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Show CAN AMERICA GROW ITS FRUIT STOCKS? Nurserymen Contider Now the Accept ed Time -The New Quarantine Will Foster the Business. THE ebovtgrOM6 rrt'on of your fruit trr; rmy pure American, Amer-ican, hut th undor-gTound : portion l? eery l)kely to be foreign. ' Mh thf exception of a fpw applr I autl peach, most el th" seedling plnt 1 on which frrnfting it budding Ll done j ar Imported and evr-n with the spple. i though considerable projre;s has t.'en I mado in producing Amerlrnn grown J seedllnfa fr.m) Imported (Trench -cd-. tho grnt majority Of nurseryman hav thu fnr preferred to import apple Kprdhnc from "anp, and wl.ilo s..me Of them oro higher l-i prhr, porhnps the freateel reason Is that they can Import them cheaper thnn they can grow them. As the demand for highest grades of fruit rind plnnt products IncreaveM, I we should know more of the actual relation of storks to quality of product, prod-uct, to the length of life of the tree or plant, to its rulnptablllty to the aoll and climate and to resistance to diseases and insect attacks. It is claimed that in America any condition of European soil and climate may he duplicated, md the problem now Is how to produce In this country coun-try the millions Of ordinary apple, peur. plum and cherry stocks which hitherto have been secured largely ! abroad. "If stocks are to be produced In this country, to take the place of those hitherto secured abroad," says the department of agriculture, "it would seem proper that effort should bo made by the government to old those who are anxious to know where the work can best be done and how It mny be done to the best advantage. The chief problem are to find reglona and soil in this country where stocke may he commercially -frown and to demonstrate on a enmmercial scale that Mjrh stocks are equal to or better thnn those grown abroad." If we nre ever fo hulld up an American Ameri-can grown nursery hiislnes, now would seom to he the proper time to push It. bemuse the foreign shipper are now more or leu demoralised and the qunrantlne preventing the Importation Impor-tation of foreign isforks on account of danccrous Inve. ts from plant dlease. which went Into effect June 1 will encourage en-courage American nurserymen to begin be-gin to propagate their own nocks aa soon as possible. "I see no reason why America should not have n reat development In the. nursery line, as the war has taught na that we rnnnot only raise our own plants, but many of the seed that we formerly Imported," says Charle S. Calwell president Corn Exchange National Na-tional bunk, Philadelphia. "Under ordinary or-dinary conditions it would be danger-ons danger-ons enough, but under present conditions condi-tions on account nf the great scarcity of labor on the other side I have no doubt that the stock has been Infected Infect-ed to a greater degree than ever, and the danger from Importing such plants Is greatly increased. fi fl "Here in America we are short of help and likely will he for several years and we ennnot afford to add to our trouble- in the way of Infected plants calling for labor to fight the scourge, when It is Tery easy to keep it out now." |