THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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form a part of the programme of the next convention of the 
American Association. Mr. Barr suggests that tree nurseries 
be established, why should not the nurseries already estab¬ 
lished supply the stock ? Let the state authorities advertise 
for bids and award the contracts to the lowest responsible bid¬ 
ders. Mr. Barr says : 
I have been scattering the seeds of reforestry all along my path in 
my tour of this country. The reckless destruction of your forests 
without replacing them will lead to untold disasters. It is no use 
trusting to individuals for this work. Individuals cannot and will not 
do what is necessary. It is the duty of the state, and the state con¬ 
science will have to be reached. It all amounts to a matter of self- 
preservation, and the state should take it up with that end in view, and 
also with a view to profit. To do this most effectively laws will have 
to be passed overriding the rights of individuals. Individual rights 
are very excellent, but individual rights have no standing on the pedes¬ 
tal of the public good. 
I would suggest that tree nurseries be established in various parts of 
the state, and the plants raised from the seed, the entire work super¬ 
vised by men of experience. The timber planted should be that which 
is in the greatest demand, and brings the most money as lumber. This 
should be done in the state of New York and in the neighboring states, 
before there is lost the moisture in the atmosphere which is created by 
vegetation. 
The western part of the United States, unless something is done 
quickly, will become a howling wilderness, and, like Spain, it will 
become a country with rivers without water. The present generation 
has it in its power to remedy the evil that has arisen from the destruc¬ 
tion of forests during the last fifty years through fires, sometimes un¬ 
avoidable, but frequently from the avarice of sheep farmers to get grass 
for their stock. 
Original forests have been destroyed, and the seedlings that have 
come up and formed a new forest have again been destroyed before 
they have matured seed, and then a wilderness has followed. Your 
great prairies, which are subject to hot winds and suffer from a lack of 
water, could be made very fertile by several miles of forests being 
planted every fifty or one hundred miles. In my travels I have seen 
evidences of prodigious forest destruction. 
The conscience at Washington should be equally aroused to the state 
conscience, and ways and means found to make this a grand country ; 
beautiful and profitable to all interested in the well-being of future 
generations. 
A writer in the Botanical Magazine asserts that bacteria 
dwell even upon hailstones, averaging nearly 1,000 upon each 
piece of ice ! But there is hope for the nurseryman, for a 
circular has been industriously circulated in Indiana describ¬ 
ing an insecticide which, it is claimed, will prevent fruit from 
rotting or from falling from a tree or bush, will prevent borers 
of all kinds and curl leaf, destroys every known insect injuri¬ 
ous to vine, shrub or tree, is sure death to the San Jose scale 
is “a great tonic for chickens and pigs.” The only claim left 
out is that it will prevent surplus of nursery stock. 
There are men of much prominence in the nursery business, 
men who are recognized as leaders in many ways not only in 
the communities in which they live, but beyond their state 
boundaries. We take pleasure in announcing that W. E. 
Stanley who heads the list of directors of the Wichita Nursery 
Association, Wichita, Kan., was last month elected governor 
of Kansas on the republican ticket. Another director of the 
same association, and its secretary and treasurer, W. F. Schell, 
is prominent in state politics, being the chairman of the repub¬ 
lican county central committee. 
The Horticulturists’ Lazy Club, of Cornell University, to 
which we have referred and of which our readers will doubt¬ 
less hear more, is the outgrowth of gatherings of a few ad¬ 
vanced students at the residence of Professor L. H. Bailey in 
1895-6. The club room is a lounging place 20 feet square, in 
conjunction with the forcing houses. A blackboard and a 
stereopticon and files of fifty horticultural periodicals are made 
use of freely. 
Among the members elect of the Connecticut legislature is 
James Hoyt, senior member of the well-known firm of Stephen 
Hoyt’s Sons, New Canaan. Mr. Hoyt is in his seventieth 
year, and never held a public office before. 
CALIFORNIA FRUIT GROWERS. 
The twenty-third session of the California Fruit Growers 
Association in progress at Fresno includes a discussion of fruit 
and tree pests, tree and plant diseases, remedies therefor ; state 
and national legislation for suppression of fruit pests and 
diseases, and legislation to prohibit the sale of infested and 
unwholesome fruit. 
SUBSCRIPTIONS. 
Subscriptions for the National Nurseryman for 1899 are 
due next month. The journal will be more attractive with 
each succeeding issue. That has been its record, frequently 
noted by subscribers, and it will be maintained. All the news 
for nurserymen. A business journal for the trade. One 
dollar per year. Examine it thoroughly and see if you can 
afford to be without it. 
WEST INDIAN TOUR. 
F. G. Withoft, Dayton, O., is forming a party of gentlemen 
for a tour through Florida, Cuba and Porto Rico this winter. 
Mr. Withoft has conducted several similar trips with marked 
success. One can make the whole tour or such part of it as he 
wishes. The trip to Havana may be made in about two weeks, 
and the whole in four or five, as pleases the individual or the 
company. The cost will be surprisingly small. 
THE LAWS COMPILED. 
In response to the request of subscribers, the National 
Nurseryman Publishing Company has compiled the laws of all 
the states affecting the interests of nurserymen. Nineteen 
states have passed such laws and in three states there are pro¬ 
posed laws. All are given, together with the special rules and 
quarantine regulations, forming a most valuable record regard¬ 
ing inspection, sale and transportation of nursery stock ; a 
necessity in every nursery office. 
The federal San Jose scale bill, the Canadian exclusion act 
and the Ontario and British Columbia scale laws are given ; 
also the nursery schedules of the United States and Canadian 
tariffs. 
The whole is offered at the low price of 25 cents postpaid. 
Orders should be sent early to the National Nurseryman Pub¬ 
lishing Company, 305 Cox Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
