April, 1922 



[trees of the required size, they use too much 

 water and also use the water too late in the 

 season to allow the trees to ripen thoroughly 

 before fall frosts attack them. There are 

 other reasons that would lead one to 

 condemn nursery stock besides the fact of 

 its being diseased, stunted, inbred, mongrel 

 or because of poor workmanship in grafting 

 and budding. 



I say that growers should not seek bargain 

 counter sales in nursery stock. Land is too 

 v.iluable. Cost of labor not only warrants 

 but demands the best stock that science and 

 skill can produce. 



If I were going to set out an orchard, 

 say of Delicious apples, I would select the 

 finest specimens of a vigorous, productive 

 tree, say .Arkansas Black, producing highly 

 colored apples. I would select the finest 

 specimens when the apples were fully 

 matured. I would care for the seeds of 

 these and at the proper season I would plant 

 them. When the seedlings were one year 

 old, I would select scions of a tree of equal 

 quality of Delicious and graft into the root 

 'tocks of the seedlings. I firmly believe 

 that this method would do away with so 

 many unsightly variations and failures in 

 orchard culture and that the results there- 

 from would justify the e.xtra cost and labor 

 involved. 



BETTER FRUIT 



Plants Quarantined 



BY PROCLAMATION of the gover- 

 nor and the Oregon State Board of 

 Horticulture a quarantine on strawberry 

 plants has been made effective and will 

 not be raised until danger of spread of 

 root weevil is entirely allayed. No one 

 may now sell strawberry plants in Oregon 

 without first obtaining written credentials 

 from the Board of Horticulture removing 

 the quarantine on the plants to be sold. 



When the quarantine was promulgated 

 some time ago Charles A. Parks, presi- 

 dent of the Board of Horticulture, said: 

 "This action on the part of the board 

 was absolutely necessary to protect and pre- 

 serve the great strawberry industry of the 

 state. The root weevil is a most dangerous 

 pest and unless we take radical steps to 

 prevent its spread within a few years there 

 would be nothing left of this great in- 

 dustry." 



Oregon residents who wish to sell straw- 

 berry plants need to get in touch with 

 the nearest county fruit inspector or, if 

 none is convenient, should communicate 

 with the state Board of Horticulture. 



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