THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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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, Flourtown, Pa. 
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 GRA^iD 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 S, 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., April 1919 
Subscribers to ''Nurserymen's Fund for 
Market Development" 
Losses by insect pests and disease, losses by 
LOSSES tire, losses by drouth, losses by tlood, losses 
by frost. 
Sure there are losses and always will be, some by pre¬ 
ventable causes and others that are not. If any nursery¬ 
men or any other business man for that matter, expects 
100% from all his efforts, well he is either very inexper¬ 
ienced or unbalanced. 
Yet our statisticians gravely tell us one hundred millions 
of dollars were lost due to the San Jose Scale and so imj)ly 
that if this insect had not been introduced into this coun¬ 
try this amount would have been saved. Maybe it would 
have been, but it takes a credulous nature to believe a 
first class croj) of peaches would have been raised any 
easier or at less cost than if the San Jose had stayed at 
home. 
Some of us are apt to look back and imagine the earth 
yielded her fruits more generously and at less cost of 
effort and loss than at iiresent, but she is a rather exact¬ 
ing mistress and invariably gives favors about as earned. 
Statisticians, entomologists, scientific farmers and gov- 
ei-nment experts are quite useful, but are a comparatively 
recent introduction into positions of power. The world 
was fairly well clothed and fed before the book scientist 
was very influential in industrial society, and while we 
w ould not wish to do without them, they should not be 
allowed to stampede public opinion by statistics of losses, 
wbicb are really no more existant that the fortune the 
stock gambler would have made “if.” 
To exploit losses for the purpose of making the tax- 
jiayers “come across” with the appropriation to prevent 
the unpreventable, savors more of the politician than 
the scientist. 
Back of the learning in the world is the fundamental 
law “By the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.” 
Individuals may sidestep this fact, hut collectively we 
cannot escape. 
We may reduce the sweating process by machinery, 
by learning the life bistory of some atom of creation and 
restricting its actions, and by artifically heljiing nature, 
but it is merely borrowing from Peter to pay Paul but we 
always have to settle up w ith Peter. 
As long as the native vigor of any plant has not been 
devitalized by unnatural processes of cultivation, it is 
possible to raise a good crop in spite of all the diseases 
and ])ests in the world. 
Good common sense culture that was an acquired art 
before the advent of printing, is after all still to be de- 
])ended upon to produce results in spite of all the newly 
discovered and imported diseases and pests. 
Business conditions are naturally still 
BUSINESS somewhat chaotic, yet from all nurseries 
CONDITIONS that have been beard from come reports 
of good business, as many orders as can 
be bandied. ' 
This in spite of the fact that the other lines such as 
suburban and countiy homes are not as yet being built 
and other things such as the demobilization, wliicli pre¬ 
cede real activity in nursery lines, have as yet barely 
started. 
The period of reconstruction must necessarily be a 
trying, awkward one. after a world war that has so com¬ 
pletely changed the old order of things. 
We are fearful of unknown after effects of the war, 
on labor, capital, politics, taxes, high prices, and every 
phase of life which previously guided us in our actions, 
yet the country at large, or the great majority, is greatly 
trying to adapt itself to everything that comes along. It 
grumbles and growls, reads the sensational reports of 
Bolshevism, Government mis-management, but the great 
majority keep quiet and saw wood, attending to their 
own particular business as reaches out into new enter¬ 
prises as far as they think conditions will warrant. This, 
unfortunately is not far, but it really only needs strong 
current of optimism to sweep through the country to 
start things, and completely restore confidence in the 
good sense of the mass. This may come at any time. 
Perhaps signing the ])eace will bring it, or it may come 
of its own accord, overnight, and start the wheels a hum¬ 
ming instead of squeaking as they are at present. 
The Manufacturer’s Becord pointed out the remedy 
as follows: do it now 
Have you been planning to build a factory, a church, 
a school, a home or even a garage? 
Has your community felt the need of improving its 
streets, its roads, its municipal buildings, its water or 
sewerage systems? 
Have you planned to improve or modernize your plant? 
Then, do it now! 
Don’t wait on somebody else, don’t wait to see if you 
can get the last bottom notch in jirices. Don’t wait to 
see if labor, struggling to find a job, can be squeezed 
down to accejit a few cents or a few dollars less per day. 
Don’t wait, in order to help break down prices of ma¬ 
terials as well as of labor, but whatever needs to be done, 
if the money is available, “do it now!” 
Do it as a part of your work of patriotism, content to 
write off a little extra cost if that should become neces- 
