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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National Nurseryman. 
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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nurserymen and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
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ROCHESTER, N. Y., OCTOBER, 1893. 
AMERICAN NURSERIES. 
It is often the case that the attention of the busy Amer¬ 
ican needs to be directed b)' some foreigner to the unpar¬ 
alleled acquirements which the wonderful progress of the 
century has produced. Instances of this kind are numerous. 
But to cause a marked impression the foreign visitor must 
be a man of wide comprehension, long practical experience 
and keen discernment. Such a man has been among us 
during the summer months. His observations, extending 
over a wide range of territory, considering the brevity of his 
sojourn, he has wisely consented to make public and they 
have been eagerly read wherever available. 
In another column we present an extract from a pub¬ 
lished interview with George Nicholson, curator of the Royal 
Gardens, at Kew. What he has to say of the great nurser¬ 
ies of this coLintiy which he visited will make every Amer¬ 
ican proud of the advancement of the country in what has come 
to be regarded in the highest sense an art. Repeatedly Mr. 
Nicholson encountered in his visits features new to English 
nurserymen and horticulturists, and he did not withhold 
merited praise on ever}^ hand. Mr. Nicholson could have 
passed a period of equal length in other sections of this 
countiy and found much more in his line to surprise him. 
He will undoubtedly have many interesting talks v’ith En¬ 
glish horticulturists and nurserymen upon his return. 
A CATALOGUE OF FRUITS. 
Ex-Secretary Rusk of the United States Department 
of Agriculture, says in his last annual report: “The 
work on a catalogue of fruits is progressing, and within 
the coming year it is expected to be able to publish that 
part pertaining to the apple, as much of the work has 
been done within the past year. This will be a check 
list which will give the latest approved name of each 
variety in accordance wuth latest established rules for 
simplifying the names of fruits and also the synonyms. 
This list will be of great use in helping to disentangle 
the confused state of pomological nomenclature and 
place within the hands of the fruit-grovv^ers a standard 
authority.” 
This is a subject of great importance to fruit-growers, 
all of whom, it is believed, appreciate the necessity for 
revised rules by a recognized authority as quickly as 
they may be obtained. The subject was first presented 
to the readers of The National Nurseryman in a commu¬ 
nication from Hon. H. E. Van Deman, Pomologist of the 
Department of Agriculture. Afterward the American Asso¬ 
ciation of Nurserymen, at its annual meeting in Chicago, 
adopted the rules of nomenclature of the American Pomo¬ 
logical Society. 
TREES FOR STREET PLANTING. 
In the line of causing a demand for ornamental trees 
there is great opportunity for cultivating public taste. It 
may be more difficult to interest the planter in the value of 
an ornamental tree than it is in the case of a fruit tree, but 
there is a notable increase in the interest which the public 
takes in the efforts upon the part of the government, the 
state and the municipalities to preserve such ornamental 
trees as may have escaped the axe in the rapid march of 
“ improvement,” and to replace as speedily as possible what 
has been lost. 
A movement of significance to nurserymen is the under¬ 
taking of the Tree Planting Society of Brooklyn to collect 
the ordinances of all cities of the Union bearing upon the 
planting of trees in cities. The secretary of the society, S. 
L. Collins, has written to the mayors of the principal cities, 
at the request of the president of the society, A. A. Low, 
for copies of ordinances regulating the planting of trees. 
Colonel Culyer, of Brooklyn, in conversation recently with a 
representative of the Brooklyn Eagle, said : 
Chancellor Livingston introduced the Lombardy poplar in 
New York. He had been ravished, as the French say, by its 
charms, its picturesque effect, as seen on the old roads in Italy. 
Suffice it to say that as a result of his encouragement thousands 
of seedlings were planted in New Jersey and the young trees 
were raised and planted everywhere, only in the end to be found 
entirely unfitted for street planting, as are all of the poplars, with 
possibly the exception of the balsam and the North Carolina pop¬ 
lar. Then there was the willow, which numerously prevaded the 
small parks, the grass yards and the streets of New York and 
Brooklyn. The catalpa, or smoking bean, abroad-leaved, sprawly 
and ungainly developing tree, with a fine flower, which unfortu¬ 
nately, like a fruit tree, was a fatal beauty ; attracting the small 
boy, who exists in every age. Then conies the ailantus, the tree 
of heaven, appropriately enough, from the Celestial empire, and 
so we have the willow, the poplar, the catalpa, the ailantus—all 
rapid growing trees, but brittle and readily succumbing to our 
winds and storms and so comparatively easily disfigured and the 
first to be destroyed. 
The citizen, too busy to make himself acquainted with trees, 
yet loving them, seeks the commercial vendor of trees for advice. 
