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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. 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 
One year, in advance, - $1.00 
Six Months, ------ .75 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance, - - - 1.50 
Six Months, “ “ 1.00 
Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment' in advance required for foreign advertisements. 
flglT’Drafts on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are 
requested. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
AHERICAN 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, Geueva, Neb.; Wilson J. Peters, 
Troy, O.; Robert C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
Committee on Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; N. H. Albaugh, 
Tadmor, 0.: 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 mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., January, 1899. 
FEDERAL SCALE BILL. 
Much interest has been manifested among nurserymen in 
the federal scale bill, since the opening of congress. In re¬ 
sponse to many inquiries, ex-President Rouse, of the American 
Association, who has devoted much time to the effort to secure 
federal legislation on this subject, entered into correspondence 
with Chairman Wadsworth of the House committee on agri¬ 
culture and with Congressman Charles A. Barlow, of California, 
who introduced the bill. Each of these gentlemen wrote that 
while there was no doubt that the bill would become a law, 
they did not think it would be passed at the present session, 
because it would require unanimous consent to take up the 
subject and this could scarcely be expected in the pressure of 
more important matters. 
The legislative committee of the American Association, 
Messrs. Watrous, Albaugh, Wilson and Meehan, has been ad¬ 
vised of the situation and it is probable no visit to Washington 
in the interest of the bill will be made during the present ses¬ 
sion of congress. 
The new agricultural bill has a clause empowering the Sec¬ 
retary of Agriculture to keep out of this country any food 
products that may prove injurious. This will affect fruit im¬ 
ports that are not proper. A similar clause, relating to nur¬ 
sery stock, is in the federal scale bill. 
FRENCH QUARANTINE. 
M. Thibeaut, Charge d'Affaires of France, has notified Sec¬ 
retary Hay that the French government was about to adopt pre¬ 
cautionary measures against the introduction from this country 
of the San Jose scale, and that decrees will be issued prohibit¬ 
ing the importation of trees, shiubs and plants from the 
United States, and inquiring an inspection of all fruits, fresh 
and dried, at the point of landing in France. The general 
trade from this country to France will suffer little through this 
step, as the shipments of trees, plants and shrubs in 1897 ag¬ 
gregated only $328, and those of fruit $40,000. The action 
of France was taken, it is said only after some of the American 
States had adopted precautionary laws against the pest re¬ 
ferred to. 
NEW GEORGIA REGULATIONS. 
The Georgia laws of 1897 governing the inspection and 
transportation of nursery stock has been amended by the con¬ 
stitution of a state board of entomology which shall enact 
rules governing nursery stock. Stock must be inspected an¬ 
nually before November 1st. Certificates will be given In¬ 
fested stock may be destroyed at the expense of the owner. 
Section 10. It shall be unlawful for any grower, nurseryman or 
corporation to ship within the state of Georgia any trees, shrubs, cut¬ 
tings. vines, bulbs, roots, without having been previously inspected 
by either a state or experiment station entomologist or government 
officer, within twelve months of the date of said shipment, and certifi¬ 
cate of inspection to accompany each box or package. Violation of 
this clause will be considered a misdemeanor and punishable as such. 
Section 13. Each and every person residing in states or countries 
outside of the state of Georgia dealing in or handling trees, plants, 
cuttings, vines, shrubs, bulbs and roots in this state shall register his 
name and firm and file a copy of his or its certificate of inspection fur¬ 
nished by the entomologist, fruit inspector or duly authorized govern¬ 
ment official of his state or country, with the chairman of the board of 
control. Upon failure to do so, said stock shall be liable-to confisca¬ 
tion under order of the inspector. 
WESTERN FREIGHT CLASSIFICATION. 
President A. L. Brooke of the American Association and of 
the Western Association of Wholesale Nurserymen, writes to 
the National Nurseryman from North Topeka, Kansas, as 
follows : “ J. T. Ripley, Chairman of the Western Classifica¬ 
tion Committee has notified me by letter, that the National 
Association of Nurserymen would be allowed to appear before 
his committee in May, in behalf of any petition its committee 
on transportation may desire to present. If the National 
Nurseryman or any of its readers should have any practical 
suggestions along the line of transportation of nursery stock 
to present, the committee on transportation would be glad to 
receive them, either through your valuable journal, or by writ 
