THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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CANNOT EXTERMINATE. 
Professor M. V. Slingerland says San Jose Scale has Come to 
Stay—Insect Is Breeding on Wild Trees and Shrubs—There 
Should be a Recompense for the Trees Destroyed. 
Professor M. V. Slingerland of Ithaca, N. Y., answering a 
query in the Rural New Yorker , says : 
“There is now no possible chance of ever exterminating the 
San Jose scale here in the East, and the sooner fruit growers 
realize this fact the better. The insect has already escaped 
from orchards, and is breeding on wild trees and shrubs in 
several localities. We can never legislate it out of existence, 
and public opinion will rarely support mandatory or non¬ 
recompensing laws against it. Doubtless, much good may be 
accomplished by enactments providing for experts, not poli¬ 
ticians, whose business it may be to visit and carefully inspect 
nurseries, at least once a year, and 
investigate every suspected case in 
orchards. But such inspectors 
should not be vested with power to 
destroy trees without partial recom¬ 
pense to the owners. A state could 
very properly empower such an in¬ 
spector to aid the owner in every 
way to eradicate the scale, even at the 
state’s expense in some cases ; but 
we do not know enough about the 
insect and the best methods of com¬ 
bating it to warrant, in my belief, 
such mandatory measures as some 
states are attempting to enforce. 
Many orchardists are now success¬ 
fully controlling the pest, and it will 
finally result in the ‘ survival-of-the- 
fittest’ orchardist.” 
J. J. HARRISON. 
The subject of this sketch, one of 
the best known nurserymen in the 
country, was born in the county of 
Kent, England, August 20, 1829. 
In the summer of 1831 his parents 
moved from Margate, England, to Painesville, Ohio, where he 
lived on a farm until of age. Besides attendance at a district 
school he attended two terms at Kirtland Seminary. When of 
age he struck out for himself, supposing his school days were 
finished, but he received an injury in his 23rd year that incapaci¬ 
tated him for labor. He spent a term at Hiram College and 
and then took a course in Bryant and Lusk’s commercial 
school at Cleveland. 
Mr. Harrison acquired a liking for the nursery business by 
engaging in the occupation of itinerant tree top grafting, 
working in New York, Canada, Georgia, Ohio, Louisiana and 
Arkansas. In 1858 he made a start in the nursery on his 
father’s farm, on Mentor avenue, now occupied by the Avenue 
Nurseries conducted by Jaynes & Cole. 
In i860 he entered into partnership with Jesse Storrs under 
the firm name of Storrs & Harrison and removed to the present 
location. After the close of the civil war the two surviving 
sons of Jesse Storrs, William G. and Willis P, were admitted 
to the partnership under the title of Storrs, Harrison & Com¬ 
pany. The expansion of the business led them to incorporate 
in 1880 as The Stoirs & Harrison Company, the present des¬ 
ignation. It is a close corporation, all the stock being held by 
themselves. The capital stock is $150,000 ; surplus $47,000. 
The office and grounds are two miles east of Painesville, on 
the North Ridge road. The officers of the company are : 
President, J. J. Harrison ; vice-president and^general man¬ 
ager, W. G. Storrs ; treasurer and superintendent of green¬ 
houses, Robert George; assistant general manager, W. P. 
Storrs ; secretary, J. H. Dayton. 
Mr. Harrison is a prominent member of the American As¬ 
sociation of Nurserymen. He was a member of the executive 
committee in 1876 the year of organization. The following 
year he was first vice-president. He is at present a member 
of the important committee on 
tariff. 
ARKANSAS SEEDLINGS. 
J. J. Harrison. 
At the last meeting of the Arkan¬ 
sas State Horticultural Society a res¬ 
olution condemning the renaming of 
Arkansas seedling apples and their 
sale by “foreign nurserymen under 
new names at extortionate prices” 
was adopted. J. T. Stinson, horticul¬ 
turist of the Arkansas Experiment 
Station, Fayetteville, has issued a pre¬ 
liminary report in which the name 
Arkansaw is preferred to Mammoth 
Black Twig, and Paragon is listed as 
a separate variety. Other names 
claimed for Arkansas apple seedlings 
are: Arkansas Black, Arkansas 
Belle, Ashton, Beach (Lady Pippin, 
Apple of Commerce), Collins (Col¬ 
lins’ Red, Champion Red, Cham¬ 
pion, Coss’ Champion), Etris (resem¬ 
bles Gano), Evans (Walker’s Sweet), 
Givens, Heiges (Red Limbertwig), 
Highfill (seedling of Ben Davis), 
Holt’s Seedling, Mock (Mock’s Win¬ 
ter), Nebo, Oliver (Oliver’s Red, Senator), Ozone (Martin’s 
Red), Reagan (Black Ben Davis), Rutherford, Tunnell. 
SCALE PARTIAL TO ROSACEHi. 
Professor T. D. A. Cockerell (Bui. 6, U. S. Dept. Agr., Divi¬ 
sion of Entomology) states that San Jose scale is partial, to 
the Rosaceae as illustrated by the following list of those plants 
upon which it has been found: Apple, crab apple, quince 
pear, Bartlett pear, dwarf Duchess pear, plum, Japan plum, 
Satsuma plum, Prunus pissardi, P. maritima, peach, apricot, 
almond, cherry, Rocky Mountain dwarf cherry, currant, black 
currant, Citrus trifoliata, Osage orange, grape, elm, cotton¬ 
wood, European linden, American chestnut, Pyrus japonica, 
Catalpa bignonioides, walnut, Japan walnut, loquat, red dog¬ 
wood, juneberry, rose, sumac, Photinia glauca and poplar. 
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