THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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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 office at 
Hathoro, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March S, 1879. 
Hatboro. Pa., December 1919 
Subscribers to **Nurserymen*s Fund for 
Market Development** 
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The best wish the National Nurseryman can give f 
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is that the Christmas spirit may have full sway % 
through the coming year in all transactions, which 
is the only thing that will allay the unrest and bring 
about Happiness, Prosperity and Peace. 
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In Democracies the people are 
WHAT IS supposed to govern. Our govern- 
TIIE GOVERNMENT nient is a deinocracy, we nursery- 
DOING FOR men are a section of the people 
HORTICULTURE and, logically we should select the 
governors and experts guiding 
the destiny of the Horticulture of the country. 
Is that faulty reasoning? or have we been so careless 
and lax that we have not even tried to have a voice in the 
selection of those forming the policy and laws that guide 
the destiny of our business. 
One would think that men of the craft would be chosen, 
men who have been trained from childhood in the art of 
horticulture, whose practical knowledge is beyond ques¬ 
tion. men who do not have to make costly experiments to 
})rove theories that are as fundamental as the decalogue 
or to refute those that are the unripe productions of 
partly educated and inexperienced minds. 
The government is supposed to be fostering the horti¬ 
cultural interests of the country, but in the methods it is 
using, is it not shackling private enterprise and effort to 
such a degree that it will produce results that are the 
exact opposite to those that are to be the most desired? 
There may be those who favor government ownership 
to the nth degree and perhaps they are right where it con- 
eerns natural resources that rightly belong to the people 
as a whole, but the forces that make for horticultural 
progress such as labor experience, untiring effort, skilled 
workmanship and concentrated interest are best devel¬ 
oped by private enterprise. 
Judging from comments in borti- 
THE GOULD BILL cultural papers the Gould Bill 
seems to have the endorsement of 
the Nursery Trade and why shouldn’t it? It is proposed 
for their especial benefit. The Government thoughtfully 
and deliberately under the advice of its own particular 
experts, has banned Foreign sources of supply, so of 
course it is necessary to develop domestic sources of pro¬ 
duction, and prove that the plants hitherto imported can 
be grown in the United States. The practical, old school 
nurseryman may feel a bit resentful with so much pa¬ 
ternal oversight, he knows so well there is no substitute 
for hard work when it comes to profitable production of 
nursery stock. 
He has failed in producing many items in a commercial 
way and yet knows at the same time it is not impossible to 
grow them from a horticultural point of view. This, how¬ 
ever does not always meet with commercial success. 
The Government experiment stations supported by 
taxes and managed by well educated college men, dille- 
tant workers, experimenters, can of course grow any¬ 
thing in a perfectly eugenic way and make a report on it 
but the nurseryman has to grow it and make a profit on it. 
We hope if the Gould Bill is approved and the necessary 
appropriations forth coming the Government experts will 
not over look this phase of their experiment work. 
^ Editor National Nurseryman:— 
We think your editorial on the subject of “Teaching 
the Public How to Buy,” is the best you have written. It 
is the best kind of publicity for us and will bring the 
greatest national results if we can train the average pur¬ 
chaser to know.quality when he sees it and not always 
look for size. 
Appearances have led to disillusionment in more things 
than could be named in short space but in no particular 
line is it more deceiving than the nursery stock. Often 
the largest and handsomest looking trees do not compare 
with the smaller and less attractive ones. There are great 
things in store for the nurseryman in the future for us to 
live long enough to have a good share of it if we take it 
up and take hold of it. There is so much to be done in 
getting together and keeping together that we need to 
know everything that is going on in the trade as well as 
keeping time on the public pulse. 
Ruth Day, 
Manager Overman’s Nursery, 
Spokane, Wash. 
