THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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BABY BAMBLEB NOTES 
Clarence Perkins has received his discharge from the 
service and is on the job talking Jackson & Perkins Pre- 
fei’red Stock once more. 
Tom Stark is spending several weeks in the South¬ 
west on business. 
William Masten and Hort. Bowden sneaked off on a 
motor trip thru Western New York, and none got hurt 
either. 
F. Burnett Kelly, Carl Flemer, William Flemer, Jr., 
and Hort. Bowden attended the Ornamental Growers' 
meeting in New York on August 6th. 
Paul Fortmiller is spending a few weeks’ vacation in 
Canada. 
Bert Manahan is back on the job after spending his 
vacation fishing in the wilds of Michigan. 
Warning; Don’t speed going thro Nelliston, N. Y. It 
cost me a ten sjiot. Hort. Bowden. 
BOADS AND TBEES AS MEMOBIALS 
Attention has already been called to the movement lo 
make our memorials to the heroes who died in the great 
war sensible, perpetual, and soundly sentimental by tree 
planting and the erection of community houses, instead 
of more monuments, arches and statues that mean noth¬ 
ing but vulgar display. 
To this should he added another kind of memorial, 
which its promoters happily call roads of remembrance. 
It pimply means to build good roads and beautify 
them all along the way. 
This is in consonance wth the principle that ought to 
direct all memorial building, to wit: That the fittest 
memorial for the dead is the one that best seiwes the liv¬ 
ing. 
The American Forestry Association of Washington is 
advocating memorial road building. 
The inspiring idea is being enthusiastieally adoiitcd 
in some regions and ought to he in all. 
Tree planting and road building are the sanest, glad¬ 
dest, most wholesome war-cries of reconstruction. 
Mr. Pack, of the Forestry Association, tells us that 
along the highway from Chicago to Sagimwv walnut 
trees are to be planted and this will be called the Vic¬ 
tory Highway. The peojile along the route have prom¬ 
ised, he reports, to improve and beautify their proper¬ 
ty. This is a good illustration of the w^ay in which tree 
planting leads to other civic improvements. The State 
of Maryland is one of the first to get its highway pro¬ 
gram under way. The National Defense Highw^ay be¬ 
tween Bladenshurg and Annapolis wdll be a memorial 
to the Maryland soldiers in the great war for civiliza¬ 
tion. The Oregon Federation of Women’s Clubs are 
hack of a plan for a Boosevelt road. In New'^ York a hill 
has been introduced to create a State commission to pre¬ 
pare plans for a Boosevelt Memorial Trunk High¬ 
way from Montauk Point to Buffalo. The city of 
Buffalo is now'^ considering a Memorial Bridge to 
link Canada and the United States. The State of Indi¬ 
ana plans a Memorial Grove for every county. In Louis¬ 
iana trees have been planted along the highway that 
leads from New Orleans to Winnipeg. 
Trees and roads! These are the words constructive 
that best answer the ideas of the Hun destructive. 
Trees and roads! These are the fairest marks of civi¬ 
lization. 
Subscriptions are now being raised to plant a tree for 
every fallen soldier in France and Belgium. 
Teacher, get your school to plant a tree in France! 
Let us reforest that denuded land. 
And let us build roads and plant trees in our own 
land, until America shall have the most wonderful high- 
w ays in the w orld. 
Dr. Fr ANK Crane in Evenng Bulletin. 
THE USE OF NAILS FOBBIDDEN TO FASTEN 
BUBLAP WBAPPING OF BALES 
Charles Sizemore, Secretary and Traffic Manager of 
the National Association of Nurserymen has received the 
following letter from the President of the American Bail- 
wuiy Express Company at St. Louis, regarding the fasten¬ 
ing of burlap shipments with nails for shipment. 
It w ill he noted that the use of nails w ill not be per¬ 
mitted and nurserymen should make it a point to sew" the 
hales with twine to avoid rejection of the shipments. 
American Railway Express Company, 
St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 21st, 1919. 
Mr. Chas. Sizemore, 
Secretary & Traffic Manager, 
American Assn, of Nurserymen, 
Louisiana, Mo. 
Dear Sir. 
USB OF NAILS TO FASTEN BURLAP WRAPPLNO ON SHIP¬ 
MENTS NURSERY STOCK 
Referring to your letter of July 24th. in connection with fasten¬ 
ing of burlap wrappings on nursery stock shipments by means 
of nails: 
I note the expressed desire of certain Nursery Companies to 
continue the use of nail fastenings provided the points of nails 
are concealed, it being assumed that such practice would elimin¬ 
ate any danger of injury to the clothes or person of employes 
handling such shipments. 
I referred this matter to all operating officials in the Southwest¬ 
ern Departments, and Vice President Stedman, of Chicago, 
handled the matter similarly with the officials in the Central De¬ 
partments under his supervision, and I find the unanimous opin¬ 
ion is decidedly against the use of nail fastenings, and that in¬ 
stead these burlaps should be secured by stitching with twine or 
wire, to which there is no possible objection. 
While I would like to grant the concession called for, the pos¬ 
sible personal injury to employes handling these shipments when 
fastened by nails, even though the points of same are concealed, 
is too great to allow it, and I am sure you will understand the 
position we are obliged to take in this matter is the best for all 
concerned, and that we must continue to enforce the present 
rule whereby nursery shipments in bales must be refused when 
fastened with nails. 
Yours Truly, 
G. D. SUMMY„ 
Vice President. 
THE VEGETABLE GBOWEBS’ ASSOCIATION 
OF AMEBIGA. 
The Vegetable Growlers’ x\ssociatioii of America w"ill 
hold its eleventh annual Convention at the Hotel Staller. 
Detroit, Mich., Septemher 9th to 12th. 
A very interesting and full program has been ar¬ 
ranged. 
The officers of the Association are, president, Howard 
W. Selby; secretary, S. W, Severance. 
G. W. Wald of East Lansing, Mich., is chairman of the 
Convention Committee. 
