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and a loss of more than $14,641,000. In 

 the States of Missouri, Arkansas, Okla- 

 homa, Louisiana, and Texas nearly 

 5,000 fires have annually destroyed 

 $2,000,000 worth of property; the total for 

 the three years is 13,983 fires, entailing a 

 loss of $5,563,000. Thus in these two 

 groups of Southern States, fires and fire 

 losses for the past three years have reach- 

 ed the stupendous totals of 50,000 fires and 

 $20,000,000 loss. With the exception of 

 North Carolina, Louisiana, and Texas, no 

 organized effort is made to control such 

 fires, and even in these States the effort 

 is far from adequate. The proposed en- 

 rollment of a large additional number of 

 co-operators will, it is hoped, be a step in 

 the direction of more widespread conser- 

 vation. 



CURRANTS AND GOOSEBERRIES 



SPREAD WHITE-PINE DISEASE 

 T>ESTRUCT10N of all currant and 

 gooseberry bushes within 900 feet of 

 valuable native and planted white-pine 

 trees is the urgent recommendation of 

 Federal and State authorities to pine own- 

 ers in regions where the destructive white- 

 pine blister rust has appeared or is likely 

 to appear. 



This action is urged as a result of re- 

 ports made when representatives of the 

 northeastern and middle western white- 

 pine States, the Canadian Government, and 

 the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture met recently in the Fifth Interna- 

 tional White Pine Blister Rust Confer- 

 ence. It has been proved that blister rust 

 spores may spread for many miles from 

 white pines to currant and gooseberry 

 bushes, and over relatively short distances 

 from the currants and gooseberries to 

 other white pines. Under most condi- 

 tions, it is believed, a safety zone 600 to 

 900 feet wide around the white pines to 

 be protected will interrupt the "vicious 

 circle" of the disease and will allow the 

 commercial growth of white pine. Other 

 conditions, however, may require wider 

 safety zones, and pine owners in the vari- 

 ous regions are advised to ask their State 

 forester or the United States Department 

 of Agriculture for expert advice upon this 

 point. 



TREE PLANTING IN NEBRASKA 

 TN the State of Nebraska alone, where 

 X Arbor Day originated, 300,000,000 trees 

 have been planted since 1872, when Hon. J. 

 Sterling Morton, afterward Secretary of 

 Agriculture, began his tree planting. In 

 China the Ginling College Arbor Day 

 ceremony is celebrated the first of April. 

 Each class plants a grove of trees, one 

 tree for each member of the class. Each 

 girl uses the spade for her namesake tree. 

 Secondary school teachers hope to estab- 

 lish the same custom on school property all 

 over Central China. 



"The Dessert Berry of the Nation" 



The Erskine Park Everbearing 

 Red Raspberry 



"THE WORLD'S GREATEST EVERBEARING RASPBERRY" 



was discovered on the Westinghouse Estate (Erskine Park) at Lee, Mass., by Mr. 

 Edward Norman. This magnificent estate is in the midst of the beautiful Berkshire 

 Hills, with a temperature in winter of 30 or 40 degrees below zero, so that the hardi- 

 ness of this berry is unquestioned. The estate is surrounded by the summer homes 

 of many wealthy people, and much to the surprise of his neighbor gardeners and not 

 without a deal of personal satisfaction, Mr. Norman furnished large, luscious rasp- 

 berries throughout the fall for various dinner parties. 



These berries are commented on by all who have seen and tasted them as the most delicious 

 and best raspberry they have ever eaten. Mr. Baker of Hoosick Falls, N. Y., writes us as follows: 

 "In the season of 1916, Mr. George M. Darrow of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture was traveling from the Atlantic to the Pacific, visiting fruit growers to 

 obtain information on berries for bulletins published by the Department of Agriculture. 

 Mr. Darrow had visited this estate before, and was most favorably impressed that this 

 berry was far ahead of the St. Regis and Ranere, and when it became known it would 

 replace these varieties. The plant is by far the strongest growing raspberry I have 

 ever seen. It branches like a tree, and it also has the largest and most roots of any 

 variety with which I am acquainted. It is perfectly hardy and the berries are very large. 

 Conceive the joy and satisfaction of having such ber- 

 ries on your table all through the autumn, the source 

 of wonder to your neighbors, that you can pick the finest 

 raspberries until the snow flies. On November the 20th 

 we cut a large branch of the Erskine Park with blos- 

 soms, green berries and ripe fruit upon it. 



Strong Field-Grown Bearing 

 Plants, For Fall Planting 



Send for our Free illustrated 1920 Catalogue which 

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The New Hardy Dwarf Edging and Low Hedge 



Originators and Introducers: 

 The Elm City Nursery Company 



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 Box 205 New Haven, Corn. 



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