THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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lina, Gerald McCarthy; Ohio, P. M. Webster; Oregon, Wilbur K. 
Newell, Lloyd T. Reynolds, J. R. Casey, Emile Schanno, Judd Geer; 
Pennsylvania, S. B. Heiges. Geo. C. Butz. Frank M. Bartram; Tennes 
see. Chas. E Chambliss; Utah. J. A. Wright, J. P. Sorensen, C. A. 
Ilickenlooper; Vermont. F. A. Waugh; Virginia, William B. Alwood, 
J. L Phillips; Washington, J. E. Baker; Wisconsin, W. A. Henry, E. 
S. Goff. 
Whenever nursery stock and other horticultural property imported 
into this state bears a certificate of apparent freedom from dangerous 
insects and contagious plant disease signed by one of the inspectors on 
the foregoing list and dated not earlier than the first day of July last 
preceding, sellers of stock so certified who hold for tbeir own premises 
valid certificates from this office, are hereby authorized to substitute the 
certificate of this office for certificates of inspectors of other states as 
named above. 
S. A. Forbes, State Entomologist. 
PRINCIPAL EFFECTS OF THE LAW. 
1. Asa result of the anuual inspection of nursery stock, followed as 
it has been by critical observations from this office in all cases requir¬ 
ing them, a rapid improvement in the condition of Illinois nurseries is 
manifested, especially in those parts of the state where the same region 
was covered both years by the same inspector. Insects found too gen¬ 
erally prevalent on the first inspection have largely disappeared from 
nurseries, old and worthless stock has been cleared out and destroyed, 
and evidences of greater care in management are generally noticeable. 
2. The detection of the San Jose scale in six of these nurseries and 
its complete destruction there before it had been disseminated to any 
serious extent, and the discovery of the crown gall as an important 
nursery pest much too prevalent in many comparjrtively small and 
neglected nurseries, are also notable benefits resulting from this inspec¬ 
tion. Furthermore, the accumulation of a very large amount of infor¬ 
mation with regard to common insects of the nurseries, those injurious 
to the property of the nurseryman rather than to that of his customer, 
will enable me to prepare a particularly valuable article on the subject 
of nursery pests. 
2. The supervision of importations of nursery stock which the law 
has required has undoubtedly prevented in great measure the introduc¬ 
tion into the state of worthless and infested trees. As long as Illinois 
had no such law it was certain to be the dumping-ground of unprinci¬ 
pled dealers anxious to free themselves of dangerous or suspicious prop¬ 
erty which they were unable to sell in states by restrictive legislation. 
It should further be noticed that a law of this kind has now become 
practically necessary to the nurseryman if he does business outside of 
his own state, since without inspection and an official certificate thereof 
his products are excluded from most of the best markets of the country. 
4. Our inspection of orchards with reference to the San Jose scale 
has resulted in an early discovery of this insect in many localities where 
it would otherwise have remained unnoticed until it had spread exten¬ 
sively and done great and irremediable harm. As a general result of 
insecticide operations, about 14,000 trees have been treated on one hun¬ 
dred and fifteen infested premises, half of them by fumigation and the 
other half by spraying either with whale-oil soap solution or kerosene 
emulsion. On the whole I can not doubt that the new law is a useful 
one, and that it should be maintained in substantially its present form. 
Although it has been occa ionally criticised, it seems on the whole to 
have met the almost uuanimous approval of those most nearly con¬ 
cerned. 
NEW YORK NURSERY INSPECTION. 
The following is a summary of the work done in the San 
Jose scale division in the New York State 'Department of 
Agriculture for the year 1900 up to December 1 st: Three hun¬ 
dred and ninety-five certificates issued on 6,013 acres nurseries 
and 657 acres vineyards ; 414 duplicate certificate for 
other states; 3 , 065^5 acres orchard inspected; 1,522 acres 
vineyards; 143 acres strawberries; 66 j£ aeries raspberries; 22 
acres blackberries; 4 J 2 acres gooseberries. Orchards con¬ 
tained 399,271 trees—about three-fourths in bearing. 
Ii. R. Harris, Harrisviile, W. Va., Dec. 21, 1900.—“ I enclose 
$1 to renew my subscription for 1901. Your journal has been worth 
many times the price to me during the past year.” 
WESTERN WHOLESALERS. 
I hirty nurserymen attended the semi-annual meeting of the 
Western Wholesale Nurserymen’s Association in Kansas City 
last month. It was the unanimous opinion that there will be 
a considerable rise in the prices of nursery stock before spring. 
It was reported that the available stock is the shortest on 
record and that it cannot meet the spring demand. It was 
declared that apple trees will be very short; also cherries 
Pear and peach trees will also be scarce. 
The following officers were elected; President, A. L. Brooke, 
Topeka, Kan.; vice-president, R. H. Blair, Kansas City, Mo.; 
secretary and treasurer, E. J. Holman, Leavenworth, Kan.; 
executive committee, Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; A. Willis 
Ottawa, Kan.; E. S. Welch, Shenandoah, la.; J. H. Skinner, 
Topeka, Kan.; A. C. Griesa, Lawrence, Kan. 
NEW NURSERIES IN TENNESSEE. 
Editor National Nurseryman ; 
Enclosed please find check for $ 1 , in payment of my sub¬ 
scription to the National Nurseryman. Please quote me 
advertising rates. 
I have a surplus of 500,000 strawberry plants. I am plant¬ 
ing extensively of nursery stock. I have just finished planting 
200 bushels of peach pits and will have some 400,000 June 
budded peach trees for fall 1901 . A large lot of apples, pears, 
and cherry stocks will be planted in the spring. I will plant 
50 acres in strawberries for plants, and, all-told, I will have 
80 acres in nursery. There is another nursery started near 
this place that will have 80 acres or more another year. The 
gentleman’s name is D. W. Hunter, Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Sherman Hights, Tenn , Dec. 21 , 1900 . 
H. Lightfoot. 
SUBSTITUTED BETTER VARIETY. 
A Baraboo, Wis., correspondent of the American Florist 
sa)s : “In the trial of the recent case of J. G. Stein against 
Charles Hirschirger, the jury returned a verdict in favor of 
the latter. Some years ago Stein purchased 500 apple trees 
supposed to be Duchess of Oldenburg and claimed that all 
but 100 proved to be inferior kinds. Expert witnesses testi¬ 
fied that the trees said to be inferior were the Milwaukee, 
a better variety than the Duchess in this section. Stein 
sued for $ 1,000 damages.” 
FUMIGATION IN CALIFORNIA. 
Nearly 1 , 500,000 trees have been fumigated this season, 
which is more than double the number looked after last year, 
says the Los Angeles Express. Nearly 1,000 tents have been 
in operation during the past season, as against 500 last year. 
Next year 1,500 tents will be at work. Many ranchers are 
purchasing tents for individual use, as the benefit of fumiga¬ 
tion is beginning to be more thoroughly recognized. 
The cost of fumigating a tree is about 40 cents, but the 
grower is more than repaid for this outlay, for it costs more to 
wash the fruit infested with scale than it does to fumigate. 
