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62 



The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



Septbhbeb 7, 1911. 



California Privet 



Grown as a Specialty 



You go to a specialist in other lines of busi- 

 ness because you know you will get the best 

 service. This applies to growers of nursery 

 stock as well. Give me a trial and be convinced. 



I have a large block to move this Fall, and 

 will quote you prices that will enable you to 

 get California Privet business. The stock will 

 be as fine as can be grown. Send your list at 

 once. 



I am growing California Privet to sell, 

 and I sell it. There most be a reason 



C. A. BENNETT 



ROBBINSVILLE, 

 NEW JERSEY 



Mention The fieview when you write. 



000 larvae, were found in shipments 

 into New York state alone — seed ma- 

 terial enough to infest the whole 

 United States within a few years. 



"More than half of the important 

 insect enemies and plant diseases now 

 established in tbjs country have been 

 brought in on imported nursery stock, 

 and new insect enemies and new dis- 

 eases are being thus introduced every 

 year. Twenty different insect pests, 

 new to this country, some of them 

 very formidable in the Old World, have 

 been intercepted in the inspections of 

 the imported material by this depart- 

 ment this year, and this does not in- 

 clude the introduction of bfrown-tail 

 moth nests and other European pests 

 with imported seedling stock. 



"A properly enforced quarantine and 

 inspection law in the past would have 

 excluded many, if not most, of the 

 foreign insect enemies and plant dis- 

 eases which are now levying an enor- 

 mous annual tax amounting to several 

 hundred million dollars on the products 

 of the farms and orchards of this 

 country. 



"In spite of the many pests which 

 have already gained foothold and the 

 control of which will be a permanent 

 annual charge on production, there re- 

 main many other insect pests and plant 

 diseases with equal capacity for harm 

 which, fortunately, have not yet come 

 to us, and it is to protect from these 

 new dangers that legislation is now 

 sought, not with the intention of pro- 

 hibiting the trade in imported stock, 

 but to throw such safeguards around 

 it as will most protect both the im- 

 porters and the subsequent purchasems 

 of such stock. 



"The insect pests and plant diseases 

 that have come in are probably here 

 for all time, but certainly no reason- 

 able objection can be made to the ef- 

 fort to safeguard the future. The con- 

 scientious importer will be benefited, 

 and the home producers, the dealers, 

 and all the, great fruit and forest in- 



terests will be protected by suitable in- 

 spection and quarantine legislation. 



"The San Jose scale had become es- 

 tablished in California on stock intro- 

 duced from China about 1870, and was 

 known to be one of the most serious of 

 orchard pests. With proper supervision 

 and quarantine it undoubtedly could 

 have been limited to the Pacific coast 

 indefinitely. A quite unimportant im- 

 portation of stock from California by 

 a prominent Missouri nurseryman in 

 the early nineties established this scale 

 in several eastern nurseries, and this 

 led to the first concerted effort to ob- 

 tain a national quarantine and inspec- 

 tion law. The failure to reach an 

 agreement among the nurserymen, fruit 

 growers and entomologists as to suit- 

 able legislation prevented anything 

 coming from this effort, although sev- 

 eral bills were introduced in Congress 

 from time to time. In the meanwhile 

 the San Jose scale became so widely 

 distributed by transportation on nur- 

 sery stock that quarantine against this 

 insect was no longer practicable, and 

 the country is now being taxed, and 

 probably will be for all time, many 

 million dollars annually, because there 

 was no law under which strong hold 

 could have been taken of this danger 

 at the outset. 



"As elsewhere noted, the recent ef- 

 fort to secure legislation followed the 

 entry and wide distribution in this 

 country of br«wn-tail mot^* nests' on 

 nursery stock, chiefly from northern 

 France. The discovery, about the same 

 time, of the entry of the potato wart 

 disease, from Newfoundland, and the 

 white-pine blister rust, chiefly from 

 one district in Germany, greatly em- 

 phasized the immediate need for Fed- 

 eral control. 



"In view of these special dangers, a 

 new bill was drafted and submitted to 

 Congress. This measure passed, the 

 House, and would undoubtedly have 

 become a law in due course except for 



[OontlDued on pase 84.] 



100,000 



Asparagus Plumosus Nanus 



Seedlings 



placed in our hands by one of our 

 growers to sell. 



Price per 1000, $7.80 



LotH of 10,000 or nore, at $6.00 per 1000 



These are strong, thrifty plants, 

 and we prepay express to all Pa- 

 cific Coast points. 



Los Angeles Flower Market 



414^ S. Broadway 

 IjOS ANGELES, CAL. 



Mention The Review when vou wnte 



PACIFIC COAST. 



Elmhurst, Cal. — E. James & Co. are 

 building one more greenhouse on their 

 property on Hillside avenue. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



The continued cold weather has had 

 the effect of driving most of the town 

 people back home. Already the fall 

 trade has commenced, and although 

 there is no rush in any particular di- 

 rection, the general trade conditions 

 are quite satisfactory. Asters are now 

 at their best, and although they are 

 not in such profusion as in former 

 years, the quality is better. The prices 

 on them are about the same as last 



