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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
soil to produce vigorous trees. The tendency was towards 
the growing of more beautiful fruit ; but growers need not, as 
a consequence, expect higher prices. Fruit had been higher, 
in proportion to other farm produce, for a long -time. He 
still was urgent in his advocacy of the destruction of peach 
trees diseased by the yellows, and said that now the state had 
abandoned the fight it was due to the growers that they 
carry it on themselves. 
Edwin Hoyt of New Canaan spoke of co-operative fruit 
growing for Connecticut growers as a means to compete with 
other sections of the country. 
Ex-president Roland Morrill of the Michigan society de¬ 
scribed his extensive culture of peach trees. J. W. Clark, 
North Hadley, Mass., told how he grows first-class fruit that 
sells at fancy prices in Boston. H. W. Collingwo;. d, of New 
York, and Dr. E. H. Jenkins discussed fertilizers for fruit 
trees. J. Norris Barnes believed that the result of the repeal 
of the law will be to cause a thinning out of the growers and 
the orchards, and that the business will eventually be con¬ 
trolled by the large growers, who will be forced to take ag¬ 
gressive steps to protect themselves from the disease. 
The following officers were elected : President, J. H. Hale, 
South Glastonbury ; vice-president, J. H. Merriman, New 
Britain ; secretary, H. C. C. Miles, Milford ; treasurer, R. A. 
Moore, Kensington. 
WISCONSIN. 
The State Horticultural Society of Wisconsin met in Madi¬ 
son Feb. 7-9. Reports on the Omaha exhibit were made by 
L G. Kellogg, Ripon ; A. L. Hatch, Sturgeon Bay ; William 
Toole, Baraboo ; E. C. Coe, Fort Atkinson ; A. J. Philipps, 
West Salem. “ Orcharding in the Northwest” was discussed 
by J. M. Underwood, Lake City, Minn. A. L. Hatch of 
Sturgeon Bay, spoke on “ The Business Side of Fruit Culture 
in Wisconsin.” “This state,” says the Countiy Gentlemen, 
“though sending large quantities of apples to other states, has 
not one business orchard, because local nurserymen insist that 
eastern apples cannot be grown there. Wisconsin can grow 
good apples : it is a question of care and culture, not soil or 
climate.” 
The following officers were elected : President, Franklin 
Johnson, Baraboe ; vice-president, O. W. Babcock, Omro; 
secretary, A. J. Philips, West Salem ; treasurer, R. J. Coe, 
Fort Atkinson ; corresponding secretary, Mrs. V. H. Campbell, 
Evansville. 
EASTERN NEW YORK. 
The third annual meeting of the Eastern New York Horti¬ 
cultural Society was held at Albany, Feb. 21-22. Governor 
Theodore Roosevelt addressed the convention, relating his 
experience in farming in the West and of his having served as 
deputy sheriff and employing the sheriff as a farm hand. Mr. 
Flanders of the state department of agriculture, and Professor 
W. G. Johnson, entomologist of Maryland, discussed the San 
Jose scale. 
Professor Slingerland of Cornell University, stated that 
the tendency to lay so much stress on the ravages of 
the San Jose scale upon our fruit is the principal cause 
which has led to the refusal of foreign countries to admit 
our fruits. . It would be to the advantage of our fruit 
growers, he continued, if there was less talk on this subject. 
W. D. Barnes, of Middle Hope, said: “There are now 
laws for the destruction of black-knot, and inspection of trees 
for San Jose scale. While some advocate the extension of 
similar laws looking to the compulsory destruction of canker- 
worm, tent caterpillars, etc., it seems to me that the benefits 
probably secured would not equal the cost of their enforce¬ 
ment and would most likely add to the list of dead letter laws 
that are now found on our statute books.” 
The lecture of Professor Willis G. Johnson, of Maryland, 
on the San Jose scale had its effect and a resolution embody¬ 
ing recommendations made by him was unanimously adopted 
by the society. It requests that a law be passed which shall 
cause all nursery stock of the state to be fumigated rather 
than inspected as now required, and that the work be placed 
in the hands of the state entomologist in co-operation with the 
department of agriculture. George T. Powell, of Great Neck, 
and W. F. Taber, of Poughkeepsie, were appointed a com¬ 
mittee to meet the commissioner of agriculture and the state 
entomologist to discuss this question. 
These officers were elected : President, James Wood, of 
Mount Kisco ; vice-president, W. F. Taber, of Poughkeepsie ; 
secretary and treasurer, E. C. Powell, Great Neck. 
MORRILL ON PEACH CULTURE. 
Roland Morrill describes his method of growing peaches in 
his successful orchards at Benton Harbor, Mich., as follows : 
He cultivates the peach tree by pushing it ahead as rapidly 
as possible, fertilizing none until the bearing years have 
been reached. The ground beneath the trees is cultivated by 
plow, harrow or weeder, as often as from thirty-five to fifty 
times a season, the weeds are all kept clear and there is 
abundant opportunity for moisture. The consequence is that 
the tree matures within three years to be from ten to twelve 
feet high with a body five to six inches through and about 
twenty inches in height at the trunk. The peaches from these 
trees can be picked easily, most of them from the ground, and 
Mr. Morrill quoted one instance where an ten-acre section of 
trees eight years old, had netted him $11,000. His illustrations 
showed the most vigorous pruning and he said that after the 
first three years he cut and trimmed out nearly two-thirds of 
the growth of wood. Fertilization for the crop was of wood 
ashes and ground bone, with a good surplus of ashes. 
PROPOSED KANSAS LAW. 
Through the courtesy of President A. L. Brooke of the 
American Association, we are in receipt of a copy of a bill in¬ 
troduced in the Kansas legislature providing for the creation 
of a state entomological board composed of the entomologists 
of the University of Kansas, the state agricultural college and 
the state horticultural society, whose duty it shall be to inspect 
any premises in the state where pernicious insects are believed 
to exist and take such measures to eradicate the pest as may 
be deemed necessary, at the expense of the county commis¬ 
sioners. No indemnity is to be allowed for trees or plants 
destroyed. 
Whenever a resident nurseryman desires his trees, scions or 
other nursery stock inspected, a member of the board will re¬ 
spond. If no pernicious insects are discovered a certificate 
of inspection is to be issued upon payment of the expenses of 
the inspection. 
