THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
PROPOSED LEGISLATION. 
A number of prominent New York horticulturists, several 
senators and an assemblyman, met at the Department of Agri¬ 
culture in Albany last month to discuss proposed amendments 
to the San Jose scale law, which is considered ineffective. 
S. D Willard of Geneva exhibited specimens of infested 
nursery stock, and some Greening apples so badly discolored 
as to be unrecognizable. The present law offers no compen¬ 
sation to nurserymen for the destruction of infested stock, and 
until it does, there seems little chance of successfully combat¬ 
ing this pest. 
It was suggested that the law ought to be so amended 
by the next legislature as to provide that any nursery stock 
sold within the state, shall be fumigated by the vender or his 
duly authorized agent after coming into the state, before plant¬ 
ing or transplanting ; also, that if, after a certificate has been 
issued to the nurseryman an examination of his nursery stock 
shows it to be infested, the commissioner of agriculture shall 
withdraw certificate and notify vender or person to whom cer¬ 
tificate was issued that he must sell no more stock under said 
certificate, that he must return the certificate to the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, and that a failure to do this shall be a 
misdemeanor, punishable by fine. 
MR. KELSEY'S SUMMARY. 
Frederick W. Kelsey, of New York city, who from the first 
opposed federal legislation with reference to the San Jose 
scale, says : 
To those who have watched the results of attempted legislative 
remedy, there can be little doubt as to the futility of the laws thus far 
enacted, or the wide-spread injury caused by the agitation incident to 
this legislation. 
Not content with the injury already occasioned by panic and in¬ 
effectual state legislation, there are those who are still advocating 
national legislation in the same direction. 
Many of our representatives in Congress are broader men and better 
informed on practical questions before them than is generally 
accredited to them, and unless there is a decided change on this ques¬ 
tion the prospect of congressional action on the kind of legislation 
referred to would seem somewhat remote. 
State cooperation with local interests and remedies that strike at the 
source of these insect devastations may be helpful and in many w r ays 
beneficial, but the legislative remedies thus far attempted as applied to 
the San Jose scale appear to have been more injurious to the fruit¬ 
growing interests and to the country at large than the loss from the 
pests themselves. 
AN ORDER FROM THE PACIFIC COAST. 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., whose reputation for 
great care in fumigating nursery stock has reached the Pacific 
coast, last month received the following order : 
Toluca, Los Angeles Co., California, ) 
November 13 , 1899 . \ 
Messrs. J. G. Harrison & Sons. 
Dear Sirs: —I wish to get a few June buds, peach, as an experi¬ 
ment to sell again. The inspector here may throw them out. Most of 
the inspectors are nurserymen and will not look with favor upon trees 
from the East. 
If you will quote me prices delivered at Burbank, my nearest express 
office, I will see how many I can dispose of. Burbank is twelve miles 
north of Los Angeles. The best time to set trees here is in December. 
Yours truly, 
E. BLAKE8LEE. 
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Hmonq (Browers anb IDealers. 
R. A. Simpson, Vincennes, Ind., who has been ill of typhoid fever, 
is convalescing. 
Parsons & Sons Co., Flushing, L. I., this fall shipped fruit trees and 
vines to Eastern Siberia. 
Thomas Hopkins of Seattle, Washington, is now the proprietor of 
the Yakima, Wash., Nursery. 
Franklin K. Phoenix is actively engaged in the nursery business at 
the age of 75 at Delavan, Wis. 
II. W. Settlemire, Tangent, Oregon, has planted a ton of peach pits 
for next season’s budding stock. 
J. A. Stewart, the well known nurseryman of Christopher, Wash., 
has been visiting his parents in England. 
The Great Northern Nursery Company has been established at Bara- 
boo, Wis., by M. F. Foley, formerly of Reedsburg. 
Professor John Craig made 5,000 crosses of fruits in Iowa during the 
present year, his first at the Iowa Agricultural College. 
Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y., made a flying trip to France last 
month in the interest of his large importation of seedlings. 
Louis Roesch, Fredonia. N. Y., writes: “I have had double the 
trade 1 had a year ago and run short in many varieties of grape vines ’’ 
J. F. Martin, Winfield, Kan., w T rites: “Our fall sales have taken 
about all the stock we could spare. Fear we shall be short for 
spring.” 
The Great Northern Nursery Co., established at Baraboo, Wis., last 
spring with M. F. Foley as manager, shipped about ten cars of stock 
this fall. 
The Johnson Orchard aud Nursery Co., Dallas, Texas, has been in¬ 
corporated with a capital of $ 10,000 by J. B. Adams, J. B. Estes, E B. 
Bedford and others. 
Among the films that joined the Western Association of Wholesale 
Nurserymen at its last meeting are F. W. Watson & Co., Topeka, Ivan., 
and Bates Brothers, Floral, Kan. 
William Longworth, who is in his eighty-fifth year and who has 
resided in Bloomington, Ill., since 1830 is preparing, it is reported, to 
retire from the nursery business. 
Stanley H. Watson, Rosedale Nurseries, Benham, Tex., writes: 
“Cotton is up to 7 cents, and cattle and wool bringing good prices. 
We, therefore, expect prosperous times in Texas this fall.” 
James Hartshorne, manager of the Chicago Carnation Co., at Joliet, 
Ill., is a member of the American Association of Nurserymen He is 
devoting his special attention to pieonies as well as carnations. 
The Elizabeth, N. J., Nursery Company has completed another 
greenhouse, 100 feet long and 20 . feet wide, and now has upward oi 
400,000 roses potted in 24 -inch pots, ready for lining out and spring 
sales. 
A. D. Barnes, Waupaca, Wis., says: “ Practically no apples in A is- 
consin, but prospect for a good crop in the northern half of the state 
next year is fine, as our young orchards have made a splendid growth 
and set full of fruit buds.” 
H. M. Simpson & Sons, Vincennes, Ind., writes: “ We have had very 
good sales this fall, much better than we anticipated. We have very 
little left except some light grade apple and a small lot of peach. 
Prices, too, were as good as one could usually ask. We have had a 
very good year.” 
Mr. McGill of the Oregon Wholesale Nursery Company, Salem, Ore., 
states that sales in fruit trees have been fully equal to those of any 
previous year. There are more small orders than usual, indicating 
that more family orchards are being set out. This firm will sell nearly 
all the output of their nursery to the retail trade this season. 
The Pacific Nursery Company, Tangent, Ore., has grown a fine lot 
of apple, plum and prune trees this year. Some of their prune trees 
have made a growth of over twelve feet in twelve months. W. O. Hud¬ 
son & Son, proprietors, are formerly from Michigan, and of long ex¬ 
perience in tree growing. They have supplied trees for many extep- 
sive orchards in the Northwest during the past few years. 
