THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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vaded the Eastern United States. No one who has not seen it 
in badly infested orchards can have any idea of its ravages 
and of the difficulty in dealing with it. 
“Criticism is made of the omission of the word fruit from 
the sections dealing with interstate commerce, and at first sight 
it might seem as if there was some justice in this criticism ; but 
suj)pose the word was inserted,—what effect would that have 
upon traffic between New Jersey and the states of New York 
and Pennsylvania? If we take into consideration that there 
are thousands of acres south of the middle of New Jersey 
under fruit culture, that there are car-loads of strawberries, 
blackberries and other small fruits shipped into New York and 
Philadelphia daily and that such fruits are also shipped as far 
west as the Mississippi and as far north as Maine, and that 
from the time peaches, apples and pears begin to ripen, train 
load after train load goes into those cities, the impossibility of 
making an inspection becomes at once apparent. The inser¬ 
tion of the word ‘ fruit ’ under such circumstances would mean 
the death of the bill. It simply could not be executed. 
“The presence of the word ‘fruit’ in the section dealing 
with foreign commerce could not be considered as objectiona¬ 
ble. The object is to exclude from our territory pests that are 
not already here. We have enough to deal with what we 
already have ; we do not need additional insects from foreign 
climes. Of course fruit that is not grown in our country would 
need no inspection ;—e. g. bananas, and dried fruits which 
cannot harbor insects. The amount of fresh fruit that comes 
into our market that is not raised within our country is com¬ 
paratively small, and the inspector would know in a general 
way what to look for on fruits coming from differents parts of 
the world. 
“ It is not quite just to say that the interest of the nursery¬ 
man was not considered. It is true that Mr. Barry was per¬ 
haps the only representative of an individual nursery interest ; 
but he was accorded a fair hearing for all that he had to say. 
It was unfortunate that Mr. Barry came in so late, that he had 
no opportunity for taking part in the general discussion and 
began his statemeits after a five minute rule had been adopted. 
This was not enforced against Mr. Barry, however, and I be¬ 
lieve that there was no disposition on the part of any member 
of the convention to shut off any statement of facts concerning 
the effect such a bill would have upon any interest. 
“Furthermore, there were two representatives of nursery 
interests on the legislative committee who were perfectly com¬ 
petent to care for these interests. It has been suggested that 
there was undue zeal on the part of experiment station workers. 
I believe on the contrary that they have acted with great 
moderation and have, with possibly one or two exceptions, 
been very conservative. Personally, I have always felt that a 
nurseryman unfortunate enough to have the San Jose scale 
deserved the utmost consideration, while one who was fortu¬ 
nate enough to have escaped its visitation had the right to 
have that fact most publicly stated. If we lived in an ideal 
community, laws of this kind might be dispensed with ; but 
unfortunately we do not, and it seems to me that the nursery¬ 
man is as much interested in a law such as is proposed as the 
fruit grower can possibly be.” 
SHOULD BE AMENDED. 
W. & T. Smith Co., Geneva, N. Y.:—“In our opinion, some 
national legislation in regard to the San Jose scale would be 
found quite desirable inasmuch as the different states are 
enacting laws varying greatly in many respects, so that it is 
almost impossible to know what to do in shipping stock into 
the different states. If we have some wise national legislation 
on the subject, entirely practical in its making, (and it seems 
to us such a law could be devised), there is no reason why 
nurserymen should not support it. 
“We do not favor the bill which has been proposed, as we 
think it should cover fruit as well as trees, and there are 
several other points which might harass nurserymen more or 
less." 
IRecent IPublications. 
The Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station has issued 
timely bulletins on sweet peas, dahlias, the currant stem girdler and 
the raspberry cane maggot. 
Number 6 of volume VIII of the Experiment Station Record, like its 
predecessors indicates valuable research over a wide field covering 
every feature of agricultural and hoi'ticultural work. 
The latest additions to the “ Bibliotheque d’llorticulture et de 
Jardinage” are “Useful and Destructive Animals as Related to Horti¬ 
culture, Except Insects,” by A. Larbalatrier; pp. 154; figures 29; 
cloth, 2 fr.; “Geraniums: Description and Culture,” by H. Dauthenay, 
with alphabetical list of varieties; pp. 292; figures 22; cloth, 2 fr., 
50c. Paris ; Octave Doin et Libra ire Agricole. 
The proceedings of the forty-second annual meeting of the Western 
New York Horticultural Society have been issued by the secretary, 
John Hall. Within the 147 pages of the book is information worth 
many times the membership fee, which is $1.00, and upon payment of 
which any person, however slightly interested in horticulture, may be¬ 
come a member and receive a copy of the proceedings. The San Jose 
scale, and other topics of the time, are quite fully discussed. 
A valuable contribution to the horticultural literature of the day is 
the thirtieth annual report of the Ohio Horticultural Society, of which 
E. H. Cushman, Euclid, is president, and W. W. Farnsworth, Water- 
ville, is secretary. The frontispiece is an excellent likeness of the well- 
known nurseryman and horticulturist, George W. Campbell. It is a 
book of 188 pages, containing a great variety of up-to-date information 
upon horticultural subjects. 
The Florida Horticultural Society’s Annual for 1896, just received 
from the printer, is a timely horticultural hand-book. It contains a 
full report of the last annual meeting; a tabular list of the fruits of 
Florida, showing the relative adaptability of the different varieties to 
the several sections of the state, with full description and account of 
each, including over 100 varieties of deciduous fruits, and over 50 var¬ 
ieties of tropical fruits. It is a compendium of latest practice and best 
methods for practical growers, and information for prospective planters, 
as well as readable outline of horticultural progress in the South. It 
will be sent free to any one remitting $1.00 as membership fee for 1896 
to the president, G. L. Taber, Glen St. Mary, Fla. The tenth annual 
meeting of the society will be held at Orlando, Fla., on May 4th. 
Recent additions to the Bibliotheque d’Horticulture et de Jardinage, 
published by Octave Doin under the direction of Dr. Heim, Paris, are 
“ Culture of Exotic Ferns ” by A. Buyssens; “ Calceolarias, Cinerarias, 
Coleus, Heliotropes, etc.,” by Jules Rudolph, laureate of the French 
National Society of Horticulture ; “Rose Culture,” by Cochet-Cochet 
and S. Mottet, members of the National Horticultural Society of 
France. Each of these books is a hand-book on the subject named. It 
is very interesting to note the views of experts who have spent much 
time in studying the smallest detail of their specialties and from points 
of view not obtainable upon this side of the Athintic. Progressive 
nurserymen would enjoy the contents of these books which may be 
obtained at little cost. The price of “Rose Culture ” is but 50 cents 
and of the others but 40 cents each. All are fully illustrated. The 
books are standard authorities on the subjects treated. Paris ; Octave 
Doin, 8 Place de I’Odeon. 
