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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National N urseryman. 
C. L. YATES, Proprietor. RALPH T. OLCOTT, Editor. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., 
305 cox Building, Rochester, n. Y. 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nursery Stock of 
all kinds. It circulates throughout the United States and Canada. 
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Rochester, n. Y., March, 1894. 
EASTERN STOCK IN THE WEST. 
The movement upon the part of Pacific coast states 
against the importation of trees from the eastern states 
because of danger from diseased stock has within a 
year made considerable progress. Horticulturists and 
nurserymen on the coast have become deeply interested 
m the subject. They are fully impressed with its im¬ 
portance and they are very much in earnest in their 
efforts to prevent a contamination of their stock by the 
means suggested. California has passed laws quaran¬ 
tining eastern nursery stock and the enforcement of the 
laws has been rigid. Washington has followed the 
same course and now an attempt is being made to bring 
Oregon into line. In a letter to the president of the 
Oregon State Board of Horticulture, the secretary of 
the Board of Horticultural Commissioners of San Ber¬ 
nardino county, California, said: “You are doubtless 
aware that California has been waging an active war¬ 
fare against the introduction of the peach yellows. Our 
legislature, at its last session, passed an act empower¬ 
ing the state quarantine officer and the county horticul¬ 
tural commissioners to quarantine against diseases and 
insects. We have had but one active season and have 
barred thousands of trees ; car after car has been held 
and destroyed or returned and many were not started on 
their journey by reason of countermanded orders. We 
realize that next season your market will be glutted with 
eastern trees, and an attempt or series of attempts will 
be made to ship them in here as Oregon-grown. We 
have always admitted trees from Oregon as freely as 
those grown in different parts of California ; in some 
instances more freely. But there is a feeling growing 
daily stronger that unless your state takes active meas¬ 
ures to protect yourselves against eastern trees, in self- 
defense we will have in California to take precautionary 
measures against eastern trees coming by way of your 
state. You are doubtless aware of the extent of coun¬ 
try now devastated by the yellows and rosette. Dr. 
Smith’s bulletin, issued by the agricultural department 
at Washington, states that our only safety lies in grow¬ 
ing our own trees. If either or both of these deadly 
diseases once obtain a foothold on this coast, it is only a 
question of time when our peach, plum, prune, almond, 
nectarine and other fruit trees, on peach or plum roots 
will be wiped out. In my judgment there is no subject 
of such importance to the vital interests of the fruit¬ 
growers of this coast and they should stand shoulder to 
shoulder against the introduction of eastern-grown trees 
for fear of getting these dread diseases with them.” 
The question is : What are the nurserymen of the 
East going to do about it ? In the first place Pacific 
coast horticulturists have a wrong impression of eastern 
nursery stock. This is said in no spirit of unjustifiable 
defense of eastern stock. It is a fact that on account 
of the climate of California and the coast states the 
ravages of insects and diseases among trees and shrubs 
are many times as great as they are in sections of the 
country where much of the year the weather is so severe 
as to completely banish these evils. It has been found 
necessary in California to import insects to kill insects, 
and the experience of California fruit growers coupled 
with their dependence upon the profits of fruit growing 
causes them to be sensitive on this subject. Only in 
certain sections of the East is there peach yellows—not 
at all, for instance, in Western New York. In this sec¬ 
tion the woolly aphis may appear at times, but it is 
speedily exterminated by spraying. In Delaware and 
New Jersey and in other sections the yellows appears 
and every effort is made to get rid of it. 
Eastern nurserymen should take great precaution to 
preserve the reputation of their stock and should lose no 
opportunity to impress upon the minds of any who may 
be careless the importance of growing stock which, 
when dug, packed and delivered to the fruit growers of 
the Pacific coast shall challenge the severest scrutiny of 
the inspectors who meet it at the depots. The West is 
a great field for future fruit culture and no misapprehen¬ 
sion regarding the value of nursery stock from any sec¬ 
tion should be allowed to exist. 
George A. Sweet writes from Oakland, Cal., “ I 
strongly favor nursery stock going on the free list. In 
fact the present law, as interpreted by the customs officials 
is about the worst that could be framed. My advices from 
Washington lead me to hope that it will be annulled at this 
session. ” This opinion is undoubtedly that of the majority 
