THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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A BUREAU OF PUBLICITY. 
Believing that the National Nurseryman may be of 
special service to the members of the American Association of 
Nurserymen, in connection with the idea of a Bureau of 
Publicity as advanced by Professor Bailey at the Milwaukee 
convention, the management of this journal herewith offers its 
columns for that purpose. 
Suggestions from any nurseryman or other person interested 
in the subject are requested. 
PROFESSOR BAILEY’S IDEA. 
planted 25 acres of this land. His plan is to draw off from 
the old land gradually. A Rock Island railroad switch enters 
his yard. Mr. Galbraith has a fine lot of forest seedlings. 
Carl Sonderegger, Beatrice, Neb., is building a packing 
house and cellar, 60 x 100 feet, with double frame wall. Some 
nurserymen are using cement walls. The Allen Nursery Com¬ 
pany and the Hawks Nursery Company, of Rochester, N. Y., 
are building packing houses and cellars. 
The Farmers’ Nursery Co., Phoneton, Ohio, will construct 
a new cellar. They will remove to Tippecanoe City, Ohio, in 
time for the fall packing. 
OPPOSITION TO FEDERAL BILL. 
Professor Bailey made the following explanation of his idea 
regarding a bureau of publicity : 
“ The idea I had in mind in suggesting a bureau of pub¬ 
licity was to endeavor to increase the trade of the nursery 
business by keeping the public informed of the development 
of new fruit regions, the advantages offered by the so-called 
abandoned farms as places for investing capital in apple grow¬ 
ing and tree growing, and the general spread of the interest 
in country living. 
“ Short articles on these topics printed as editorial matter, 
could be sent to the newspapers, an effort being made to have 
some of it become the ‘ patent insides ’ of country newspapers. 
Good crops of fruit, what some one has done with an aband¬ 
oned farm, new kinds of plants, notes of cheap but handsome 
gardens, descriptions of promising and developing fruit 
regions,—these and many other things should be kept before 
the people, for the purpose of awakening an intelligent public 
sentiment in favor of more and better planting. 
“Just how this could be done I had not worked out. It is 
evident, however, that there are two things to consider at the 
outset : 
“ First : Who is to do the work ? 
“ Second : How to get the information. 
“ I think that the matter will have to be worked up grad¬ 
ually. Why not, for the present, ask the secretary of the 
Association to do the work, paying him extra for it. He could 
do something, enough to get the work started, and devise 
definite plans to be submitted a year or two later. 
“ The information should be got, first of all, from the mem¬ 
bers of the Association. Every member should be one of a 
committee to send information. The Association should also 
co-operate with other organizations having similar aims, as the 
federation of village improvement societies, the park associa¬ 
tions, etc. - It should also be in touch with the nature study 
bureaus of the educational institutions. Clippings could be 
made from the press.” 
NEW CELLARS AND PACKING HOUSES. 
The advantages of packing houses and cellars in the nur¬ 
sery business have become so manifest that there is a general 
movement on the part of nurserymen to be fitted out. Among 
the nurserymen who are building is George B. Galbraith, 
Fairbury, Neb. He will have a brick building, 64 x 100 feet, 
with a tin roof, the whole to cost $3,°°°- The walls Wl11 be 
hollow, and the house will be absolutely frost-proof. He can 
ship all winter. Mr. Galbraith has sold one of his old farms 
and has bought 142 acres adjoining the city. Last spring he 
Secretary Seager of the American Association of Nursery¬ 
men is receiving replies in response to the resolution by the 
Association at the Milwaukee convention, copies of which 
were sent by the secretary, under instruction, to all members 
of congress. 
Among those who have replied is Congressman Irving P. 
Wanger, Norristown, Pa., representing the seventh congres¬ 
sional district of Pennsylvania in the House of Representa¬ 
tives. Mr. Wanger is a republican and a lawyer. He has 
served as district attorney of Montgomery county, Pa. He 
is a member of the House committee on interstate and foreign 
commerce which undoubtedly accounts for his interest in the 
federal bill to regulate interstate transportation of nursery 
stock. 
Congressman Wanger’s letter is as follows : 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON. 
June 23, 1902. 
George C. Seager, Esq , Secretary, Rochester, N. Y. 
Dear Sir:—The circular letter of the American Association of Nur¬ 
serymen, of the 16th instant came duly to hand and I fully appreciate 
the importance of the subject referred to. 
You are probably aware that the provisions of the bill, H. R. 10,999, 
were included in the appropriation bill reported at this session by the 
committee on agriculture, and that they went out on a point of order 
made by Mr. Cannon, who referred to the drastic character of section 4, 
Recognizing the force of the objection, I drew some amendments 
confining the operation of section 3 to infected districts in any state or 
territory or the District of Columbia, and providing that the secretary 
should publicly proclaim the districts infested and after the extermina¬ 
tion of the insect or disease announce the fact. 
Further providing for the amendment of section 4 so that it would 
only apply to the proclaimed infested districts. 
I endeavored to get Mr. Cannon’s consent to the consideration of the 
measure as thus amended, but while he confessed that his objections 
might no longer exist, he preferred that the subject should be legis¬ 
lated upon in the regular way. 
Now my conviction is that without some such amendment of sections 
3 and 4 the bill, H. R. 10,999, is as dead as the deadest door nail. 
I cannot think that any member of your association would want to 
have it to be unlawful for a citizen of my district, or any other district, 
that has never been infested with insects or disease, to deliver for 
transportation to another state a tree, plant, shrub or vine, entirely 
healthy, when he had not obtained a certificate of inspection. It 
would be a very difficult matter to obtain such certificates in every 
part of the country, or it would require very large appropriations 
to employ the army of inspectors which would be necessary to inspect 
nursery stock throughout the length and breadth of the land. 
These observations are submitted from a friendly interest in the 
subject and desire that a bill may be so prepared as to lead to sufficient 
effective inspection and the prevention of the spread of destructive 
pests and diseases without needlessly burdening nurserymen or others. 
Yours very truly, 
(Dictated.) IRVING P. WANGER. 
