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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
IRecent Ipublications. 
An attractive catalogue, profusely illustrated, is that of the West- 
bury Nurseries, Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury, N. Y. 
Edward Gillett, Southwick, Mass., issues a dainty catalogue of 
hardy ferns and flowers, shrubs, roses, bog and aquatic plants, 
lilies, etc. 
The U. S. Department of Agriculture has issued Farmers’ Bulle¬ 
tin No. 113, entitled “The Apple and How to Grow It.” by G. B. 
Brackett. 
Neat and very attractive lists, wholesale and retail, of ornamental 
stock are issued by William Warner Harper, Andorra Nurseries, Chest¬ 
nut Hill, Philadelphia. 
Nos. 5, 6 and 7 of Vol. XI of the Experiment Station Record have 
been issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Valuable bulle¬ 
tins on horticulture, entomology and pathology are cited and reviewed 
briefly. 
“The Farmstead” is the title of the latest volume in the Rural 
Science Series edited by Professor L. H. Bailey. It is by Isaac Phillips 
Roberts of Cornell University, and is published, as are all of the series, 
by the Macmillans, New York and London. Professor Roberts has 
discussed an important topic in a singularly clear and practical manner 
and has presented just the information that the farmer or the would be 
farmer needs. Passing rapidly from one topic to another in the line 
indicated by the title of the book, he touches in rotation upon every 
point that is likely to be raised in connection with the selection and 
purchase of farms, the location of the farm buildings, even giving 
details as to interior finish, heating and ventilation. There are chap¬ 
ters on household administration, furnishing, decoration, cleanliness, 
water supply and sewage by Professor Mary Roberts Smith, and on 
lightning protection by H. H. Norris. The book is readable, clear-cut 
and practical throughout. Cloth. Pp. 350. $1.50. New York: 
The Macmillan Company. 
FUMIGATION OF NURSERY STOCK. 
H. S. Wiley, nurseryman, Cayuga, N. Y., writing to the 
Rural New Yorker, says : 
An act to amend the present agricultural law, the chief 
feature of which is to make it obligatory for all nurserymen in 
this state to fumigate their trees (sold and shipped) with 
hydrocyanic acid gas, is the basis of an article, “Why Oppose 
the San Jose Scale Law,” by J. S. Woodward, in your issue of 
March 17 th. 
In the main, we agree with Mr. Woodward. But that the 
inspection business, conducted by our most efficient body of 
inspectors under the supervision of our department of agricul- 
culture, has been helpful, no one doubts. When we first began 
to consider the subject of fumigation, we confess we did not 
look at it from both sides. We thought it would be a serious 
hindrance by waste of time during the packing season and, 
indeed, that is the chief objection made, we believe, by the 
opposition to the measure. After more deliberate considera¬ 
tion, and upon the receipt of many letters from our patrons, of 
which the following is a fair sample, we voluntarily concluded 
that we could not afford to do otherwise than fumigate: 
Do you intend to fumigate your stock this spring? If not, 
please advise me, as I shall buy where I can get my trees 
fumigated.” 
“ We shall need this spring some eight hundred trees. Do 
you expect to fumigate ? We shall make other considerations 
secondary.” 
Many letters of this character, coming from our customers, 
have much significance and, of course, we would be stupid, 
indeed, to allow the man who is willing to fumigate to get our 
trade. And right here I wish to pose as a prophet ; before the 
end of another year there will be few, if any, growers without 
fumigating houses. Those who refuse to fumigate their stock 
will do some hard hustling to dispose of it, and will only sell it 
to those who are ignorant on the subject of fumigation. 
Better get on the band wagon and fall in line. The great fruit 
interests of this state, once thoroughly aroused on this measure, 
nothing will stay the tide of a sentiment that is bound to carry 
conviction with it. Why ? Because there are more than one 
hundred fruit growers to every nurseryman in the state, and 
capital invested stands in the same ratio. That many of the 
nurserymen favor fumigation, is commendable ; that some do 
not, is not because of the slight expense connected with it, but 
because of the time taken to do it. Every hour’s time is very 
precious during the digging and shipping season. We have 
so little time to move our stoek that we need to utilize every 
moment to the best advantage. Some one has aptly given the 
following illustration : Think of giving the grocer four or five 
weeks to pack and ship all the goods sold in six months, and 
you have a fair example of what the nurseryman has to do. 
To overcome the argument that a few make about the expense 
of fumigating, we wish to say that we have just completed 
arrangements for a fumigating house, sufficient to accommodate 
about 8,000 trees of first-class size, at an expense not to exceed 
$30 all told. 
CANADA MAY ADMIT STOCK. 
The Canadian Minister of Agriculture has given notice in 
the House of Commons at Ottawa, of a bill to amend the San 
Jose scale act by providing for the admission of nursery stock 
from the United States under certain restrictions and proper 
fumigation at some point or points in Canada. 
Xoiig anb Sbort. 
Large maples may be had of Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury Station 
N. Y. 
An attractive list of fruit stock is announced in another column by 
J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md. 
W. C. Reed, Vincennes. Ind., is strong on Elberta and Heath Cling 
peaches and Lucretia Dewberry; also Carolina poplar. 
Special rates on car lots of Rhododendron maximum and Kalmia 
latifolia are offered by J. Woodward Manning, Tremont Temple build¬ 
ing, Boston. 
One thousand grafted chestnuts, Paragon, are offered by J. G. Pat¬ 
terson & Sons, Stewartstown, Pa.,also Elberta and Crawford peaches and 
Japan plum on plum. 
Peach trees, Japan plums, York Imperial, Mammoth Black Twig, 
Smith’s Cider and other apples ; Norway, Silver, Sugar and Sycamore 
maples at Rakestraw & Pyle’s, Willowdale, Pa. 
“ LET IT COME ON INDEFINITELY.” 
John S. Kerr, Sherman, Texas, March 16, 1900—“ Please find en¬ 
closed $1 renewal. The National Nurseryman is profitable for asso¬ 
ciation among the best people of the trade. Let it come on indefinitely.” 
FROM AN APPRECIATIVE READER. 
W. T. Mitchell & Son, Beverly, O., Nov. 13, 1899.—“ Find en¬ 
closed $1 to pay for one year’s subscription to your valuable journal, the 
National Nurseryman, beginning with December next issue. We 
could not do without it.” 
