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TIIE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
Established 1893 by C. L. YATES. Incorporated 1902 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBUSHING 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 GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900 
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Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1916, at the post office at 
Hathoro, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., September 1919 
Subscribers to '‘Nurserymen's Fund for 
Market Development" 
Emerson, in his essay on Goinpensa- 
TIIE LAW' tion says “Nothing arbitrary, nothing 
AND THE artificial, can endure.” If we apjily 
NUltSEUYMAN this statement to the horticultural 
laws, such as Quarantine 37, we gather 
a grain of comfort, realizing that most laws are 
both arbitrary and artificial. However, there is not much 
consolation, as it will take them so long to prove their fal¬ 
lacy, but we know that sooner or later they will become 
a dead letter, because they were conceived in error and 
brought forth in injustice. 
Wdiat is it that so influences ])ul»lic opinion that makes 
the jiassing of such laws jiossible? It is largely the pub¬ 
lishing of certain mathematical iiropositions depicting the 
money values in losses sustained through the depredation 
ol insect jiests and jilant diseases. These are concluded 
to amount to hundreds of millions of dollars annually. 
The average i)erson does not stop to realize that these 
loss(‘s are j-eally natui-al, and without them, even from a 
financial point of view it would bring about absolute ruin 
to the producei'. Without these losses railroads and ships 
conid not (*ai ry one-t(‘nth of the (U'ops. Ther(‘ would lie 
no such thing as a normal condition. Since the world 
began, nature has Ix'en. anil always will be. the great 
adjuster. All life is so interwoven from the highest to 
!h(‘ lowc'st. that to bri'ak any liidv in the chain is liable to 
have fai- ri'aching and unforesiam l■('snlls. We ai'c viu’y 
apt to look on a disi'ase or a jiest from only oiu' angh\ 
Tin' small fruit grower jierhaps looks on the birds as 
pesis. lb' would l)e (juite willing to have them destroyed, 
ipiiti' overlooking tin' fart that if all tin' birds were de- 
stroyi'd human beings ('ould not ('xist. 
for tin'si' ri'asons. all laws di'aling with horticulture 
or nature, should be founded on common sense, on juc- 
lice and principle. If our Eederal Horticultural board 
could work under the title of Eederal Horticultural Sani¬ 
tation Board, w e should have much better rules and regu¬ 
lations governing the movement and care of iilants. Quar¬ 
antining for insects and disease, unless absolute is rid¬ 
iculous. The only real quarantine barrier is a natural or 
physical one. Climatic conditions are imperative. The 
sanu' law s w Inch jirevent the })ineaj)ple from grow ing in 
Massachusetts, or the Balsam Fir from grow ing in Flor¬ 
ida, control the isothermal areas of plant diseases and 
pests. Not all the science in the wmrld can make a dis¬ 
ease or an insect propagate and spread unless conditions 
are favorable, and all the embargoes in tbe world cannot 
keep disease and jiests awaiy wdien conditions are favor¬ 
able for them to develop. 
Arbitrary measures and artificial arrangements may 
seem to be effective for a time, but if half of the effort 
w as used and all the rules, regulations and laws jiertain- 
ing to horticulture in the varous States, were founded on 
a common sense principle of sanitation, we should have 
better crojis, and be at least working wdth nature instead 
of ridiculously trying to rule her by puny effort and silly 
theories. 
Among all the remedies and sugges- 
IT BINDS TBUE tions as to the cause and cure of the 
present chaotic conditions, one sug¬ 
gestion is noted that rings true and sensible, name¬ 
ly “Work and save.” It stands to reason that after four 
years of expenditures and wTaste unprecedented in the 
wmrld’s history, that there is a shortage of everything 
necessary to modern conditions of life, and to get back 
into our old channel or at least a channel that will lead 
to contentment and happiness, wm must ‘Svork and 
save.” 
When the nurseryman, or any- 
IN BE QUABANTINE 37 one interested in the importa¬ 
tion of plants, reads the fol¬ 
lowing that w as clipped from the New^ York Evening Sun, 
it w ill make hm wonder if this small vessel did not con¬ 
tain more potential danger to the agricultural and horti¬ 
cultural interests than a whole season’s imports of plants 
from the w ell eared for nurseries of foreign countries. 
“The four masted American schooner Augustus G. 
Hilton finished her first round trip voyage to-day with 
the record of one of the most harrowing experiences 
ever reported by a deep sea vessel. The schooner left 
Buenos Aires .lime 18 w ith a eargo of corn in bags, and 
a plague of weevils developed when she was ten days 
out, and these pests multiplied so rapidly that life 
aboard the vessel, on w hicli there w'^ere two officers and 
a crew of eleven men, nine of wdiom were negroes, be¬ 
came almost unbearable. 
The men eould not stej) upon the deck without killing 
thousands of the insects, and sleeping in the forecastle 
became impossible. The men placed hammoeks in the 
rigging and kept the wmevils from invading these quar¬ 
ters by surrounding the masts with bands of eotton 
soaked in molasses. 
Capt. Orlanco C. Saw^yer, commander of tbe vessel, 
has one good eye, and this w^as attaeked by the wee¬ 
vils. The pain became so severe that he tw ice threaten- 
