THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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Sec. 5. Any person who shall, while such an appeal is 
pending, sell any tree from a nursery where there are found to 
be diseased trees, or any fruit from such tree ; or who shall, 
without such appeal, or after such final decision, refuse to 
destroy such tree or fruit, shall be fined not less than one 
hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. 
NEW JERSEY LAWS. 
Sec. 1. That when the officers of the State Agricultural 
Experiment Station shall discover any new fungus growth 
which is doing injury to plants or vines, and while the same is 
confined to limited areas, they are hereby authorized and 
empowered to enter upon any lands bearing vines or plants so 
affected, and destroy the same by fire or otherwise, as they 
shall deem best. 
Sec. 2. That any damage to private property resulting 
from the operation of destroying the said fungus growth by 
the officers of the state shall be certified to by them and the 
amount of damage paid to the owners thereof from the same 
fund and in the same manner as is paid to owners of diseased 
animals killed by order of the state board of health. 
Sec. 3. That expenditures under this act shall not exceed 
one thousand dollars in any one year. 
IRecent publications. 
The catalogue of Thomas Meehan & Sons, Germantown, Pa., for 
fall 1896 , and spring 1897 , comports with the high character of the 
nursery stock which this well-known firm produces. It is a handsome 
book of 72 pages in a colored embossed cover. Typographically it is 
beyond criticism, and the care bestowed upon the arrangement of the 
subject matter bespeaks the hand of a master. It is a handbook of the 
choicest ornamental stock in use in this and other countries. 
Those who heard Professor Bailey’s instructive talk at the Chicago 
convention of the American Association, or who have been fortunate 
in haying their attention directed to his subject on that occasion, the 
conservation of moisture, will be pleased to learn that there has been 
issued, under his direction by the Cornell University Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, Bulletin 120 , in which the moisture of the soil and its conservation 
has been presented in a most interesting and forcible manner, by L. A. 
Clinton. This bulletin is of inestimable value to all farmers and horti¬ 
culturists. In Bulletin 119 Professor Bailey states that these bulletins 
begin a new type of experiment station publication—primary lessons 
in the cropping of the land. He hopes they do not contain a single 
new fact. Their sole purpose is to teach, not to discover or to record. 
Professor Bailey trusts that their perusal will lead to the study of Pro¬ 
fessor F. II. King’s valuable book on “The Soil,” published recently 
by the Macmillan Co., New York. 
The Nursery Book by Professor L. H. Bailey, is the latest addition 
to the “ Garden Craft Series,” and is referred to in another column. 
12 mo., 365 pages, Cloth, $ 1 . New York: The Macmillan Co. 
It was bound to come. And now we have it—a concise yet compre¬ 
hensive account of the history, principles and practice of the applica¬ 
tion of liquids and powders to plants for the purpose of destroying in¬ 
sects and fungi. “Spraying” as understood in this connection, is a 
term which has been in use but a few years, and though much has been 
written of late regarding the application of fungicides and insecticides 
it has remained for Professor E. G. Lodeman of Ithaca, N. Y., to pub¬ 
lish anything worthy of the name of a treatise on the subject. His 
new work, “The Spraying of Plants,” is the latest addition to the 
valuable “ Rural Science Series,” edited by Professor L. H. Bailey. 
The preface is by Professor B. T. Galloway, of Washington. The 
table of contents leads one to believe that the author has left no feature 
of the subject unnoticed. It is a handbook which the nurseryman and 
horticulturist must have. In it are discussed the early history of liquid 
applications, spraying in foreign countries and in America, the 
materials and formulas used in spraying, spraying devices and ma¬ 
chinery, the action of insecticides and fungicides, and description and 
treatment of the most important insect and fungous diseases affecting 
cultivated plants, and an appendix giving summaries of laws regarding 
the spraying of plants. 12 mo., 384 pages, Cloth $1. New York: 
The Macmillan Co. 
Nurserymen should be deeply interested in a work just issued which 
will prove indispensable in the study of those botanical questions upon 
which the investigation of the present day has thrown so much ligkt. 
This work is entitled “An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United 
States, Canada and the British Possessions,” and is the result of the 
collaboration of Nathaniel Lord Britton, professor of botany in 
Columbia University and director-in-chief of New York Botanical 
Garden, and Hon. Addison Brown, president of the Torrey Botanical 
Club. It covers the flora from Newfoundland to the parallel of the 
southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward 
to the 102 d meridian. The many admirable features of the work are 
apparent at first sight. Chief of these, aside from the area covered 
and its timely appearance, is the system of arrangement, classification 
and thorough revision of previous works in the light of modern adap¬ 
tation. This work is the first complete illustrated flora published in 
this country. It is very complete, It is in three large 8vo. volumes, 
the first of which, now ready, comprises the families of the sub-king¬ 
doms pteridopbyta and spermatophyta, from ophioglossacege to aizoa- 
cese—ferns to carpet weed. It is the aim of the authors to present this 
broad subject in the clearest manner possible. In the grouping of 
species into genera and of genera into families, the practice among the 
most approved authors has been various. Some have made the num¬ 
ber of genera and families as few as possible- This results in associa¬ 
ting under one name species or genera that present marked differences 
among themselves. From the times of Aristotle, Tournefort and Ray, 
botanists have struggled with the problem of classification, and the 
marked advances of Linmeus, De Jussieu, De Candolle and Hooker 
and Bentham have formed the foundation upon which modern botanists 
have built. The present tendency of expert opinion is to separate 
more freely into convenient natural groups, as genera and families, 
according to similarity of structure, habit, form or appearance. While 
this increases the number of these divisions, it has the advantage of 
decreasing the size of the groups, and thus materially facilitates their 
study. In most instances this view, taken in the work under considera¬ 
tion, has followed the arrangement adopted by Engler and Prantl in 
their recent work, “ Natiirliche Pflanzenfamilien,” which has just been 
published in Berlin in 15 volumes. Regarding the important subject 
of nomenclature, the author says : ‘ ‘ The names of genera and species 
used in this work are in accordance with the code of nomenclature, de¬ 
vised by the Paris Botanical Congress in 1867 , as modified by the rules 
adopted by the Botanical Club of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science at the meetings held at Rochester, N. Y., in 
August, 1892 , and at Madison, Wisconsin, in August, 1893 .” These 
rules are given in the introduction and are supplemented by a brief 
explanation of the objects attained by them. There are many special 
features to commend the arrangement of this work. English names 
have been given where they are in general use ; a simple and consistent 
style of pronunciation and capitalization has been adopted. In general 
the work is in every way of the highest class. Typographically it is 
beautiful. The illustrations are admirable. Clear, compact, compre¬ 
hensive, they tend to solve the doubts and difficulties that are apt to 
attend the best written descriptions. There is every indication that 
the work, so excellently outlined by the contents of the first volume, 
will fulfill the objects of the authors who say : “The greatest stimulus 
to observation and study is a clear and intelligible guide ; and among 
the aids to botanical inquiry, a complete illustrated handbook is one of 
the chief. Thousands of the lovers of plants, on the other hand, who 
are not botanists and are not familiar with botanical terms or the 
methods of botanical analysis, will find in the illustrations of a com¬ 
plete work the readiest means of comparison and identification of the 
plants that grow around them.” Large 8vo. pp. XII— 612 , $ 3 . New 
York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 
must have it. 
E. H. Adams & Son, Bonham Nurseries, Bonham, Tex.— “We 
enclose $1 for The National Nurseryman. Could not well do with¬ 
out it, though times are a little tight.” 
