is a wise thing to take advantage 
of this wonderful work and bring all the names on. tin* 
nursery in harmony with it. 
Just how to begin is somewhat of a problem and each 
nursery will hav(‘ to solve its own. It is not an easy 
matter to change even a few names in a nursery. It is 
likely to ei'eate very much confusion unless done in a 
systematic and orderly way. The first thought suggests 
revising the names as they appear in the inventory or 
lists, from which the catalog is prepared. Rut this would 
he useless unless the names in the field are promptly 
made to harmonize and it would hardly fail to cause con¬ 
fusion when digging and filling orders. 
The most logical way seems to he to start in the nur¬ 
sery. then when inventory is taken they will appear in 
the ollice records correct and then change will cause the 
least possible confusion. With this decision in mind the 
writer started in to cheek over the names of the various 
plants growing in some of the blocks in the nursery, 
selecting those blocks in which young stuff is predomin¬ 
ant. Or in other words stock that is to he lined out and 
grown along before being ready for the market. This, 
of course, included seed beds and propagating frames. 
Cheeking up these blocks proved that the average nur¬ 
sery will have to do it pretty thoroughly if they wish 
to adopt the Standardized Plant Names. While perhaps 
there is only a certain percentage that have been changed 
there is just enough to necessitate checking every name. 
This wilt he found to he especially true with the ever¬ 
greens. The reclassification of Abies and Pieea has en¬ 
tirely changed the names of this group of plants. They 
are quite distinct from what the average nurseryman is 
accustomed. Then the name Retinispora has been en¬ 
tirely eliminated, except as a common name, and a Clia- 
maeeyparis used in its place. 
There are just enough of shrubs changed to necessi¬ 
tate careful checking, even with such well known kinds 
as Cercis japonica, Calycanthus laevigatus, Ampelopsis 
veitchi. 
And so it goes all through the list, just enough changes 
to make careful checking necessary if you want to he 
right up to date. 
One can not help hut recognize the really splendid 
work that was done by tlie authors of this catalog of 
plant names. There are few who use it who will not 
perhaps feel some resentment or annoyance at having 
certain changes made, hut after all it needed arbitrary 
action when there was so much chaos. 
It really works wonderfully simple, the names are so 
readily found and so easily understood. There is pei- 
haps one exception to this statement and that is in the 
case of horticultural varieties, which are sometimes dilli- 
cult to locate. For instance, if the nurseryman wishes 
to find llellnispord lepfoclarla, with the idea of bringing 
that plant amount Standardized Plant Names, there is 
no finding list to enable him to locate it. lie is immedi- 
