THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. 
Nurserymen will be especially interested in the horticul¬ 
tural features of the Pan-American Exposition to be held in 
Buffalo, on the Niagara frontier during the summer months 
of 1901 . 
The three buildings for horticulture, graphic arts and 
forestry, of which Peabody & Stearns are the architects, form 
a picturesque group at the end of the west garden. The 
largest of these, the horticulture building, stands between the 
two on an axis with the garden. The forestry building is on 
the north side ; the graphic arts on the south, adjoining the 
lake. Arcades connect the three buildings, forming in front a 
semi-circle court. Between the arcades the ground rises 
slightly to the level of the Fountain of the Seasons. The area 
of the horticultural building is 45,000 square feet. 
The service building of the Pan-American Exposition, to 
be held at Buffalo, N. Y., on the Niagara Frontier, from May 
ist to November 1 st, 1901 , was the first building of the Expo¬ 
sition to be erected, and is used by the corps of officials and 
employees having direct charge of the constructive work of 
the Exposition. 
Work was begun on the site September 26 th. Since that 
date the land has been cleared of fences, 2,400 small poplar 
trees, 1,200 willow bushes and 700 assorted shrubs have been 
planted about the border of the grounds. A boundary fence 
has been built eight feet high and twelve thousand feet long. 
A nursery has been prepared and several thousand trees and 
shrubs have been placed therein. 75 large trees have been 
transplanted from points in the site to avenues on the border 
of the grounds. Some 10,000 cubic yards of top soil have 
been scraped, piled, mixed, and turned over. 4,000 yards of 
excavation have been removed from the East lake ; two green 
houses 20 x 80 x 10 , with propagating houses adjoining, have 
been built, and a number of cold frames have been set out ; 
2,000 large poplar trees and maples have been received and 
prepared for early planting in the Spring. 
CONDITIONS IN NEW JERSEY. 
“The appropriation for enforcing the law for inspection of 
nursery stock is sufficient for the organization of the working 
force required by the law, but not for the effective work con¬ 
templated by the act,” said State Entomologist J. B. Smith at 
the winter meeting of the New Jersey Board of Agriculture, 
“ Nurserymen have done everything asked of them and of 
their own accord for the honor of their business, and are in 
the front rank with every known method for insuring clean, 
healthy stock. Fumigating houses and boxes have been 
erected and are used conscientiously and understandingly. 
The inspections made are such as will give greatest public 
safety for the money. These show less scaly stock being dis¬ 
tributed from New Jersey nurseries than from other states. 
Growers are making the mistake of buying ‘ sight and unseen ' 
where redress is impossible. Certificates issued between June 
and September are worthless, as the San Jose scale does not 
begin to breed until June and could not be found in July. 
The scale is widespread through the state, hedges, ornamental 
shrubs and woodside growth being badly infested. But with 
the present organization and funds enough to enforce the law, 
the scale can be kept under control.” 
jfrom IDanous points. 
The Oregon Horticultural Society at its annual meeting at Corvallis 
last month endorsed the federal quarantine bill. 
It takes about sixteen years to grow an elm tree six inches across 
while poplar, cottonwood and some other soft-wood trees can be raised 
to the same size in about six years. 
Secretary Wesley Greene, of the Iowa State Horticultural Society, 
figures that the decline of the apple industry in the state during the 
past 15 years is at least one-lialf. 
The Eastern New \ork Horticultural Society has elected these offi¬ 
cers: President, James Wood, Mt. Kisco; vice president. W. F. Taber 
Poughkeepsie; secretary-treasurer, Charles H. Boyce, Rhinecliff. 
The ninth annual meeting of the American Carnation Society was 
held in Buffalo, Februry 15-16. These officers were elected: President, 
Robert Halliday, of Baltimore; vice-president, Wm. Weber, of Oak¬ 
land; treasurer, Fred. Dorner, Jr ; secretary, Albert M. Herr. 
A farm of 200 acres at Chappaqua, on the Harlem branch of the Cen¬ 
tral railroad, 33 miles from New York city, has been secured for a 
school of horticulture. The practical details of the culture of plants 
will be taught, also the care of orchards and small fruits. George T 
Powell, Ghent, N. Y., is interested in the plan. 
The fruit package law, approved May 3, 1899, became effective in 
New L ork January 1, 1900, and will be strictly enforced. It provides 
that the quart shall be the standard measure for all small fruits. It 
shall contain 67 cubic inches, the pint 331 and the half pint 16$. Where 
a package is not up to the standard it must be marked “short,” the 
letters being at least one-half inch high. Violations of this law are 
punishable by a fine of $5 to $25. 
In its report of the Peninsula Horticultural Society at Salisbury 
Md., January 10-12, the Country Gentleman says: “None of the 
growers seemed to have any particular interest in any particular insect 
or fungus this year. Even the San Jose scale has lost its attractive, 
ness and the peninsula fruit growers have settled down to their old ways 
of living and paying their debts just as they used to in former times. 
They are still planting and cultivating, marrying and giving in mar¬ 
riage, just as though the San Jose scale had never been invented.” 
And this from scale ridden Maryland ! 
©bituar\>. 
George B. Wallace, a pioneer nurseryman, of Salt Lake City, Utah, 
died last month, aged 83 years. He was born at Epsom, N. H., became 
a Mormon and removed to Utah from Boston in 1847. 
Hon. T. T. Lyon died at his home in South Haven, Mich., February 
6 th, aged 87 years. He was born in Western New York and removed 
to Michigan in 1828. Twenty years later he began experiments in hor¬ 
ticulture. He has long been regarded as an authority on pomology. 
He was in charge of the experiment station at South Haven. He was 
president of the Michigan State Horticultural Society, second presi¬ 
dent of the South Haven Pomological Society and an early member of 
American Pomological Society. He originated the Michigan Fruit 
Catalogue. 
Robert C. Brown, of Brown Brothers Co., Rochester, N. Y., died 
suddenly, of pneumonia, on February 27th, aged 36 years. In 1884 he 
entered a partnership with his brother Charles J. Brown. The develop¬ 
ment of the Canadian business of the firm took Mr. Brown to the Do¬ 
minion for much of his time. In the early 90’s he made his residence 
for two or three years at Toronto. Here he made many friends with 
whom ke kept in touch after his return to Rochester, through frequent 
visits. He built a picturesque camp on one of the Canadian lakes, 
where he entertained Itochesterians during the summer months. Mr. 
Brown was the treasurer of the Herrick Seed company and the Perry 
Nursery company. 
Geokge E. Storer, Westminister, Md. —“Enclosed find $1 for 
the National Nurseryman. Can’t get along without it.” 
