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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmcmo (Browers anb Sealers. 
Prof. H. E Van Deman is on the Pacific coast. 
Luther Burbank has a promising novelty in his hybrid of the Eastern 
Beach plum, which is very prolific. 
J. W. McNary, of McNary & Gaines, Xenia, O., is a member and 
secretary of the Dayton, O., Park Commission. 
Richard Smith Carrington. Worcester, England, exporter of clema¬ 
tis, roses and manetti stocks, is fiend, aged 76 years. 
Herbert and Henry Chase will have charge of the St. Louis branch 
of the Alabama Nursery Company, Huntsville, Ala. 
Elmer Reeves, Waverly, la., has sold 400 European larch trees 
planted 35 years ago, for telephone poles, at $2 each. 
Leonard Coates, Napa, Cal., argues in the Pacific Coast Fruit World 
in favor of the formation of a California Nurserymen’s Association. 
President Theodore J. Smith, of the American Association of 
Nurserymen, passed a portion of the winter in Porto Rico and Cuba. 
Among those who will go to the Niagara Falls convention from 
Texas are Messrs. John Watson, Kerr, Kirkpatrick, Malley and Ram¬ 
sey. 
E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind., of the executive committee of the 
American Association of Nurserymen, visited Western New York 
nurserymen last month. 
Nurserymen of California are having an unusually strong demand 
for apricot and peach trees, and the trade is active for cherry trees.— 
California Fruit Grower. 
James Clark, of Southern Illinois, writes : “ Catalpa fence-posts 
have been taken up after being in the ground forty years and reset at 
being good for forty years more.” 
The Lake View Nursery Co., of Sheriden, N. Y , formerly conducted 
by Alfred F. DeLand and Frank M. Roesch, has dissolved partnership. 
Mr. DeLand has bought Mr. Roesch’s interest, and will continue the 
business. 
. F. W. Proctor, of Massachusetts, describes in the Rural New Yorker 
an apple orchard planted by his father when the latter was 50 years old 
and says that his father lived to enjoy the fruit and to derive an in¬ 
come from it. 
Reports from Texas state that up to March 15th planting has pro¬ 
gressed slowly, the weather being very dry. The prospect is a short¬ 
age of peach and plum, with apples plentiful. Pears, as ever, will be 
exceedingly scarce. 
The promise of the Pan-American Exposition managers is: “ The 
exhibits of nursery stock, including orchard and ornamental trees, 
shrubs and evergreens, will be unquestionably among the finest, if not 
the finest, ever made.” 
Who is the first nurseryman in California who will make a specialty 
of “pedigreed trees?” Trees must be marked which annually bear 
the best fruit and are the most vigorous. Even a branch may show 
superiority. From such alone take buds.—Pacific Fruit World. 
The dutiable imports of plants, shrubs and vines amounted to 
$87,524 in December, 1900, against $60,715 in the same month of the 
year before. During the twelve months of 1900 ending with December, 
these imports were valued at $1,082,041, as compared with $902,737 
worth imported in a corresponding period of 1899. 
Prof. C. S. Sargent, of the Arnold Arboretum and Botanical Gardens 
of Harvard Lniversity, says: “For fence-posts and telegraph posts, 
hop-poles, and vineyard-poles, the wood of the catalpa has no known 
equal. Catalpa wood seems particularly suited for the manufacture 
of coffins, for which purpose it promises to rival the famous nanmu 
wood of the Chinese.” 
A midwinter examination of peach buds in the orchards of Douglas 
township shows not only that the trees are abundantly budded, but 
that the buds are in healthy and vigorous condition. The rest of the 
winter holds but little danger in store, and there is no reason to doubt 
that the peach crop of 1901, quality of acreage considered, will be as 
large as any of its predecessors.—Detroit Free Press. 
MR. ROUSE’S REPLY. 
Culled Forth By Statements By President L. T. Yeomans of the 
New York State Fruit Growers’ Association Regarding 
Fumigation of Nursery Stock-Facts of Interest 
to Fruit Growers and Nurserymen. 
In view of the fact that the Country Gentleman published 
in full the address of President L. T Yeomans at the organi¬ 
zation of the New York Fruit Growers Association refuting 
statements by Irving Rouse of Rochester, N. Y., on the sub¬ 
ject of fumigation of nursery stock, Mr. Rouse has sent the 
following communication to that journal: 
Editors Country Gentlemen: —Mr. L. T. Yeomans, the newly elected 
president of the Fruit-Growers’ Association, is reported in your paper, 
p. 190, as practically stating that the Eastern Nurserymen’s Association 
was formed to antagonize the fruit-growers. This is absurd. The 
Eastern Nurserymen’s Association was organized 10 or 12 years before 
the San Jose war cloud made its appearance Its object was to urge 
upon the United States government the necessity of placing a duty on 
foreign nursery stock, which at that time was coming to this country 
in large quantities and being sold at auction in all large seaboard cities. 
The effect was prejudicial generally to the nursery interests. The 
Association contributed very largely to the bringing about the enact¬ 
ment of the present tariff on nursery stock. Since that time, the asso¬ 
ciation has kept alive in the interests of the trade. 
The association has never interfered with the fruit-growers—has 
never thought of doing so. Even now, when some fruit growers are 
openly fighting the nurserymen, the latter are simply asking for the 
privilege of conducting their business without Interference by those 
who know nothing about it and care less. 
Mr. Yeomans denies the accuracy of a statement made by me as 
follows : “Asa matter of fact, to my knowledge there is not a single 
commercial nursery in the State of New York that is infested with 
scale, but there are any quantity of orchards that are infested.” That 
is a broad statement—an uncomfortable statement of fact for the fruit¬ 
growers who are carrying on this crusade, and I am prepared to stand 
by it. I think I am more familiar with the condition of the nurseries 
of the state than is Mr. Yeomans. According to the report of the com¬ 
missioner of agriculture, there were found in the state of New York 
this year but 6,000 trees infested with the scale, out of a total of 
25,000.000. In the previous two years, about 200.000 were found 
infested. Is not this proof positive that the pest is being taken care of 
in the most careful manner ? In the face of such a report, why should 
such legislation be proposed ? Another year, if the present law is 
retained, will see the scale wiped out so far as the nurseries are con¬ 
cerned. 
Mr. Yeomans is careful not to tell the whole story about the fifty 
nurseries infested. The fact is that 36 of them are on Long Island and 
near New York, and not one of them is a commercial nursery. The 36 
of them together grow less than one half of one per cent, of the fruit 
trees grown in the state. 
This significant statement was made last month before the house 
committee on agriculture : “ There is no scale in the New York state 
nurseries, and we are confident we can control the situation, so far as 
the nurseries are concerned, with the present law ?” 
Mr. Yeomans says also that nurserymen fumigate stock going to 
Canada, but refuse to do so for home consumption. Not one dollar’s 
worth of American stock was shipped into Canada during two years 
following the San Jose scale act. In 1900 we had a chance to ship for 
two weeks only. We are not required to fumigate. The Canadian 
government does the fumigating at the port of entry. As a result of 
persistent and unwise agitation of the scale scare, the entire Canadian 
trade in nursery stock has been lost. Our fruit growing friends will 
find their chickens coming home to roost in the not distant future if 
they insist on keeping their alarmist views so constantly before the 
public, both in agriculture and daily press. Even now Germany, 
Switzerland, Austria and other countries are inaugurating movements 
to keep American pest ridden fruits on this side of the Atlantic not be¬ 
cause there is any real cause, but because some fruit growers seem to 
be doing their best to create an impression that there is. 
