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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National Nurseryman. 
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. 
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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.; F. 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, Ta., 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 7, 8 . 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester , as second-class mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., March, 1899. 
THE DAMAGE TO FRUIT. 
The latest information regarding the extremely cold weather 
of last month is that much damage was done to fruit buds 
over a wide area. Every assertion, however, is subject to 
modification in the light of subsequent developments. Special 
investigations by “ Bradstreet’s ” show that the damage done 
by the storm and low temperature in the Northwest and West 
was less than expected, being, in fact, more in the nature of a 
temporary check than a permanent impairment of favorable 
conditions. But from the South there come reports of serious 
damage, particularly to the growing fruit and the vegetable 
crops. In Georgia the peach trees have been killed ; in Flor¬ 
ida, the orange industry has sustained losses only second to 
those in the great blizzard of a few years ago, and in Louisiana 
there is a total loss in the orange industry, the vegetable crops 
have been destroyed and great damage has been done to the 
sugar cane as the result of the coldest weather in the history 
of that state. 
W. M. Bomberger, treasurer of the Iowa Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, under date of February 18th, writes to the National 
Nurseryman: “ A temperature of 28 to 30 degrees below zero 
last ten days will change and modify much horticultural work 
in the Middle West and trans-Mississippi valley in the near 
future. There is no question that many fruits are injured. 
How much cannot be determined until a little later. But 
fruits and fruit trees were the best fortified this season against 
low temperature and extremes by ripeness, and the test on the 
more tender class will be exceedingly interesting, and we 
think will greatly modify many erroneous opinions and effect 
the traffic in nursery stock largely in the near future.” 
The Florida commissioner of agriculture says that the severe 
weather of last month was decidedly less destructive to 
oranges, pineapples and other crops than was the freeze of 
February 1895. State Entomologist Scott of Georgia is 
authority for the statement that the Georgia peach crop has 
been destroyed. 
TOO MUCH LEGISLATION. 
The reaction in the matter of San Jose scale legislation and 
discussion has come with strong force. Again and again of 
late have the wisest and broadest-minded entomologists 
taken up and repeated the expression of the ablest horticul¬ 
turists and nurserymen that there has been too much talk of 
the ravages of the San Jose scale. The fruit interests of the 
country have been damaged more by means of embargoes re¬ 
sulting from such discussion than by the work of the insects. 
From Maryland alone came reports of the devastation of 
orchards by the San Jose scale, but from Germany, France, 
Austria, and Canada come reports of the closing of ports to 
American fruit. 
The statements of Professors Bailey, Smith and Slingerland, 
backed by those of others scarcely less distinguished for their 
knowledge of entomology, declaring that the codling moth 
and other pests are more to be feared than the San Jose scale, 
voice the sentiment ( f the majority of fruit growers to day. 
When what is known as the Washington convention of en¬ 
tomologists and horticulturists proposed vigorously federal 
legislation, the nurserymen of the country met the issue 
squarely and fearlessly, only insisting that the proposed legis¬ 
lation should be just and that they should be consulted in the 
framing of the bill. 
Through their trade journal, the National Nurseryman, 
the nurserymen have been fully and promptly infoimed of all 
legislation in this country and Canada relating to this subject. 
This journal circulating only among nurserymen, has discussed 
the matter within the trade, except insofar as the entom¬ 
ologists have been glad, according to their own statements, to 
learn through it the sentiment of the nurserymen. And they 
have freely admitted that the nurserymen have been ready 
from the first to co-operate in securing such laws as have been 
deemed necessary. 
And, now, inasmuch as twenty or more states of the Union 
have adopted laws regulating the inspection of nursery stock, 
and there has been no record of the promised spread of the 
San Jose scale, it would seem good po’icy to turn attention to 
topics which shall result in increasing the trade in these times 
of steadily improving business conditions. 
The spring shipping season approaches and we may add 
that it will be of advantage to all nurserymen to procure the 
