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the inner side a dull red. Nearly every tree in his orchard he 
said was affected Had first noticed it last summer. The 
trees began to die in the fall. The party refused to give his 
name or location of his orchard, or permit a piece of the bark 
to be retained. He is probably a resident of Detroit, and his 
farm located a short distance from this city. That orchard 
should be cut down and the trees uttterly destroyed by fire. 
Those pieces of bark the man was carrying with him may 
spread the infection to other orchards. We look for a very 
serious time with the scale before it is stamped out, if it ever 
is. One thing is certain, work cannot be started too soon.” 
IN CANADA. 
The fruit growers of St. Catharines, Ontario, have adopted 
the following resolution : 
“ Whereas, Authentic information has been received by this 
Association that the San Jose scale has made its appearance in 
the orchards and nurseries in the adjoining states of the Union, 
thereby seriously menacing the fruit growing interests of the 
Dominion of Canada. Be it, therefore, 
“Resolved, That this association respect¬ 
fully memoralize the Dominion Govern¬ 
ment to take the necessary steps to prohibit 
all importation of fruit of kinds known to 
be infested, and of all fruit trees and cur¬ 
rant bushes until such evidence is furnished 
as shall satisfy an expert that they are free 
from the San Jose scale. And further, 
“ Resolved, That the government be 
memorialized to appoint an expert or ex¬ 
perts to examine all such importations, with 
authority to have them re-shipped out of 
the country or destroyed, if found to be 
infected.” 
IN VIRGINIA. 
At a called meeting on March 3d, at 
Charlottesville, Va., a state horticultural 
society was formed with the following 
officers : President, Samuel B. Woods, 
Charlottesville ; vice-presidents, H. E. Van 
Deman, J. B. Watkins, W. H. Boaz, John S. 
Lupton, Col. A. M. Bowman ; secretary 
-treasurer, G. E. Murrell, Coleman’s Falls. 
The meeting was addressed by Professor W. B. Alwood of 
the State Experiment Station upon the advisability of steps 
being taken to prevent the introduction and spreading of San 
Jose scale in the state. Resolutions were passed promising 
the support of the society in obtaining legislation requiring 
certificates of inspection on state and interstate shipments o^ 
nursery stock. Society annual meetings will be held on second 
Wednesdays in September. 
THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The season of the horticultural society has come and gone 
and the lessons it teaches are more valuable than ever. Tha 
the meetings of the active societies in fifteen states were appre¬ 
ciated by the nurserymen can be seen by the large percentage 
of nurserymen who not only attended but participated in those 
meetings. The presidents of these state societies in several 
instances are nurserymen, and among the vice-presidents. 
secretaries, treasurers and directors are the names of promin¬ 
ent nurserymen. In almost every case the name of one or 
more nurserymen appears on the programme, and the opinions 
of nurserymen in the discussions are regarded as authoritative. 
Of course these conditions exist mainly because most 
nurserymen are orchardists to a greater or less extent and 
therefore come within the commonly accepted meaning of the 
term horticulturist. But it is pleasing to note the unity of 
interest which these meetings develop between grower and 
purchaser of nursery stock. The orchardist gets the benefit 
of the experience of the professional tradesman and the latter 
is certainly benefited by mingling with his customers and 
learning what is desired, and, on the other hand, what is so 
severely criticised as to be no longer in demand. From the 
proceedings of the state societies which in most cases are 
voluminous. The National Nurseryman has endeavored to 
present that which is of the greatest interest to the growers and 
dealers in nursery stock. 
JOHN LAING. 
We present herewith a portrait of John 
Laing, one of the most prominent nur¬ 
serymen in England. He is the senior 
member of the firm of John Laing & Sons, 
seed, plant and bulb merchants, rose, fruit 
tree and vine growers, at Forest Hill, 
London, S. E. Their nurseries are under 
the patronage of Queen Victoria, the 
Prince of Wales, the King of the Belgians 
and other royal princes; also the leading 
nobility of gentry. They have a large 
stock of roses, fruit trees, vines, shrubs, 
orchids, stove and greenhouse plants, her¬ 
baceous and bedding plants, florist flowers. 
The great specialty of these nurseries 
is the collection of tubrous-rooted begon¬ 
ias, undoubtedly the largest, finest in quality 
and the most complete in the world. In 
form, substance, size and color of flowers 
this collection is believed to be unap¬ 
proached. It has a world-wide fame and has been awarded four 
gold medals, the Royal Horticultural Society’s highest honor, 
a silver-gilt cup; also seven first prizes at the great begonia 
show, and all the first prizes wherever exhibited. Mr. Laing 
began to give special attention to begonias in 1875. 
Edward Herendeen, president of the Herendeen Manufac¬ 
turing Co., Geneva, N. Y., died February 23d, aged 75 years. 
He was graduated from Haverford college, Penn., in 1851 and 
began his career in the nursery business at Macedon, N. Y., 
in partnership with the late John J. I homas, author of The 
American Fruit Culturist.” He went out of the nursery busi¬ 
ness in 1874. 
James S. Sears, of the firm of Sears, Henry & Co., Geneva, 
N. Y., died March 19th. He was born at Reading, Conn., 
October r6, 1836. He removed to Geneva in 1867 and be¬ 
came a member of the nursery firm of Sears & Henry. The 
late Lemuel Herendeen, president of the village of Geneva, 
became a member of the firm in 1872. 
