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hoina, and Texas or (2) at the weslern l)oundary of Minn¬ 
esota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana or (3) at 
the Mississippi River or (4) at some other line within 
these States. 
It also seems desirable to prohil)it or regulate the move¬ 
ment of said stock from the most seriously infected States, 
viz.: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, 
Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York, to those of 
less serious infection. 
A public hearing will be held at the Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, D. C., Room 410 Richer build¬ 
ing, at ten o’clock a. m., on April 10, 1917, in order that 
any person interested in the proposed <iuarantine may be 
heard either in person or by attorney. 
During the past year the white pine blister rust has 
spread alarmingly in the previously known infected areas 
in New England and has been discovered in new localities 
in the Middle West. The increase in the powers of the 
Secretary of Agriculture to deal with the movi'ment of 
dangerously infected domestic nursery stock, conferred 
by recent congressional action, has made more elTcctive 
measures possible. 
STATE QUAHANTINES 
The following states have (juarantined against all the 
tive-leaved Pines, Currants and Cooseberries on account 
of the White Pine Rlister Rust: Michigan, Pennsvlvania, 
Wi sconsin, Minnesota, and Kansas. Other states are 
likely to be added to the list in the n(‘ai’ future. 
Michigan gives special jau'init to ship currants and 
gooseberries from approved localiti(‘s from whence there 
is no danger of infection. 
Reminiscences 
Adolph Midler has a vision of what the nursery business will be in 1945 
It is now twenty-three years since we had under con¬ 
sideration bills to prohibit the importation of Nursery 
stock into the United States to take effect in the year 
1920 and last for twenty-five years or more unless this 
law be repealed at the expiration of twenty-flve years or 
in the year 1945. When I think back of those days, 
when we met as committees to debate and argue for and 
against this law, I recall the heated discussions, how 
little regard we had for each other’s judgment. We 
were so nearly divided that it was always a tie and we 
seemed to get nowhere. Even our oratorial Mr. Curtis 
Nye Smith, from New England, came in with the blues, 
saying that some big corpulent Senator from New York 
told him in Washington to beat it back to Rost on, as he 
was on a fool’s errand trying to defeat this law of pro¬ 
hibiting the importation of nursery stock. I was 
rather elated to see our highly paid Attorney from the 
Hub getting the worst of the deal. 
At the convention held at the Hotel Adelphi, Philadel¬ 
phia, I remember Mr. Ernest Hemming, then Editor of 
“The National Nurseryman,” stole out of the room and 
concocted a de^l with the manager of the hotel to save us 
from beating one another up over the matter. The man¬ 
ager asked us to leave the room as it was required for 
other purposes, and, without being able to send more 
bill hustlers to Washington, we dispersed, and finally the 
bill became a law. 
Those dark days are over, and, like in all other great 
events it was darkest before the dawn. These twenty 
years represent the greatest revolution in our business 
and every one engaged in it has had the greatest suc¬ 
cess that has ever come to a nurseryman. The indus¬ 
try has grown to be recognized as an enterprise ol the 
first order and on a par with steel, railroads, electricity, 
etc. Look at your morning paper and see the shares 
quoted on Wall Street. Look at the trade papers. On 
page 1 I saw five million roses offered, and all of them 
home-grown, for none are coming in. On another pag(^ 
all the varieties of Junipers and other evergreens in all 
sizes offered by a firm who makes a specialty of them 
and they can furnish each variety in 50,000 lots, all 
home-grown. When did anybody say it can’t be done? 
Long long ago. 
Bay trees and Azaleas for the florist trade finer than 
ever they were imported. The Azaleas are not of the flat 
top, sawed off shapes they used to be from Holland, they 
are better shaped and better grown. 
From the names of these firms who advertise, we see 
our old and familiar friends from France, England, Ger¬ 
many, Holland and others. Many have come over to 
live and stay with us, and some have now branches here 
and are doing well, and the native iVmerican who prefers 
to leave the details and science of the profession to some 
one else, can still buy and sell and be a nurseryman too. 
I just came back from Palm Beach, Florida, from a two 
months stay. There is a whole colony of nurserymen’s 
cottages there. Why not? On my way through tlu; 
south, I called on a number of firms whose home plants 
are in New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ill¬ 
inois, Michigan, and in fact from nearly all northern 
states. I myself can refer to a small establishment of 
1000 acres in the foothills of North Carolina. 
It is really astonishing what a nursreyman can do with 
a good appetite, a spade, a little knowledge, a pocket full 
of seeds, a few cuttings, and i)resto he is on the way to 
a million. 
Coming through New York I stopped at the Waldorf 
Astoria and met many of my friends either on the way 
north or on the way south, and everyone traveling in his 
own twin twelve Packard, twin sixes are out of date. I 
myself hung to my faithtul Ford, tilt last year, when I 
succumbed to a $10,000 Novelty. It was partly ol ne- 
