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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National Nurseryman. 
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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should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
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on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
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, 
Tenn.; 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., February, 1902. 
LAW PROBABLY UNCONST 1 UTIONAL. 
A point of considerable importance to nurserymen generally 
was brought up at the meeting of the Ohio State Horticultural 
Society. The state entomologist, Prof. F. M. Webster, after 
reporting upon the number of nurseries inspected during 1901, 
recommended that the cost of inspection of nurseries be borne 
by the state, and that a fee be charged for issuing a certificate. 
L. B. Pierce and the secretary of the society, W. W. Farns¬ 
worth, indorsed the recommendation. 
The opinion was expressed that the law was clearly uncon¬ 
stitutional. The attorney-general, it was stated, had refused 
to pass upon it, and it was believed that this was equivalent to 
an opinion that the law would not hold. It was argued that 
an innocent nurseryman could not legally be charged $10 for 
inspection whether he had the scale or not. If scale were 
found in a nursery then it would be proper to assess upon the 
nurseryman the cost of exterminating it. 
THE FEDERAL BILL. 
Little has been heard lately of the federal bill for the regu¬ 
lation of nursery stock in transit. The necessity for such a 
law has become less urgent since the state laws have been 
amended or have been enforced without undue hardship upon 
nurserymen. It is thought probable that no effort will be made 
to have the measure passed at the present session of congress. 
The bill has been amended so that in its present form it is not 
acceptable to the nurserymen. 
Furthermore, it is held that the passage of a federal bill 
would not prevent state authorities from doing as the state 
laws provide, regarding the inspection of nursery stock, after 
the stock has entered the state. 
BIG COMMERCIAL ORCHARDS. 
A Michigan firm has received an order for 35.000 trees 
for a Michigan plantation. Information comes from Vir¬ 
ginia that President S. B. Woods of the State Horticultural 
Society, besides owning an orchard of 4,000 trees, is a mem¬ 
ber of the Albemarle Orchard Company, which proposes to 
plant 100,000 apple trees and already has half that number in 
the ground. The varieties are principally Pippins, Winesaps 
and Johnston’s Winter. Fifty men aie employed the year 
around to plant and attend to this orchard. Dr. T. B. Emer¬ 
son, a prominent and wealthy physician, of New York city, 
who has another orchard of 10,000 trees in Albemarle, Va., is 
a member of the new company, as are also Thomas F. Ryan, 
railway magnate, Richard T. Martin, a banker, of Charlottes¬ 
ville, and Prof. J. R. Sampson, of Pantops Academy. 
Inasmuch as the profit in orchards has been so frequently 
and emphatically demonstrated, men of means are entering the 
field in many parts of the country. Each success on a grand 
scale will stimulate others to plant orchards even on a smaller 
scale and the nurseryman will be called upon to supply the 
material. This increasing demand and the tendency toward 
shortages should result in better prices through natural means. 
WORK FOR THE STATE VICE-PRESIDENTS. 
Attendants at the annual meetings of the American Associ¬ 
ation of Nu rserymen will recall that for several years there has 
seemed to be little or nothing for the state vice-presidents to 
do. These vice-presidents, one for each state represented in 
the association, are duly elected at each annual meeting. To 
be sure, the state vice-presidents assemble and make out a 
slate of officers and the place for the next convention, their 
recommendations being presented to the association in open 
convention. 
In former years it was the duty of the state vice-presidents 
to prepare ad interim repoits of the condition and amount of 
nursery stock in their respective states, these reports to be 
presented at the annual meetings. It has been suggested that 
the making of these reports be resumed, and that the vice- 
presidents would undoubtedly be glad to contribute such 
practical information as they might be able to gather during 
the year as to their states. The principal drawback in this 
plan is the fact that in former years these reports were criti¬ 
cised as not wholly authoritative—not that the vice-presidents 
were at fault, but because of their reliance on many sources 
