The National Nurseryman. 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK. 
“ The United States is surely the land of the apple .”—“Country life in America.” 
Vol. X. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., FEBRUARY, 1902. 
No. 2. 
NEW YORK'S NEW BILL . Nebraska horticulturists. 
Text of the Amendment Agreed Upon by Fruit Growers and Nur¬ 
serymen—All Nursery Stock Entering the State Must Be Fumi¬ 
gated ; Also Stock In Nurseries That Have Been Infested 
—Amendment Desired By Fruit Growers and Agreed 
to By Nurserymen as a Compromise Measure 
The text of the amendment to the agricultural law of New 
York state, relating to the fumigation of nursery stock, which 
bill is now before the legislature for passage, under agreement 
by nurserymen and fruit growers, is as follows : 
All trees, plants, shrubs, buds or cuttings, commonly called nursery 
stock, grown in any nursery in this state, in which San Jose scale has 
been found within two years of the date of the dissemination of said 
nursery stock or grown in said nursery within one-half a mile where 
said scale was found, and also all nursery stock from outside of this 
state, disseminated or planted in this state, after the first day of July, 
nineteen hundred*and two, must be fumigated with hydrocyanic gas, 
in such manner as may be directed by the commissioner of agriculture 
of this state. Such fumigation must be done by the grower, consignor 
or consignee of such stock before planting, dissemination or reship¬ 
ment, except such trees, shrubs, plants, buds or cuttings grown in th is 
state as are planted by the grower or propagator for himself, or such as 
from its nature or state of growth would be exempt; in such cases the 
said commissioner shall declate such trees, shrubs, plants, buds or cut¬ 
tings free from such treatment. All nursery stock brought into this 
state from outside of this state must be accompanied by a certificate 
from the consignor that it has been fumigated as aforesaid. Should 
any such stock arrive without such certificate, the transportation com¬ 
pany delivering it shall at once notify the said commissioner to that 
effect. The consignee shall also at once notify him of that fact, and 
shall proceed to fumigate said stock, as directed by the commissioner 
of agriculture, without delay. Should any nursery stock purchased 
within one year be found infested with San Jose scale on the premises 
of any nurseryman, it shall not be considered such an infestation as to 
require the fumigation of other stock not so purchased. The words 
“nursery stock” wherever used in this article shall apply to and 
include all trees, shrubs, plants, buds, willow grown for nursery, 
baskets, or other commercial purposes, or cuttings, whether grown in 
a nursery or elsewhere, so far as it relates to fumigation. The pro¬ 
visions of this and the preceding sections shall not apply to florists’ 
greenhouse plants, flowers and cuttings commonly known as greenhouse 
stock. 
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
The bill was introduced at the request of the fruit growers 
and was agreed to by the nurserymen, after a conference. 
Last year the fruit growers proposed more severe measures 
against San Jose scale, but action was deferred. When the 
subject came up again this year, the matter was fully dis¬ 
cussed and the amendment above presented was agreed upon. 
It is expected that it will become a law. 
Twelve thousand barrels of apples, valued at $30,000, were destroyed 
by fire in a cold storage house at Hannibal, Mo., last month. 
At the annual meeting of the Nebraska Horticultural Soci¬ 
ety, in Lincoln, last month, Hon. J. Sterling Morton, of 
Nebraska, and L. A. Goodman, secretary of the Missouri 
Society, were the guests of honor. Among the papers pre¬ 
sented was one by Prof. Bessey, of the state university, on 
“How Trees Came to the West.” Of the sixty-five species 
mentioned, Prof. Bessey showed eleven to have been distrib¬ 
uted by birds, five by birds and small animals, 23 by squirrels 
and small animals, and 26 by the wind. Within the memory 
of man 56 varieties of trees have come into Nebraska from 
the Southwest through these means. Of course Prof. Bessey 
would admit that quite a few trees “came to the West ” from 
the nurseries. 
On the subject of Arbor Day, which was first set aside by 
the governor of Nebraska as a tree-planting day, Hon. J. 
Sterling Morton said that prizes were offered for the largest 
number of trees planted and the returns showed that more 
than 3,000,coo trees had been planted in Nebraska in one day. 
Mr. Morton stated that more than 25,000,000 trees had been 
planted on the different Arbor days. 
SO-CALLED “BUDDED” PECAN TREES. 
The P. J. Berckmans Company, Augusta, Ga., write as fol¬ 
lows to the National Nurseryman under date of January 
22, 1902: 
“ For the past two or three years the South has been flooded 
with a lot of so-called “ budded ” and “grafted ” pecan trees. 
We have had numerous specimens of these so-called “ budded ” 
and “grafted” pecan trees sent us for inspection and in every 
instance they were nothing other than seedling trees; some of 
the specimens having been headed back apparently when one 
or two years of age, and the eye next to the cut growing out 
so as to give the tree the appearance of having been budded; 
and the uninitiated were caught by this deception. Other 
trees were one and two year seedlings and did not show the 
least signs of having been treated. These seedling trees were 
sold at 50 cents to $1 each. 
“ Samples of these fraudulent trees have been sent to the 
Department of Agriculture, and William A. Taylor says the 
following about these trees: 
Washington, D. C., Dec. 5, 1901. 
The P. J. Berckmans Company, Augusta, Ga.: 
Gentlemen —Yours of the 2d inst., accompanied by a specimen of 
a pecan tree said to have been sent out by a Tennessee nursery as a 
terminal budded pecan, came duly. 
If this tree has been sold as a budded or grafted tree the seller should 
certainly be prosecnted for obtaining money under false pretenses. The 
tree shows no indication that any budding or grafting operation has 
been attempted upon it and is evidently a seedling tree—nothing more. 
Wm. A. Taylor, Assistant Pomologist. 
