THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
merits of such legislation, and care less, for the business of 
the citizens who may be engaged in it. 
As a protection to his business, shall the nurseryman 
attempt to have these laws entirely expunged from the statute 
books, or will it lie wiser for the nurserymen to organize so 
that they may guide legislation in the future and see that 
horticultural laws are enacted, and those already enacted 
remedied so that horticultural interests be amply protected 
and no branch of the business injured thereby. The nursery¬ 
men should see to it that not only the horticultural laws are 
remedied, but that they are so constructed that all orchards, 
fruit parks and private grounds, and other places of danger 
to the propagation of diseases and posts are inspected and 
kept clean, and that the same laws, rules arid regulations 
are applied to these places as are applied to nurseries. How 
can nurserymen be expected to have clean trees and plants 
when orchards surrounding them are infected with all manner 
of diseases and pests? When the horticultural authorities 
see to it that parks and permanent trees are kept clean and 
free from diseases and insect pests, there will be but very 
little call for a nursery inspection, for there will then be no 
source from which the nurseryman'’s trees and plants can be 
infected. 
That much good has already come from horticultural 
laws no intelligent nurseryman will dispute, and we do not 
think that anyone would want to go back to the old slipshod 
method of doing business, but we do believe that nursery¬ 
men should be accorded the same treatment and have the 
same protection as others, and the same rules and regula¬ 
tions which are applied to the nurserymen should also be 
applied to orchardists and those having dangerous or infected 
trees and fruit. 
In order to accomplish this end and receive justice, the 
nurserymen of the country must organize, and this can prob¬ 
ably best be done through the National Association, and in 
such a manner that all laws bearing upon their business 
will be reviewed and bills brought before the various legis¬ 
latures modifying and reconstructing present laws so that 
they will work in harmony, fairness and justice to all con¬ 
cerned. This can only be done by a strong, permanent 
organization that will be prepared at all times to take hold 
of legislation when bills are about to be presented to states’ 
legislatures; for so long as the nurserymen of America allow 
the office-holder, and those who live off the prosecution of 
these laws to formulate and pass them through the legis¬ 
lature, so long will they be made to bear unjustly upon the 
nursery interests, and the only relief is for the nurserymen 
to organize and see that these bills when they come before the 
various legislatures are prepared in such a manner that they 
can be honestly and fairly enforced, and that protection 
which is necessary be given to all the parties interested. 
UNJUST REGULATIONS 
It is (piite useless for an individual nurseryman to attempt 
to fight horticultural authorities when he has been unjustly 
dealt with, for as a rule a horticultural officer is not financially 
responsible himself, and we do not know of a single case 
where the state compels such an officer to be under bond, 
although they are often clothed with authority to condemn 
and destroy the property of a nurseryman. 
No man should be given such authority that lie can enter 
upon the property of another and condemn and quarantine 
such property, and in this way virtually destroy it, without 
being uudei bonds so that he may lx* held responsible when 
hi' condemns such property on account of ignorance or preju¬ 
dice, and it should be very easy for the nurserymen to impress 
upon the state legislative bodies the importance of placing 
all horticultural officers and inspectors under heavy bond 
so that the interests of not only the nurserymen, but of the 
fruit-growers as well, would be amply protected from ignorant 
and unscrupulous men. Not until the nurserymen enter 
the field of state legislation and insist upon laws being enacted 
that are lair and just; and that inspectors and horticultural 
officers are put under bonds will thev ever receive strict 
justice. 
THE RUSSELLVILLE NURSERY CO. 
Russellville, Ore., May 17—“What is now the Russell¬ 
ville Nursery Co. started business with one acre of nursery 
stock in 1892. Times were hard and the prospects for any 
rapid growth of the business were anything but encouraging. 
Nevertheless the business of the concern grew year after 
year, each year seeing a more rapid growth than the year 
previous until now it has about sixty-five acres in trees, 
besides packing sheds, healing grounds, etc. 
The Russellville Nurseries are located at Russellville, 
Oregon, a suburb of Portland, six miles from the center of 
the city. The location is all that could be asked, as Portland 
is the shipping center of the Pacific Northwest, by water 
anil by rail, and all parts of the Pacific Northwest can be 
reached from the Russellville Nurseries without the neces¬ 
sity of transferring bales or boxes. 
The location from the view of a propagator is first-class. 
The nursery stands out in front of the great gorge of the 
Columbia river and owing to the cold easterly winds that 
pour through that gorge in the fall of the year, stock ripens 
up in good condition for digging early enough to make ship¬ 
ments of trees in first-class condition, far inland and into 
high altitudes before winter sets in. Nursery stock ripens 
up earlier in this locality than any other west of the Cascade 
mountains. 
The soil is a loose, half gravel, clay. It is not what most 
men would call “rich land,” but contains all the properties 
necessary to the quick, healthy and sturdy growth of young 
trees, shrubs and plants. Greenhouse men, florists and 
gardeners all agree that there is a smaller percentage of 
loss of young plants, shrubs and trees propagated here than 
in any other part of the United States. 
SUNRISE NURSERIES. 
Montavilla, Ore., May 9—A. Frceborough: “The nursery 
business with me has been very satisfactory during the past 
year. Of course my business in that line is (piite small, yet 
1 am somewhat in touch with nurserymen generally, and 
think those in the business arc generally prosperous. The 
lon<>--continued rainy weather has been very bad for us and 
the season’s work is backward, yet with a continuance of 
the present fine weather think we will come out all right. 
“I am pleased to report that cherry and pear seedlings 
are doing fine, also currant, gooseberry, Logan-berry, black¬ 
berry stock, etc.” 
