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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The Nation alN urseryman. 
C L. VAXES, Proprietor. RALPH T. OLCOTT. Editor. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., 
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 
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERmEN. 
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Rochester, N. Y., March, 1895. 
THE OUTLOOK. 
Reports from all sections of the country speak con¬ 
fidently of the promise of a good trade this spring. While 
congress has been struggling with the financial question 
and the continued cold weather has tied up other trades, 
correspondence between grower, dealer and planter has 
been passing freely and as a result order books show the 
average business in the least hopeful case and in the 
majority of cases a substantial increase. One of the most 
hopeful signs, the disappearance of the surplus stock, 
which was beginning to develop last spring and fall, 
promises to become more apparent with each succeeding 
month now. It is believed that stock is much less plenty 
than is generally supposed. Peach, especially, is scarce, 
and prices are constantly advancing. New conditions, 
caused by a tendency to purchase at wholesale prices, 
have been met w ith considerable difficulty by salesmen in 
many sections, but in promising territory the canvass has 
been pushed. For various reasons the amount of planting 
has been much less than usual, and there is every indica¬ 
tion that for a time, at least, there will be no objectionable 
surplus. There is much inquiry indicating prospective 
demand for nursery stock, and in several sections large 
horticultural enterprises are on foot. Capitalists are 
turning their attention to the. South and West, and the 
nursery trade is sure to feel the effect of the wonderful 
strides of the spirit of progress which characterizes the 
present age. 
It is the opinion of sound judges that the nursery busi¬ 
ness is adjusting itself to a most satisfactory condition to 
meet the general confidence which it is believed will 
be consequent upon a settlement of financial matters. In 
most cases nurserymen have conducted their business upon 
a conservative basis during the last two seasons, so that 
although collections have been slow they will prove com¬ 
paratively sure. 
The United States Division of Entomology announces 
a new pear pest discovered in New Jersey by Dr. John B. 
Smith. It is a flat-headed borer of the genus Agrilus, 
which bores between the bark and the sapwood, always 
in living tissue. Dr. Smith has found that vigorous trees 
like the Kieffcr will repair damages for a while but that 
even these succumb at last. It was known in Europe in 
i/QO. Of late years, since i8qo it has attracted consider¬ 
able attention in Germany. R. Goethe, director of the 
Royal Horticultural Academy at Geisenheim calls this 
insect one of the most dangerous enemies to fruit trees 
and expresses astonishment that it is not even mentioned 
in treatises on injurious insects. Young trees just from 
the nurseiy become affected. It is recommended as a 
means of protection that the trunks of the trees be coated 
with clay. Dr. Smith finds that the insect was imported 
from Europe into a nuisery in Union county, N. J., not 
more than ten years ago, and that it is already quite 
wide-spread in that state, probably also occurring in New 
York. 
The intense cold of last month was experienced 
throughout the north temperate zone to a degree seldom 
equaled. In Italy snow was veiy heavy, stopping the 
railway traffic in many localities, and at Rocca di Rapa 
imprisoning the inhabitants for some time, as the snow 
was over three feet deep. At Ventimiglia 4 degrees of 
frost was registered, and at Catania the olive and orange 
groves are said to be completely destroyed by snow and 
frost. At St. Petersburg it has been below zero for some 
days, and huge fires have been maintained at intervals 
along the principal thoroughfares. At Paris, on one day, 
the reading was 7 degrees, or 25 degrees of frost, and 
only four times during the past century has Paris experi¬ 
enced such cold weather. At Berlin 19 degrees of frost 
was recorded. In London the cold was quite as bitter. 
It was reported that the thermometer at Lubenham, 
three miles from Market Harborough, registered 6 degrees 
below zero, or 38 degrees of frost. 
S. M. Emery, director and horticulturist of the Mon¬ 
tana Agricultural Experiment Station at Bozeman, has 
made his first annual report to the governor of Montana. 
Mr. Emery while connected with the Jewell Nursery Co., 
at Lake City, Minn., was prominent in nursery matters. 
The Montana experiment farm comprises a quarter sec¬ 
tion of land within a mile of the business center of Boze¬ 
man. The appropriation of $15,000 has been expended 
in the equipment of the farm and in preparation for prac¬ 
tical results, some of which have already been attained. 
Five bulletins have been issued. Director Emery's active 
service while a member of the American Association of 
