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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
Hmoitg (Browers anb Dealers. 
Employees of the Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, Ohio, to the 
number of 150, have formed an association. 
Fire destroyed the residence and some of the neighboring buildings 
of W. K. Nelson, Augusta, Ga., on March 17th. 
Robert George, of Storrs and Harrison Co., Paiuesville, O., is erect¬ 
ing a fine dwelling adjacent to that of J. J. Harrison. 
Burglars blew open the safe in the Green Nursery Co.’s office, in 
Chili, near Rochester, on April 18th, and secured $250. 
New locations : Stoye & Steele, Eatonville, N. J.; Ernst Haentze, 
Fond du Lac, Wis.; S. C. Clark, Colorado Springs, Col. 
W. B. Clarke, Rochester, N. Y., and C. C. Cutting, of Kalamazoo, 
Mich., have opened offices of the American Nursery Co., at Kalamazoo. 
The dutiable imports of plants, shrubs and vines amounted to 
$21,158 in February, 1901, against $26,953 in the same month of last 
year. 
In its issue of April 20th, the American Florist presents a photo¬ 
engraving and sketch of the veteran nurseryman, George Ellwanger, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
The South Dakota legislature has appropriated $10,000 for a plant 
breeding building, to be used by Prof. N. E. Hansen, of Brookings, 
who addressed the nurserymen last June at the Chicago convention. 
J. T. Withers, who has been foreman of Keney Park Nurseries at 
Hartford, Conn., for five years, is the new superintendent of the Bay 
State Nurseries, W. H. Wyman, proprietor, at North Abington, Mass. 
These officers have been elected by the Phoenix Nursery Co., Dela¬ 
ware, Wis.: President, H. C. Johnson; vice-president, D. E. Lee; 
secretary, treasurer, and manager, A. P Wilkins. Other members of 
company are E. F. Williams and F. A. Rice. 
The French government has conferred the decoration of the order of 
Merite Agricole upon the following officials of the United States De¬ 
partment of Agriculture for services performed at the Paris Exposition: 
G. B. Brackett, pomologist; W. A. Taylor, assistant pomologist. 
The first box of cherries for the season of 1901, says a despatch to the 
California Fruit Grower, was shipped from Vacaville, April 11th, by 
Frank H. Buck, consigned to Porter Bros., Company, of Chicago, 
where, it was presumed, it would be sold for the customary $10. The 
fruit was of the Purple Guigne variety. 
The total exports of apples from Canada for the fiscal year ended 
June 30, 1900, were 956,458 barrels, valued at $2,578,233 ; the exports 
from the United States for the same period were 526,636 barrels, valued 
at $1,444,655. The exports of dried apples from Canada were 4,181,- 
038 pounds, valued at $210,892; from the United States, 34,964,010 
pounds, valued at $2,247,851. 
The president of the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers’ Association, at the 
recent meeting said: “ From all available sources I have estimated the 
value of fruit industry to Nova Scotia as follows: Annual value of 
fruit crop, average, about $1,000,000. Value of orchards now bearing, 
9,000 acres, at $500 per acre, $1,500,000. Annual additional value to 
permanent wealth of the province by young orchards, 5,000 acres, at 
$200 per acre, $1,000,000. 
TENNESSEE INSPECTION LAW. 
At the recent session of the Tennessee legislature a bill was 
introduced creating the office of state entomologist, providing 
for the official inspection of nursery stock, and regulating the 
transportation of same. This bill passed both houses and be¬ 
came a law, which went into effect immediately after its passage. 
As this new law is of special interest to all nurserymen it is 
herewith presented: 
A Bill to be entitled “ An Act to create the office of State Entom¬ 
ologist and to prevent the introduction or dissemination of noxious 
insects or infectious or contagious diseases of trees, vines, shrubs or 
plants grown in this State or imported from other States or countries. 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of 
Tennessee, that the office of State Entomologist is hereby created. 
Section 2. Be it further enacted, that the governor is empowered to 
select a competent, scientific and practical entomologist, who shall be 
known as the State Entomologist, and who shall execute the provisions 
of this Act. 
Section 3. Be it further enacted, that it shall be unlawful to grow, 
keep, offer for sale, sell, introduce or transport within the bounds of the 
State of Tennessee, any plants, scions, trees, shrubs or vines, without 
a certificate from the State Entomologist, showing the same has been 
inspected and found to be free from San Jose scale, yellows, root knot 
or any other dangerous insect, pests or diseases. And each box. handle, 
package or car, shall be plainly labelled on the outside with the name 
of the consignor, and the name of the consignee. Every package shall 
also bear the certificate of the State Entomologist, as above set forth 
in this section, and no certificate shall be valid longer than twelve 
months from the date of inspection. Any person or persons knowingly 
violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by 
fine, of not less than Twenty five dollars, nor more than one hundred 
dollars. 
Section 4. Be it further enacted, that it shall be the duty of the 
State Entomologist to visit and inspect whenever he deems it necessary 
all nursery or floral premises where trees, vines, plants, shrubs, flowers, 
etc , are grown and offered for sale, and upon failing to find any of the 
pests here enlisted, or other dangerous insects, or contagious or in¬ 
fectious diseases, he shall issue a certificate to that effect. He shall 
report upon each inspection, in writing, to the owner of the stock, and 
file a copy of the report in the office of the president of the Board of 
Trustees of the University of Tennessee, where it shall be at all times 
subject to public inspection. It shall be his duty and he shall have 
the power to enter any nursery or floial premises and examine all 
plants, trees, shrubs, etc., offered for sale when he has any reasons to 
suspect that any pests here enlisted exist. The State Entomologist 
shall have the power to determine whether infested trees, plants, 
vines, shrubs, etc, are worthy of remedial treatment, or shall be 
destroyed. And in each case he shall serve notice of same to the owner 
or owners of said trees, plants, vines, shrubs, etc. It shall be the duty 
of the State Entomologist when requested to do so, by the owner, to 
inspect orchards, gardens and private premises, and to exercise all 
powers set forth in this section, if the persons owning such property 
so required. 
Section 5. Be it further enacted, that infected nursery or floral 
premises where their products are offered for sale or distribution be 
declared a public nuisance, and abatement thereof by destruction of or 
treatment for infested trees, vines, shrubs, plants, flowers, etc., as may 
be prescribed by the said entomologist, which shall be executed at 
once at the expense of the owner or owners. Upon satisfactory evi¬ 
dence of the owners failure or refusal to execute the directions of the 
said State Entomologist, the Attorney General of the Circuit shall 
bring proper proceedings to abate such nuisance, and the cost thereof 
shall be paid by the owner or owners. This section does not apply to 
farmers and orchardists who do not sell or distribute trees, vines, plants, 
etc. 
Section 6. Be it further enacted, that any interference with the state 
Entomologist while in the performance of his duly under this Act, 
shall, upon conviction be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars 
nor more than Twenty-five dollars for each offense. 
Section 7. Be it further enacted, that whenever any trees, shrubs, 
plants, or vines, are shipped into the State of Tennessee, from another 
State or country, every package shall be plainly labelled on the outside 
with the name of the consignor and the name of the consignee. 
Every package shall also bear the label of a State or Government 
inspector, which shall indicate that the contents appear free from all 
injurious insects or diseases. Whenever any trees shrubs, plants or 
flowers are shipped into the State of Tennessee without such certificate 
plainly fixed on the outside of the package, box or car containing the 
same, the fact must be reported within twenty-four hours to the State 
Entomologist by the railway, express or steamboat company, or other 
person or persons carrying the same, and any agent of any railway, 
steamboat or express company or any other person or persons who shall 
violate the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
