THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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city and there consumed, in crowded streets and suburbs, 
where many homes are adorned with just the ornamental trees 
and shrubs upon which the scale is so particularly destructive. 
A plain, practical national law, easily understood, but forcible 
and incisive enough to stand alone, seems to be the crying 
need of the hour. One that will necessitate few changes from 
year to year, one that is so fair that all half-way honest people 
will be glad to obey and aid in enforcing, and then this mighty 
spectre that is stalking through our nurseries, orchards and 
lawns will be shorn of its greatest terror. The ‘ lady or the 
tiger,’ which ? That is the momentous question, to which I 
answer emphatically, ‘The lady ever, the tiger never.’ ” 
ALWOOD ON THE SCALE. 
In his remarks on the San 
Jose scale before the American 
Association at St. Louis, Pro¬ 
fessor William B. Alwood, of 
Virginia said : 
“ At the present time, from 
my own record, I know that 
nineteen states on the Atlantic 
and adjacent states inland are 
infested with the San Jose 
scale. How the scale came into 
the eastern part of the United 
States it is not necessary to go 
into now, except to say that it 
came on nursery stock from 
California, and for five or six 
years it was spreading upon the 
eastern half of this continent 
in the nurseries and orchards 
before we had the first inkling 
that there was a San Jose scale 
this side of California except in 
our cabinets. It is now four 
years since the first case was 
known and it is only during the 
last eighteen months that we 
have fully to realize the extent 
of the dissemination of the San 
Jose scale in the East. I may 
say further that it is only within 
the last few weeks that we 
have had brought to our attention some of those alarming 
cases where the scale has existed right under the nose of 
specialists for years without having been detected. Now 
these cases which I shall cite are all arguments for the 
necessity of most thorough inspection laws, so that we shall be 
able, by the facts brought out by inspection, to provide such 
measures, whatever they may be, as will stop the further dis¬ 
semination of this scale as it has been heretofore widely dis¬ 
seminated.” 
The speaker stated that a law had been passed by the state 
of Virginia provided for the appointment of inspectors and 
giving them almost absolute power in regard to treatment of 
infected premises, and stated that in the first two days’ work 
after his appointment as such inspector he had located ten 
cases where the scale had never been known betore. He then 
went on to cite a large number of cases where the scale was 
found to have existed for some time, and*its presence had not 
been suspected, and where only a prompt destruction of the 
infected stock could prevent the infection from spreading 
farther. He said, “ I do not believe in treating nursery stock 
for the scale. I believe in burning it.” 
A case of scale was found to exist. Professor Alwood went 
on to say, within a few steps of the door ol the Horticultural 
Building of Cornell University—had been there for three 
years without having been detected, ard was only found the 
other day by a man from the Experiment Station. The scale 
is adapting itself to different climatic conditions ; it has been 
found in the mountainous regions of Virginia at a height of 
2,000 feet ; in Western New York and as far north as Canada. 
It infests all the deciduous fruit trees that belong to the 
rosacese; among trees it infests 
the black walnut, the American 
chestnut, the American and 
European Lindens, the Catalpa, 
Cut-leaf birch, etc. ” There is 
at present no case on record 
where fruit has disseminated 
the scale, its spread generally 
taking place from branch to 
branch where trees are planted 
closely together, and in one case 
at least the infection was car¬ 
ried from place to place by 
peach gatherers who had 
brushed up the scale with their 
garments ” 
IRVING ROUSE. 
IRVING ROUSE. 
The new president of the 
American Association of Nurs¬ 
erymen is well known as one of 
the largest importers of foreign 
stocks in this country. His 
importations for a single year 
have amounted to 8,000,000 
trees and plants. Mr. Rouse 
went from Catskill, Green 
County, N Y., to Geneva, and 
entered the nursery business. 
In 1873 he moved to Rochester. 
His nurseries comprise 350 acres in a solid block. The 
land is clay loam and lies on a gentle slope two miles west of 
the city limits. Mr. Rouse grows heavily the leading varieties 
of standard and dwarf pears. 
In the affairs of the American Association Mr. Rouse has 
been very active. He has done efficient work as chairman of 
the executive committee, and during the last year he has aided 
greatly in securing results in tariff and insect legislation 
matters. He will make a valuable president. 
AN ORIGINAL SURSCRIBEK. 
Elmer Sherwoou, Odessa, N. Y.—“I linmi you herewith for 
subscrii)tion to journal for 1897. 1 have been a sulKscriber since the 
receijit of one of the first sample copies sent out in 1893. I do not see 
how nurserymen can get along without it.” 
