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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
When the nursery is small it is possible to enclose it with a close slat 
fence that will “ turn ” rabbits. Two types of fence suitable for the 
purpose are to be seen in the State. The most common is made of 
rough slats four to six feet long and about three inches in width. The 
slats are securely fastened together from one to two inches apart with 
No. 11 wire, stout posts being set at intervals of 10 to 16 feet to insure 
stability and keep the panels upright. Since the slats can be adjusted 
to any unevenes 3 of the ground, it is possible to exclude anything that 
a fence can reasonably be expected to turn. The second type is made 
of shorter slats, three or four feet long, and these may be supplemented 
above by one or more wires stretched from post to post. J. Q. A. Rahm 
has built such a fence about his nursery. He uses slats three feet long- 
none less than one-half inch thick, and sets his posts in spring, waiting 
until hot weather in August and September before putting up the slats, 
in order to hive the wire fully expanded at the start. The wires are 
simply crossed between the slats, and are kept taught while building 
by a harrow loaded with about 1,000 pounds of stone and placed from 
100 to 400 yards ahead of the workmen. Near the harrow the wire 8 
are secured to a singletree made of a piece of stout timber, a log chain 
being passed around this and secured to the weighted harrow so that 
it cannot slip. 
NURSERY INSPECTION IN WASHINGTON. 
Commissioner of Horticulture A. Van Holderbeke, Tacoma, 
Washington, has promulgated the following rules for county 
inspectors of that state : 
If the inspector finds any nursery stock shipped into the county, 
without having received due notice of the commissioner, he shall 
examine such stock, pass upon and report immediately to the commis¬ 
sioner the condition and specify that he was not notified of said 
shipment. 
If the inspector detect any person, firm or corporation selling or 
importing nursery stock without license, he shall notify the commis 
sioner at once. 
The inspector shall inspect all nursery stock as soon as possible, 
avoid delay, report condition and number of said nursery stock to the 
state commissioner. 
Any nursery stock fruit or package found badly infected with insect 
pests injurious to the fruit interests of his county shall be quaran 
tined and if possible shall be disinfected without destruction. If 
disinfection is found to be impracticable, or the cost would amount to 
more than the value of the goods, or if the county is entirely free from 
such pests, then such infected goods will be destroyed by fire. 
THE HOME NURSERYMAN. 
Harry E. Hamilton of Bangor, Mich., at the recent meeting 
of the Michigan Horticultural Society, presented a paper on 
“ The Home Nurseryman,” from which the following extract 
is taken: 
A man to be a successful fruit tree nurseryman must, besides 
being careful, honest and industrious, have a business mas¬ 
tered which among other things envolves a knowledge of the 
modes of producing and caring for the trees and plants used 
for garden and other purposes. He should know the soil and 
the particular kind of treatment adapted for each variety he 
grows. He should take the greatest care in selecting his 
scions and stocks, that they be free from disease and of the 
best type procurable. Besides keeping a map with a carefully 
written record of where every variety grown is located he 
should be able to tell by the characteristic growth, the gland 
or some other distinguishing feature the type of each tree he 
has growing in the nursery. In this connection it might be of 
value to the fruit gaower, also, to have this knowledge. If he 
bought trees he would then know the first season instead of 
having to wait until the trees fruited whether they resembled 
what he purchased them for or not. Thus in the peach, if he 
bought trees labeled Barnard, Kalamazoo, Elberta or Smock, 
and they have any other gland than remiform or if he bought 
trees labeled Crane’s Early, Crawfords, Engles or Chairs Choice 
and they have any other gland than globose he would know 
at once that whatever he had the trees were not as tagged. 
One might think that this is something the average fruit 
grower and nurserymen are familiar with, but a little investi¬ 
gation will convince him that many who handle trees know 
very little on this subject. 
Our home nurseryman should be well informed as to the 
requirements of the fruit grower. He should be able to tell 
the merits and demerits of the fruits generally grown for mar¬ 
kets. When asked by psospective customers he should give 
his honest opinion if he gives any opinion at all, as to the ad- 
visibility of setting such and such varieties or the not doing 
so. He should give such customers as are inexperienced the 
most explicit directions for planting and caring for trees after 
hey leave the nursery, for no tree will do well, if it grows at all, 
if allowed to stand and dry out in a bundle and then be 
planted out and left to the tender mercies of the cut-worm 
and the grub. It is safe to say that more trees die of neglect 
than die a natural death. 
The legitimate home nurseryman may have a large nursery 
or a small one. He may advertise extensively or he may not, 
that may depend a good deal on how much trouble he has to 
sell his trees. He may, too, occasionally have made mistakes 
or perhaps more often was the victim of the errors of outside 
nurserymen, for it is almost impossible in a general trade for a 
nurserymon to grow all the items his business requires. It 
would be well for him to state frankly to his customers whether 
the trees he is offering were grown in Michigan or Texas; 
whether they were really grown by himself or someone else. 
These are things the average fruit grower thinks he has a right 
to know in order to protect himself. If patrons have griev¬ 
ances he must cheerfuily do all he agrees. In Other words, 
“ Do unto others as you would expect others to do to you 
under like circumstances,” must be the motto of tne nursery¬ 
man who would earn and hold a reputation for fair dealing. 
Within the memory of men yet living Western Michigan was 
practically one magnificent forest of maples and evergreens. 
Like the Indian who lived beneath their leafy branches and 
worshipped the soul of their majestic kingly forms, they have 
mostly fallen beneath the rapacity and greed of our so-called 
Christian civilization. In the reconstruction that has followed 
the nurseryman has had an important part. Before the funeral 
ashes of these trees were cold he was on the ground trying to 
propitiate nature with other trees, which, if they contained less 
of romance, possessed more of the spirit of practicalness. 
There has grown up in pour midst and has done much to help 
make this State one mammoth garden of orchard trees and 
vines. To you, to the fruit grower, to the home nurseryman, 
and to all lovers of rural nature, is allotted the carrying on of 
the task which has so nobly begun and which, when completed 
by posterity, let us hope, will make Michigan “ a thing of 
beauty ” and “ a joy forever.” 
J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska. Secretary of Agriculture under 
President Cleveland, and founder of Arbor day, died at the home of his 
son, Mark Morton, at Lake Forest, Ill., April 27th. He had just 
rounded his seventieth year. 
