THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Review, Hote Comment. 
Nurserymen should keep in mind that the laws of 
Canada prohibit mailing nursery stock into that country. 
This includes trees, shrubs, plants, vines, grafts, scions, 
cuttings or buds. Greenhouse grown florists’ stock, 
herbaceous perennials and bedding plants are admitted 
only when there is a statement of contents attached 
showing that they are not subject to fumigation. Ship¬ 
ments of nursery stock into Canada should he made hy 
the regular process and entered where they may he 
fumigated before being shipped on to the customer. 
Mr. W. If. Miller has taken over the entire interest of 
Miller and Meherin, Oakland, California, and in the 
future the name of this firm w ill he the Miller Seed Com¬ 
pany. Mr. Miller intends to go over the tree seed collect¬ 
ing field very thoroughly this year and aims to have a 
very complete line of tree seeds. He is making arrange¬ 
ments to collect Abies Douglassi in large quantities if 
this year’s crop will allows of it. 
In the United States as a whole four-fifths of the 
standing timber is privately owned, and one-fifth is 
owned hy various States and the Federal Government. 
New York owns one-fifth of the forest land of the State 
and one-fourth of the standing timber. Owing to a 
Clause in the Constitution this timber can not be cut even 
though it is dying or dead and a menace to healthy tim¬ 
ber about it. The State should allow careful cutting of 
mature timber in the Adirondacks. 
Mr. Dykhuis, of Boskoop, Holland, of the firm ot 
Felix & Dykhuis called at “The National Nurseryman’ 
office on May 14th. He reports business as very good in¬ 
deed, far better than was expected, remarking that one 
would hardly know the war w as going on by the amount 
of orders received and booked. 
New York leads all the other states in the Union in 
lumber consumption, with a total annual bill for timber 
of all kinds of over $100,000,000. Enough wood is used 
annually in the industries of the State to make a board 
walk 1000 feet wide and 1 inch thick from Syracuse 
along the New r York Central to New r York City and part 
w ay back. 
The State College of Forestry, Syracuse, N. Y., is ad¬ 
vocating a conservation commission to handle the lor- 
estry of the Adirondacks. They suggest leaving a por¬ 
tion of the forest in its wild condition so as to protect tin' 
wild life of the locality. The balance to be developed in 
a sensible way as a productive forest. 
The New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse, 
N. Y., is certainly a live organization and judging from 
the amount of advertising and instructive matter mailed 
they should be a tremendous force in increasing and con¬ 
serving the forestry wealth of that state. 
CEDRELA SINENSIS 
The one great objection to the Cedrela sinensis is its 
similarity to a tree with a bad reputation, namely Ailan- 
thus glandulosa. 
This of course is not an objection to tin* tree itself but 
rather against its selling qualities. So many people have 
such a strong aversion to tin* odor of the Ailanthus w hen 
in flower that they will not risk planting anything that 
looks like it and the customer would have to have more 
than the ordinary confidence in the nursery salesman to 
he convinced it was not one and the same thing. 
It is a pity that this is so as the Cedrela is really a 
beautiful tree, the long pinnate leaves are very handsome, 
the whole appearance of the tree is decidedly tropical and 
rich. 
It would be quite a relief to see more of them planted 
instead of so many poplars and Silver Maples. For ra¬ 
pid growth it has them both beaten. It propagates very 
easily from root cuttings and grow s so rapidly in the nur¬ 
sery rows that it is easily deflected from an upright 
growth if crowded. Plenty of space should be given as 
the trees will make 4 inches caliper in as many years. 
While very similar to the Ailanthus it has a more reg¬ 
ular and dense growth and of course is without the dis¬ 
agreeable odor. The flow r ers of the Cedrela are really 
very effective, being very long pendulous panicles of 
white flowers. 
It is hardy as far north as Massachusetts. Perhaps in 
time when the public parks have well developed avenues 
of them its fine qualities as an ornamental tree will be¬ 
come better known and the public will not be so ready to 
suspect the nurseryman of trying to palm the ill-smelling 
Ailanthus on them under another name. The surest 
means of identification of the Cedrela is that the leaflets 
are always minus the coarse teeth at their base, these are 
always present on the Ailanthus each bearing a very con¬ 
spicuous gland, hence the name Ailanthus glandulosus. 
THE HORTICULTURAL ZOO 
The Dogbane barked and the Coxcomb crowed. 
The Larkspur sang, while the Cowslip lowed; 
Then the Snapdragon uttered a fearful cry 
That made the Bearberry pipe his eye. 
The Foxglove held the Duckw eed fast. 
But the terrible tumult couldn’t last. 
The duckweed fluted a sweet “Peep, peep' 
And the floral zoo all w ent to sleep. 
—Philadelphia Record. 
Mr. IT. G. Benckhuysen, representing II. Den Ouden 
& Son, Boskoop. Holland, while on his annual trip called 
at the office of the “N. N.” Mr. Benckhuysen obtained a 
furlough which he is in hopes of having extended so as 
to enable him to attend the Convention of the Nursery- 
men, and visit the Exposition at the Coast. I pon his re¬ 
turn to Holland he w ill have to report for duty at tin* 
trenches. He reports this trip to he a very successi il 
one, and says that business is good. 
