THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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SAN JOSE SCALE IN OREGON. 
The San Jose scale is making great headway this year in the 
districts including Portland on the Oregon side, and Van¬ 
couver on the Washington side of the Columbia river. It is 
probable that it has increased rapidly in all parts of the North¬ 
west, where it has established itself unless it be in vicinity of 
the Dalles, where the ladybirds introduced by Mr, Schanno 
may be keeping it in subjection. Two years ago, owing to 
almost universal spraying in infected districts and the destruc¬ 
tion of many old worthless trees the scale appeared to be nearly 
cleaned out. Last winter the fruit growers, disheartened by 
the failure of crops last year, failed to spray to a great extent. 
The season has been unusually favorable to the propagation 
of the San Jose scale and the results are to be seen in all 
directions. There are many apple and pear trees in the city 
limits of Portland on which it would be hard to find an apple 
or pear which is free from scale, and in some cases the fruit is 
literally covered. A similar condition is reported at Van¬ 
couver. If any fruit grower notices bright red spots on any 
of his apples and pears he had better examine for scale, as this 
pest is by far the most common cause of these spots. It is 
evident that a spraying with lime, sulphur and salt or lime, 
sulphur and vitriol compound will be in order this winter. 
Oregon Agriculturist. 
THE CANADIAN TARIFF. 
The portions of the new Canadian law (the full text of which 
has officially been received by the State Department, Wash¬ 
ington) that bear particularly upon the seed, plant, and tree 
trade, and kindred lines, says the Florists' Exchange, read as 
follows : 
DUTIABLE. 
Seeds, viz., garden, field and other seeds for agricultural or other 
purpose, n. o. p., sunflower, hemp, and millet seed, when in bulk or 
in large parcels, 10 per cent, ad valorem. When put up in small 
papers or parcels, 25 per cent, ad valorem. 
Trees, viz., apple, cherry, peach, pear, plum, and quince of all kinds, 
and small peach trees known as June buds, 3 cents each. 
Grape vines, gooseberry, raspberry, currant and rose bushes; fiuit 
plants, n. 0 . s., and shade, lawn, and ornamental trees, shrubs and plants, 
n. o. s., 20 per cent, ad valorem. 
Blackberries, gooseberries, raspberries, strawberries, cherries, and 
currants, n. o. s., the weight of the package to be included in the 
weight for duty, 2 cents per pound. 
All goods not enumerated in this act as subject to any other rate of 
duty, nor declared free of duty by this act, and not being goods the 
importation whereof is by this act or any other act prohibited, shall be 
subjected to a duty of 20 per cent, ad valorem. 
FREE LIST. 
Florists’ stock, viz., palms, bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizomes, araucaria, 
spirgea, and lilies of the valley; seedling stock for grafting, viz., plum, 
pear, peach and other fruit trees; seeds, viz., annotto, beet, cairot, 
flax, turnip, mangold, mustard, sowing rape seed and mushroom 
spawn; aromatic seeds which are not edible and are in a crude state, 
and not advanced in value or condition by grinding or refining, or 
by any other process of manufactuie, viz., anise, anise star, caraway, 
cardamon, corriander, cumin, fennel, and fenugreek ; seed pease and 
seed beans from Britain, beans, viz.: tonquin, vanilla, and nux vomica, 
crude only, locust beans and locust bean meal and cocoa beans, not 
roasted, crushed or ground ; fruits, viz,, bananas, plaintains, pine¬ 
apples, pomegranates, guavas, mangoes, and shaddocks; wild blue bei- 
ries, wild strawberries, and wild raspberries; and trees, n. o. s. 
Jporeign IRotes. 
The Logan berry has reached England where its growth is 
being tested 
James Cocker, long a well known rose grower at Aberdeen, 
Scotland, died September 15th. 
Extensive improvements have recently been made in the 
erection of greenhouses at Ghent, Belgium. The supply of 
Azalea Indica there is very large. 
Seven days and four hours after leaving New York city a 
cargo of 440 packages of California fruit, via the American 
liner, St. Paul, was delivered, September 22, in London. 
Among the apples in cultivation in Great Britain at the time 
of QueenWictoria’s accession, in 1837, are : Blenheim Pippin, 
Duchess of Oldenburg, Gravenstein, Golden Russet, Newton 
Pippin, Ribston Pippin, Royal Russet, Winter Pearmain. 
The Canadian government has subsidized the owners of 
seventeen steamers plying between London, Liverpool, Bristol, 
Glasgow and Canadian ports, though chiefly from Montreal, to 
carry pears, peaches, grapes and tomatoes to Great Britain, 
and has fitted the vessels with the latest types of refrigerators. 
In its issue of October 2, the Gardeners' Chronicle, London, 
features a*raspberry blackberry, the result of a cross by James 
Veitch & Sons, of the Royal Exotic Nurseries, Chelsea, Eng., 
between the raspberry Belle de Fontenay, and the common 
blackberry, the raspberry being the seed parent. Fruits of a 
purplish, black color with gray bloom were abundant. 
Nepenthes are attracting much attention in this country and 
in Europe. At the last meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society in England, Harry J. Veitch read a paper giving the 
history of the genus and tracing the discovery of the various 
species. Messrs. Veitch & Sons were the first nurserymen to 
collect these plants, and most of the hybrids now in cultiva¬ 
tion, of which there are about forty, were raised in their nur¬ 
sery. The largest specimens were found in Borneo. 
FUMIGATING STOCK. 
Professor William B. Alwood of the Virginia Polytechnic 
Institute, Blacksburg, Va., has issued the following circular : 
“ In our further experience with the fumigation of nursery 
stock we have found it best to modify the order of handling 
the chemicals as follows : ist. Pour into each vessel the pro¬ 
portionate amount of water to be used. 2nd. Add to this 
cautiously the proper proportion of acid. 3rd. Weigh 
out and place by each vessel the right quantity of cyanide. 
When all is ready, add the latter to the water and retire 
quickly. Observe general directions as already published. 
“The necessity for this change comes from the fact that if 
the water and cyanide are permitted to stand for a few 
moments before the acid is added, the cyanide dissolves and 
an explosion is likely to occur which might easily do serious 
harm to the operator. If the charge is heavy, this danger is 
very serious. Do not fail to observe order indicated above.” 
D. Hay & Son, Auckland, N. Z.:—“ We value your paper highly 
and woiild not be without it now ; as an advertising medium we think 
it has no equal among horticultural publications.” 
