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Mr. Hale, referring to this bill and to the shipment of a car¬ 
load of infested stock from a Nashville nursery into the state 
of Georgia where it was seized and burned, says : “A state 
now without a law upon this subject, and a good and well- 
equipped entomologist, is in bad plight. Such states not only 
suffer from nurserymen being unable to do business in other 
states as they prefer to do, but also the state becomes the 
dumping ground for any and all nurseries and nursery stock 
from other states and territories. I certainly hope that every 
state will soon have a strong law upon this subject. It is now 
beyond question a necessity.” 
TREE PLANTING IN GEORGIA. 
State Entomologist Scott of Georgia is quoted as stating 
that two millions of fruit trees will have been planted out in 
orchard, in that state, by March 1 . According to the gentle¬ 
man, nearly every nursery in that section has sold out of trees, 
and it is impossible to secure any of the standard varieties. 
He announced early in the fall that he thought one million 
trees would be planted, but since that time so many orders 
have been placed for young trees, and the growers have 
planted so many, he has raised his estimate to two millions. 
The greatest amount of planting w:s done in North Georgia. 
NEW YORK COMPROMISE BILL. 
The provisions in regard to the fumigation of nursery stock, 
of the so-called compromise bill, favored by C. M. Hooker, 
Rochester, and agreed upon by the Eastern Nurserymen’s 
legislative committee and the legislative committee of the 
Western New York Horticultural Society, and which both 
committees are to support at Albany next winter, provided 
more nurseries are found infested with San Jose scale this 
year than were last, are as follows : 
All trees, shrubs, plants, buds or cuttings commonly called nursery 
stock grown in any nursery iu this state and in which nursery San Jose 
scale has been found within two years of the date of the dissemination 
of said nursery stock and grown within one half mile of where said 
scales are found, and also all nursery stock from outside of this state 
disseminated or planted in this state or forwarded in or out of it after 
the first day of July next, must be fumigated w T ith hydrocyanic acid 
gas in such manner as may be prescribed by said commissioner. Such 
fumigation shall be done by the grower, consignee or consignor of 
such stock before dissemination or reshipment, except such trees, 
shrubs, plants, buds or cuttings, grown in this state, as are planted by 
the propagator for himself, or such as from its nature and state of 
growth would be exempt. In such cases the said commissioner shall 
declare said trees, shrubs, plants, buds or cuttings free from such 
treatment. All such nursery stock forwarded by any transportation 
company must be accompanied with a certificate from the consignor 
that it has been fumigated as aforesaid, or by a permit from the com. 
missioner of agriculture that the same may be forwarded. Should any 
such stock from out of the state be received in this state not accom¬ 
panied with a certificate that it has been fumigated with hydrocyanic 
gas. it must be so treated by the consignee or consignor before planting, 
dissemination or re-shipment. 
Section 2. The provisions of this act shall not apply to florists’ 
green-house plants, flowers and cuttings commonly known as green¬ 
house stock. 
Section 3. This act, except so far as it relates to fumigation, shall 
take effect immediately. 
Geo. Pattington & Sons, Scipioville, N. Y., Feb. 9. 1901.— 
“ Enclosed please find $1 for our subscription to the National 
Nurseryman. Kindly acknowledge receipt and oblige. We certainly 
do not wish to be without the National Nurseryman, as we think it 
the best paper of its kind we take.” 
IRecent Ipublications. 
The 1901 edition of the American Florist Company’s directory of 
florists, nurserymen, and seedsmen of the United States and Canada 
has appeared. It contains thousands of changes as compared with the 
issue of 1900. Many names have been added and many have been 
removed. There is an increase in the size of the book, due largely to 
the important lists of head gardeners, superintendents of private estates, 
horticulturists of experiment stations, etc. It is a valuable reference 
book for the florist, seedsman, and nurseryman. $2 00. Chicago: 
American Florist Co. 
“The publication of a book on the garden calls for no apology 
there are not half enough contemporary works on the subject; there 
never can be too many.” Thus wrote George H. Ellwanger, of Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y., in 1889, in the preface of his charming w’ork “The 
Garden’s Story.” And we are reminded of the truth of the statement 
as we open the large and handsomely equipped volume, “Gardens, 
Old and New,” published in London and imported by Charles Scrib¬ 
ner’s Sons, New York. No one who has visited England or who has 
turned the pages of the illustrated journals treating of the grand 
estates of Great Britain, can have failed to note the great amount of 
time and money which have been bestowed upon landscape effects iu 
that country. Indeed, the old English estate is a synonym for the best 
that can be produced in the way of gardening. 
In the copyrighted engravings from “Country Life” with which the 
work above referred to is embellished, are shown striking examples of 
the old and new gardens which on so extensive a scale surround the 
palaces and mansions of English royalty and aristocracy. In the intro¬ 
duction to this elaborate volume of 300 pages, the old and the new 
schools of gardening are skillfully and graphically contrasted. It is 
shown that from any point of view true art in gardening presupposes 
that the house and the garden are one. 
“ The world of gardening,” says the author, “is wide enough for all 
alike, for those who love the mossy terrace shadowed by beech or lime, 
the fantastic yew cut by the topiary hand, or the still canal where the 
birds ‘float double, swan and shadow ;’ or again for those who delight 
in gentle meads, undulating slopes, and waters winding by the wood. 
We may discover, amid the warning words of the advocates of one 
style of gardening or another, that it is, after all, no worse to trim a 
tree than a lawn—that the difference is in degree not in kind, that all 
gardening is, in a measure, formal and that it was only the extrav¬ 
agance of the old topiary gardeners that brought them into contempt.” 
The old Englishman dearly loved an enclosed garden bounded by 
tall hedges of beach or yew, well cut and trimmed. Pope laughed at 
the fantastic things that awoke his ridicule and Taine complained that 
all was artificial. Stately iron gates hammered into elaborate designs 
filled the spaces where the high hedges or thick walls did not meet. 
All was enclosed, formal. 
Garden work iu the new manner was given impetus through the 
celebrated gardens created by Andre le Notre at Versailles, Chantilly, 
St. Cloud and Mendon and the terrace at Fontainebleau. Hampton 
Court is the most splendid example of the school of Le Notre. But 
this style of gardening was expensive and suited only to the largest 
estates. With the removal of walls and hedges “the contiguous 
ground of the park without was harmonized with the lawn within, 
and the garden was set free from its prim regularity, that it might 
assort with the wilder country without. Kent was the designer who 
chiefly worked the change, followed by Brown and many more. 
“He leaped the fence and said that all Nature was a garden ” wrote 
Walpole regarding Kent. 
Space does not permit the extended reference which the interest in 
the volume before us might warrant. Suffice it to say that “Gardens, 
Old and New' ” will adorn the table of every landscape lover; it should 
be in the library of every landscape architect and nurseryman. It 
describes in the most practical as well as the most entertaining manner 
details of the noted pleasaunces which may well serve as models for a 
later day. The volume is 10 x 15 inches, letter press of highest 
quality, engravings, many of them lull page, of striking clearness, the 
whole printed on heavy paper, full gilt, bound in dark green buckram 
with appropriate stamped design. Price $15. London : George 
Newnks, Limited. New York : Imported by Charles Sc ribner's Sons. 
