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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
porous faiuily. Whoii a “portrait” is to be taken, llie 
most advaiitageous time may be eboseii, the photograplo'r 
atul artist summoned, and exaet data as to form and color 
secured. The records of “(icneral .lack” are carried less 
than a mile to the Mount Pleasant Press, and the follow¬ 
ing s])iMng he is I'eincarnated in all his foiauer s})lendor 
The people of the Press have a beautiful garden closely 
allied to their work, the .1. Horace McFarland Company 
(inds its pictures near at hand, and the nurseryman or 
si'edsman has a trial ground w hieh enables him to ])lae(‘ 
the season’s nov(‘lti(‘S in Ins eatalogue easily and ac(*ui- 
ately. 
Mr. I). S. Lake, President of the Shenandoah Nurseries, 
Slnmandoah, Iowa, is now in the east on a business and 
[)leasure trip. He expeets to visit his native state. New 
Hampshir(‘. - 
Ibiul Shokof, w ho has been in the United States for the 
last year or so studying American horticultural condi¬ 
tions, is returning to his father’s nurseries in Taschkent, 
Itussia. Mr. Shokof ealled at The National Nurseryman 
olliee |)revious to sailing. He takes back w ith him much 
valuable information jjertaining to his business obtained 
w Idle in this eountry. 
Nui‘S('rymen and horticulturists in Texas are working 
to arouse interest in the establishment of an arboretum 
and botanic garden, with a view of getting together all the 
plants and trees that are native to Texas. It is a splen¬ 
did idea and worthy of suecess. Texas is such a large 
state and has such a varied climate that such a garden, 
proi)erly handled, w ill be of incaleulable edueational 
value. - 
“The Nurseryman and Seedsman” publish a note in 
conneetion w ith the trees of Paris, giving the reeent tree 
(•(Misus. The total number of trees in the Freneh capital 
ar(‘ 86,000, 26,000 of w Inch are Plane trees, 16,000 Horse 
Cdn^stnuts and li,000 Flms. 
The same source gives a note on the old trees of New 
/(‘aland. The Kauri Pine, w hich w as diseovered in New^ 
/ealand in 1772. by the explorer Marion du Fresne, has, 
according to botaidsts, a long and honorable lineage. One 
sjH'eimen grow ing at Mercury Bay w ith a trunk 24 feet 
in dianu'ter, is said to be 1,300 years old, w hile another. 
at the Maimganui Blutl, 66 feet in circumference, has 
nearlv as manv vears to its credit. 
Mr. H. H. Francis. Assistant Professor of Landscape 
Kngineering in connection w ith the Forestry ..Extension 
work carried on by The New' York State College of For¬ 
estry at Syracuse University, spent seven weeks making 
a study of the street tree conditions in Oreater New' York- 
City. This w ork was done in co-oj)eration w ith the Tree 
Planting Association. 
As a result of this study he has made a very complete 
I'eport of recommendations that will put this important 
work on a good established basis. An extract from the 
report reads as follows:— 
Educational—Section IT • 
A municipal nursery, w hich should be established 
probably on Long Island, where the soil and location 
w ould be most advantageous, should be under the control 
of the Bureau as a w hole. One municipal nursery 
could easily serve all the boroughs. This municipal 
nursery could be ])ut in charge of a trained arbori¬ 
culturist, with special exjieiTence in nursery work. A 
nursery of about 100 acres would serve the purpose of 
supplying trees for the Forestry work of the entire city. 
The establishment of a municipal nursery is very essen¬ 
tial as it would seem: 
(a) Availability of material for the planting in every 
borough. 
(b) High (}uality of trees. 
(c^ Trees for special purposes and places could be 
grow n to advantage. 
UF Cheapness of jiroduction.” 
Why the municipalities should wusb to enter into com¬ 
petition w ith the nursery business and no other it is 
ratlier difficult to understand and if the city should es¬ 
tablish a nursery for the purpose of furnisliing the streets 
and parks it practically amounts to this. It is open to 
question wdiether 100 acres would supply the trees for 
the forestry work of greater New- York. It is also open 
1o question w hether they wmuld be a higher grade than 
those purchased in the open market or that they w ould 
be more suitable varieties or cheaper. 
The report on the w hole is good and w orking along the 
l ight lines as it aims to bring the question of the street 
trees under one definite head, with a suitable bureau of 
management, but the suggestion to support a nursery out 
of the taxes to compete with a legitimate business does 
not sound equitable nor does it promise a saving to the 
municipal government. 
“THE MONTHLY SUMMARY OF COMMERCE AND FINANCE” FOR MAY, 1914, GIVES THE FOLLOWING REPORT OF 
IMPORTS OF PLANTS, TREES, SHRUBS AND VINES. 
ARTICLES 
MAY— 
ELEVEN MONTHS ENDING APRIL- 
1913 
1914 
1912 
1913 
1914 
Quantity. 
Value. 
Quantity. 
Value. 
Quantity. 
Value. 
Quantity. 
Value. 
Quantity. 
Value. 
Plants, trees, shrubs and Tines: 
Bulbs, bulbous roots, or corms, cul¬ 
tivated for their flowers or foliage 
42 
774 
2,386 
102,888 
124 
2,534 
2,907 
109,922 
1 216,152 
1,716,746 
24,820 
1,237,040 
288,629 
1,823,198 
5,793 
1,357,570 
216,071 
2,091,142 
14,693 
1,456,274 
All other.1 ••• 
Toul. 
106,048 
115,363 
2,980,606 
3,186,561 
3,562,109 
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