THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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demeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not 
less than Twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 
Section 8. Be it further enacted, that any person or persons growing 
or offering for sale in the State of Tennessee, any trees, vines, shrubs, 
plants or flowers, commonly known as nursery stock shall, between 
the first of August and the first of September of each yenr apply to the 
State Entomologist for inspection of said stock under provisions of 
this Act. A certificate of inspection from the State Entomologist shall 
be good for one year. Any violation of this Act shall render such per¬ 
son or persons liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor 
more than fifty dollars. 
Section 9. Be it further enacted that the state entomologist shall 
be, and is hereby directed for the expense of inspecting nurseries and 
floral premises, to collect a fee of five dollars for each inspection of any 
greenhouse or floral premises, and a fee of five dollars for inspecting a 
nursery of less than fifty acres, and a fee of ten dollars for inspecting 
a nursery of over fifty acres, and less than one hundred, and a fee 
of fifteen dollars for inspecting any nursery of more than one 
hundred acres. Bnt for the inspection of any farmer’s premises, 
there shall be no fee, but in case the owner of any farm, garden, or 
orchard, who sees fit to have his premises inspected, it is the duty of 
the State Entomologist to make such inspection, and while superin¬ 
tending any insecticide work in treating such premises, a fee of two 
dollars per day is to be paid by the owner. 
Section 10. Be it further enacted, that all fines and fees collected 
under all Sections of this Act, shall be paid to the University of Tenn¬ 
essee. All money so collected shall be used in carrying out the pro¬ 
visions of this Act and a statement of the receipts and expenditures 
shall be kept on file for public inspection, and the Treasurer of the 
University of Tennessee shall report to the Governor for transmission 
to the Legislature. 
Section 11. Be it further enacted, that all laws and parts of laws in 
conflict with this Act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. 
Section 12. Be it further enacted, that this Act shall take effect from 
and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it, but where a nur¬ 
seryman or florist already has an official certificate, it shall be valid 
until Seplember 1, 1901, except where the premises are found to be 
infested with San Jose scale since said certificate was issued. 
Passed April 12, 1901. 
PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. 
Buffalo, April 15 .—In both the Landscape and Horticul¬ 
tural Departments of the Pan-American Exposition matters 
are very satisfactory. All the shrubs set out last fall have 
come through the winter in fine style, none of them having 
been killed. The grass, wherever seed was sown, is also in 
good condition. 
The bulbs which have been planted both in the Landscape 
and Horticultural Departments will make a most brilliant 
show during May. A quarter of a million or more have been 
planted by the Department of Works, and an equal number by 
the Horticultural Department. Most of them are already un¬ 
covered and up through the ground. The water plants are 
doing extremely well, as the winter has been very favorable to 
them. 
An immense number of plants are being propagated in the 
neighborhood of a million—in the conservatories and green¬ 
houses. These will be used in beds about the Court of 
Fountains, in the Sunken Gardens, about the Pagodas, and in 
the hundreds of vases, and will fill the half mile or so of 
window boxes. 
All the 175 beds of the Horticultural Department will pre¬ 
sent a gay appearance during the coming month, those not 
filled with bulbs now having pansies in them. 
IRecent publications. 
United States Department of Agriculture—Sixteenth annual report 
of the Bureau of Animal Industry; Experiment Station Record, Vol. 
XII, No. 6; Practical Assistance to Tree Planters, by GifTord Pinchot. 
Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, have secured all the copies of a 
limited edition of Eugene Field’s sketches under the heading “ The 
Tribune Primer.” The price, in Japan paper is $25 per copy ; in hand¬ 
made paper, $10. 
Those interested in Tolstoi will find a sketch of his life, with an 
analysis of his work, in Mrs. May Alden Ward’s “ Prophets of the 
Nineteenth Century: Carlyle, Ruskin, Tolstoi.” The volume was 
issued last spring by Little, Brown & Co. 
With the issue of April 18th, The Youth’s Companion entered upon 
its 75th year. The “75th Birthday Issue” was a double number, 
counting among its contributors the Vice-President of the United 
States, Theodore Roosevelt, Mary E. Wilkins, and Sarah Barnwell 
Elliott. 
The proceedings of the forty-sixth annual meeting of the Western 
New York Horticultural Society have been issued by the secretary, 
John Hall. As usual, the book contains a large amount of matter of 
value to all who are in any way interested in horticulture. The society 
has 800 members. The published proceedings are sent to all members; 
membership fee, $1. 
Recent Publications : Transactions of the Peninsula Horticultural 
Society, 1901, Wesley Webb, Dover, Del., Secretary and Treasurer; 
“ Spraying for Profit,” H. E. Weed ; Dates of Cut Flower exhibitions, 
Pan-American Exposition ; Experiment Station Record, No. 7, Vol. 
XII, United States Department of Agriculture ; Catalogues, Storrs & 
Harrison Co., Painesville, O., Charles Fremd, Rye, N. Y. 
The great work, the “Cyclopedia of American Horticulture,” edited 
by Prof. L. H. Bailey assisted by William Miller and many expert cul¬ 
tivators and botanists, is nearing completion. Volumes I, II and III 
are ready and volume IV completing the work is in press and will be 
published soon. In this cyclopedia will be found a complete descrip¬ 
tion of all species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants 
in America. Directions for cultivating all kinds of crops and observa¬ 
tions on marketing, etc., are given by experts. Sold by subscription. 
$5.00 per volume. New York : The Macmillan Company. 
“A Text Book on Plant Diseases Caused by Cryptogamic Parasites” 
written by George Massee, F. L. S., principal assistant at the Royal 
Herbarium, Kew, England, has been issued by the New York publish¬ 
ers, the Macmillan Company. It is one of the most complete and prac¬ 
tical books of this kind that has come to our desk. The pages are 
literally filled with information, condensed yet amply sufficient for 
field and greenhouse work. The aim of the book, as set forth by the 
author in the preface, is to enable those directly occupied in the culti¬ 
vation of plants, and with but a limited period of time available for 
study, to determine the nature of diseases caused by parasites of vege¬ 
table origin : to apply in the most approved manner those curative and 
preventive methods which experience has shown to be most successful 
in combatting the particular form of disease under consideration ; and 
finally to include in the daily routine of work precautionary measures 
which, without being costly, frequently prevent a slight disease from 
assuming the proportions of an epidemic. In his introduction the 
author discusses the amount and kind of knowledge required by prac¬ 
tical men, familiarity with names and habits of parasites, preventive 
measures, cures and rule-of-thumb methods of doubtful value. Suc¬ 
ceeding chapters treat of fungi, lichenes, alg;e, myxogastres, bacteria, 
fungicides, economic considerations, spraying, fungous parasites, and 
diseases of uncertain origin. Nurserymen have become fairly familiar 
with the habits of pernicious insects and with some diseases, but they 
are often at a loss to account for ravages which a knowledge of crypto¬ 
gamic parasites might enable them to prevent or to cuie. 1 he nature 
of fungi and parasites, mode of growth and reproduction of fungi, 
danger connected with pruning, selection of shade trees, nature oi 
bacteria, methods of spraying, etc., are here described. The book is 
illustrated and the typographical airangement makes easy reference to 
