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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National Nurseryman. 
C. L. YATES, Proprietor. RALPH T. OLCOTT, Editor. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., 
305 Cox Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers In Nursery Stock of 
all kinds. It circulates throughout the United States and Canada. 
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
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Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-clms matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., August, 1897. 
NO NEED OF OBNOXIOUS LAWS. 
In another column we present some results from the use of 
gas and whale-oil soap on nursery stock, as noted by Profes¬ 
sor F. A. Sirrine, entomologist of the New York Agricultural 
Experiment Station. Professor Sirrine has had large experi¬ 
ence with the San Jose scale and fully knows whereof he 
speaks. 
And this is what this entomologist of the great Empire 
State says of the attitude of the nurserymen on the question 
of San Jose scale; 
“ By the use of these two remedies (gas and whale-oil soap) 
Messrs. Keene and Foulk have finally reduced the San Jose 
scale, in a badly infected nursery, to a few scattering speci¬ 
mens in one small block of apple trees. This block of trees 
will be put through the fumugating-box the coming fall, and 
they will continue to use the boxes for a few years as a safe¬ 
guard. 
“Since we have a reliable measure for keeping this pest in 
check on growing stock and a sure means of killing it when 
the stock is dug, what need have we of expensive and obnox¬ 
ious inspection laws ? 
“All we need is nurserymen who are energetic enough to 
get rid of this pest if they have it and keep free from it; 
while those who will not make an effort to keep free of the 
pest should be pushed to the wall by the trade.” 
DELAWARE SCALE LAW. 
The Delaware legislature, just before adjournment, enacted 
a law that recjuires the governor “ to appoint and commission 
some competent person whose duty it shall be to inspect any 
nursery, orchard or orchards in this state in which the insect 
known as the San Jose scale is known or is believed to exist. 
The inspector shall have power to enter upon any lands in the 
state for the purpose of making any such examination, and 
should he discover the presence of the San Jose scale, it shall 
be his duty to inform the owner of such trees that the said 
scale exists therein, and shall recommend to said owner such 
remedies as he may deem proper for the extermination of the 
said scale.” 
The inspector is required to make a full report of his find¬ 
ings to the governor on the first day of January, 1898. 
The new constitution, which will go into effect within a few 
months, provides that there shall be a state board of agricul¬ 
ture which shall have power to abate and prevent diseases of 
live stock, orchards, small fruits and other farm crops. The 
legislature will meet next January to enact legislation in ac¬ 
cordance with this constitution, and then when the board of 
agriculture is in working shape it will be in possession of the 
information necessary to enable it to deal with the scale 
promptly. 
No doubt the board will also take up the question of stamp¬ 
ing out the peach yellows which has wrought devastation 
among the peach orchards of the state. 
WESTERN WHOLESALERS. 
The Western Wholesale Nurserymen held their regular semi¬ 
annual meeting June 15th at Kansas City. The attendance 
was rather less than usual. Report of business for the past 
year was somewhat less than usual, but there was a general 
feeling of hopefulness for the future. Two new firms were 
admitted to membership in the association. 
General reports are that stock prospects are encouraging, 
and owing to the market being overstocked the plant for the 
past spring has been somewhat reduced. 
LOCUSTS ON NURSERY STOCK. 
Professor M. V. Slingerland, of Cornell University, says 
that cicadas have very strong sucking beaks, with which they 
puncture foliage and bark, and suck out the sap. There is no 
question about their feeding to some extent, but they rarely 
do noticeable damage in this way. One or two instances are 
on record where they have injured young fruit trees by suck¬ 
ing out the sap. They do much more damage in laying their 
eggs than in eating, and several instances are known where 
they have ruined many young trees, and especially nursery 
stock, by ovipositing in the small branches. 
WASHINGTON NURSERY LICENSE. 
Nurserymen doing business in the State of Washington un¬ 
der the new law need give bonds to the amount of only $r,ooo 
instead of ^3,000, as under the previous law. 
The horticultural board of seven commissioners has been 
replaced by one commissioner. He is J. E. Baker, of Tracy- 
ton. Mr. Baker was born in Oswego county, N. Y., in 1837. 
He established a business at Cobden, Ill., in 1858, as nursery¬ 
man and vegetable grower. During the civil war he was a 
member of Company I, Twelfth Illinois Cavalry, and contin¬ 
ued in governmental service until 1866, being employed dur¬ 
ing the last three years of this time as distributing officer of 
the chief quartermaster of the department of Washington. 
He resumed horticultural occupations in 1866 near Norfolk^ 
