THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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rural schools form one of the greatest problems of the country. I do 
not mean that we should forego the study of mathematics ; but I do 
believe in nature study. Once in speaking to forty-five children in a 
New York school, I asked all those who lived on farms to raise their 
hands ; all but one raise their hands. Then I asked all who wanted to 
live on farms to raise their hands ; only one raised the hands. I am 
sure that beds of flowers in attractive places would have changed the 
opinion there expressed. 
If I have any mission in life more than another, it is the spiritualiza- 
tion of agriculture. 
There are just two things that stand for what we do : To begin ; to 
get done. _ 
PRESIDENT ILGENFRITZ. 
NEW YORK INSPECTION. 
Eight Hundred yotlces Received from Transportation Companies 
from January 1st to June 20th—Fifty-four Shipments 
Into the State were Reported to Be More or Less 
Infested With the San Jose Scale — 
Charles A. Ilgenfritz, the newly elected president of the 
American Association of Nurserymen, was born September 5, 
1852, at Monroe. Mich. After having finished his course in 
the High School in his native town, he attended the North¬ 
western University at Evanston, 
Ill., for two years. Upon leaving 
the university, he at once entered 
the nursery business and has since 
that time been connected with it. 
Mr. Ilgenfritz’s father, who died 
in the spring of 1895, moved to 
Monroe, Mich, from Pennsyl¬ 
vania, in 1847, and began the 
nursery business there. He was 
about the first man to bring into 
use large cellars for the storage of 
merchantable nursery stock. He 
started the erection of his first 
cellar in the fall of 1870. These 
cellars have been found so useful 
as to be a necessity to the busi¬ 
ness. The firm of I. E. Ilgenfritz' 
Sons now has a number of large 
cellars with a capacity of hun¬ 
dreds of thousands of merchant¬ 
able trees. 
President Ilgenfritz has taken 
part in politics to the extent that 
he has served as alderman, and 
has declined the nomination for 
mayor when his election was as¬ 
sured. He is now eminent com¬ 
mander of Monroe Commandery, 19, 
Monroe, Mich 
The Department of Agriculture, of New York State, under 
the provisions of the law which requires transportation com¬ 
panies doing business in the state to notify the commissioner 
of agriculture of the receipt of nursery stock from points out¬ 
side of the state to points within the state, has received over 
800 notices, this year between January first and June 20th, 
covering the spring season. 
The inspectors of the department have examined and 
reported on 788 shipments, embracing 53 car loads, 1232 
boxes and 295 bales—containing 
480,050 fruit trees, 54,13? orna¬ 
mental trees, 517,441 shrubs, 8,543 
currants, 21,767 gooseberries, 63,- 
106 berries, 71,037 grape vines, 
4. 2 75»85o fruit seedlings and 145,- 
850 ornamental seedlings. 
Of the above 788 shipments, 54 
shipments, embracing 18 carloads, 
108 boxes, and 32 bales—contain¬ 
ing 145,205 fruit trees, 130 orna¬ 
mental trees, 42,216 shrubs, 612 
vines, 1,500 berries and 2,000,000 
seedlings, were found more or less 
infested with San Jose scale and 
10 of the shipments were affected 
with “crown gall” of the apple. 
8 103 trees were badly infested 
or showed scales and weie burned. 
The balance of such shipments 
were returned to the consignees 
or properly fumigated with hydro¬ 
cyanic acid gas. 
The states credited with send¬ 
ing scaly shipments into this state 
this season are, New Jersey, 20 ; 
Connecticut, 4; Ohio, 5; Indiana, 
1 ; Delaware, 2 ; Michigan, 1 ; 
K. T., stationed at 
He is the oldest brother of five, who 
who are in co-partnership, and carrying on a general nursery 
business at Monroe, Mich., under the firm name of I. E. 
Inglefritz’ Sons. The firm has more than 800 acres devoted 
to the business. 
The subject of this sketch is one of the most prominent and 
active members of the American Association of Nurserymen, 
as well as one of the most popular members. Upon his elec¬ 
tion to the office of president of the national association at 
the Milwaukee meeting, he received the united congratula¬ 
tions of the members, who assured him of their hearty support 
and of their sincere pleasure in his election. Under the direc- 
sion of President Ilgenfritz the American Association should 
have the best year in its history, as it had the best up to date 
last year, under President Berckmans. Here s to a rousing 
meeting at Detroit in June, 1903. 
CHARLES A. ILGENFRITZ, MONROE, MICHIGAN. 
President American Association of Nurserymen. 
Virginia, 1 ; Massachusetts, 1 ; Pennsylvania, 7 ; and Mary¬ 
land, 3. 
The inspectors of the department are engaged in the inspec¬ 
tions of orchards in various sections of the state. The inspec¬ 
tion of nurseries will commence in July. Notices will soon 
be served on those nurserymen of the state who will be 
required to fumigate their stock before shipment, as required 
by the law as amended. All stock from outside the state 
under the present law must be fumigated before dissemination 
after the first of July 1902. The only stock exempt by its 
nature will be conifers and citrus plants. 
The results of the department experiments in various 
methods of controlling scale in the orchards will be given as 
soon as correct data can be given, soon after the scale com¬ 
mences breeding in this state. 
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