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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
pre\’ious to transferring them to permanent quarters but, 
many people prefer, and wisely so, to pay a little more for 
plants grown in this country, or to obtain seeds and raise their 
own. 
There is ©■ne disease which attacks the Sitka spruce in 
common with the common spruce, that being Spruce aphis, 
Chermes (or Adelges) abietis,' which punctures the young 
leaves, and causes them to develop into a cone-like gall, often 
called a 'pineapple gall. Nursery stock and isolated trees 
may be cleaned by spraying once every fourteen days during 
April and May with a kerosene solution, but it is almost im¬ 
possible to do anything to infested trees in a plantation, be¬ 
cause of the labor involved in thoroughly spraying them. 
—W. Dallimore in the Gardeners' Magazine. 
PLANT QUARANTINE DECISION NO. 4 
The Federal Horticultural Board recommends that 
Regulation 7 of the Rules and Regulations for carrying out 
the Plant Quarantine Act (37 Stat., 315), as amended 
March 4, 1913, published in Circrdar No. 44, Office ofthe 
vSecretary, issued May 26, 1913, be amended, to take effect 
as amended on and after Aug. i, 1913, so as to read as follows: 
Regulation 7 . Foreign Certificate of Inspection 
Each certificate and copy certificate shall give the date 
of irispection; name of the grower or exporter; the district 
or locality and the country where grown; statement 
that the stock has been inspected by a duly authorized 
official and found, or believed to be, free from insect pests 
and plant diseases. The original-certificate shall be signed 
and sealed by, and the copy certificate shall bear the seal 
of, the responsible inspection official for the country of origin. 
Permits may be canceled and further permits refused for 
the importation of nursery ,stock from any given country 
whenever such stock, in the judgment of the Federal Horti¬ 
cultural Board, is found to be .so infested as to plainly 
indicate that the foreign inspection is merely perfunctory, 
and such countries shall thereafter be classed as countries 
which do not maintain nursery stock inspection until satis¬ 
factory evidence is presented so show that the regulations 
of the board have been complied with. 
Lists of officials in foreign countries authorized to inspect 
nursery stock, giving their names and official designations, 
will be furnished to collectors of customs through the Secre¬ 
tary of the Treasury. C. L. Marlatt, Chainnan. 
W. A. Orton, 
Geo. B. Sudworth, 
W. D. Hunter, 
A. V. Stubenrauch, 
Federal Horticultural Board. 
R. C. Althouse, Secretary of Board 
Approved: 
Francis G. Caffey, Solicitor. 
Hon. David F. Houston, Secretary of Agriculture. 
Washington, D. C., July 17, 1913. 
COST OF BRINGING AN APPLE ORCHARD INTO 
BEARING 
In a paper read before the Georgia State Horticultural 
Society, Mr. R. H. Black, Demorest, Ga., estimates that it 
costs from $200 to $250 per acre to bring a large commercial 
apple orchard into bearing. 
Figuring the land at $30.00 per acre for 300 acres, 200 
of which are available for planting, he stunmarizes as 
follows: 
Land $9000.00; buildings $4900.00; stock, $2000.00; 
machinery and tools, $1000.00; clearing land, $2000.00; 
trees, planting, etc., $2000.00 to $4000.00; interest on invest¬ 
ment, $12,000.00; insurance and taxes, $800.00; manager, 
$6000.00; total, $39,700.00. 
A BIT OF HUMOR 
A German florist, in a high state of irritation, related his 
troubles in this way. He said: “I have so much drouble 
vid de ladies. Ven de come to buy mine Rose dey vants 
him hardy, dey vants doubles, dey vants him fragrand, dey 
vants him nice golour, dey vants him abery dings in von Rose. 
I hopes I am not vat you calls von uncallant man, but I have 
somedimes to say to dat ladies, Madame, I never often see de 
ladies dat vas beautiful, dat vas rich, dat vas good demper, 
dat vas youngs, dat vas clever, dat vas perfection in von 
ladies. I see her much not .”—Journal oj Horticulture 
and Home Farmer. 
“THE MONTHLY SUMMARY. OF COMMERCE AND FINANCE” FOR JUNE, 1913, GIVES THE FOLLOWING REPORT OF 
IMPORTS OF PLANTS, TREES, SHRUBS AND VINES. 
ARTICLES 
. JUNE— 
ELEVEN MONTHS ENDING JUNE— 
^ 1912 
1913 
1911 
1912 1 1913 
Quantities 
Values 
Quantities 
Values 
Quantities 
Values 
Quantities 
Values j Quantities i Values 
Plants, trees, shrubs and vines: 
Fruit plants, tropical and semi- 
tropical, for propagating 
5 
93 
14,325 
54 
109 
19,860 
24,825 
1,718,839 
1,251,365 
5,847 
1.823,-307 
1,377 430 
Bulbs, bulbous roots, or corms, 
cultivated for their flowers or 
foliage.M. . dut.. 
7. 
17 
• 
1,6.36,113 
1,093.327 
216,159 
288,646 
Total. 
14,423 
20,023 
2,729,440 
2.995,0291. 
3.206.584 
