THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
51 
J. VAN. LINDLEY. 
The subject of the following sketch was born in Indiana 
November 5, 1838. His father, Joshua Lindley, moved 
from North Carolina to Indiana in 1830, remaining there 10 
years and returning to North Carolina in 1840. He was a 
leading pomologist of his day. 
J. Van. Lindley comes of old Quaker stock, and when the 
war between the states commenced, he went to Missouri and 
joined the U. S. cavalry service, serving three years in the 
Union army, returning to North Carolina at the end of the 
war, welcomed alike by friend and foe as all are who go south 
for business. 
On his return from the war he found everything at his 
father’s home in a deplorable condition (results of the war); 
but he went to work without capital, shouldering his father’s 
debts and was 10 years getting started and out of debt. Dur¬ 
ing this time the nursery was known as New Garden Nurs¬ 
eries, Joshua Lindley & Son, proprietors. 
In 1874, being even with the world and 
with not over one thousand dollars worth 
of property, he started for himself under 
the name of Pomona Hill Nurseries and no 
change has been made during the 22 years 
intervening. His nursery interests have 
steadily increased until now they form one 
of the leading southern nurseries. 
Besides his nursery interests he is largely 
interested in the leading peach orchards 
of North Carolina and Georgia. He is the 
introducer and disseminator of several 
leading kinds of fruit for the South and 
has always taken a lively interest in this 
kind of work. His is a familiar face at the 
annual sessions of the nurserymen’s con¬ 
ventions. He was at one time president 
of that society. 
tion of every tree and plant to their minuest parts to prove 
effective, which would be utterly impractical. 
“The introduction of the San Jose scale from California is 
the bugaboo that has created all this consternation and that 
has animated this whole move (to have the stable door locked 
after the horse has been stolen.) There is no more proof that 
the San Jose scale was imported from abroad than that the 
Colorado beetle was. Each was undoubtedly indigenous to 
the mighty West. The right time to have legislated against it 
would have been when it was confined to the Pacific coast 
and not now after it is distributed from the Pacific to the 
Atlantic, from the lakes to the gulf. 
“Should the proposed law be enacted the cost of its en¬ 
forcement would be enormous and probably more than offset 
any benefit that might be derived from it. 
“At the meeting of the Michigan Horticultural Society h^*ld 
at Grand Rapids last winter, in discussing the San Jose scale 
we understood that J. H. Hale remarked that the intelligent, 
energetic fruit grower would be on the alert and see to it that 
this nor any other insect pest should get 
the start of him in his orchards, while the 
careless shiftless fellow would not long 
remain a competitor.’’ 
A NOVELTY OF HIGH MERIT. 
SHOULD INCLUDE FRUITS. 
J. VAN. LINDLEY. 
Painesville, O., April 27. —J. J. Harrison, president of the 
Storrs & Harrison Co.: “We would favor reasonable regula¬ 
tions to prevent the dissemination of injurious insects and 
diseases, but they should apply equally to trees, plants, bulbs 
and fruits ; to the small as well as the large shipper. And if 
there are laws to be enacted, it should be done by the general 
government and not, as heretofore, by individual states, as 
state laws cannot be effective and be constitutional. The 
result of all state laws in this line has been to disarrange busi¬ 
ness to the injury of many until such laws have been declared 
unconstitutional by the higher courts. 
“We do not favor the proposition to have all foreign im¬ 
portations of trees and plants overhauled at certain ports of 
entry as proposed, as the unpacking and handling and repack¬ 
ing would result in much greater mortality to the trees and 
plants than to insects or diseases. Had this been practiced 
from the foundation of this government, we very much doubt 
if we would have one less disease or insect than we now have. 
The great difficulty of detecting these minute insects or their 
eggs is such that it would require a miscroscopical examina¬ 
The frontispiece of this issue presents 
with photographic accuracy the form of 
the hardy white rose Marchioness of Lon¬ 
donderry as grown by Ellwanger & Barry, 
Rochester, N. Y. It is a novelty of high 
merit, ivory white, of fine form, highly per¬ 
fumed, plant, vigorous and free flowering 
Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry say c “We 
have carefully tested this variety, and being 
convinced of its great value, offer it with 
the strongest commendation.’’ 
The rose is indorsed in London by the 
Gardeners Magazine as follows: “Un¬ 
questionably one of the largest roses, 
blooms attaining a diameter of six inches when fully de¬ 
veloped and one of the sweetest of the hybrid perpetuals.” 
Wiley & Co., Cayuga, N. Y., offer in another column im¬ 
ported fruit stocks at cost. 
Gooseberries and currants in leading varieties, extra fine 
plants, are offered by Ellwanger & Barry for fall of 1897. 
An attractive list of small fruit plants is presented this month 
by Allen L. Wood, Rochester, N. Y. It includes well known 
standard varieties and novelties. 
Jackson & Perkins Co., Newark, N. Y., are sole agents for 
the United States, of Charles Detriche, Angers, France, grower 
of French fruit tree stocks and ornamentals. 
C. M. Stark, of the Stark Brothers Nursery and Orchard 
Co., writes to Leonard Coates of California, that he finds in 
France the growers all object to myrobolan stock as short¬ 
lived, preferring the St. Julien, which stock is used there 
almost universally. 
