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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Nurserymen heartily endorse Dr. Smith’s statement that the 
unwisdom of the scale “ scare ” is apparent. The alarm should 
be allayed. This journal has repeatedly called attention to 
the fact that such prominent entomologists as Dr. Smith,' 
Professor Bailey and Professor Slingerland have declared that 
San Jose scale can be controlled and that other insects have 
been quite as threatening to fruit interests. 
FRUIT PROFIT AND LOSS. 
It is impossible to grow either codling moth, curculio, bud 
moth, canker worm, leaf blight, apple scab, or San Jose scale 
and fine, healthy fruit on the same tree. A remedy is to spray 
with some of the preparations that have been found very 
effective in the past. It is well known that kerosene emulsion 
is very effective in dealing with many tree diseases and 
insects, but it has heretofore been exceedingly difficult of 
manufacture and application. Last season the invention, a 
cut of which we show herewith, was perfected, after much 
experimenting, and was placed upon the market. In every 
case, we believe, it was found to be just the thing needed for 
the purpose. This is the Weed kerosene sprayer of the knap¬ 
sack pattern. This device is also used in connection with 
barrel and bucket sprayers. They are useful in destroying 
San Jose scale on fruit trees. 
The smaller tank contains a quantity of kerosene which by 
a neat system of valves is admitted in the act of pumping with 
such force as to make a complete emulsion or mixture of oil 
and water. The apparatus is provided with an inductor to 
show just how much oil is being used. Any required propor¬ 
tion of oil and water may be pumped and sprayed as a per¬ 
fect mechanical emulsion. These machines, together with a 
full line of spraying pumps and appliances of all kinds, are 
made by the Deming Company of Salem, Ohio, who also are 
sole manufacturers of the famous Bordeaux nozzle. 
E. H. Adams, Bonham, Texas, January 12 : “Please find here¬ 
with enclosed $ 1.00 subscription to National Nurseryman. I am 
well pleased with its contents. Think it is worthy of success. I know 
of no other journal that would fill its place.” 
EUROPE’S LARGEST NURSERY. 
At this season of the year when there are busy scenes on all 
the packing grounds of this country, it is of interest to note 
the conditions surrounding the largest tree nursery in Europe, 
that of Messrs. Spaeth, at Rixdorf, near Berlin. The frontis¬ 
piece of this issue presents a scene of a portion of the Spaeth 
packing grounds. 
This nursery includes 700 acres, 680 of which are planted 
with nursery stock which comprises practically all the perennial 
trees and shrubs that can be grown in the open air in that 
climate. 
The house was established in 1720 by Christopher Spaeth, 
the great-grandfather of the present proprietors. It has re¬ 
mained in the hands of the Spaeth family and in direct line 
continuously from father to son. The order has been as 
follows: 1720—1746, Christopher Spaeth ; 1746—1782, Carl 
Friederich Spaeth, I.; 1782—1831, Carl Friederich Spaeth, II.; 
1831 —1863, Johann Carl Ludwig Spaeth ; 1863—1898, Franz 
Ludwig Spaeth. 
By means of an elaborate system of ditches throughout the 
large nursery, affording unusual facilities for draining and irri¬ 
gation, many kinds of nursery stock not generally grown in 
European nurseries are handled. The firm ships stock to all 
parts of the world, including North and South America. 
The annual output of the Spaeth nurseries consists of 
500,000 standard fruit trees, 300,000 dwarf fruit trees, 
3,000,000 ornamental trees, 6,000,000 shrubs and 500,000 
conifers. Between 300 and 400 employees are given work in 
the rn rsery. 
The employees have a sick benefit association with a mem¬ 
bership of 500 ; a kindergarten to which 60 children besides 
those of the employees and officers are admitted, and a res¬ 
taurant. 1 here is also a library connected with the institution 
containing many foreign publications, which are at the disposal 
of the young gardeners. 
IRecent publications. 
First Assistant Entomologist C. L. Marlatt, of the U. S. Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, is the author of a timely bulletin on the principal 
insect enemies of the grape. 
No. 6 of volume ix. of the Experiment Station Record summarizes 
a bulletin by W. C. Sturgis, of the Connecticut station, in which it 
stated that of 43 replies in regard to San Jose scale, 13 report the scale 
present. “ The scale seems to be widely spread throughout the state,” 
says the author. 
Secretary W. W. Farnsworth, of the Ohio Horticultural Society, 
has issued the official proceedings of the thirty-first annual meeting of 
the Society, held at Wooster, December 1-3, 1897. Among the val¬ 
uable practical papers presented and discussed were those by Pro¬ 
fessors Mally and Webster on San Jose scale, which resulted in a bill 
for a commission to regulate the pest. 
Nurserymen, botanists and all interested in the flora of the United 
States, have looked forward with much pleasure to the completion of 
the third volume of Nathaniel L. Britton and Judge Addison Brown’s 
“Illustrated Flora.” The publishers, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New 
York, announce that the third and last volume will be ready this 
month. It will include the subjects from dogbane to thistle. The 
work figures every species, more than 4,000, in the Northern United 
States, Canada and the British Possessions, and is more important than 
anything of the kind heretofore published, because of its complete¬ 
ness. It is an arduous task well performed. 
