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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, WOO. 
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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—Theodore 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.; J. 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 rnail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., March, 1901. 
DEMAND AND PRODUCTION. 
The outlook for the nurseryman is certainly bright. Never 
before has there been a greater general interest in the subject 
of fruit growing. Individual farmers are buying trees in large 
quantities and there is rapid advance in the line of commercial 
orchards. There seems to be no danger of over-production. 
That bugaboo has been downed. It was said that the last 
apple crop would be so large as to force prices to so low an 
ebb as to remove all hope of profit. But those who held their 
stocks of apples realized good prices, as usual. The extension 
of facilities for marketing fruit has more than any other one 
thing increased the number of growers of fruit. Electric lines 
are reaching into the heart of fruit-producing sections and are 
transporting large quantities of fruit where heretofore the 
amount was measured by a few wagon loads. 
In an address before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 
a year ago, S. D. Willard, Geneva, N. Y., one of the best known 
fruit growers in the country, discussing conditions which are 
only emphasized after the lapse of a twelve-month, said: 
“The prices of apples have been steadily advancing until 
for several winters they have been held so high as to be beyond 
the reach of the masses, and good number one apples are 
really a luxury to-day. They are shipped to all parts of the 
world as green fruit, canned and evaporated, while the skins 
and cores are converted into wines and jelly, so that nothing 
is lost or wasted. A few years ago our surplus of this fruit 
was marketed in the British Isles, while to-day the German 
States and Russia are calling loudly for them, with the proba¬ 
bility that our newly acquired possessions, both in the Atlantic 
and Pacific, will soon be numbered among the consumers of 
this king of all fruits. From twelve to fifteen thousand bar¬ 
rels of the last year’s crop found their way into Russia. Seven 
counties in Western New York are said to have received from 
their apple crop not far from $ 5 , 000,000 the past season, while 
at the same time receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars 
for their pears, plums, peaches, quinces, cherries, apricots and 
small fruits. Is not the outlook full of encouragement to the 
orchard man as well as to the land owner who may have found 
his work unsatisfactory in fighting competition, which will 
never be less, from regions unfitted by soil or climatic condi¬ 
tions for growing fruits that can be produced no where else as 
well as in New York or New England ? I beg your serious 
consideration to this subject as deserving more thought and 
careful study than has usually been given it. There should 
be an increase of area for the production of this fruit on the 
cheap lands now so abundant throughout this region, accom¬ 
panied by greater intelligence as to varieties especially adapted 
to commercial work, and more thorough culture with the pur¬ 
pose of growing only that of the most excellent quality. 
“ Where is the man living who thirty years ago would have 
dared to predict that before the close of the century single 
towns in the State of New York would have produced and 
found profitable markets for cherries by the hundred tons, 
plums, peaches, pears, and quinces in much greater quantities, 
apricots by hundreds of bushels, and small fruits to corres¬ 
pond ?’ Yet such is the fact, and the demand is yet in advance 
of the supply. Is not the outlook full of encouragement to 
the professional fruit grower who is receiving from $150 to 
$300 per acre net for his crops ? ” 
TENNESSEE INSPECTION BILL. 
N. W. Hale, Knoxville, heading a committee of the East 
Tennessee Nurserymen’s Association has prepared a bill to be 
introduced in the state legislature, creating the office of state 
entomologist and to prevent the introduction or dissemination of 
noxious insects, or infectious or contagious diseases of trees, 
vines, shrubs or plants grown in the state or imported from 
other states or countries. The bill provides that the entom¬ 
ologist is to be selected by the trustees of the University of 
Tennessee, and to work in connection with the agricultural 
experiment station. He shall inspect all nurseries whenever 
he deems it necessary and shall publish the results of his 
inspection. It prohibits the shipping of nursery stock into 
the state that does not bear a state or government inspector’s 
label. A violation of any of the provisions of the bill imposes 
a fine of from $5 to $ 25 . 
