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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National Nurseryman. 
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. 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 
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Six Months, “ “ 1.00 
Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20tli of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. 
HdT'Drafts on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are 
requested. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
AHER1CAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y. ; vice-president, E. Albert¬ 
son, Bridgeport, Ind. ; secretary-treasurer, George C. Seager, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Cofnmittee—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; R. C. Berckmans, 
Augusta, Ga.; F. H. Stannard, Ottawa, Kan. 
Committee on Transportation—N. H. Albaugh, Tadmor, O.; Irving Bouse, 
Rochester, N. Y.; A. L. Brooke, North Topeka, Kan.; Silas Wilson, Atlantic, 
la.; N. W. Hale, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Committee on Tariff—W. C. Barry, Rochester, N. Y.; J. J. Harrison, Paines- 
ville, O. 
Committee on Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la. ; N. H. Albaugh, 
Tadmor, O,; Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la.; Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y. 
Annual convention for 1898—At Omaha, Neb., June 8, 9. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., February, 1898. 
FEDERAL BILL INTRODUCED. 
Federal legislation in which nurserymen take a deep interest 
has been started at Washington under circumstances which 
augur for its success. There has been full discussion of the 
need of a law to regulate the shipment of nursery stock on ac¬ 
count of the San Jose scale. And now a representative joint 
committee of nurserymen, entomologists and horticulturists 
has met at Washington, drafted a bill and caused its presenta¬ 
tion to Congress. 
The bill, thus prepared, was presented by the gentlemen 
named, to the committee on agriculture of the House of Rep¬ 
resentatives, of which Congressman Wadsworth, of New York, 
is chairman. Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson, 
appeared before that committee with the nurserymen, entomol¬ 
ogists and horticulturists, and added his argument in favor of 
the bill. The House committee promptly endorsed the bill, 
and it was presented in Congress by Congressman Charles A. 
Barlow, of San Luis Obispo, Cal. 
To each of the gentlemen composing that joint committee 
the thanks of the large number in the branches represented 
by them are due in full measure for their earnest and success¬ 
ful endeavors to harmonize all interests. President Watrous 
of the American Pomological Society, President Rouse of the 
American Association of Nurserymen and Professor Alwood 
who has been the most active of the entomologists in the 
movement for such a measure, have worked long and arduously 
to find the common ground upon which all might stand. It 
now remains for the rank and file among nurserymen, horti¬ 
culturists and entomologists to second the efforts of these 
gentlemen by every means in their power, to the end that the 
bill now before Congress may become a law. It is urged that 
the nurseryman in all parts of the country write to their repre¬ 
sentatives in Congress endorsing the bill and emphasizing the 
importance of having a uniform law in this matter. 
The appropriation bill in the House has been passed but it 
is expected that Senator Allison, chairman of the Senate com¬ 
mittee on appropriations will secure the insertion of the needed 
amount to make the law effective in the Senate’s amended 
appropriation bill. 
Much credit is due Congressman Henrv C. Brewster, of 
New York, for his valuable aid to the committee and others, 
for it was largely on account of his efforts that the bill was 
introduced so promptly. 
OPINIONS ON CERTIFICATES. 
In a symposium on the San Jose scale, the Rural New 
Yorker gives the opinions of several nurserymen and entomol¬ 
ogists. Dr. John B. Smith, of New Jersey, says he advises 
fruit growers in that state to insist upon a guaranty from the 
seller of nursery stock and he has stopped the issuing of cer¬ 
tificates. V. H. Lowe, entomologist of the Geneva, N. Y., 
experiment station, places little value on a single inspection. 
Professor Frank A. Waugh, of the Vermont experiment sta¬ 
tion, says an honest nurseryman gives the best guaranty. 
Professor L. H. Bailey, Ithaca, N. Y., says an entomologist’s 
certificate is of some value, but that an examination sufficient 
to give a clean bill of health to a nursery would cost more 
than the stock is worth. 
S. D. Willard, Geneva, N. Y., says he cannot see how the 
ground can be covered absolutely without legislative action of 
an imperious character, requiring the employment of many 
men at great expense. He fears more danger from neglected 
orchards than from dissemination of the scale on trees by 
nurserymen, because the latter are on a sharp lookout for every¬ 
thing injurious to their interests. T. T. Lyon, South Haven, 
Mich., believes certificate establishments are more trustworthy 
than others. J H. Hale, South Glastonbury, Conn., regards 
the average certificate as of little real value. 
Editorially the Rural New Yorker remarks ; “ In the end 
we must trust to the honor and intelligence of the nurserymen 
for our best protection.” 
UNIFORMITY OF NAMES. 
The systematic effort of the American Pomological Society 
to establish a standard nomenclature of fruit should receive 
the earnest support of the nurserymen. It is a matter in which 
all growers of fruit and fruit trees should be deeply interested. 
The American Pomological Society has secured the publica- 
