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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Mr. Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md., ohairinan of the 
Legislative Connnittee of the American Association of 
Nurseiyinen, went to Washington to attend the confer- 
enee on Nursery Stock, Plant and Seed exclusion, called 
for October 18, 1018, with the expectation of entering a 
general protest on behalf of the National Association, 
particularly in relation to the proposed prohibition of 
importing small one and two year old cuttings, seedlings 
and grafts of ornamental stock. 
There seems to be no valid reason offered why this 
class of stock should he prohibited, while fruit and 
rose stocks should be allowed entry. They are just as 
essential and there is no more danger from the one 
than the other. They can be as readily examined as fruit 
stocks. 
It does not seem fair to the nurserymen who grow 
ornamental nursery stock to cut off their source of 
supply while permitting the impoitation of fruit stock 
by nurserymen who grow fruit trees. 
Mr. J. D. Eisele, of the Heniy A. Dreer Company made 
a strong plea against the ban on greenhouse plants, such 
as palms and araucarias and also pointed out the fallacy 
of differentiating between Manetti rose stocks and 
grafted roses and other plants that come in with bare 
roots. 
The florist interests were represented by Charles 
Lottey, President of the Society of American Florists, 
E. G. Hill, Richmond, Indiana, and William F. Glide, 
Washington, D. C. 
EXPERIMENTS ON APPLE SEEDLINGS 
The Indiana Horticultural Society’s experimental or¬ 
chard according to the Experiment Station Record has 
made some interesting experiments in relation to the 
apple which J. A. Burton, the superintendent summarises 
as follows:— 
The orchard was started in 1899, largely for variety 
testing, and was transferred by the society to Purdue 
University n 1917. The prime purpose of the orchard 
was to produce new and better varieties of apples. In 
1900, 10,000 seeds were planted in nursery rows and 
more seed was planted in 1905. One thousand seedlings 
of known parentage resulting from cross-pollinations 
have also been grown. 
Summing up the results of the work with seedlings it 
is concluded that there appears to be no w^ay of forecast¬ 
ing the value of the fruit of an apple tree by the habit of 
grow th of the seedling. Varieties from w hich seeds have 
been planted are Grimes, Stayman Winesap, Rome 
Beauty, Ben Davis, Salome, Kansas Keeper, Mann, and 
Kentucky Cider Crab. Seventy-five per cent of the re¬ 
sulting seedlings have been fairly good. Winesap gave 
the largest number of promising seedlings. Seedlings 
of Winesap generally jireseiwed the poor root system of 
the parent and those of Ben Davis the good root system of 
the parent. From all of the seeds planted in the orchard 
there has never been a reproduction of the original var¬ 
iety even w hen fertilized by its ow n iiollen. 
Studies of the influence of stock on scion have indi¬ 
cated that certain stocks do influence the scion and that 
others do not. In one case, scions of Yellow' Transparent 
and Chenango were grafted on a wild crab, which had 
been bearing heavy crops of fruit previous to the inser¬ 
tion of the scions. The stock has not influenced the fruit 
of either variety, but the ungrafted crab limbs have 
borne no more fruit and the grow th of the stock has been 
restricted to the limbs bearing the scions. The inserted 
scions have grown rapidly, whereas there has not been a 
new^ growHi on the crab limbs of half an inch in the last 
lo years. 
A comiiarative test of scions taken from nursery stock 
and from bearing trees resulted in no observable differ¬ 
ence in the bearing qualities of the grafts. The same 
was true of w^ater sprouts used as scions. Likewise 
variations ui size and color of fruit of the same variety 
as observed on different trees were nullified when scions 
rom these trees were grafted on the same tree. From 
these results as a wdiole it is concluded that the obseiwed 
variations within varieties are probably due in almost 
every case to environment rather than to bud variations 
and that there is little chance of improving apple var¬ 
ieties through bud selection. 
State of New^ York Department of Farms and Markets 
Division of Agriculture, Albany 
October 1, 1918. 
To Whom it May Concern: 
Whereas, A dangerously injurious insect known as 
the oriental peach moth, Laspeyresia molesta, has been 
located and presumably distributed in Dutchess, West¬ 
chester, Nassau and Richmond Counties, in the State of 
New York. 
Now", therefore, I, Charles S. Wilson, as Commissioner 
of Agiaculture of the State of New York, by virtue of the 
power conferred and duties imposed upon me as such by 
the provisions of the Agricultural Law, hereby forbid 
the shipment of any peach trees or sweet cherry trees 
outside of the said counties of Dutchess,'Westchester, 
Nassau and Richmond, to any point outside of the boun¬ 
daries of each of said counties. 
This order shall take effect on the date hereof and re¬ 
main in full force and effect until further order. 
Charles S. Wilson, Commissioner of Agriculture. 
Dansville, N. Y., Oct. 5, 1918. 
This is an answ"er to yours of the 1st and to advise that 
w e do not w ant to continue our advertising, as the space 
which you have been running for us has practically 
cleaned up our stock. 
We have very little to offer from now" on and assure 
you w"e are more than satisfied w"ith the results we have 
had from your paper. 
Another season w"ill be glad to repeat our order. 
Very truly yours, 
Maloney Bros. & Wells Co., 
W. J, Maloney 
