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THE NATIONAL NURSEEYMAN 
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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Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1916. at the post office at 
Hatboro, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., April 1924 
WRONG PUBLICITY During the last several years we 
have heard much about dishonest 
practices in the nursery business. Even those who should 
know better have added their voices and pens to help to 
brand the business as one largely composed of crooks, 
needing the most stringent regulation and supeiTision. 
That the business has had and always will have dis¬ 
honest men in it, goes without saying. No business or 
profession ever was or ever will be exempt; even includ¬ 
ing our own lawmakers and courts. 
The very nature of the profession calls for a high 
standard of integrity and as a whole, it has measured 
up to it. Very few phases of the nursery business lend 
themselves to the manipulations of the get-rieh-quiek 
gentlemen; its chief requirements from its votaries are 
patience, long investment, hard labor and permanent or¬ 
ganization ; without these there is no success in the nur¬ 
sery business, and none of them appeals to parasites of 
society. Yet the desire foi' regulation is so strong in our 
law makers that their misguided efforts do little hut dis¬ 
courage honest effort. 
The trade can and does demand a high standard of 
ethical practice; it is drawing closer together and of itself 
keeps dishonesty at a minimum. 
The president of the American Association of Nursery¬ 
men, along with other nurserymen of his state, are taking 
a leading part in the passage of an anti-bribery and graft 
law. The Vigilance Committee of the same association has 
many eyes scanning advertisements of the nurserymen of 
the country on the lookout for misleading statements, and 
exerts a moral force in other ways that discourages those 
who would prey on the jmhlic to the detriment of the 
trade. 
Besides the “National” association there are all the 
state and district associations, which jierhaps may not 
control the actions of their members, yet whose influence 
towards a high standard of practice is very real. 
The nursery trade has been largely influential in tak¬ 
ing the first step in standardizing the nomenclature of 
horticulture, at no small cost in effort by some of its 
members of the trade. 
These are only a few of the many evidences that the 
nursery trade as a whole is clean and honest and the 
overwhelming majority of square dealing members 
makes it very unnecessary for restrictive legislation. 
The trade itself discourages crooks much more effi¬ 
ciently than laws that hamper and retard honest effort 
and which make everyone a potential criminal. 
There is no business that is so basically necessary to 
the culture, refinement and happiness of the people. 
The development of the country has reached that stage 
when an interest in plants, more beautiful surroundings 
and more thought he given to homes is a vital necessity 
to counteract the prevailing unrest, dollar chasing and 
excitement. 
If there is one business that is preeminently altruistic, 
whose products can only tend to produce wealth and 
beauty and happiness of the people, that should be fos¬ 
tered and encouraged, it is the nursery business. 
Tuesday, March 11, 1924. 
Editor of Tlu' National Nurseryman, 
Easton, Md. 
Dear Sir: 
I have noted that in an editorial in the March issue 
of The National Nurseryman you have stated your ob¬ 
jections to the so-called “Gramton Bill” (H. R. 760) to 
prevent the shipment and sale in interstate commerce of 
nursery stock untrue to name. In the same paper I have 
obseiwed a communication on this bill from the trench¬ 
ant pen of Mr. J. C. Vaughan. 
It seems to me that both the editorial and the article 
do not bring out what would ajipear to he a serviceable 
objection to the passage of the hill. May I suggest the 
objection which, I am sure, the Congress will appreciate? 
Ill This hill makes it unlawful to ship in interstate 
commerce any nursery stock, as defined in the x4ct, for 
pay or otherwise, which does not bear on each tree, shrub 
or plant or on the original unbroken package thereof, a 
label stating the true, accepted and correct name of the 
variety of such nursery stock, the name of the person 
who grew the same and the place where it was grown. 
It seems to me that the true basis of objection is that 
this requirement is entirely unreasonable and cannot he 
complied with by the conscientious merchant. If I re¬ 
member correctly, there is a large number of plants, es¬ 
pecially fruit trees, which, in their immature condition 
and defoliated, cannot he distinguished with certainty 
and the varietal name stated. In the various jirocesses 
of merchandising these plants, even in the exercise of 
the greatest caution, the nurseryman or nursery stock 
dealer cannot determine without occasional errors, the 
tru(* variety of the plant. In this situation it seems 
wholly unreasonable for any law to demand what ap¬ 
pears to be the impossible. 
(2) It also seems impossible, especially in the case of 
