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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National N urseryman. 
C. L. YATES, Proprietor. RALPH T. OLCOTT, Editor. 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., 
305 Cox Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nursery Stock of 
all kinds. It circulates throughout the United States and Canada. 
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION, 1900. 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 
One year, in advance, ----- $1.00 
Six Months, ------ .75 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance, - - - 1.50 
Six Months, “ “ 1.00 
Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
AHERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, Theodore J. Smith, Geneva, N. Y.; vice president, N. W. 
Hale, Knoxville. Tenn.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, 
N. Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—Irving- Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; C. L. Watrous, Des 
Moines, la.; E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind. 
Committee on Transportation—Theo tore J. Smith, ex-officio, chairman ; A. L. 
Brooke, N. Topeka, Kan.; William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; Peter Youngers, 
Geneva, Neb.; N. W. Hale, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Committee on Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; N. H. Albaugh, 
Phoneton, O.: Silas Wilson, Atlantic, la.; Charles J. Brown, Rochester, N.Y. 
Robert C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
Committee on Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; «T. J. Harrison, Paines- 
ville, O.; Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa. 
Annual convention for 1901—At Niagara Falls, N. Y., June 12-13. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., January, 1901. 
THE NEW CENTURY. 
The opening of the twentieth century finds the nursery 
business in a promising condition. It follows a year of 
steadily advancing prices and an era of general business 
activity and confidence in commercial quarters. The interest 
in fruit growing caused by the exhibits and awards at the 
Paris Exposition will be strengthened by the Pan-American 
Exposition in Buffalo this year. 
While the last year of the nineteenth century is marked by 
the loss of several prominent nurserymen and horticulturists, 
many veterans remain to give advice to the large number of 
younger men who are forging to the front in the business. 
Among those who died in iqoo were Edward A. Frost, Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y.; T. T. Lyon, South Haven, Mich.; Robert C. 
Brown of Brown Brothers Co., Rochester, N. Y.; Lord Pen¬ 
zance, of sweet briars fame, England ; Isaac Hicks, Westbury 
L. I.; Elbert S. Carman, editor Rural New Yorker, New York 
city; John G. Glen, Glen Brothers, Rochester, N. Y.;John 
Laing, London, England ; Clifford L. Albaugh, Phoneton, O.; 
David G. Yates, Mount Airy, Pa.; Willbm Saunders, horti¬ 
culturist, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture ; Edward 
Pynaert, Ghent, Belgium. 
NATIONAL QUARANTINE LAW. 
At the meeting last month of the Cali'ornia Fruit Growers’ 
Association in San Francisco, Alexander Craw, quarantine 
officer of the California Board of Horticulture, read a paper 
arguing on the need for a national horticultural quarantine law 
for the protection of horticultural and viticultural interests in 
California, and M. J. Daniels, of Riverside, acquainted the con¬ 
vention with his efforts in Washington “to secure needful 
legislation for the protection of the citrus interests of Califor¬ 
nia against foreign competition,” as a California journal ex¬ 
presses it. 
Mr. Craw began his paper before the convention with the 
statements: “ The need of a national horticultural quarantine 
law for the protection of the horticultural interests of the 
United States is annually becoming more apparent. Foreign 
insects are spreading over the eastern states. With national 
restriction at the time they were introduced they could have 
been stopped at the port of entry. Once established in the 
country, they are rapidly disseminated by nursery slock and 
natural spread.” He then quoted the oft-repeated statement 
that 60,000 large bearing peach trees in North Carolina were 
cut down and burned, because of the presence of the scale, and 
that an orchard of 20,000 peach trees in Maryland was com¬ 
pletely destroyed in two years. Mr. Craw says: “In other 
states the loss from this pest has been very serious.” But 
neither he nor any other alarmist has quoted figures showing 
that the scale has caused such havoc “ in other states ” as is 
recorded of North Carolina and Maryland; with the exception 
of Georgia. If the warnings regarding the scale were well 
grounded, we should long ere this time have seen whole orch¬ 
ards whiped out in other eastern or southern states. 
Again we wish to state the position of this journal upon this 
subject. The San Jose scale may be a dangerous menace to 
the fruit interests of the country; it may be necessary to have 
laws governing the importation of nursery stock; if the scale is 
as dangerous as is feared by many, certainly it is to the interest 
of nurserymen as well as of orchardists to check the spread, for 
any factor tending to discourage the planting of orchards 
affects the business of the nurseryman; and it is undoubtedly 
advisable, as the American Association of Nurserymen has 
already demonstrated, that a uniform federal law upon this 
subject shall replace the conflicting state laws in existence; 
but, in the framing of the national law, a great industry like 
that of the nursery business should not be unduly crippled. 
It has been agreed several times at conferences between nur¬ 
serymen, horticulturists and entomologists, that a national law 
adapted to all the conditions should be passed by Congress. 
Such a law has been before Congress; but it is not the law 
advocated by Mr. Craw. 
Certainly such a law as Mr. Craw proposes should be referred 
to the nurserymen for consideration inasmuch as it directly 
affects them; yet there is no proposition of such a reference, 
in Mr. Craw’s paper before the California convention. 
After referring to the Washington convention of 1897 , the 
