THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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proceedings of which are familiar to our readers, Mr. Craw 
concludes his paper as follows: 
Finally, a conference was agreed to by both Washington and St. 
Louis committees, and a compromise measure was drawn up. Possibly 
to give this bill some degree of endorsement from California, a con¬ 
gressman from this state was selected to present it in the house of 
representatives. The defects in the bill and its tendency to favor im¬ 
porters’ interests against those of the grower were so apparent that I 
publicly attacked it through the press and at fruit growers’ meetings. 
Another bill was drafted at the State Fruit Growers’ convention held at 
San Jose, December 12th to loth, 1899. In this bill all reference to 
interstate commerce in trees and plants was eliminated, for the reason 
that it was considered safer for the states to which the stock was con¬ 
signed, to make the examination, as they are more vitally concerned as 
to its condition, and the work undoubtedly would be more carefully 
done than it would be at the point of shipment. In order to harmonize 
all interests, it was considered better to modify several sections of the 
original senate bill. The San Jose bill conferred certain discretionary 
powers upon the Secretary of Agriculture that were acceptable to the 
members of the convention. 
No decisive action has yet been taken by Congress upon such a 
bill, so I take the liberty of presenting the same bill drawn up by a 
committee at San Jose and which was endorsed by the State Fruit 
Growers in convention in that city. A similar bill met with the ap¬ 
proval of fruit growers in convention at Sacramento, Los Angeles, and 
Riverside. I hope that it will meet with your approval and be taken 
up by the fruit growers of the state and nation, individually, and 
through their associations, exchanges, institutes, chambers of commerce 
and boards of trade. If each does his part, Congress will understand 
that we are in earnest and will grant the necessary protection. 
The committee on legislation, of the American Association 
of Nurserymen, will see that the interests of the nurserymen 
are safeguarded in this attempt to legislate on nursery subjects. 
This committee is composed of C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, 
la., chairman; N. H. Albaugh, Phoneton, O.; Silas Wilson, 
Atlantic, la.; Charles J. Brown, Rochester, N. Y.; Robert C. 
Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
IT HAS COME AT LAST. 
A recent bulletin issued by the Cornell University Agricul¬ 
tural Experiment Station gives particulars by Professor Mark 
V. Slingerland of the specimens of the European insect called 
the praying mantis, found in Rochester for the first time in 
this country by Park Commissioner H. F. Atwood. Professor 
Slingerland says that the insect is in the main a beneficial one. 
The inference is that it was imported from Europe with nur¬ 
sery stock. It has a wide distribution in the Old World, 
being practically common in France. 
In view of the criticism to which nurserymen have been sub¬ 
jected by reason of the discovery of pernicious insects on trees 
and shrubs, it is a matter of congratulation that to the nursery¬ 
man is traced the introduction of this beneficial insect. The 
nurserymen take off their hats to Mr. Atwood and thank him 
for his timely discovery. 
CHANGE AT BREWER & STANNARD’S. 
Eugene Brewer, who is well known among nurserymen, re¬ 
tired from the nursery business on January 1 , 1901 , still 
retaining his interest, however, in the lands and large orchard 
interests of Brewer & Stannard. The Ottawa Star Nurseries 
will hereafter be conducted by F. H. Stannard and Company. 
Mr. Stannard has such an extensive acquaintance among the 
nurserymen of the country as to need no introduction, and his 
personal attention to the business bespeaks its success. 
YEAR’S SHIPMENTS TO CANADA. 
In response to our inquiry regarding the shipments of nur¬ 
sery stock from Europe and the United States to Canada, 
during the periods when such shipments are allowed by the 
Canadian government, N. B. Colcock, custom house broker at 
Niagara Falls, Ont., writes: 
Editor National Nukseuyman : 
I delayed answering yours of the 24th November calculating to send 
you the information asked for immediately after the closing of the 
fumigating station of this port on the 15th inst. As I was desirous of 
including all the shipments, I kept back the report, owing to the fact 
that there was one shipment of nursery stock, destined for Canada, 
that could not arrive here in time before closing of the fumigating 
station. I was in communication with the Commissioner of Customs, 
Ottawa, in the hope of being able to bring them into the country by 
offering to pay any extra expense that the fumigating agent might be 
put to by running this shipment through on arrival. I have to-day 
received a telegram from the commissioner that the shipment could 
not be imported, the day having been fixed by order-in-council and 
there being no authority for re-opening. This shipment would have 
amounted to about $500. I wired the shippers as to to the decision of 
the minister, and now beg to submit the following figures: 
FROM UNITED STATES 
FROM EUROPE. 
No. 
Value. 
No. 
Value. 
Fall and winter of 1899-1900.. 
14 
$ 123.37 
25 
$0,661.00 
Spring of 1900. 
48 
1.332 00 
3 
418.00 
Fall of 1900. 
42 
1.199 93 
4 
208.00 
The above figures you can take as correct. They are not taken from 
the customs’ books, consequently are not official, but are taken from 
my books, and I have no knowledge of any nursery stock passing 
this port, except what passed through my hands. 
From letters already to hand, I look for considerable increase of 
shipments from the United States next spring. I hear of some 
European shipments yet to arrive, but look for the value to be light. 
Unnecessary delay has been occasioned in some of the shipments 
passing here, owing to the fact that the necessary power of attorney 
and invoices did not arrive until after the boxes had reached this port, 
and some of the invoices not bearing the proper certificate, a copy of 
which certificate I beg to enclose. These are important matters which 
nurserymen should not overlook. N. B. Colcock. 
Niagara Falls, Ont., Dec. 21, 1900. 
The certificate referred to is as follows: 
SHIPMENTS TO CANADA. 
After the receipt of this notice, please discontinue the use of the 
words “Certified Correct” on all invoices of goods destined for Canada. 
The Canadian government now insists upon the following definitely 
worded certificate being on all invoices : 
“ This invoice is true and correct; and where there is a difference 
between any of the prices shown therein and the ordinary credit prices 
at which the same articles are now sold bona fide by the exporter in 
like quantity and condition at this place for consumption in the coun¬ 
try, the latter prices are shown on the margin or elsewhere on such 
invoice. 
Dated at. 19.. 
Exporter.” 
This certificate must be signed by a partner, official or employee of 
the exporter, having a knowledge of the facts certified to. The certifi¬ 
cate must NOT be attached to the invoice, but must be WRITTEN, 
PRINTED OR STAMPED on the face or back thereof. 
The Euclid Avenue Nursery Co., East Cleveland, O , has been 
formed by the association of Charles W. Metcalf, of East Cleveland, 
who for ten years has conducted a geueral planting and landscape 
business and surrounding territory, and who has a thorough knowledge 
of the trade, with Henry Kohankie, of Painesville, O., who for twenty- 
five years has been actively engaged in the business in its various 
phases, at the Storrs & Harrison Nurseries, at Painesville, Ohio. 
