THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Review, Hote Comment. 
Professor R. L. Watts has been appointed Dean and 
Director of the School of Agriculture and Experiment Station 
of the Pennsylvania State College. Prof. Watts went to the 
Pennsylvania State College three or four years ago as Pro-- 
fessor of Horticulture and has since been acting in that 
capacity. He has done much valuable work in that depart¬ 
ment. 
Since the resignation of Director Hunt, Prof. Watts has 
been acting Dean and Director. Those who arc acquainted 
with him know that the trustees of the Pennsylvania State 
College have made no mistake in their selection of a head of 
the agricultural department of that institution. Prof. 
Watts hopes to be able to continue his work along vegetable 
lines, which has been of so much value to growers in other 
states as well as Pennsylvania. We congratulate the peo])le 
of Pennsylvania and Prof. Watts. 
The catalogue of the Munson Nurseries, Denison, Texas 
while not a voluminous one contains some good original 
matter on the grapes. 
The late T. V. Munson was an authority on the subject. 
It is such men as he who make history in the Horticultural 
world. His pioneer work in hybridizing and improving the 
native grapes will doubtless be the foundation of great 
things to come along this line. 
His list of grapes are named and described in the catalogue 
in the order of ripening and cover a period from the last of 
June until September. 
The percentage and description of each variety is given 
and the locality to which they are best adapted. 
G. Hale Harrison, son of Orlando Harrison, Berlin, 
Maryland, was a caller at the National Nurseryman 
offices. Mr. Harrison is attending school at Cornell but 
still finds time to keep in touch with nursery interests. 
The Year Book of Stark Bros. Nurseries and Orchards 
Co., Louisiana, Mo., is before us with an extremely highly 
colored cover in which their “ Delicious ” ajjple figures 
largely. 
Even if the cover may be described as a little sensational, 
with the evident object of attracting attention and making 
it distinct, there is nothing overdrawn in either illustrations 
or text in the inside. In fact, it is a work of reference on 
fruits. The dcscrijjtions being well written. The ojiinions 
of numerous well known fruit growers as to the value of the 
different varieties in different localities are extremely valu¬ 
able. It is not a catalogue in the ordinary sense, in fact it 
contains neither bargain offers, collections or even praises. 
It is a book thaf all fruit growers or intended fruit growers 
should have. 
BRITISH SUFFRAGISTS DESTROY VALUABLE 
PLANTS IN KEW GARDENS 
The daily papers gave an account of the Militant suf¬ 
fragettes hiding in the Kew Gardens over night and selecting 
a time in the early morning hours worked their own sweet 
will with the glass in the Orchid houses and with the plants 
themselves, destroying about $5,000 worth. 
Who would have thought that women would wantonly 
destroy plants and flowers even to obtain a vote ? 
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' Vermont Station, Burlington, J. L. Hills, Director. 
Plant Diseases in 1911. Potato Spraying Experiments in 
1911. By B. F. Lutman. (Bulletin 162, pp. 35-45, 
fig. I.) 
A statement of the more important plant diseases observ^ed 
during 19 ii is given with a brief progress report on the 
spraying experiments with ]iotatocs to determine the profit¬ 
ableness of consecutive yearly sj^raying of the crop. 
Commercial Fertilizers. By J. L. Hills et al. (Bulletin 
166, p]). 243-320.) 
This bulletin reports the results of analyses of fertilizers 
inspected during 1912, discusses the quantity and quality 
of the plant food in the brands of fertilizers of the current 
and preceding years, the relation between selling price and 
valuation, and gives a summary of the results of fertilizer 
inspection for the last five years. 
The Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance for December 1912, gives the following report of imports of plants, 
trees, shrubs and vines: 
ARTICLES 
DECEMBER— 
1 TWELVE MONTHS ENDING DECEMBER— 
1911 
1912 
! 1910 
1911 
Quantities Values 
1912 
Quantities 
Values 
Quantities 
V alues 
Quantities 
Values 
Quantities 
Values 
Plants, trees, shrubs and vines: 
Fruit plants, tropical and semi- 
tropical for propagating pur- 
poses. free 
9,889 
145,558 
105,507 
121 
131,069 
121,040 
d 1 ,941 
1,817,292 
1,222,946 
13,279 
1,8.58,574 
1,302,379 
Bulbs, bulbous roots, or corms, 
cultivated for their flowers 
or foliage. M . . dut.. 
All other dut 
15,524 
10,661 
1,553,115 
1,104,124 
297,279 
Total 
260,954 
252,230 
2.657.239 
3.052.179 
. 
3 , 174 , 2:12 
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^ Figures cover period since July 1 st 
