THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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justice may order the stock returned to the consignor unless 
he will pay the expense of an inspection. Should the con¬ 
signee fail to have the said stock either inspected or returned 
to the consignor, the justice may order the sheriff to burn the 
stock. Any transportation agent receiving stock without a 
certificate, shall notify the state officers under penalty of from 
$10 to $100 for not doing so. The purchaser or consignee of 
infested stock burned by Maryland authorities shall not be 
obliged to pay for such stock. 
The state officers shall submit annual reports on or before 
February i, of their inspections and these shall be distributed 
as bulletins. The first of these bulletins shall be the work 
done by the state entomologist up to date on this subject. The 
sum of $10,000 for the first year and $8,000 annually there¬ 
after is appropriated to enforce the act which took effect on 
the day of its passage. 
WILLIAM PITKIN. 
The secretary and treasurer of the 
Chase Brothers Company for more 
than a decade, William Pitkin is 
one of the best known nurserymen 
in Western New York. He was born 
in Rochester in 1858 and he has been 
connected with the New England 
Nurseries since 1880. The Chase 
Brothers Company, established in 
1 857, was incorporated in 1887, since 
which time Mr. Pitkin has been secre¬ 
tary and treasurer. The president is 
Lewis Chase; the vice president, 
C. H. Perkins, of Newark, N. Y. 
These three gentlemen, with Henry 
J. Peck, of Brighton, constitute the 
board of directors. Mr. Pitkin has 
charge of the office work, which in 
the case of this company, as is well 
known, is very extensive. 
Mr. Pitkin has been prominently 
associated with the work of the 
Eastern Nurserymen’s Association. 
Since that organization was started, in 
1888, he has been the secretary. 
This association embraces in its membership wholesale and re¬ 
tail nurserymen of the eastern states, principally those of West- 
ernNewYork. It has members in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, 
Massachusetts and Connecticut. The objects of the association 
are to advance the business interests of the members. Its first 
work was the adjustment of freight rates. It has done effective 
work in matters of tariff and other legislation. The associa¬ 
tion was organized for work and its members are not content 
to meet but once a year. Whenever matters of interest to the 
trade need attention, the association is called together. 
In addition to his duties as secretary of two large organiza¬ 
tions, Mr. Pitkin has served as a member of the board of 
trustees of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce for six 
years. His company is a member of the American Associa¬ 
tion of Nurserymen and of the Western New York Horticul¬ 
tural Society. Mr. Pitkin is also a director in the Central 
bank, of Rochester. 
CANADIAN RESTRICTIONS. 
Editor National Nurseryman :— 
With regard to the motives which led to the passage of the 
Canadian act excluding nursery stock from the United States, 
I may say—speaking as one who knows the history of the 
case—that the Canadian nurserymen had much less to do with 
it than the Canadian orchardists. The nurserymen were diffi¬ 
dent in making any move toward introducing legislation of 
any kind. The growers were, however, very urgent, and the 
more so when each case of infestation was traced back to the 
United States. The position of the growers was, of course, 
materially strengthened by the interstate and other legislation 
now being discussed at Washington. One act seems to be 
quite as consistent as the other, while the machinery 
necessary to operate the inspection act effectively will 
necessarily be very effective. 
On behalf of United States nur¬ 
serymen it is but justice to say that 
the majority of those who unwitting¬ 
ly sent Canadian growers infested 
stock, notified the recipients of such 
stock as soon as possible. This was 
honorable and just, but unfortu¬ 
nately all nurserymen did not do 
this, and consequently injured their 
own cause—though, of course, they 
might rightly plead ignorance. 
The main point I wish to make, 
however, is that the minister of agri¬ 
culture did not yield to importuni¬ 
ties of many deputations, all urging 
exclusion of United States nursery 
stock, till every fruit growers’ asso¬ 
ciation in the Dominion had strongly 
pronounced the same verdict. It 
should be remembered that another 
year’s experience may modify our 
opinions considerably, and that it is 
quite possible public opinion may call 
for a repeal of the act. 
John Craig, 
Late Horticulturist, Expt. Farm, 
Ottawa, Canada. 
Ithaca, N. Y., April 4, 1898. 
THE SUBJECT EXAGGERATED. 
Regarding the San Jose scale scare, the California Fruit 
Grower says : “ While the imported pest got its first foothold 
in this state and did its worst here, it is no longer serious in 
California, because of its destruction by its natural parasite, 
Aphelinus fuscipennis. The New Jersey experiment station 
also deserves the credit of not joining in the scare. This 
scale should be diligently fought by both natural and artificial 
means, but should not be made the subject of a scare that 
may sacrifice the foreign market for our surplus fruit. The 
truth is that the whole thing has been grossly exaggerated, and 
no real reason exists for the exclusion of American fruits 
which Germany and Austria have attempted.” 
William Pitkin. 
