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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
The National Nurseryman. 
C. L. VATES, 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. 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 
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Advertising rates will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
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, 
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 1903— At Milwaukee, Wis., June 11-13. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., April, 1902 . 
FUMIGATION METHODS. 
As might have been expected, a volume devoted exclusively 
to the subject of fumigation for the destruction of insects has 
appeared. The use of insecticides of various kinds has been 
long a subject of discussion and fumigation has been practiced 
in a variety of forms; but with the general agitation of the 
advantages of fumigation in orchards and in nurseries added 
interest has been attached to the subject. Many articles have 
been published in the periodical press on this matter, and it 
was to be expected that in course of time a volume on fumiga¬ 
tion methods of the present day would appear. 
A glance at the work just issued by the Orange Judd Com¬ 
pany is sufficient to show that the subject has been treated by 
one who knows by practical experience whereof he speaks. 
The author is Professor Willis G. Johnson, formeriy state ento¬ 
mologist of Maryland, and now associate editor of the Ameri¬ 
can Agriculturist weeklies. The volume is replete with infor¬ 
mation of the most practical nature regarding the business of 
the nurseryman, in the line of fumigation The opening chap¬ 
ter discusses the economic use of hydrocyanic acid gas and 
states that to D. W. Coquillet of California is due the credit of 
discovering the value of this gas now so extensively used for 
the destruction of insects and animal pests. Various methods 
of fumigating orchards are described and in chapter XI the 
author discusses equipment for fumigating nursery stock. The 
methods referred to range from the use of boxes in the South 
to tents and houses, some of the latter large enough to accomo¬ 
date double wagon loads of trees. All the methods are illus¬ 
trated, both in exterior and interior plan. Valuable practical 
hints to nurserymen are given in a succeeding chapter. Many 
experiences are cited under the heading : “ Recent work wilh 
hydrocyanic acid gas.” The testimony of many persons is 
given in chapter XX in a consideration of the economic value 
of fumigation. A chapter on the peculiar value of carbon bi- 
sulphid in certain cases is added, and the work concludes with 
a summary of all the state laws relating to the fumigation and 
inspection of orchards and nurseries, together with foreign 
laws regulating shipments of fruit and nursery stock. 
The very practical nature of the book will be seen at once. 
It is a handbook for nurserymen which will answer many 
questions in time of hurry. The experience of the author dur¬ 
ing his service as state entomologist of Maryland, where fumi¬ 
gation was practiced early and often when the San Jose scale 
reached the East, especially fits him for the discussion of the 
topic. The book has an index which will prove of much aid 
to its use as a handbook. 
AMERICAN HORTICULTURE. 
Congratulation coupled with a sincere expression of appre¬ 
ciation should be extended by all who are in any way inter¬ 
ested in horticulture to Professor L. H. Bailey of Cornell Uni¬ 
versity, for the comprehensive four-volume “ Cyclopedia of 
American Horticulture,” which he has completed and the last 
volume of which has just been issued by the publishers, the 
Macmillan Company of New York. It is supposed that Pro¬ 
fessor Bailey has been or will be rewarded in a manner com¬ 
mensurate with his earnest labor on this work, but whatever 
that reward may be it will be small in comparison to the bene¬ 
fit to be received by this and succeeding generations as the 
result of that labor. 
We have several times referred to the nature and importance 
of this cyclopedia. The fourth volume rounds out, in its 
treatment of subjects from R to Z inclusive, the general plan. 
Among the important articles treated at considerable length 
are railroad gardening, by Frances Copley Seavey; rhododen¬ 
drons and rosa by Alfred Rehder, assistant at the Arnold 
Arboretum; storage, the strawberry, windbreaks and winter 
protection, by the editor, Professor Bailey, and others; spray¬ 
ing, by Professor John Craig; rubus, by Professor Bailey; 
trees, by Alfred Rehder, P. J. Berckmans and C. E. Bessey; 
teratology, that part of the biological sciences concerned with 
the unusual forms of the whole body or any of its organs, by 
Charles Reid Barnes, professor of plant physiology in the Uni¬ 
versity of Chicago, and co-editor of the Botanical Gazette. 
One of the most interesting and valuable features of the cyclo¬ 
pedia is the series of likenesses and sketches of prominent 
American horticulturists. In the fourth volume appears such 
