THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Among the shrubs the red viburnums and sumacs con¬ 
trasted strongly with the yellow flowers and leaves of the 
witch hazel and the yellow of the huckleberry and the spice 
bush. 
PUBLISHING BOTH SIDES. 
We take pleasure in publishing in another column a com¬ 
munication from Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md , on the sub¬ 
ject of San Jose scale. Mr. Harrison calls attention to the 
fact that the National Nurseryman did not refer to the 
discussion attending the remarks of Prof. Marlatt on the sub¬ 
ject of the scale, which was strongly against Prof. Marlatt’s 
position. 
We are very sure that reference to the files of the National 
Nurseryman will show that this journal has been eminently 
fair in giving both sides of the San Jose scale controversy. 
It is the one journal in the United States that has published 
both sides, and it is the journal that prevented the adoption 
of a federal bill which was aimed at the nursery trade without 
due regard for the interests of that trade. This journal has 
published long extracts from the opinions of entomologists on 
the subject of San Jose scale, and it is the only journal that 
has published the laws of all the states and Canada on the 
subject. 
We believe the nurserymen understand the subject fully 
now, and we should not have reverted to it had not the 
president of the Society of Economic Entomologists an¬ 
nounced his opinions so positively. We supposed that a state¬ 
ment that his views were not coincided in was superfluous, for 
the majority of entomologists are on record as opposing such 
views. It was his statement alone that constituted the news. 
In this connection it is proper to note that other journals re¬ 
ferred to Prof. Marlatt’s remarks as the single feature that was 
deserving of special comment. 
We are glad to give space to our correspondent now that 
the question has been raised. 
DAVID HILL’S OPINION. 
In a recent interview with a representative of Agricultural 
Advertising, David Hill, Dundee, Ill., is quoted as saying, 
among other things : “Yes, it’s something of a business and 
it has all been built up by advertising. I am a strong believer 
in advertising. Many of the leading nurseries do not adver¬ 
tise, depending entirely upon agents and traveling representa¬ 
tives to dispose of their stock, but I think they make a mis¬ 
take. I started in here twenty-seven years ago with seven 
acres of ground and a debt of $3,500-. With advertising the 
business grew until it has assumed its present proportions. 
The outlook for the advertiser I consider very flattering. I 
find that the farm papers are the only ones I can profitably 
use, excepting the trade papers , of course , which I use for the 
wholesale trade." 
W. T. Hood, Richmond, Va., wisely advises nurserymen to 
be conservative in their plantings. The present increased 
demand does not warrant excessive plantings. Now that 
stock is being cleaned up, a united effort should be made to 
keep the supply somewhere near the demand. The mistakes 
of the past should not be repeated. 
The Minnesota Horticultural Society offers a premium of 
$1,000 for a seedling apple tree as hardy and prolific as the 
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Duchess, with fruit equal to the Wealthy in size, quality and 
appearance, and that will keep as well as the Malinda. The 
competition is open to all. Full particulars may be obtained 
from Secretary A. W. Latham, Minneapolis. 
The Florists’ Exchange suggests that florists in country vil¬ 
lages *and towns, in the suburbs of cities, and even in the 
cities, desirous of increasing their business and their profits, 
can well afford to pay more attention than they now do, as a 
class, to the retailing of seeds, shrubs, shade and ornamental 
trees, small and standard fruits, hedge plants, etc. 
The U. S. Department of Agriculture, it is reported, ex¬ 
pects to record plant growth by photography. The cinemato- 
graphe will be employed. Photographs of the plant or plants 
are to be taken by automatic exposure every two hours, the 
whole picture to cover a period of two or three months. It is 
not altogether the growth of the plant itself that it is in¬ 
tended to record in this way, but the growth and development 
of plant blights, diseases, and parasites. 
It is reported that there is an apple revival at Winchester, 
N. H. During a visit there by A. T. Lindeman, the first sec¬ 
retary of the Michigan Pomological Society and an enthusi¬ 
astic pomologist, he interested business and professional men 
and farmers in the growing of apples in that section which he 
argues is especially adapted to the purpose. Others in New 
England are talking of reviving the apple industry, and there 
may be a marked increase in the demand in New England for 
apple trees from the nurseries. 
The season has produced, perhaps, fewer novelties than 
some seasons, but there is the usual number of freaks of 
nature. A Port Kent (N. Y.) correspondent of the Country 
Gentleman calls attention to a crop of pear-shaped apples 
from a tree that had borne apples of normal condition many 
years and which appeared to be Red Astrachan. The fruit in 
question was of a perfect pear shape, yet of malformed apple 
character internally. The Gardeners’ Magazine, London, 
England, figures the Thomas Andrew Knight apple, practi¬ 
cally devoid of core and called a seedless apple. It origin¬ 
ated from Cox’s Orange Pippin and Peasgood’s Nonesuch. 
The Rural New Yorker has obtained opinions showing that a 
melon that ran into a peppermint patch could not have ac¬ 
quired the taste of that pungent plant as was claimed. 
The audit of the recent fruit show of the Royal Horticul¬ 
tural Society, at Crystal Palace, London, showed that the fol¬ 
lowing varieties led in the number of dishes displayed : 
Apples—Cox’s Orange Pippin, Ribston Pippin,Worcester Pear- 
main, Warner’s King, Peasgood’s Nonesuch, Blenheim Pip¬ 
pin. Pears—Pitmaston Duchess, Doyenne du Cornice, Louise 
Bonne de Jersey, Durondeau, Marie Louise, Williams’ Bon 
Chretien, Souvenir du Congress. Plums—Coe’s Golden 
Drop, Monarch, Pond’s Seedling, Transparent Gage, Reine 
Claude de Bavay. Peaches—Sea Eagle, Princess of Wales, 
Walburton Admirable, Nectarine, Lady Palmerston. Grapes— 
Muscat of Alexandria, Alicante, Gros Maroc, Black Ham¬ 
burgh. There were exhibited 2,203 plates of apples, 842 
plates of pears, 83 plates of grapes and 79 plates of plums. 
