THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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M. Pierce, Chowen, Minn., died October 8th, of typhoid 
pneumonia, aged 71 years. 
J. B. Spaulding, president of the Spaulding Nursery and 
Orchard Co., died November loth, aged 73 years. While in 
his nursery he suffered a stroke of paralysis which proved fatal 
in a few days. 
James Benedict Spaulding was the second son of Daniel and 
Thankful Spaulding, and was born at Marlborough, Mass., 
October 19, 1824. On June i, 1848, Mr. Spaulding was united 
in marriage with Mary C. Smith. She died May 13, 1852, 
leaving two sons, Louis H. Spaulding and Milton E. Spauld¬ 
ing, both of whom reside here. On September 20, 1854, Mr. 
Spaulding was married to Cynthia A. Ewing of Rochester, 
N. Y., who survives him. Four children were born of this 
marriage. They are : Frank E. Spaulding of Denver, Col.; 
Albert S. Spaulding of St. Louis, Mo.; Irving E. Spaulding of 
Springfield, and Mrs. Cynthia E. Fisher, wife of F. R. Fisher 
of Springfield. Besides his widow and children, Mr. Spauld¬ 
ing is survived by a brother and a sister, Benjamin Spaulding 
of Andover, N. Y., and Mrs. Seymour Watson of Des Moines, 
Iowa. 
Mr. Spaulding’s life was a busy one, says the Springfield 
Journal. At the age of twenty-two years he engaged in the 
business of manufacturing, buying and shipping lumber from 
Western New York to Albany and surrounding towns. In the 
fall of 1857 he came to Springfield and established the nursery 
business which bears his name. Within a few years he had put 
himself at the head of a large establishment and for forty 
years he carried on one of the largest nurseries in the United 
States. One of his business friends said of him : 
“ His success as a nurseryman of national reputation is the 
result of earnest, industrious effort and of a thorough 
knowledge of an intricate and scientific business.” 
In adding to and increasing his business, Mr. Spaulding 
never tired. He gave the closest attention to the work of his 
life and was thoroughly familiar with every detail of his nursery 
and his extensive orchards. When the business was incorpor¬ 
ated, he continued to pay the same attention to it and, as the 
president of the corporation, he was active in the management 
of the enterprise. When his friends suggested that he had 
earned and should take a rest, he always replied that he 
expected to die at his work. “ It’s much better to wear out, 
than to rust out,” was his cheerful maxim. Never until the 
fatal stroke of paralysis, did Mr. Spaulding lose his capacity 
for or interest in business. He found genuine pleasure in 
industry. 
The village of Spaulding was established through the efforts 
of Mr. Spaulding. A station was built at the place because of 
his growing business there, and a post-office was established 
by the government several years ago. 
Mr. Spaulding’s company has been regularly represented at 
the conventions of the American Association of Nurserymen. 
SORRY HE BURNED TREES. 
Professor Mark V. Slingerland, of the Cornell Experiment 
Station, Ithaca, N. Y., commenting in the Rural New Yorker 
upon the plan of a correspondent of using a wire brush to 
scrape San Jose scale from trees says: 
“C. T. is right in saying that, if a tree is worth an effort to 
save, it should not be burned, no matter how badly infested 
it may be with the San Jose scale. We are now sorry that we 
burned a few dwarf apple trees which were found almost in- 
crusted with the scale here on the horticultural grounds. Our 
experience in treating the remaining less-infested shrubs, 
leads us to believe that this insect can be controlled just about 
as easily as many other insect pests; for instance, the pear 
psylla or the pear midge. The main point in all efforts to 
control these little foes is thoroughness. There is altogether 
too much hap-hazard, half-way spraying done by our fruit 
growers. This San Jose scale has come to stay with our east¬ 
ern fruit growers; it is so thoroughly distributed now that one 
hardly dares to hope that it can ever be exterminated in the 
East. Only the other day, we received a dozen or more pears 
grown on a young tree in the Hudson River Valley, which 
were so nearly covered with the scales, that it seemed as 
though they could not have been grown in the East, where the 
insect has so recently made its appearance. 
“In August, we reported that a very careful examination of 
the sprayed shrubs here at Cornell, had failed to reveal any 
living scales. We made another search a few days ago, and 
after half an hour’s closest scrutiny, one young scale just set¬ 
tling down to work was found. Near by, two or three other 
very young ones were located, and soon the live mother of 
these was seen only about a foot away on the same branch. 
Further search on a shrub which had received only the two spray¬ 
ings with the kerosene-water mixture (the trunks had not been 
washed with the whale-oil soap), revealed a dozen or more 
live scales on several branches. Thus the pest was not en¬ 
tirely stamped out here this summer. However, the results 
already attained are beyond what we had expected when the 
thousands of living scales were seen massed on the trunks of 
these shrubs in the spring. If we had not made the mistake 
of burning the worst infested trees, we are confident that our 
experiment could have been made still more decisive. 
“A good share of our success must be credited to the one 
who held the nozzle. Mr. Gould, who assists Prof. Bailey in 
his spraying experiments, understands what spraying means, 
and he sprays to kill, not to see how quickly he can get the 
disagreeable job done. I do not attribute so much importance 
to the kerosene-water mixture that we used as to the thorough¬ 
ness with which it was done. I believe that equally thorough 
work with kerosene emulsion, or whale-oil soap would have 
given equally as good results. The kerosene-water mixture 
has the decided advantage of requiring no trouble to make it. 
The Deming Co., make several styles of pumps with the kero¬ 
sene attachment. We shall spray the infested shrubs here at 
Cornell again this fall as soon as the leaves are off, and, while 
we can hardly hope to exterminate every solitary specimen, I 
believe that we will have very hard work to find enough 
live ones to make a quorum next spring. 
“C. T.’s brush plan is good, and will help very materially in 
the warfare. One cannot hope to exterminate this pest with 
one or four sprayings, in one week, or one year; but the pest 
can be controlled and held in subjection, quite as easily as the 
pear psylla, or many of our common insect pests, providing 
that the one who holds the nozzle is made of the kind of stuff 
that pervades our most successful fruit growers. 
