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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
been done to show people how to plant and succeed with 
vegetable gardening could also he done in showing them 
how to plant a small area and how to care for the differ¬ 
ent shrubs, llowers, trees, etc., going into it. If a demon¬ 
stration planting of this kind can he arranged for in New 
York it is probable that many other cities all over the 
country will take up the idea just as they did with the 
demonstration vegetable gardens. 
At the Own Your Own Home exposition to be held in 
one of the biggest armories in New York early in Sep¬ 
tember, the Nurserymen’s National Service Bureau will 
have a model planting around a small home, and distri¬ 
bute the McFarland booklets on Home Beautifying and 
the Home Orchard. The trees, plants and flowers for 
this planting have been very generously furnished by 
Isaac Hicks & Sons, of Westbury, Long Island, famous 
for “Big Trees that Save Ten Years.” Mr. Kaymore, of 
the Hicks organization is co-operating with Mr. Bock- 
well on the arrangement of this small place. 
The United States Government is back of the Own 
Your Own Home campaign, which is being carried on all 
over the country, and nurserymen near other large cities 
could undoubtedly for exhibitions of this kind in con¬ 
nection with this campaign. Anyone interested should 
write to Mr. Rockwell for suggestions concerning how to 
get this work started. 
SEND IN YOUR LIST OF NEWSPAPERS! 
Mr. Rockwell is still calling on nurserymen who have 
not yet responded to the opportunity they have to send in 
a list of newspapers in the territory in which they sell, 
so that these papers can be supplied with the series of 
syndicated articles to be sent out this fall and next 
spring. This service, of course, costs local nurserymen 
absolutely nothing. Market Development plans call for 
supplying these articles to a thousand newspapers. The 
list is not yet complete. Why not send in the names of 
newspapers in your own territory that you would like to 
have run this series. Many nurserymen last spring got 
orders which were the direct result of this general pub¬ 
licity. People coming to the nurseries mentioned the 
fact that they had become interested through the reading 
of these articles. Any nurseryman who fails to send in 
a list of the papers in his territoiy is missing out on the 
best advertising proposition he ever had put up to him— 
weekly service of this kind in his local papers for the 
cost of a single two cent stamp to send the list in to the 
Nurserymen’s National Service Bureau. 
CAN YOU BEAT IT? 
A nurseryman recently engaged the services of a sten¬ 
ographer. This is a sample of the first few letters turned 
out. The nurseryman still has a vacancy in his office. 
Dear Sir: 
In the recent date I hand you herewith crat for the 
list which enable in as much as I can supply quotations 
of shrubs are supply of shrubs will be late however ow¬ 
ing the high cost of labor wgich will not be advisable to 
cost of sbrubs in cost of orders therefore I would appre¬ 
ciate very much havung your order for any of the shrubs 
I supply which you will be givne that as lam for given 
a opportunity to early fo the supply of scrubs. 
Your ruly 
LIME ASSOCIATION 
The Lime Association, with headquarters at the Math¬ 
er Bldg., Washington, D. C., have established an Agricul¬ 
tural Bureau for the purpose of developing the market 
for lime. 
There will be a bureau concerning lime material for 
structural operations, a chemical bureau, concerned with 
the use of lime materials in various industries, and an 
agricultural bureau which is concerned with the use of 
any and all liming materials used in agriculture, includ¬ 
ing its application to the soil. 
The Association does not sell lime, but is for the pur¬ 
pose of investigating through suitable agencies, and edu¬ 
cating the consumer in its proper uses. 
It is much on the order of our own Market Develop¬ 
ment movement, except that it is seiTing the lime inter¬ 
ests, and there is no doubt but that anyone wishing in¬ 
formation in regard to the best use for lime for agricul¬ 
tural or horticultural purposes, will get the most reliable 
information possible from the above named bureau. 
J Flushing, N. Y., 8, 12, ’19. 
Federal Horticultural Board, 
Dept, of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C. 
Dear Sirs: 
Returning recently from Canada our car was invaded 
just out of Montreal by a swarm of Hies or winged ants. 
I am not an entomologist and could not identify them. 
Some of the flies or ants were in the car when it readi¬ 
er the Grand Central Station, New York City, ten hours 
later. The thought that occured to me was that prob¬ 
ably harmful insects may reach America through other 
channels than by the importation of nursery stock with 
or without balls of earth adherent thereto. 
To obviate the danger it is suggested that another 
quarantine or embargo be proclaimed at once interdic¬ 
ting international travel. This suggestion is offered that 
you may take steps immediately to guard American in¬ 
terests and incidentally the civilization of the world 
which may else suffer an eclipse. It would be interest¬ 
ing to know what harmful insects your department has 
kept out of the countiy by your activities. This is an 
open letter to the Federal Horticultural Board and we 
hope will have a prompt acknowledgement, preferably 
through the press, where this letter will be offered for 
publication. Make the best case you can and proclaim 
to the world the results of your labors. 
The Brown Tail Moth is reputed at the present time 
to be almost if not quite the most harmful of recently 
imported pests. There is a story current that it was in¬ 
troduced by a scientist in the neighborhood of Boston 
some years since who imported the insect specilically for 
study and experiment. This is a rather ugly story and 
we are loathe to believe it and we respectfully request 
that you affirm or deny its accuracy. 
Very truly yours, 
Bloodgood Nuuseries, 
By Theo. Faulk. 
