THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
291 
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 GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900 
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Entered as second-class matter June 22, 1916, at the post oiftce at 
Hatboro, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March S, 1879. 
Hatboro, Pa., November 1919 
Subscribers to ''Nurserymen's Fund for 
Market Development” 
It would be interesting to 
KNFOUGE TJIE LAW know what action, if any, the 
committee on Ethics has taken 
under the resolution passed at the June Convention, re 
Nurserymen selling to Landscape Gardeners and others 
at prices which do not adequately protect the growers. 
Are there any memhers on the slate for dismissal from 
the Association? Is the Committee too busy to attend to 
the job properly? Or have all the memhers become good? 
These questions are not asked in a spirit of levity hut 
rather to point out the futility of regulations or laws that 
are impracticable however desirable they may he. 
Nothing weakens an organization’s power for good and 
efficient work as rules that cannot he enforced with equal 
justice to all. 
If the resolution was a practical one, based on equity 
it should he enforced to the limit, if not, it should he 
expunged from the minutes of the Association. 
STEALING PLANTS 
Judging from reports, the thief who stole the plants from the 
Arnold Arboretum was a plant enthusiast, very short on morality. 
We can almost forgive a person who steals something because 
he loved it and merely wanted to add it to his collection, al¬ 
though we may not endorse his method of procuring it. At any 
rate, it is not so criminal as the vandals that go through the 
\country destroying trees, shrubs and flowers, just because they 
happen to be in the country. 
It is a curious thing, that any people who would not for a mo¬ 
ment take a penny that belonged to another in the city, will not 
hesitate when in the country to appropriate anything that takes 
his fancy. They seem to think everything is free that grows, it 
does not matter how much labor and money it has cost the own¬ 
er to produce it. 
It is not the people living in the country who are so likely to 
forage through a nursery or orchard, appropriating any thing 
that takes their fancy, as it is the people who ought to know 
better when on automobile tours from the city. 
There is only one way to stop it, that is, take the number of 
the machine, find out the dwner, and send him a bill for the 
damage. 
Our sympathy goes out to the Editor and Stall of the 
Florist’s Exchange, who, on account of the Printers’ 
Strike for the first time in thirty years, were unable to 
get their journal out. 
There is something so ruthless in a strike, like war, 
they are a reaction from what is most desirable. They 
are an anachronism and do not fit the present stage of 
economic development. As soon as they belong to the 
past, the better for everyone, not excepting the employee. 
From the Federal Horticultural Board 
October 11, 1919. 
Editor, National Nurseryman, 
Flourtown, Pa. 
Dear Sir: 
I am sending you, for your information and for such public no¬ 
tice in the interest of your readers as you may care to give it, a 
revised copy of the form of application for special permit to im¬ 
port new varieties or necessary propagating stock as provided 
for in regulation 14 of the rules and regulations under Quarantine 
No. 37. 'The Board appreciate the fact that this is a rather for¬ 
midable looking document and that it will doubtless be criticized 
as placing an unnecessary burden on importers and involving ex¬ 
cessive red tape. That such criticism will be considered valid 
from the viewpoint of the ordinary propagator or plant lover is 
fully recognized, and the Board is very regretful that circum¬ 
stances have seemed to necessitate the surrounding of these im¬ 
portations with all the safeguards which this application and the 
permit involve. Unfortunately, however, a small element of the 
plant importers themselves have made these precautions and 
safeguards necessary. The Board regrets to announce that it 
has found that some few of the importers at least have looked 
upon this Department as fair game and have undoubtedly gone 
forward with the deliberate intention of violating bpth the let¬ 
ter and the spirit of the regulations. The great body of the 
American nurserymen and florists and horticulturists will un¬ 
doubtedly meet the conditions of the quarantine fairly and hon¬ 
estly, and if the Board had to deal with such persons only, it 
could undoubtedly dispense with the bonding and with many of 
the other restrictions referred to. If this course were possible it 
would vastly simplify the work of the Board'and make it much 
more agreeable. It is hoped, therefore, that all those interested 
in the importation of plants and the development of horticulture 
in America will strain a point and give the Board this much 
credit. 
As an illustration of what the Board meets in this work, there 
are quoted below the assurances which the Board received from 
a certain prominent importing florist. These assurances follow¬ 
ed some considerable correspondence in which the conditions of 
importations under regulation 14 had been fully explained. The 
assurances are as follows quoted verbatim: 
We assure you that these bulbs are to be used exclu¬ 
sively for the purpose of propagation. 
We assure you that they will be propagated by us or 
by a grower under contract for us absolutely. 
As regards the exact location where the bulbs will be 
grown this is something that we cannot yet announce. 
It may be in Long Island; it may be in Virginia; it may 
be in New Jersey. 
We are casting about for a suitable place and we as¬ 
sure you that your Department will be promptly and 
duly advised just as soon as exact location where the 
bulbs will be grown shall be determined upon. 
On the arrival of the shipment of bulbs which involved some 
50 cases and totalled 25,000 bulbs and its inspection and libera¬ 
tion in New York, the bulbs were distributed, quoting from the 
report subsequently made to the Board by the importer, to “per¬ 
haps a hundred different people in various parts of the country,” 
This distribution was made on a purely commercial basis to all 
sorts of persons with whom he had contracted to supply these 
bulbs. These contracts for commercial sale had been discussed 
by letter with this importer, and that he fully understood the sit¬ 
uation is indicated by the paragraphs from his letter quoted 
above. 
It should be noted that the restrictions which have been found 
necessary to safeguard the entry, under regulation 14 and under 
special permits, of new varieties and necessary propagating stock 
have not deterred the trades involved from making liberal use 
of the opportunities for importation provided by this regulation. 
Nearly one hundred applications have been received for these 
special permits and most of these applications have been grant- 
