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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. 
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 
One Year, in advance, - - - - - , $1.00 
Six Months, ------- .75 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance, - - - 1.50 
Six Months, <. << _ _ - j.oo 
Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date of 
is^ue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertise men is. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Entered in the Post-Otfice at Rochesfer, N. Y., as second-class matte' 
Rochester, N. Y., April, 1895. 
GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS. 
The New York Sun has been devoting considerable 
attention to the publications of the United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, which it considers an unwarranted 
waste of public money. The trenchant pen of the editor 
of the leading American daily makes out an apparently 
strong case in support of this argument. The says: 
We acknowledge the receipt from the Department of Agriculture of 
four more useless and impudent publications. The biggest is labeled 
Bulletin No. 4.3 of the Division of Chemistry, and contains the Proceed- 
ings of the Eleventh Annual Convention of the A.ssociation of Official 
Agricultural Chemists. The secretary of the association is ]\Ir. Harvey 
AV. AViley. He is also the editor of the proceedings. He is also Chief 
of the Division of Chemistry. In these capacities he writes to the acting 
secretary of agriculture, asking that the proceedings be published, and 
published they are in an octavo of 403 pages, surely the heaviest for its 
size that ever was carried out of a printer’s shop on a truck, A volume 
full of fascination, no doubt,.to the professional agricultural chemist 
and expert in fertilizers A volume that Avill help many of these 
excellent analyzers in their birsiness and their professional lectures and 
researches. A volume as good as another and better than many to prop 
up a crippled sofa with or to manufacture into tapers. A volume from 
which the studious farmer in the winter nights can get such helpful 
hints as that “ the trisaccharo.sate of lead formed on the addition of 
ammoniacal lead subacetate to an aqueous sugar solution, is insoluble in 
water;” and that and that “when amlin, furfur- 
aldehyde, and an alcoholic solution of acetic acid are mixed, a very 
intense red color immediately appears.” AA^hen times are hard, a course 
of reading on the manganese dioxide method, on dextrorotation and 
levorotation, and on ammonium phosphomolybdate may have a tran. 
(juilizing effect upon Hie farmer’s mind. And also when times are as 
hard as they were in 1894, when money is so hard for the farmers to 
come by, it seems a cruel imposition to spend the money of the people 
in paying for the publication of a work intended for the benefit of a few 
hundred sjiecialists. 
It is not our purpose to attempt to justify the publica¬ 
tion by the Department of Agriculture of such bulletins 
as are referred to above. But clearly there is a difference 
between such publications, treating in a technical manner 
the results of scientific research, and those valuable publi¬ 
cations which have done so much to enlighten the public 
generally upon subjects pertaining to horticulture, to the 
interests of which this journal is devoted. So far as horti¬ 
culture is concerned the publications of the department 
have been in language easily intelligible to the fruit 
grower. They have treated of experiments and discoveries 
together with applications which have been of g'reat value. 
Insect Life and the Journal of Mycology, for instance, 
while treatingof special,subjects, are of much interest and 
value to a large class. And the publications indicated in 
that valuable compilation, the Experiment Station Record, 
cover so wide a field of subjects as to be of almost uni¬ 
versal interest. If the wise suggestions of Secretary 
Morton were heeded there would be little cause for com¬ 
plaint upon the part of the most critical. A readjustment 
of the plan of issuing the publications of the department 
might result in the production of such as are of more 
general interest and these could be limited in their distri¬ 
bution to recipients who would be directly benefited. 
SAN JOSE SCALE IN NEW JERSEY. 
For some time there have been published statements 
that the San Jose scale had been found in one or two 
New Jersey nurseries. The Rural New Yorker finally 
investigated the statement that one of these nurseries was 
that of the Lovett company. The services of Professor 
J. B. Smith, entomologist of the New Jersey Experiment 
Station were enlisted. Professor Smith located the scale 
on pear and apple stock in the Lovett nurseries last fall. 
It was found on the recent visit that those trees had been 
destroyed and satisfactory apparatus for treating the 
nursery stock had been provided. Professor Smith found 
the scale again on a number of young apple and pear trees. 
Mr. Lovett agreed to destroy the entire block in which 
the scale was found. He has guaranteed to destroy every 
infected tree in his nursery. 
The insect looks like a gray spot on the bark, says 
Professor Smith. The scales are really the covering under 
wdiich the insect passes the cold weather. The principal 
fruits attacked are apples, pears, plums and cherries. It 
is more dangerous than the codling moth because the 
latter attacks the fruit only, while the scale insect destroys 
the tree. It is really a louse. The insect cannot travel 
far, and in bearing orchards would not, of itself, spread 
rapidly. It crawls upon winged insects, ants or the feet 
of birds and in this way may be carried long distances. 
On nursery stock where the trees are crowded close 
together, the insects can readily pass from one tree to 
another. For nursery stock, the best treatment is to 
expose the trees to the fumes of hydrocyanic gas. The 
trees are put in an air-tight tent or box. One ounce of 
cyanide of potassium, one fluid ounce of sulphuric acid 
and three ounces of water are put into a bowl or deep 
