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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, Fiourtown, 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 GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900 
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Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1916, at the post office at 
Hathqro, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March S, 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., May 1919 
Subscribers to **Nursery men's Fund for 
Market Development" 
“Soil with Potted and Balled Plants 
QUARANTINE 37 a special Source of Danger.” 
Dr. Marlatt makes the above 
statement in a memorandum dated February 1st, 1919. 
The Department of Agriculture has also incontestable 
proof of 148 species of injurious insects to be found in 
nursery stock imported from Holland. 
If this is so the preliminaries of putting Quarantine 
37 into effect has certainly introduced every last one of 
the species into this country and they are all primed to 
commence their work of devastation of gardens, orchards 
and forests. 
Never before has so much Dutch earth been imported 
into this country from the nurseries of Holland in one 
year, and think of it, after four years of war when the 
nurseries of the other side were under manned and so, 
not in as clean and sanitary condition as hitherto. 
If the prime consideration of Quarantine 37 was to 
prevent the importation of injurious insects it has de¬ 
feated its own object and if there was danger it has 
added greatly to it over what there would have been un¬ 
der normal importing conditions and careful inspection. 
After reading all the statements in connection with 
Quarantine 37 and noting the conflicting currents of 
thought on the subject the whole subject seems to re¬ 
solve itself into a matter of beliefs. 
Giving credit to everyone for sincerity there remains 
nothing but to fight it out according to convictions. 
The entomologists are in power and able to enforce 
their will upon the horticulturists so the public must 
abide by the decision. 
Neither side denies there are insects and diseases 
which should be kept out of this country if possible. 
Based largely on circumstantial evidence and theory 
the entomologists have decided there is a danger in im¬ 
porting plants, and caused to he put in force a law that 
excludes plants on the theory that it will exclude in¬ 
sects also. 
The horticulturists question the theory and resent their 
business being interfered with and being made to hear 
the onus of being the cause of the introduction of epi¬ 
demics and plagues that may attack the vegetation of 
the country, which may just as readily be carried by 
other vehicles or caused by conditions quite foreign to 
those attending the importation of plants. 
The entomologists doubtless are doing what they con¬ 
sider to be right and for the best interests of the country 
at large, but they will have to work the bug-a-boo over¬ 
time to keep the country convinced bugs are being kept 
out by a law that keeps out their garden treasures. 
The annual crop of diseases and pests will show no 
diminuition, peaches and apples will become no more 
plentiful. 
With all the science of medicine concentrated on one 
genus for a century its final decision is right living is 
more effective against disease than anything else. 
The parallel is easily seen, proper cultivation and care 
is the best quarantine that can be established. 
We may carp and criticize the 
REAL PLANTSMEN Government and incidentally the 
NEEDED U. S. D. of A., the Federal Horti¬ 
cultural Board, and all those who 
in any way try to regulate the doings in the Horticultural 
world, we may growl about labor, high cost of every 
thing and low prices of nurseiy stock, but like religion 
the great fundamental need in our particulalr business is 
love, love of plants for the plants sake and not for the 
dollar that can he made out of it. 
It is true the nurseiy business is merchandising hut it 
is a great deal more. It is g^i’owing and caring for plants 
for years to bring them as near perfection as possible 
before you sell them. It is watching, thinking and caring 
for them carefully, constantly catering to their wants, 
studying their peculiarities protecting them against 
drouth, heat and cold, attacks of insect pests and disease. 
When talking with the proprietor of one of the largest 
growers of ornamental plants in the United States, he 
expressed himself as rich in plants and poor in money 
and bewailed the fact that he did not have a real plants- 
man in his establishment, a man who was really inter¬ 
ested in plants. Such a man could name his own salary 
as he would be invaluable. But with the real plantsman 
the pay envelope and clock are only a secondaiy consid¬ 
eration. 
I can imagine the cynical smiles that such a statement 
will produce but it is none the less true and the one great 
need is some method or procedure that will take the place 
of the identured apprentice, that will train young men in 
.their profession, and develop a code and standard of 
work very much above the present one. 
America as a country is accused of being sordid and 
commercial. The war has proved beyond question she is 
idealistic, altruistic and charitable and there is a constant 
hunger for art and the better things of life. 
We have more than enough of science, and business 
efficiency hut we are extremely short on that plodding pa- 
