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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
country or place to which this act applies of such nursery stock as is 
required for scientific purposes. 
7. All orders in council made under sections 4 and 5 of this act shall 
be published in the Canada Gazette. 
An order-in-council issued under this bill prohibits the im¬ 
portation of nursery stock from the United States, Japap, 
Australia and the Hawaiian Islands. 
The following stock is exempted from exclusion: Green¬ 
house plants, with the exception of roses; herbaceous peren¬ 
nials, herbaceous bedding plants, all conifers, bulbs and tubers. 
Western New York ships from $400,000 to $500,000 worth 
of nursery stock to Canada every season. 
ALARMISTS MAY DO HARM. 
Inquiries go far in showing that at least some of the San 
Jose scale alarmists keep putting themselves in print with the 
view of securing a fat job as inspector or commissioner, and 
the question is now frequently asked ‘ will these fellows scare 
away other foreign markets besides Germany ? ” Our informa¬ 
tion shows that where the San Jose scale has longest been it is 
on the decrease, and in some sections that were infested 
twenty years ago the scale has nearly, if not quite, disappeared. 
Many attribute this disappearance to natural death, some to 
its parasite, some to spraying. 
Inquiries made of authorities in California, informs the 
writer that in that state it is easier and less expensive to com¬ 
bat the scale than the codling moth or fungous diseases, and 
that one thorough spraying destroys this pest, that they do not 
have to burn trees infested with San Jose scale, and further,— 
that it is receiving less attention than some of the pests we 
have east of the Rockies. Professor Slingerland of Ithaca, 
N. Y., says: “I believe that those fruit growers who now 
successfully combat the canker worm, pear psylla and curculio 
will be equally as successful in dealing with this pest.” 
No one advocates neglect. But the alarmist will do more 
damage than the San Jose scale. If the papers keep on giving 
nothing but the alarmists’ side, other foreigners will get panicky 
and do as did Germany. But above is given simply the result 
of inquiries made of those where the San Jose scale has 
longest been. 
Spaulding, Ill. Irving Spaulding. 
ENGLAND MAY ACT. 
In the course of an article on the San Jose scale and the 
action of German authorities in excluding American fruit the 
Gardeners' Magazine, London, Eng., says : 
This, briefly stated, is the pest with which the fruit growing industry 
of this country is threatened, and yet nothing has been done by gov¬ 
ernment, by agricultural or horticultural societies, or by fruit growers 
or nurserymen, to obtain protection from what is admittedly a terrible 
scourge. American apples and pears are allowed to be imported into 
this country in immense quantities without regard as to whether they 
are infested with the scale or not. Tens of thousands of pounds are 
annually devoted to the maintenance of horticultural and agricultural 
societies in the United Kingdom, and yet no one has. so far as we are 
aware, lifted a finger, figuratively speaking, to protect those engaged 
in the production of fruit and fruit trees from so formidable a foe. 
We submit that it will be wiser to prohibit the importations of Ameri¬ 
can fruit than to incur the risk of ruining what is now becoming a 
great and profitable industry. 
IDAHO HORTICULTURE. 
O. F. Smith, of the Blackfoot Nurseries, Blackfoot, Idaho, 
is horticultural inspector of his state. In his district, five 
counties, there are 1485 acres in orchards. He says that dur¬ 
ing the last year there has been a considerable increase in fruit 
planting in Idaho. 
The codling moth and the San Jose scale are the most 
troublesome pests in that state. Inspector R. M. Grimm, of 
Caldwell, says : “ Several orchardists in my district practically 
wiped out the scale last season with one thorough spraying 
with the lime, sulphur and salt solution.” 
Un IRursere IRows. 
Japan Pear Seed. —To germinate imported Japan pear 
seed fill shallow boxes with sand, mixing with it a little char¬ 
coal; in this plant the seed and let it freeze for two or three 
weeks, then plant in the open. Where there is much of it to 
be planted, plant in the open ground and let it freeze there 
Where the first named plan is adopted, which would be for 
spring planting, the sowing in boxes should be deferred till say 
February or March. 
Gas for Scale. —Place stock in an air-tight box inverted 
and banked with earth. The chemicals necessary are fused 
cyanide of potassium (98 per cent, pure) and commercial sul¬ 
phuric acid. For each 150 cubic feet of space in the fumigat¬ 
ing box, use two ounces of the potassium cyanide, three fluid 
ounces of sulphuric acid, and eight ounces of water, for dor¬ 
mant plants; plants in full foliage may not stand so strong a 
dose of the gas. 
Whale-oil Soap for Scale. —Prepare a bath in a galvan¬ 
ized or wooden tank, 8 x feet, using the soap at the rate of 
two pounds in a gallon of water; about 60 or 70 gallons of the 
solution. It may be necessary to warm the solution occa¬ 
sionally to prevent its partially solidifying, like soft soap; the 
best brands of the soap will often remain liquid, even when 
used at the strength recommended. Leave stock in solution a 
moment or until it is thoroughly wet. 
Wier’s Cut-leaf Maple. —“We have raised these trees by 
the thousand for a good many years and we have never seen a 
single failure attributable to working on dasycarpum stock,” 
say W. & T. Smith Co., Geneva, N. Y. “The only failures we 
ever noticed in the Wier’s was caused by a trouble, quite rare, 
but in common with the silver maples, viz., sometimes when 
young trees are forced into excessive growth, high winds will 
give a twist to the trees and loosen the bark on the trunk at a 
time when the bark peels easily, but this only occurs when we 
have wet seasons.” 
Mazzard Cherry Stock. —“In the states or parts of states 
where the Heart or Bigarreau cherries do well, which are 
either in the middle Atlantic regions or on the Pacific slope, 
the Mazzard stock is very suitable,” says Professor Van Deman. 
“But beware of it on the western prairies. I have tried it in 
Kansas, and there it was a failure, and the further north we go 
the more tender it is. Perhaps the nursery agent may believe 
that Mazzard cherry stocks are the best for South Dakota, but 
I do not. They are more tender than Mahaleb stocks. That 
state has a trying climate for any kind of cherry trees, and for 
cherry stocks as well.” 
