THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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why these delays should occur, but I do know that in my case 
the delay was altogether unreasonable. A shipment of perish¬ 
able plants from abroad was held ait the custom house for 
exactly twenty-two days, occasioning a complete loss of nearly 
twenty thousand young plants, all perishable, and nearly all 
evergreens that could not well stand such a delay. Of course, 
when I got the cases, the plants had apparently been unpacked 
and repacked, and were as dry as dust, though evidently had 
been as fine plants when started as I ever saw. That was a 
dead loss to me. I hope something may be done to secure 
prompt handling at the custom house as it practically bars 
those far from New York from buying anything abroad, and 
we are from ten days to two weeks from New York by water. 
Yours very truly, 
Stanley H. Watson. 
Benham, Tex., June 12, 1899. 
PLUM STOCKS. 
Editor National Nurseryman : 
I note on page 60, June issue, what Professor Van Deman 
has to say on the subject of Japan plum for stocks for both 
plum and peach. I found to day one Abundance Japan very 
badly infested with peach borer and a second tree slightly in¬ 
fested—there were only two. These trees were on Mariana, 
but planted so deep as to put roots above Mariana. I think 
peach as good stock, as far as borer is concerned, as Japan 
plum. 
C. H Birch 
Covesville, Va., June 22, 1899. 
LESSONS FROM THE FREEZE. 
Professor Goff, of Wisconsin, in a paper on the damage to 
stock by the February freeze, said: 
Where the ground was bare of snow for several thousand square 
miles, one, two and three-year-okl fruit trees were more or less dam¬ 
aged. The loss was practically complete in many places. Much 
injured stock has been planted. The weather had not much respect 
for varieties. Trees on sod fared better than those on bare ground. 
There are many anomalies not to be explained yet. What are not < 011- 
sidered especially hardy trees were found to be least damaged. It was 
found that roots on crab stock were the hardier. We should confine 
plum to Americana stocks. Nursery grounds should have a cover crop 
as, for instance, oats sowed about the middle of August. There should 
be evergreen windbreaks The greatest damage results from alternate 
freezing and thawing. 
Should root-injured trees be sold? It is a practical question. The 
injury to roots is from the tips backward. The results are not much 
different, whether the roots are frozen off or are clipped off by the 
digging machine. 
Shall the nurseryman who has been cleaned out by freezing weather 
continue to plant? A Wisconsin nurseryman said this spring that it 
was the time to plant heavily. I was surprised at first; but I think 
now that he was right. The demand for nursery stock has not been 
frozen out. Root-killing, after all, is not so rare. 
©bituaiT- 
William Jennings, president of the Jennings Nursery Co., Thomas- 
ville, Ga., died May 31 st. , 
James Kelway died at Langport, Somerset, England, May 18 th, aged 
83 years. He was one of the most prominent horticulturists of Eng¬ 
land. He was the father of William Kelway, the nurseryman. 
jfrom IDarious iPoints. 
Inspector D. W. Trine, Lansing, Mich., says there are 22 
orchards in Michigan in which San Jose scale has been found, 
but that the scale has not been found in any nurseries of 
Michigan. 
A number of the eastern nurserymen went to the Chicago 
convention via the Wabash railroad which furnishes excellent 
service between the East and the West and which has been 
securing an increasingly large share of the through traffic 
Many florists attending the Detroit convention next month 
will go via the Wabash. 
S. D. Willard, Geneva, N. Y., sent us samples on July 3rd o f 
the new Bing cherry. This is a large cherry of excellent 
quality; flesh sub-acid, juicy and very firm. All the samples 
measured thjee inches in circumference. Mr. Willard rightly 
regards this as an acquisition. He says: “ Taking quality, 
productiveness and time of ripening into consideration it seems 
to me it has no equal. Some specimens measure three and 
one-half inches in circumference.” 
The American Park and Outdoor Art Association met in 
Detroit June 28-29. An interesting programme was presented 
and the following officers were elected : President, Charles 
M Loring, Minneapolis ; vice-presidents, Thomas H. McBride, 
Iowa City, la.; Louis Woolverton, Grimsby, Ont.; John C. 
Olmsted, Brookline, Mass.; E. J. Parker, Quincy, Ill ; Lewis 
Johnson, New Orlean ; M. L Moore, Toledo, O.; secretary, 
Warren A. Manning, Boston, Mass.; O. C. Simonds, Chicago. 
IMPORTATION OF NURSERY STOCK. 
Through the kindness of Frederick W. Kelsey, New York 
city, we are enabled to give our readers the requirements by 
the government regarding the importation of nursery stock. 
First:—All cases must be distinctly marked in English 
letters, with the name of the country whence they are shipped, 
viz : from England marked “ England,” from Holland 
marked “ Holland,” etc. 
Second :—All invoices must specify the contents of each 
case opposite the marxs of each case in invoice. 
Third:—The contents of each case should indicate the sizes 
(age if possible) and price of each size, if more than one size 
and price in a case. Also whether the plants are named, of 
sorts,” or seedlings. 
Fourth:—Invoices of $100 (U S. money) or more in amount 
must have American Consular's certificate attached to invoice. 
Each shipment must be covered by separate invoice. 
PROFESSOR GOFF’S OPINION. 
Professor E. S. Goff, of Madison, Wis., who read a paper at 
the Chicago convention, says of fumigat on: 
In a state like Maryland, or New Jersey, that is thoroughly infested 
with the San Jose scale, the fumigation of nursery stock is the only 
safeguard a purchaser can have, but in the Western states where the 
scale has scarcely been introduced at all, it seems to me unnecessary to 
require the fumigation of nursery stock. A careful inspection would 
discover the scale if it were present in any large numbers. 
