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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. 
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AflERlCAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, A. L. Brooke, N. Topeka, Kan.; vice-president, E. Albert¬ 
son, Bridgeport, Ind.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, N. 
Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; Robert C. Berckmans, 
Augusta, Ga.; F. H. Stannard, Ottawa, Kan. 
Committee on Transportation—A. L. Brooke, ex-officio, chairman ; William 
Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; Wilson J. Peters, 
Troy, O.; Robert C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
Committee on Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; N. H. Albaugli, 
Tadmor, O.: Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la.; Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa. 
Committee on Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; J. J. Harrison, Paines- 
ville, O.; N. W. Hale, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Annual convention for 1899 —At Chicago, Ill., June 7 , 8. 
Entered in' the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., December, 1898. 
CREATING A DEMAND. 
We have frequently called attention to numerous agencies 
at work, aside from the nurserymen’s efforts, to create a de¬ 
mand for nursery stock. Surely such agencies should be 
appreciated. In another column is published information 
regarding the Tree Planting Association of New York City. 
We presume many of our readers have not known what was 
being done to improve the appearance and comfort of the 
metropolis and at the same time create a demand for certain 
classes of nursery stock. The fact that the leading nursery 
firms of the country are interested in the subject proves the 
importance which at the very outset would seem to attach to 
it. The opportunity for encouragement of the plan lies not 
so much in the earnest endeavors of the promoters in New 
York as in the fact that similar interest, proportionately, could 
undoubtedly be aroused in the large cities throughout the 
Union, 
That intelligent and well-directed effort can overcome the 
various obstacles to the growth of trees in the streets of great 
cities, says Frederick W. Kelsey, the well-known nurseryman 
of New York, has been demonstrated conclusively, not only in 
Washington, but in London, Paris, Vienna and other cities 
where the immediate surroundings have been as unfavorable 
to the life and development of trees as occur in the avenues 
and streets of Greater New York. The beautiful effect pro¬ 
duced by the lines of Oriental planes (Plantanus Orientalis) 
on the Thames Embankment, London, is a case in point. 
The poor soil, pavements, gases and artificial heat incident 
to city streets are all deleterious and detrimental conditions 
for normal tree development, but there are only a few loca¬ 
tions where these difficulties cannot be overcome sufficiently 
to insure successful growth. The wonderful success of the 
70,000 street trees in Washington, planted in almost every 
conceivable location as to soil and exposure, is a practical 
demonstration of this statement. 
It is true, owing to lack of legislative authority, no compre¬ 
hensive plan of tree-planting improvements, such as have been 
so successful in Washington, Minneapolis and other cities, can 
be inaugurated as yet in New York, but the commendable 
efforts of the Tree Planting Association mark a step in the 
right direction. Individual effort and public agitation in this, 
as in other matters, must be the initiative of better things and 
improved conditions to follow. 
The haphazard way in which much of municipal improve¬ 
ment is undertaken grows out of a lack of attention to im¬ 
portant conditions when the plans are made and executed. 
There is apparently no good reason why the residental streets 
in this city and every other city should not have been properly 
planted, or should not now be planted concurrently with the 
carrying out of other improvements. 
In some of the states the desired results of better street 
planting conditions have been sought by appropriate legisla¬ 
tion. In some cases, as in Minnesota, authority is vested in 
the Municipal Park Commission to plant trees on any street 
and assess the cost of the same on abutting property owners. 
In New Jersey a law has been enacted conferring upon a com¬ 
mission to be appointed by the local authorities the power to 
plant and care for street trees, and apportion the cost much as 
streets are laid out and similar improvements made under city 
and borough charters. 
DEFORESTING A MENACE. 
Elsewhere in this issue mention is made of the tour of Peter 
Barr, the noted horticulturist of England. For sixty years he 
has labored successfully in horticultural pursuits and now he 
is circling the world to add to his great store of knowledge and 
enjoy the rest he has so well earned. His faculty for observa¬ 
tion, broad views and large experience make his opinions of 
special value. 
During his visit to Rochester, Mr. Barr referred to the ad¬ 
mission made to him in the department of forestry at Wash¬ 
ington, that practically nothing was being done as yet in the 
way of reforesting and spoke with some feeling of the utter 
inadequacy of the Arbor Day tree planting exercises to meet 
the condition. 
Y hy should not nurserymen take up this important subject 
and urge the planting of forest trees ? The subject might well 
