THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
99 
Mr. Harlan P. Kelsey created quite a little 
SURPLUS stir at the meeting of the New England Nur- 
STOCK serymen’s Association in the stand he took 
against the use of the brush pile for surplus 
stock. It is hardly to be expected, nurserymen will ever 
be of one mind on the subject. Their stock, methods and 
markets differ too much. With the ornamental grower 
the disposal of surplus is not likely to be as serious a mat¬ 
ter as that of the grower of fruit stock. 
The former can often transplant and carry until such 
Jmes as there is a market for it, but fruit trees must 
either be sold, given away, or burnt when ready for the 
market. 
The real remedy is, don’t grow a surplus, pay more at¬ 
tention to supply and demand. 
The same trouble exists in the south with the cotton 
crop, acres still unpicked and that on hand ready for the 
market unsalable, except at less price than it cost to grow 
it. 
Just as soon as a crop fails to be profitable, production 
should be decreased, and it is up to the nurserymen, as a 
body through the National Association, to find out and 
regulate such matters. 
Owatonna, Minn., February 12, 1915. 
The National Nurseryman, 
Rochester, New York. 
Gentlemen:—- 
Replying to your inquiry asking whether we wish to 
continue our advertisement in your March number, will 
say that we hardly think it necessary as we will sell more 
machines than we have made—so you see your paper 
does the business. 
We did not expect such a heavy demand this spring 
but did make up more machines than last year. We are 
afraid that we will be compelled to turn down orders be¬ 
fore the season is over. 
Thanking you for the assistance you have given us in 
our selling campaign, we are, 
Very truly yours, 
Clinton Falls Nursery Co., 
M. R. Cashman. 
THE LAYMAN’S VIEW OF THE BRUSH-PILE 
The Journal, Providence, R. I., makes editorial com¬ 
ment on the practice of burning surplus nursery stock, 
as follows:— 
“Criticism at the Providence convention of the New 
England Nurserymen’s Association of the practice of 
burning surplus stock was justified. Why should any¬ 
thing, useful or ornamental, be destroyed? Shrubs, 
plants and trees which are not marketed in the usual 
channels should be disposed of in other ways—it is an 
economic blunder to throw valuable stock on the brush 
pile. 
Storekeepers do not make bonfires of stock not sold 
during the regular season. Why should nursery pro¬ 
ducts not be treated as the left-over goods of a retail mer¬ 
chandising house? Surely the nurserymen should be 
able to place their surplus shrubbery and trees where 
they will be appreciated without disturbing the regular 
trade. The retail merchants have proved that there is 
no need of destroying anything that remains on their 
hands at the season’s close." 
ter 
“1 wish to make a few Umbrella Catalpas. Will it do 
to cut the scions from a grafted top of the Bungei and 
cleft graft a speciosa? At what month and date of the 
month would you recommend this grafting to be done? 
W. S. N. 
The Umbrella Gatalpa, known as Catalpa Bungei may 
be propogated by cleft grafting or budding. A good plan 
to follow is to plant out selected seedling stocks of Ca¬ 
talpa speciosa. See that they have good straight stems 
as it is essential that these formal growing trees should 
be as near perfect as possible. 
The season following, when well established, they may 
be cleft grafted at the required height, which is usually 
five to six feet from the ground. The exact time will de¬ 
pend on conditions. As soon as the sap begins to run, 
in April. Very likely you will have to cut your scions a 
little in advance and keep them in a cool place until the 
stocks are ready. The shorter you can get the scions 
the better. As they usually have very long internodes, 
that is spaces between buds, and it is always advisable to 
put the scions on with two sets of buds if at all possible. 
Should any of the grafts fail you can then bud the 
stocks the following August, inserting a bud on each side, 
so as to get evenly developed heads. The exact time of 
this operation will also depend upon conditions as to just 
when the buds will be ready. 
A METHOD OF BURNING LONG-LEAF PINE STUMPS 
A cheap and satisfactory method of disposing of the 
long-leaf pine stumps of the South has been employed in 
western Louisiana and eastern Texas. A trench about 8 
inches deep is dug entirely around the stump. A l 1 /^- 
incli hole is then bored, starting near the bottom of the 
trench and extending downward at an angle of about 45 
degrees slightly past the center of the taproot of the 
stump. The hole is then loaded with a small amount of 
dynamite; the charge is then tamped and exploded. The 
dynamite is used simply to crack the stump. From half 
to a whole stick (14 to lb.) is sufficient to crack a 20- 
inch stump so that it will burn without further attention 
to slightly below the bottom of the trench. The hole in 
the taproot may be bored by hand or by means ol the elec¬ 
tric boring machine described in Farmers Bulletin No. 
600. 
The advantages of this method over the usual practice 
of breaking the taproot and throwing the stump out ol 
(he ground with dynamite are the great saving in dyna¬ 
mite the elimination of expense in disposing of the pieces 
of stump, and absence of deep holes to be filled. Burn¬ 
ing the stumps in the ground does not appear to injure 
the soil.— E. D. Strait. 
The American Pomological Society will hold its 
thirty-fourth biennial session at Berkeley, California, 
September 1, 2, 3,1915. 
Tentative arrangements have been made to run a Pom¬ 
ological or Fruit Grower’s special train leaving New York 
about August 12th and returning about September 15th. 
