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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., 
303 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, ------- .73 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance, - - - 1.30 
Six Months, “ “ - - - i.oo 
Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertiseraent.o 
slioiild reach this office by the 20th of the month pri vious to the date of 
is- ue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. 
(11^°Drafts on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are 
requested. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, N. Y., as second-class matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., January, 1896. 
THREE YEARS OLD. 
With this number The National Nurseryman com¬ 
pletes its third year. It has become firmly established as 
the nurserymen’s trade journal. That there was a field 
for it has been attested by the hearty manner in which its 
endorsement at the outset has been maintained. The 
voluntary expressions of approval are representative of 
the trade. Advertisers say it is the best medium for 
reaching the class with whom they wish to communicate, 
and all declare that it is a valuable addition to legitimate 
methods for the extension of trade. 
The publishers are ready to enlarge its scope as circum¬ 
stances demand. The journal is thoroughly independent, 
its advertisers are on a common plane and the topics of 
the trade are discussed, we believe, impartially. During 
the year nurserymen have had occasion to note the ad¬ 
vantage of having a trade journal through which their 
national association and the members as individuals may 
be defended against the attacks of those who appear not 
to understand the nature of that association. 
A continuance of the favor and practical support which 
have been given is invited. Those who understand what 
slow collections mean may set a good example by sub¬ 
scribing promptly. 
HORTICULTURAL EDUCATION. 
Horticultural education is being extended through 
L’Ecole Nationale de Horticulture, France, where the 
teaching includes the laying out of gardens and the con¬ 
struction of greenhouses, instruction in physics, meteor¬ 
ology, chemistry, geology, mineralogy, the culture of 
early vegetables, horticultural zoology and entomology, 
ornamental arboriculture, and the reproduction of vege¬ 
tables, pomology, floriculture, botanical work, the care of 
fruit trees and methods for getting early fruit; through 
the committees appointed by the Devonshire County 
Council, England, which provides a piece of ground large 
enough to give a plot of one rod, or thereabouts, to each 
pupil, and a plot of three to five rods, on which the best 
methods of growing bush fruits, etc., may be demon¬ 
strated, and a general instruction in the principles and 
proper management of cottage gardens and allotments 
may be taught, and through the Nixon bill, passed by the 
legislature of New York State, appropriating $16,000 to 
pay, for instruction by experts in the fifth judicial district. 
Similar measures are sure to be adopted elsewhere and 
thus added stimulus to the planting of fruit and orna¬ 
mental trees is given. 
PEACH TREE BORER IN NURSERY. 
A correspondent writes : “ I am having some trouble 
growing peach trees, and would like some information 
through the columns of your valuable journal. The 
borers attack the trees in the nursery row while they are 
making their first season’s growth from the bud and the 
tree at digging time presents a very gummy and unsalable 
appearance. What is the remedy?” 
Professor L. H. Bailey says: “The trouble with the 
correspondent’s trees is undoubtedly the ordinary peach 
tree borer. Sometimes when peach trees have been pro¬ 
pagated in the same neighborhood for many years, and 
when the borers have got thoroughly established in the 
community, it is difficult to grow trees there without 
digging out the borers very carefully several times during 
the season. It is ordinarily best in such cases, if possible, 
to plant trees upon new ground, some distance removed 
from the old, and then to pull up and burn all the 
seriously affected trees, or at least to destroy all the 
borers in them. The only permanent remedy, however, 
is to dig out all the borers in June and again in Septem¬ 
ber or October. If this is done persistently, it will not be 
many seasons before the borers will become scarce.” 
FLORIDA ORANGE GROVES. 
The great freeze of last winter, in this section, killed all 
our citrous nursery stock to the ground; often roots were 
killed. Some nurseries were abandoned and there is but 
little done as yet in propagating more trees. Many of 
our people who lost so greatly in orange groves are wait¬ 
ing for another winter to pass, fearing the cold is to be 
repeated again, before they will plant. Yet there is more 
already being done in new planting than I had expected. 
Some nurseries that have been kept up have already con¬ 
tracted all the trees they have. Some are being shipped 
