AMERICAN NURSERY 



the same , except New Jersey was third. 

 However, in 1899 the value of products for 

 these states amounted to hut little more 

 than half that of 1909. Increases are shown 

 in every state, except the Distric tof Colum- 

 bia, where in 1899 government institutions 

 were included in the census reports, while 

 in 1909 they were not enumerated. 



The three ranking states in value of nur- 

 sery products in 1909 were New York $2,- 

 751,000, California $2,213,000, and Texas $1,- 

 253,000. The standing in 1899 was, New- 

 York, Iowa, and Illinois. An increase in 

 the value of nursery products was reported 

 from every state, except Maine, Vermont, 

 Virginia, South Carolina and the District of 

 Columbia. The gains in all three states of 

 the Pacific division were especially remark- 

 able, more particularly in Washington 

 where the value in 1909 was almost twenty 

 times as great as that of 1899. 



CENSUS OF APPLE TREES 



A summarizing statement of the general 

 results of the Thirteenth Census relative 

 to the number of farms reporting apple 

 trees of bearing age and those not yet of 

 bearing age, together with the number of 

 trees in each class as of April 15, 1910, and 

 giving the number of bushels of apples pro- 

 duced in 1909 and the value of the crop has 

 been issued by Director Durand, of the 

 Bureau of the Census, Department of Com- 

 merce and Labor. Comparable data are giv- 

 en for 1900 whereever possible. The report 

 was prepared under the direction of Le 

 Grand Powers, chief statitistician, and John 

 Lee Coulter, expert special agent for agri- 

 culture. Further analysis of the report may 

 result in slight modifications of the totals 

 here presented before final publication, but 

 it is not expected that they will affect mater- 

 ially the figures given herein. 



Disease in Trees of Bearing Age 



At the census of 1900, taken as of June 

 1, there were reported 201,794,000 apple 

 trees of bearing age, as against 151,323,000 



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