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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, 1900. 
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AflERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, Robert C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.; vice-president, R. J. 
Coe, Fort Atkinson, Wis.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, 
N. Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; N. W. Hale, Knoxville, 
Term.; William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. 
Committee on Transportation—A. L. Brooke, N. Topeka, Kan.; William Pit¬ 
kin, Rochester, N. Y.; Peter Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; N. W. Hale, Knox¬ 
ville, Tenn. 
Committee on Legislation — C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; Silas Wilson, At¬ 
lantic, la.; Charles J. Brown, Rochester, N. Y.; Howard A. Chase, Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa. 
Committee on Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; J. H. Dayton, Paines- 
ville, O.; Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa. 
Annual convention for 1902—At Milwaukee, Wis., June 11-12. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., August, 1901. 
DECREASE OF SCALE. 
When it was proposed to amend the New York state law 
relating to the inspection of nursery stock so that it should 
require the fumigation of all stock, a compromise was affected 
by the agreement that should the records of the commis¬ 
sioner of agriculture show that there had been an increase 
in the spread of San Jose scale during 1901, the objec¬ 
tion of the nurserymen to the proposed amendment would be 
withdrawn. 
So confident were the nurserymen that the investigation 
would show a decrease in the amount of San Jose scale that 
this proposition was accepted at once. 
A press despatch from Albany, published throughout the 
state in the daily press on July 13th, says: 
Albany, July 13 . —The State Department of Agriculture 
has been most active in protecting the fruit trees of the state 
from the San Jose scale. At the beginning of the season 
inspectors were stationed at New York city, Geneva, and 
Rochester to look after shipments of nursery stock arriving in 
the state. Several lots were found to be infected. 
Up to July 6th, 326 orchards, embracing 4,776 acres, and 
containing over 56,000 trees, were examined. In less than 
fifty of the orchards the scales were found. 
The department reports that the maple worm or forest cater¬ 
pillar has appeared in great numbers in the apple and plum 
orchards of the state and in some sections the canker worm 
has done great injury. 
THE DROUTH IN THE WEST. 
The daily press has kept the nurserymen posted as to the 
drouth in the Central West. F. A. Weber, Nursery P. O., 
St. Louis Co., Mo., wrote to the National Nurseryman 
under date of July nth. 
“ We are having one of the worst drouths we have ever ex¬ 
perienced, have had no rain for five weeks, with the thermom¬ 
eter ranging from 90 to no degrees in the shade ; it is to-day 
in the coolest place we can find 106 degrees, with a wind as 
hot as if it came out of an open furnace. Blackberries and 
raspberries have dried up on the vines ; peaches and apples 
are dropping, and in some cases in uncultivated orchards are 
shriveling on the trees Truck gardens are dryed up ; corn 
will be a total failure ; in fact, the last five weeks have been 
the worst on record. 
'‘The writer often recalls to mind the remarks made on a 
number of occasions throughout the East there were twenty-six 
days of rain in May ; could this only have been divided, our 
crops would have been assured and the East would not have 
known the difference ; twenty-six days of rain in one month 
is no doubt rather moist, but twenty-six days of heat as we 
have had it for the last month with no rain, makes it very 
uncomfortable, besides being dry.” 
WONDERFUL FACTS. 
Among the season’s publications of works of special interest 
to nurserymen is “ The Insect Book,” by Dr. L. O. Howard, 
chief of the Division of Entomology, Department of Agricul¬ 
ture. This is a popular description by the foremost authority 
in the United States of bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies 
and other North American insects. It has full life histories, 
giving an account of the most wonderful facts in the insect 
world which is so completely unknown even to scientists. The 
layman is generally of the opinion that this subject has been 
nearly exhausted by the scientists. Dr. Howard says at the 
outset, regarding the order Hymenoptera, for instance: “ It is 
a very large order and comprises about 30,000 described 
species; but the enormous number of undescribed species, 
particularly of the smaller parasitic forms inhabiting tropical 
regions and out-of-the-way localities would probably swell this 
number to more than 300,000. To indicate the work still to 
be done in this order it is safe to say that a single day’s collec¬ 
ting in Central Park, New York, almost under the windows of 
the great American Museum of Natural History, or in Logan 
Square, Philadelphia, within 200 yards of the Academy of 
Natural Sciences, would result in the capture of a number of 
species new to science.” 
