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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National N urseryman. 
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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Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
AiTERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, Wilson J. Peters, Troy, O.; vice-president, D. S. Lake, Shen¬ 
andoah, la.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y.; treas¬ 
urer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—Irving- Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; C. L. AVatrous, Des 
Moines, la.; E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind. 
Committee on Transportation—Wilson J. Peters, ex-officio, chairman ; William 
Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; A. L. Brooke, N. 
Topeka, Kan.; Robert C.Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
Committee on Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, Ta.; N. H. Albaugh, 
Tadmor, O.: Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la.; 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 1900—Chicago Beach Hotel, June 13-14. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., January, iqoo. 
FEDERAL LEGISLATION. 
The subject of federal legislation on the transportation of 
nursery stock is again before the nurserymen. Pursuant to 
instructions by the American Association of Nurserymen at 
the Chicago convention, Chairman Watrous of the committee 
on legislation caused the re-introduction of the bill of 1898 in 
the present congress by Congressman Wadsworth of New York, 
chairman of the house committee on agriculture. 
With the cessation of alarm about the spreading of the San 
Jose scale, many nurserymen hoped that there would be no 
further talk of legislation upon the subject. But there stand 
the state laws, with their varied and perplexing provisions; and 
so long as they remain in force, there is argument, from the 
nurserymen’s point of view, in favor of the passage of a federal 
law which will tend to make uniform the provisions regarding 
the shipment of nursery stock between the states. This, we 
think, is conceded. It is for this reason that the American 
Association of Nurserymen and the National Nurseryman, 
as the official journal of that association, favor the bill now 
before congress. The bill will probably be amended, at an 
•early date, as to the time when the enforcement of its provi¬ 
sions will begin, the time as now stated in the bill referring 
to 1898. 
Nurserymen who are desirous of reducing to the minimum 
the delays and the inconvenience attending the shipment of 
nursery stock, as the result of inspection, should write to their 
representatives in congress and urge the adoption of this 
measure. The legislative committee of the American Associa¬ 
tion will do all in its power to advance the interests of the bill. 
The federal bill empowers the secretary of agriculture to 
retaliate for the damage to nursery interests of the United 
States caused by the Canadian exclusion act. If, as is reported, 
the Canadian authorities should take steps to remove the ban 
from the nursery stock of the states, the secretary of agricul¬ 
ture could refrain from exercising the powers conferred by the 
federal bill under consideration. 
EMBELLISHING RAILROAD GROUNDS. 
From time to time we have called attention to the avenues 
of trade that may be developed with profit. At the meeting 
of the Philadelphia Florists’ Club last month Paul Huebner, 
the landscape gardener for the Reading railway outlined the 
progress made in the embellishment of the stations along that 
line. In the case of the Reading it was decided that for the 
sake of economy the corporation would have a nursery of its 
own. Mr Huebner says that he plants every season 100,000 
flowering and foliage plants and some hardy nursery stock. He 
uses geraniums, cannas, alternantheas, scarlet sages, begonias, 
ageratums, echeverias, coleus, abutilons, acalyphas, petunias 
zinnias, vincas, etc, 
A special feature of his work is the planting of privet hedges j 
as a live snow fence for the protection of the lines from snow 
drifts. In shrubbery he used deutzias, forsythias, spiraeas, 
wiegelias, dogwoods, Hydrangea paniculata, etc.; also some 
evergreens. 
“I am free to say that the horticultural trade in general are 
under a debt of gratitude to the railway corporations which 
have done good work in beautifying the stations along their 
lines,” says Mr. Huebner. “This work is a grand public 
educator and brings custom to everyone in the business. I 
get letters from all over the country from people who are 
desirous of planting and whose first impulse in this direction 
was received from the picturesque and pleasing appearance of 
the stations along the line of the Reading railway. And when 
economically managed there is no more cheaper nor more 
effective means than this of advertising a line, and I hope the 
practice will be extended until every line in the country shall 
be of artistic as well as practical utility to the public at large.’’ 
NEW YORK STATE LAW. 
An effort is being made to secure the amendment of the 
New York State law regulating the shipment of nursery stock. 
The amendment pioposes two things : That all nursery stock 
shall be fumigated before shipment and that owners of nur¬ 
series and orchards shall be reimbursed for the value of nursery 
