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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, “ “ coo 
Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20tli of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. 
J£p“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. 
AflERlCAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, A. L. Brooke, N. Topeka, Kan.; vice-president, E. Albert¬ 
son, Bridgeport, Ind.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, N. 
Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; Robert C. Berckmans, 
Augusta, Ga.; E. H. Stannard, Ottawa, Kan. 
Committee on Transportation—A. L. Brooke, ex-officio, chairman; William 
Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; Wilson J. Peters, 
Troy, O.; Robert C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
Committee on Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, Ta.; N. H. Albaugh, 
Tadmor, O.: Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la.; Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa. 
Committee on Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; J. J. Harrison, Paines- 
ville, O.; N. W. Hale, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Annual convention for 1899—At Chicago, Ill., June 11,15. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., May, 1899. 
THE SEASON'S TRADE. 
Another spring shipping season has come and gone and 
throughout the country the nurserymen are turning to their 
accounts and considering the prospects for.collections. 
The season’s trade has been in many ways more satisfactory 
-than has that of several seasons in the past. While prices on 
ornamental stock were much lower than they should be in com¬ 
parison with other stock, it was the belief of those fully compe¬ 
tent to judge that nurserymen who had been selling at 
especially low rates would be short on some items and might 
have to buy at higher rates. 
As to volume the spring trade has been very satisfactory 
From east and west come reports of a lively shipping season, 
although somewhat backward in starting. Prices on fruit tree 
stock have generally been much more satisfactory than during 
the last two seasons and the outlook for better prices is very 
encouraging. There has been a heavy demand for peach 
trees, owing doubtless to the severe weather of February, which 
made necessary replanting of many orchards. The stock of 
apple, pear, and cherry fit for market next fall promises to be 
comparatively small, and higher prices on these items are 
looked for at once. In the West there is no surplus of stock 
to speak of in any line and the prospect for the nurserymen of 
that section of the country was never brighter. The growing 
season, farm crops and general conditions have much to do, of 
course, with the results generally. While in some localities 
there is an inclination to plant a little stronger, the average, 
will remain about the same. 
In some sections young nursery stock has been seriously 
damaged. It is the belief in the West that there will be a 
shortage in cherries and European plums as well as pears and 
apples. 
USE OF HYDROCYANIC GAS. 
In September, 1897, the National Nurseryman published 
Professor W. G. Johnson’s detailed statement of the need of a 
fumigatorium at the nursery and directions for its construction 
and use. In November of the same year Professor William B. 
Alwood’s directions for the use of cyanide of potash were given. 
In view of the present renewed interest in the subject we pub¬ 
lish in this issue an extract from the report of Managing Edi¬ 
tor H. W. Collingwood of the Rural New Yorker upon his 
visit to the fumigatorium of J. G. Harrison & Sons, Ber¬ 
lin, Md. 
The subject might well be the basis for discussion at the 
Chicago convention of the American Association next month. 
Two years ago Professor Johnson said in the National Nur¬ 
seryman: “ I believe the day is near at hand when every nur¬ 
seryman in this country will find a fumigatorium as necessary 
a part of his equipment as seeds, buds and grafts ” 
The Rural New Yorker says: “ We are satisfied that before 
long all nurserymen will be obliged by public sentiment, if not 
by law, to guarantee their stock as fumigated. They would do 
well to get in ahead of the crowd.” 
The position of the National Nurseryman at present is 
not to declare, as have the authorities quoted, that this is a 
needed adjunct of the nursery business; but to suggest that if 
the subject is to be discussed by entomologists, and by the 
agricultural press, as was the subject of legislation for San Jose 
scale, the nurserymen should be posted from the start with 
regard to the topic. 
INJUSTICE TO IMPORTERS. 
In the list of re-appraisements filed by the Board of General 
Appraisers, March 23, valuations on various nursery stocks 
from Orleans, France, Mahaleb cherry ; quince and pear stock 
from Angers, France; manetti stock from Orleans, and bulbs 
from Lisse, Holland, were all more or less advanced. Re¬ 
appraisements on nursery stock from various French growers, 
by the Board of General Appraisers, during the first week of 
April, resulted in substantial increased valuations on thuyas, 
altheas, aucubas, catalpas, clematis, magnolias, hydrangeas, 
Mahaleb cherry, quince and pear stock, manetti stock, Ber- 
beris Thunbergii, apples, Ginkgo biloba, Clematis viticella, 
betula, Myrobalan pear, abies, buxus, wistaria, acer. 
Upon this subject Jackson & Perkins Co., Newark, N. Y., 
write: “The appraiser at the New York Custom House 
