THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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THE SCALE //V CAJSADA . 
Rigid Inspection of oil Orchards in Which Have Been Planted 
Trees Imported from the United States During the 
Last Five Years—Section Added to the Cana¬ 
dian Scale Law — nr. Fishers’s Work. 
What is being done in Canada in regard to the San Jose 
scale may be learned from the following statements in the 
Canadian Horticulturist : 
“As has already been stated, this country has narrowly 
escaped the general introduction of this terrible insect from 
American nurseries. Before we were aware of the danger 
several large lots of trees were imported and distributed, that 
were affected by this tiny insect. In 1896 an orchard near 
the border, belonging to a member of our Association, 
Charles Thonger, was found to be infested, and immediately 
our executive called upon both the Provincial and the Do¬ 
minion ministers of agriculture to send competent men to 
examine and report. 
“A large number of fruit growers, accompanied by Dr. 
Fletcher of Ottawa and Professor Panton of Guelph, pro¬ 
ceeded to Mr. Thonger’s farm, and found the report only too 
true, and that a large number of his pear and peach trees 
were infested. Strong resolutions were made, and sent to the 
ministers of agriculture, and as a result, every tree imported 
from the United States during the last five years is being 
carefully located and examined, and if there be any trace of 
scale it is utterly destroyed. 
“ The superintendent of this work is George E. Fisher, of 
Burlington, a man who never allows difficulties to hinder him, 
and who is sparing no labor or expense, to make it sure that 
Ontario is clean of the ugly insect. The San Jose Scale Act 
of 1898 is well known, and this is still being amended by the 
addition of the following sub-section : 
(a) If, in the case of an orchard or collection of plants, the inspector 
finds scale on plants located in several different parts of the orchard or 
collection, and decides that it is advisable in the public interest to de¬ 
stroy all the plants in such orchard or in any parts thereof and so re¬ 
ports to the minister, the minister may direct that an examination or 
inspection shall be made by an additional inspector, and upon their 
advice in writing he may direct that all the plants in such orchard or 
such collection of plants, or in such part or parts thereof shall be de¬ 
stroyed without requiring that every plant in the said orchard or col¬ 
lection shall be first examined. 
3. The owner or proprietor of any nursery shall not send out or 
permit any plant to be removed from his nursery without the same 
being first fumigated by hydrocyanic acid gas in accordance with regu¬ 
lations prescribed by order of the lieutenant-governor in council. 
4. No person shall sell or dispose of or offer for sale any plant ob¬ 
tained, taken, or sent out from a nursery unless the said plant has pre¬ 
viously been fumigated in accordance with these regulations. 
5. In case the inspector finds scale in any nursery and so reports to 
the minister, the minister may thereupon inform, by writing, the 
owner or proprietor or manager of said nursery of the existence of 
scale in his nursery, and the owner or proprietor or manager of said 
nursery shall not thereafter permit any plant or tree to be removed 
from the said nursery until the inspector reports to the minister that it 
is safe in the public interest to permit the said nursery stock to be re¬ 
moved after fumigation. 
“This measure is extreme, but coupled with the Dominion 
Act, totally excluding all American nursery stock, is calcu¬ 
lated to save our country from an invasion of this insect and 
make it perfectly safe for our readers to purchase freely Cana¬ 
dian stock from our Canadian nurseries.” 
©bituaiT- 
George Savage, of Rochester, N. Y., who for fifteen years had been 
in charge of the Kimball collection of orchids, died April 16, aged 54 
years. lie was wellknown among orchidologists. lie originated 
several varieties of cypripediums. 
Charles Naudin, director of the experimental garden at the villa 
Thuret, at Antiles, France, died March 19, aged 84 years. He was one 
of the most distinguished botanists of modern times, working in the 
departments of systematic botany, hybridization, experimental culti¬ 
vation and the acclimatization and distribution of economic plants. 
He studied with great care the orders of Cucurbitace;e and Mclastoma- 
cese and was the associate of Lindley, Bronguiart, Decaisne, Thuret 
and Van Mueller. 
J. C. Plumb, a veteran nurseryman of Wisconsin, died at Milton, 
Wis., March 19, aged 70 years. For 54 years he was a nurseryman, 
residing in Madison until 1867, when he moved to Milton and, with his 
son, Malon J. Plumb, established the Green Ilill Nursery. At one time 
their planting amounted to 325,000 trees. He was mainly instrumental 
in organizing the Wisconsin Horticultural Society, was its first secre¬ 
tary, and had been its vice-president. He managed the Wisconsin ex¬ 
hibits at the Centennial and New Orleans expositions, was an acknowl¬ 
edged authority on Wisconsin fruits and originated Plumb’s Cider 
apple. 
Edward S. Rogers, the wellknown grape hybridizer, died at Pea¬ 
body, Mass., March 29, aged 73 years. He was born in Salem, Mass., 
June 28, 1826. He was educated for a merchant, lmt for fifteen years 
he devoted his time to the improvement of the grape. To him belongs 
the credit of first artificially hybridizing the grape. That was in 1848. 
He received for these efforts the only gold medal awarded by the 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society in this line. He produced the 
Rogers hybrids by hybridizing the Mammoth, one of the best and 
earliest of the wild species of New England, with the foreign Black 
Hamburgh and Chasselas. All the numbers between 4 and 14 inclusive 
were of Chasselas and Mammoth parentage and all the others Black 
Hamburgh and Mammoth. There were 45 in all. 
Charles S. Curtice, of Portland, N. Y., died at Atlanta, Ga., on 
February 1, aged 42 years. Mr. Curtice last summer went South and 
became interested in grape growing, being at the time of his death 
vice-president and general manager of the East Alabama Vineyard 
company at Fruitliurst, Ala. He was ill throughout last fall, but, 
contrary to the advise of his physician, continued at work. An opera¬ 
tion for liver trouble was performed on January 26th and he did not 
rally. The remains were brought North and interred in Suunyside 
cemetery, at Rose Mills. N. Y., the funeral services being conducted 
by Dunkirk Commandery. K. T. His widow- and a son fourteen years 
of age survive. Mr. Curtice was one of the most popular men in the 
nursery business. He was well known throughout the grape belt and 
especially among the nurserymen of Western New \ ork whom he 
often visited. His first nursery experience w-as gained with George A. 
Stone of Rochester, N. Y. In 1880 he began business for himself, 
growing exclusive!}’ grape vines and small fruit plants. The business 
rapidly increased and in 1891 he organized the C. S. Curtice Company 
with a paid-up capital of $40,000. He held a majority of the stock. 
A large business was built up, the annual planting amounting to 100 
acres. By his death, says a local paper, Fruitliurst loses a warm friend 
and one who will be greatly missed. 
CONTINUE TO BE HIGHLY PLEASED. 
G. II. Miller & Son, Rome, Ga., Jan. 26. 1899.—“ Enclosed find 
$1 for subscription for the National Nurseryman for the year of 99. 
We continue to be highly pleased with your journal, in fact cannot 
get along without it.” 
NURSERYMEN SHOULD HAVE IT. 
N. F, Murray, President Missouri State Horticultural Society, 
Oregon, Mo.—“Enclosed please find $1 to pay for National 
Nurseryman. I would not be without it for five times the cost. 
All nurserymen and tree dealers should have it.” 
