THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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FILING OF CERTIFICATES. 
Charles A. VVieting, Commissioner of Agriculture of the 
State of New York, has issued the following notice, which is 
of interest to nurserymen : 
Department of Agriculture. State of New York. ) 
Albany, N. Y., July 1, 1901. \ 
Dear Sir —The Commissioner of Agriculture is prepared to issue 
duplicate Certificates of Inspection of Nursery Stock to be filed with 
the State authorities of other States. If you desire such duplicates, 
please till out attached blank and forward to Chas. A. Wieting, Com¬ 
missioner of Agriculture, Capitol, Albany, N. Y. 
Chas. A. Wieting, Commissioner. 
Some states, do not, by statute, require the filing of duplicate certif¬ 
icates, but the control of insect pests is often left to the entomologist 
or other State officers who make rules regulating the transportation of 
nursery stock. 
Any person desiring to ship into the following states should file dup¬ 
licate certificates with the officers named : 
Georgia—Hon. O. B. Stevens, Commissioner of Agriculture, Atlanta, 
Georgia. 
Illinois—Prof. S. A. Forbes, State Entomologist, Urbana, Illinois. 
Indiana—Prof. James Troop, State Entomologist, Lafayette, Indiana. 
Iowa—Prof. H. T. Summers, State Entomologist, 
Ames, Iowa. 
Maryland—State Entomologist, College Park, 
Maryland. 
Michigan—D. W. True, Care of State Board of 
Agriculture, Agricultural College, Michigan. 
New Jersey—Dr. J. B. Smith, State Entomolo¬ 
gist, New Brunswick, N. J. 
North Carolina—Board of Agriculture, Raleigh, 
N. C. 
Ohio—Dr. F. M. Webster, State Entomologist, 
Wooster, Ohio. 
Yirginia—Board of Crop Pest Commissioners, 
Blacksburg, Yirginia. 
ROSES AT BUFFALO. 
Describing two beds of roses at the Pan- 
American Exposition, William Scott says in 
the July 15th issue of the Weekly Florists’ 
Review: 
One is a bed of Paul Neyron and contains 500 
plants, being nearly 900 square feet in size. The 
other is a bed of Ulrich Brunner, and has the same 
number of plants as the other and the same area. 
At one time we could have cut 5,000 perfect Ulrich 
Brunner off this one bed. 
Now, it occurs to me that if roses could be 
grown as successfully by the average cultivator, 
there would be far more planted and more 
encouragement to plant, and it might be interesting to a few to know 
just how they were cultivated. To begin with, the spot on which 
these beds exist was one mass of clay, excavated from the mirror lakes, 
and raised above the normal elevation more than four feet. The beds 
were excavated out of this clay to a depth of fifteen inches and filled up 
with a strong, heavy loam, which had been the surface soil of this 
territory and used as a pasture for many years. To it was added about 
one-fourth of cow manure, No other fertilizer of any kind was or has 
been used. 
The roses for these two beds were received from Ellwanger & Barry, 
of Rochester, about the first day of June, a good many weeks later 
than any customer would^receive them. They were budded low and 
evidently their own growing, not imported stock, and I do not believe 
that any such success could have been had with imported stock. This 
well-known firm accompanied their shipment with a note which read: 
“We have pruned them to save you trouble.” That I appreciated, 
but if I had left them as they had pruned them I don’t believe I would 
have saved 10 per cent of the plants, with all the care, so I immediately 
cut them down to within three inches of the ground; in fact, you could 
scarcely see the roses when we he finished planting. 
Last June was the reverse of this. Hot, dry winds, but not a drop 
rain. I do attach a great deal of importance to the simple, yet the 
WILLIAM SCOTT, 
Superintendent of Floriculture 
only way to plant—viz., there was ample room made for the roots, 
only sufficient soil put in to keep the roots In place, then the hole 
soaked and a few minutes afterward the excavation filled up with dry 
soil. That’s the beginning and the foundation of success and the right 
way to plant. As this four feet of clay beneath the beds was in all kinds 
of lumps, water poured through it as through a sieve; entirely different 
from the natural hardpan. So every four or five days the beds were 
soaked and then, as soon as possible, hoed. 
This treatment was continued until the roses showed decided signs 
of breaking, which was almost the first of July; then they were 
mulched with two inches of rotten manure, but the weekly watering 
was continued. From this on they grew rapidly, and by the end of the 
growing season, say the middle of October, we had canes as thick as 
your little finger and five feet high. As we had abundance of rains in 
September the watering was dispensed with. 
If there was any mistake made in the cultivation of these roses up to 
this date it was simply this: That they had made such a prodigious 
growth in this soil and with the watering that the wood was rather 
green and soft when winter came on, but that could not be helped. 
If planted at the proper time and the growth produced earlier in the 
season we would have had a chance to ripen them off, but the growth 
was all made long after the usual season. 
About the middle of November the canes were shortened to about 
two feet from the ground and a string put around 
them to keep them from breaking down. After 
one good frost I had six inches of leaves and litter 
put all over the beds. Nothing more was done 
until the spring, when the beds were uncovered, 
the bushes loosened up, and I then found that 
the canes were all killed back to the line w'here the 
litter had protected them, so hard pruuniug was 
necessary. But even if they had not been killed 
back I should have cut them back almost as hard. 
On an average not more than three to four 
inches of last year’s growth was left on. The beds 
were forked over as soon as the ground was dry, 
and during a week’s dry weather w T e gave them one 
good soaking of water. No more cultivation was 
done to them. 
We are asked repeatedly, mostly by ladies: “How 
did you keep the bugs off them?” That did trouble 
me slightly, and 1 thought perhaps I w'ould have 
to resort to tabacco water, but I made men get 
down on their knees and throw water at them hard 
enough to put them out if they had been on fire, 
and that put out all bugs and aphis. 
It is only fair to say that there were two other 
beds of the same size as those described. One was 
Jaques and one was of mixed varieties. Nelson 
Bogue of Batavia also had eight other beds, holding 
each about 200 plants, equally good in quality and 
giving a magnificent display, but consisting of many more vaiieties 
and consequently Dot quite such a show. 
If these roses had been planted the middle of April, the usual time, 
I would consider that any good gardener could have produced these 
results, but being planted seven weeks later and being veiy much 
dried up when received I do consider it a triumph of science and soil. 
Pecan Trees 
For FALL 1901 
and 
SPRING, 1902 
A fine lot of 3 and 4 feet and smaller 
grades. 
Grown from selected Texas Ihin Shell 
Nuts. 
Can supply in quantity and solicit cor¬ 
respondence. 
ALABAMA NURSERY CO., Huntsville, Ala. 
(“Chase’s Alabama Grown.’’) 
