THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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FOR DISCUSSION AT CHICAGO. 
T. S. Hubbard, Fredonia, N. Y., asks the following questions 
which might properly come out of the question box at the 
Chicago convention next month : 
How can nurserymen manage to prevent overproduction and 
consequent demoralization of prices ? 
Have we reason to expect the next ten years will develop 
anything like as great demand for fruit trees, grape vines, 
currants and gooseberries as the past twenty years ? 
What are the best and most economical methods of fertiliz¬ 
ing our lands in the East for production of fruit trees ? 
INDIANA SCALE LAW. 
Secretary L. A. Goodman of the Missouri Horticultural 
Society, says : 
The effect of the severe cold will be shown by the dying of trees, 
both apple and peach, for several years to come. It is quite probable 
that one-fourth of the trees of the older orchards will ultimately be 
destroyed through the injury done to them this last winter by cold. 
Everything in_ —■ 
SMALL FRUIT PLANTS. 
W. N. SCARFF, New Carlisle, 0. 
Catalogue and Price List ..Free.. 
The new Indiana scale law provides for the inspection of 
all nurseries in the state each year between June i and October 
i by the state entomologist or his assistants and a certificate 
shall be issued when stock is free from San Jose scale or other 
injurious insect or fungus. This certificate must be attached 
to all stock shipped or delivered. The- state entomologist 
shall receive $2.50 per day for inspection, together with travel¬ 
ing expenses. If owners of infested stock do not treat or 
destroy it they shall be subject to a fine of from $10 to $25. 
Every package of trees, shrubs, vines, plants or other 
nursery stock shipped into Indiana from another state shall be 
plainly labeled on the outside with the name of the consignee 
and a certificate signed by a state or government inspector, 
showing that the contents have been examined by him and 
that, to the best of his knowledge and belief, such stock is free 
from San Jose scale or other destructive insect or fungus 
enemies. In case nursery stock from outside of the state is 
received without such certificate the agent of the transporta¬ 
tion company or other person carrying the stock is to notify 
the state entomologist under penalty of $25 to $roo for not 
doing so, and such stock shall be examined by the state 
entomologist who may pass it if it is free from scale or fungus ; 
otherwise the stock is to be destroyed. 
Willowd&le Nurseries 
We offer for the spring trade a general assortment of Peach, in different 
sizes, carefully graded, and at low prices. Plums, European and Asiatic. 
Standard Pears, including Keiffer which we can supply in caliper from inch 
to 1 >4 inch. First class Apple, mostly Wealthy, Wagener, Winesap, Stark, 
R. I. Greening, Northern Spy, King, Ewalt, Ren Davis, Baldwin. Currants 
and Gooseberries, extra fine at bargains. English Walnuts, in sizes from 4 to 
9 ft., smooth and straight. Osage Orange, as tine as can be grown, both two 
year and one year, at v r ery low prices. A general assortment of Ornamentals, 
both in Deciduous and Evergreen trees, many of which can be supplied in 
extra sizes. 
Norway Maples, Sugar Maples, and American Arbor Vitae in suitable sizes 
for planting in Nursery rows. Correspondence solicited. 
RAKESTRAW & PYLE, WillowMe, Pi. 
E. T. DICKINSON & GO., 
CHATENAY SEINE, 
FRANCE 
FRENCH NURSERY STOCKS, 
Fruit Tree Seedlings &nd Ornamentals. 
Pear, Apple, Plum and Cherry, and Angers Quince Cuttings. 
All grown specially for the American trade. 
PEAR AND CRAB APPLE SEED. 
The most complete assortment of Ornamental Stocks. Trees and Shrubs. 
Orders solicited and booked now at low rates. 
E. T. DICKINSON & CO., 1 Broadway, NEW YORK. 
NEW YORK APPLE BARRELS. 
The following is the new law for New York State regarding 
apple barrels ; the Eastern and Western New York Horticul¬ 
tural Societies and the National Apple Shippers’ Association 
endorsing it fully: 
Barrels of apples, quinces, pears and potatoes.—A barrel of apples, 
pears, quinces and potatoes shall represent a quantity equal to 100 
quarts of grain or dry measure A barrel of apples shall be of the fob 
lowing dimensions: Head diameter, 17i inches ; length of stave, 281 
inches ; bulge, not less than 64 inches, outside measurement. Every 
person buying or selling apples, pears, quinces or potatoes [such arti¬ 
cles] in this state by the barrel shall be understood as referring to the 
quantity or size of the barrel specified in this section ; but when pota¬ 
toes are sold by weight, the quantity constituting a barrel shall be 174 
pounds. No person shall make, or cause to be made, barrels holding 
less than the quantity herein specified, knowing or having reason to 
believe that the same are to be used for the sale of apples, quinces, 
pears or potatoes, unless such barrel is plainly marked on the outside 
thereof with the words “short barrel” in letters of not less than one 
inch in height. No person in this state shall use barrels hereafter 
made for the sale of such articles of a size less than the size specified 
in this section. Every person violating any provision of this section 
shall forfeit to the people of the state a sum of $5 for every barrel put 
up, made or used in violation of such provision. 
THE AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY’S 
DIRECTORY F'OR 1899, 
Is now ready, revised and corrected to date, with 1336 names of new 
concerns. This book, issued every year at great expense, contains the 
names and addresses of all the Florists, Nurserymen and Seed Merchants 
in the United States and Canada. Price, $2.00. 
AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY, Chicago, Ill., U. S. A. 
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