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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
CANADA'S BARS DOWN . 
Nursery Stock From the States Was Admitted Last Month Under 
Certain Restrictions —The San Jose Scale Act Amended — 
Order In Council Providing for Fumigation of Stock 
at Certain Ports of Entry—The Regulations. 
On March 16 , 1898 , the Canadian House of Commons 
adopted a bill excluding all nursery stock from the United 
States from entry into'Canada, for the stated reason that the 
spread of the San Jose scale was feared. Minister of Agricul¬ 
ture Sidney A. Fisher said he had been importuned for a year 
by fruit growers to present such a bill. The law has been 
strictly enforced. In a letter to the National Nurseryman 
under date of April 4 , 1898 , Prof. John Craig, late horticul¬ 
turist at the Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada ; then at 
Ithaca, N. Y., and now at Ames, la., said: “ I may say, speak¬ 
ing as one who knows the history of the case, that the Canadian 
nurserymen had much less to do with the passage of the Cana¬ 
dian exclusion act, than did the Canadian orchardists.” 
At all events, there have been complaints by Canadian nur¬ 
serymen regarding the exclusion act and for some time an 
effort has been made to secure its modification. That effort 
has been successful, in a measure at least. It was provided 
in the act that an order-in-council might be passed at anytime 
modifying the act. Such an order was passed early last 
month. 
Following is the act to amend the San Jose scale act: 
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and 
House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows : 
1. Notwithstanding anything in the San Jose scale, chapter 23 of 
the statutes of 1898, the governor in council may name certain ports of 
entry, at which the importation may be permitted of any trees, shrubs, 
plants, vines, grafts, cuttings or buds, commonly called nursery stock, 
from any country or place to which said act applies, provided that 
such nursery stock has been properly fumigated with hydrocyanic 
acid gas. 
2. The governor in council may make regulations under which such 
importation may take place. 
The order-in-council furnished to us by the secretary of 
agriculture at Ottawa, is as follows: 
At the Government House at Ottawa, ) 
Saturday, the 7th Day of April, 1900. J 
Present—His Excellency, the Governor General in Council. 
His Excellency in virtue of the provisions of section 5 of chapter 23 
of 61 Vic., entitled “An Act to protect Canada from the Insect Pest 
known as the San Jose Scale,” and the Act amending the same, enti¬ 
tled “ An Act to amend the San Jose Scale Act,” and by and with the 
advice of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada, is pleased to order 
that exemption shall be and is hereby authorized from the operations of 
the above mentioned Act, for a period from the date hereof to 1st 
May, 1900, of any trees, shrubs, plants, vines, grafts, cuttings or buds, 
commonly called nursery stock, from any country or state to which the 
San Jose Scale Act applies, and all importations thereof shall be and 
the same are hereby permitted to be entered at the Customs Ports of 
St. John, N. B.; St. Johns, Quebec; Niagara Falls and Windsor, On. 
tario; and Winnipeg, Manitoba, only, where they will be thoroughly 
fumigated with hydrocyanic acid gas by a competent Government offi¬ 
cial in accordance with the most approved methods. All shipments 
made in accordance with the above will be entirely at the risk of the 
shippers or consignees, the Government assuming no risk whatever. 
The packages must be addressed so as to enter Canada at one of the 
above named ports of entry, and the route by which they will be 
shipped must be clearly stated upon each package. 
As it is well known that well matured and thoroughly dormant nur¬ 
sery stock may be safely treated, but that there is danger of serious in¬ 
jury to the trees if fumigated in the autumn before the buds are tho¬ 
roughly dormant, or in the spring after the buds have begun to unfold, 
all stock which when received is immature or too far advanced for safe 
treatment will be refused entry and held at the risk of the shipper. 
His Excellency, in virtue of the provisions of section 7 of the first 
mentioned Act, is pleased to direct that the authority herein granted 
for such exemption be published in the Canada Gazette. 
John J. McGee, Clerk of the Privy Council. 
IRecent ipublicattons. 
The official report of the proceedings of the forty-fifth annual meet¬ 
ing of the Western New York Horticultural Society has been issued by 
the secretary, John Hall. As usual it presents a large amount of valu¬ 
able matter on horticultural subjects. The society has 22 life members 
and 573 annual members, a total of 595. 
Hiram T. Jones, Elizabeth, N. J., has issued a novel catalogue, in 
which the prices of the stock offered are indicated only in the index. 
It is a dainty booklet in soft brown cover thoroughly fin-de-siecle, in 
handsome type on fine book paper, deckle edged, with wide margins 
and marginal cuts. Small plates of photo-engravings are inserted. In 
our opinion the general appearance could be improved only in the 
single particular of having these plates of uniform size with the pages. 
It is as neat a catalogue as was ever issued. It deals almost entirely 
with ornamentals. 
The official proceedings of the twenty-sixth biennial session of the 
American Pomological Society have been issued. They were compiled 
by the secretary, William A. Taylor, assistant pomologist of the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, and include the business transacted, the 
papers and discussions, all carefully indexed ; and, as Part II, the re¬ 
vised catalogue of fruits recently prepared under the direction of the 
society. The cost of annual membership in this society is $2 ; life 
membership, $20. There are 208 life members, including many nursery¬ 
men ; many other nurserymen are biennial members. 
The common questions regarding the simplest garden operations are 
not always answered by the means at hand. In a little book entitled 
“ The Amateur’s Practical Garden-book,” Professor L. H. Bailey and 
C. E. Hunn have arranged in alphabetical order simple descriptions of 
the methods of treatment of garden plants. It is arranged for ready 
reference and it contains just the information so often sought by the 
amateur. Roses, shrubbery, fruits,, mushrooms, lawns, celery, bulbs, 
insects, plant diseases, etc., are touched upon. The book is one of the 
Garden Craft series. It contains 250 pages and is illustrated with 
many marginal cuts. Cloth, $1. New York: The Macmillan 
Company. 
Of the Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, published by Mac¬ 
millan Co., New York, Professor L. H. Bailey, the editor, says : “In 
America there has been but one cyclopedic work on horticulture, Hen¬ 
derson’s ‘Handbook of Plants,’ 1881; second edition, 1890. This is 
in one volume. The most popular similar work in the Euglish language 
is Nicholson’s ‘Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening,’ four volumes, 
1884-1887. It is the work of the talented curator of the Royal Botanic 
Gardens at Kew, England. Mottet’s French edition of Nicholson, five 
volumes, 1892-1899, is the largest modern cyclopedia of horticulture, 
and the only one which excels in size the present American venture. 
Another popular English work in one volume is Wright & Dewar’s 
revision of Johnson’s Gardener’s Dictionary, 1894. Another recent 
French work, also in one volume, is Bois’ Dictionnaire d’Horticulture, 
1893-1899, with colored pictures printed in the text. In German is 
Rumpler’s Illustrirtes Gartenbau Lexikon, in one volume, with a recent 
new edition ; also Siebert & Voss’ Vilmorin’s Blumengartneri, one 
volume of text and one of plates, 1896, the most critical of all similar 
works. In judging the American work the reader must bear in mind 
that there is really no critical horticultural botanical writing in this 
country back of the present decade. The present cyclopedia reflects 
the imperfection of our literature as well as the shortcomings of the 
editor. The editors know its imperfections, however, and they will be 
its severest critics. They will naturally challenge every statement, 
and desire to verify it.” 
