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THE 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 hy the 20th of the month previous to the 
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Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
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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 he 
addressed. Editor, Easton, Md., and should he mailed to arrive 
not later than the 25th of the month. 
Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1916. at the liost office at 
Hathoro. Pe7insylvania, under the Act of March 3. 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., June 1924 
W ASH YOUU DIKTY LINEN Crooks in the nursery 
HUT DON'T TALK AHOUT IT Inisiness, like dirty liii- 
en, do exist. Roth are 
nndesirahle and slioiild he brought up to sanitary stand¬ 
ards with as little pnhlieity as possible. 
There is a ])roper place to do the ])iirilying and it is 
not in the market [ilaee or in the newspajier. 
In the first jilaee, the place to begin is right at home 
in oiir own individual business. 
Riisinesses, like persons, are never perfect and the 
words of the general confession in the ehiireh prayer 
ho(dv, “Wh' have left undone those things which wo 
ought to have done and done those things we ought not 
to have done” are pretty generally applicable. 
Those nurserymen who have adopted and strictly ad- 
lu're to a high code of business ethics do more to raise 
and fix the standards of others than all the sensational 
pnhlieity of crookedness. 
It is the .suspicion that others are getting away w ith 
smart jiraetiees tha' 's so demoralizing. It is the attitude 
expressed in the Engli.shman’s “Oh, say! It isn’t done you 
know ” that really eslahlishes the code. 
There alw ays has been and we presume alw ays w ill Tie 
ujilifters w ho take the “holier than thou” stand and feel 
it is their duty to reform the world by ])reaehing rather 
than practice. Such men are necessary, they do useful 
work in stirring up the consciences that perhaps are a 
little dormant, hut after all they should not he taken too 
seriously as very often tlieir enthusiasm, in what they 
consider their duty, is ill-founded and not always aiipli- 
cahh'. They are just as likely to do wrong hy raising 
sus])icion and doubt as to improve things hy their preach¬ 
ing. 
Tlu' nursery trade, on the whole, has a high standard 
of moralitv and a Cod(' of Ethics that is second to no 
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other business. The work of bringing the mendiers up 
to a full aiipreciation of the necessity of wmrking to this 
code is the work of the trade alone. It is not a Govern¬ 
ment function, as that is primarily to see that everyone^ 
has equal chances. 
The nursery trade has show n every evidence of its in¬ 
tention of setting a high standard of action for its mem¬ 
bers and there is little question that it will accomplish 
it, if given the lime, and much more effectively than hy 
washing the dirty linen in public w ith a view of arous¬ 
ing public sentiment and encouraging Government inter¬ 
ference. 
SURPLUS The subject of surpluses and falling prices 
is always in the minds of the nurserymen, 
although remote just at present. 
Too heavy jilantings in the ])ast, that found a way to 
the brush pile, left an impression which is not easily 
eradicated and perhaps has more intluence on his out 
look into the future than it should have. 
Of course there is always a danger of over planting, 
hut one has only to keep in close toueh with the as¬ 
tounding progress of the past few' years, in all lines, as 
to wonder if such a thing as a surplus is possible, and, 
if it is not rather the fault of poor individual manage¬ 
ment than through the inability of the country to absorb 
the goods. 
There may he a suri)lus in one locality of a few' things 
and often is, while tliere is a shortage in another. It 
would seem the main thing to do is for the individual 
planter to study the scope of his own particular market. 
General statements, covering the whole country, are 
rarely applicable to all localities or all individuals. 
Judging from the ahsorjilion in other lines of merchan¬ 
dise it w ould hardly seem possible that there could he a 
suiplus of nursery stock for a long time to come. The 
need of planting, along all lines, is so great, not only in 
the fruit industry, hut also in forestry and ornamentals. 
The main thought that should alw ays he kept foremost 
in mind is the transportation and distribution with this 
properly provided job at a charge that w ill not place the 
price beyond its value to the purchaser. The proper de¬ 
velopment of the market to absorb it is merely a matter 
of proper publicity. 
WATCH YOUR STEP 
May 6, 1924. 
National Nurseryman, 
Hatboro, Penna. 
Dear Sirs: 
The Federal Horticultural Roard is advocating some 
amendments of the Plant Ouarantine Act of 1912. See 
H. R. 8374. 
An amendment to Section 10 is proposed which pro¬ 
vides among other things as follows: 
“That any person who forcibly assaults, resists, op¬ 
poses, ])revents, impedes or interferes w ith any enqiloyee 
of the Department of Agriculture in the exercise of his 
duties, etc., etc., shall, upon conviction, be punished by a 
fine of not less than -toOO, nor more than -$5,000, or by 
imprisonment not less than one month or more than one 
year, or both; and any person who discharges any deadly 
