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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. 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 
One year, in advance, - - - - - $1.00 
Six Months, ------ -75 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance, - - - 1.50 
Six Months, “ “ loo 
Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. 
JEg^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 Committee—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 Rouse, 
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., March, 1898. 
TOPIC FOR OMAHA MEETING. 
Apropos of our comment on uniformity of names of fruits 
in the February issue, B. Buckman, of Illinois, says: “The 
confusion arising from synonyms is one for which nurserymen 
are really responsible, and which they can easily rectify by 
concerted action. There is no good reason why a variety 
should be Newtown Pippin, Chenango Strawberry, Hig’ntop 
Sweet, in one part, and Albemarle Pippin, Sherwood’s Favor¬ 
ite, Sweet June, in another, since there is a National Nursery¬ 
men’s Association.” 
We have suggested that at the Omaha convention of the 
American Association in June this subject might be profitably 
discussed. There will be exhibits at the Trans-Mississippi 
exposition which will serve as object lessons in this connec¬ 
tion. The American Pomological Society stands ready to 
endorse what its president, C. L. Watrous, chairman of the 
executive committee of the American Association may suggest 
on this subject. 
James MacPherson, Trenton, N. J., the well-known land¬ 
scape gardener and trenchant writer, says : “The National 
Nurseryman deserves great credit for its advocacy of author¬ 
itative names for plants and fruits, but it is evident that some¬ 
thing stronger than mere advocacy is necessary. You may 
remember that I offered to correct any catalogues sent me by 
nurserymen growing ornamentals two or three years ago, at 
their own price. Well not a single one of them took advan¬ 
tage of the offer, and but one had anything to say about it. 
It happens that this one firm are about as correct in the matter 
of coniferous evergreens as any firm in America, and it is their 
opinion ‘that they had best use the names known to their 
customers.’ 
“Their customers, I imagine, know precious little about 
names as a rule. The majority of a nurseryman’s customers 
using names are jobbers and peddlers to whom anything novel 
in a name is a godsend, be it new or old ! In every view of 
the case, uniformity is desirable.” 
MATTER OF SELF-INTEREST. 
“Progressive Massachusetts peach growers are up in arms 
at another attempt on the part of Boston commission men, 
and nurserymen from outside the state, to foist upon the 
statute books a measure most odious to the interests most 
vitally concerned,” writes Fred H. Johnson in Rural New 
Yorker regarding yellows legislation. “For two successive 
years, a similar bill, proposing to destroy all trees affected by 
the so-called disease, and to prevent the sale of prematurely 
ripened fruit, has been defeated through the testimony of a few 
of the up-to date and most scientific peach growers in the 
state before the joint house and senate committee on agri¬ 
culture.” 
Professor Maynard of the Amherst Agricultural College 
urges fruit growers to refrain from sending inferior fruit to 
market as a matter of self-interest and believes that legisla¬ 
tion to control the marketing of such products is unnecessary 
if not unconstitutional. 
It is much the same as regards nurserymen and the San 
Jose scale. Self-interest will prevent the dissemination of the 
scale in these days of lively competition and a desire to build 
up or sustain a reputation for honest methods. 
GEORGIA LAW. 
The Georgia legislature last December passed a bill provid¬ 
ing for the establishment of a special department of horti¬ 
culture and pomology to be a part of the department of agri¬ 
culture of the state under the control of the commissioner of 
agriculture who shall appoint an entomologist recommended 
by the State Horticultural Society to assist him in the work of 
the new department. 
That entomologist shall encourage horticulture and pom¬ 
ology in the state and publish statistics regarding the industry. 
He shall visit the orchards, nurseries, packing houses and re¬ 
port the existence of any pests or diseases to the commis¬ 
sioner of agriculture who shall order orchards or stock to be 
disinfected or destroyed. 
Should disagreement arise in any case, the commissioner of 
agriculture shall select one person, the objector another person 
and the two thus selected shall choose a third person. The 
arbitrators shall take testimony and render to both the ob- 
