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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Conn. The dual names may be a business necessity, but 
they don’t help the customer and are apt to confuse him. 
Apart from this nothing else is likely to confuse him, for 
this particular salesman presents his goods and service 
in a simple, convincing and interesting manner. 
We congratulate the Elm City Nursery Co. in having 
a “perfect gentleman” represent them. 
NEW EUROPEAN DISEASE THREATENS AMERICAN 
BEE KEEPING 
meantime, we may secure passage of a Federal bill to 
legally protect the industry in America from invasion by 
this new pest. 
Signed by Committee: 
Prof. J. G. Sanders, Director, Bureau of Plant In¬ 
dustry. Harrisburg, Pa. 
Prof. E. G. Carr, State Apiary Inspector, Trenton, 
New Jersey. 
Prof. F. Eric Mi lien. College of Agriculture, Guelph, 
Canada. 
The beekeeping industry of the United States and Can¬ 
ada is in great danger of extermination by a new and un¬ 
controllable disease known as “Isle of Wight Disease,” 
affecting adult bees in Great Britain and the mainland of 
Europe, because the importation of adult bees from 
Europe, as at present carried on, constitutes a great 
menace to the millions of dollars invested in the bee¬ 
keeping industry in North and South America. 
Beekeepers who are primarily interested in the bus¬ 
iness, and fruitgrowers whose crops are partly depend¬ 
ent on the bees, are now aroused by this new menace, 
and are urging the prohibition by Federal law of further 
importations of adult bees from Europe. 
This curious disease, causing a paralysis of the adult 
bees, is pronounced by European experts to be practical¬ 
ly uncontrollable by any known means. A large propor¬ 
tion of the apiaries of England are already destroyed, 
and last summer this scourge had appeared in France, 
and doubtless will be rapidly scattered throughout Eu¬ 
rope, since means of control are unknown. 
That the Isle of Wight disease is not now established 
in the United States is reasonably assured as the result 
of more than three hundred examinations of bees from 
39 states, by J. B. Moorman and A. P. Sturtevant of the 
U. S. Bureau of Entomology, Beekeeping Division. 
The outstanding symptoms of this new disease are 
partial or complete paralysis of the adult bees, and a 
rapid loss in numbers of bees and colonies. 
A tiny mite, Acarapis woodi, was recently determined 
as the causative agent of Isle of Wight disease. These 
mites crawl into the breathing spiracles and tubes of the 
adult bee, where they multiply, and soon interfere with 
the oxygen supply, causing paralysis and helplessness. 
Realizing that no control for this disease is known, 
and consequently the danger to x\merican beekeeping, a 
conference was called recently by Dr. E. F. Phillips. 
Government Apiarist in Washington, D. C., to consider 
the advisability of prohibiting by Federal law further 
importation of adult bees from Europe. Experts from 
various states and Canada unanimously favored such 
action, and the undersigned committee was appointed to 
consider and urge the adoption of such laws. 
There is no need for further importation of honey bees 
from Europe, because we have now better stocks in Am¬ 
erica than the average individual is likelv to secure from 
Europe on order. Many beekeepers have been greatly 
disappointed in recent shipments of queen bees from 
Europe, and do not wish to attempt further importations. 
All beekeepers are urged by experts and amateurs to 
refrain from European importation of bees, on account 
of this great danger to American beekeeping. In the 
THE ILLINOIS STATE NURSERYMEN’S ASSO¬ 
CIATION 
The Illinois State Nurserymen’s Association is under¬ 
taking to put over the slogan, “Plan to Plant Another 
Tree.” It is securing the co-operation and help of other 
organizations in the State. Leaflets are being distribu¬ 
ted instructing what to plant, how to plant, how to care 
for plants, cultivation, trimming, pruning and giving all 
kinds of information that will be likely to arouse the in¬ 
terest of the public in growing things. The movement 
was expected to culminate the week of March 12 to 19. 
The movement is expected to be cumulative and expand 
and gain in momentum each succeeding planting season. 
Florists and nurserymen are to aid by using the slogan 
on their mail and the press is being asked to help in every 
way possible to push the good work along. 
Mr. J. A. Young, secretary of the Illinois State Nur¬ 
serymen’s Association, Aurora, III., kindly sent the fol¬ 
lowing poem which was written under the inspiration 
of the movement: 
PLAN TO PLANT ANOTHER TREE 
We plan our homes, our churches, schools, 
Our boulevards, our parks and pools; 
We plan our music, songs and books, 
Our gardens and our engle nooks; 
We plan our children’s hours so they 
May have some sunshine every day; 
We plan our lives and with a sigh 
Cease planning only when we die. 
But all through life how seldom we 
Plan to plant another tree. 
So plant a tree and watch it grow, 
Through it some of your blood may flow; 
It may become a safe retreat 
That friends will seek with eager feet, 
And ’neath its shade in cool content 
Bless it—your living monument, 
A tree that sings a lullaby 
To every pilgrim passing by 
And reaches out a friendly limb, 
As if to shade and shelter him. 
Selfish—selfish indeed is he 
Who never plans to plant a tree. 
A tree, a shady, sheltering tree, 
Is like a living prayer to me, 
A prayer that grace and comfort lends 
To mortal men e’er it ascends 
In thankfulness to bless the hand 
That planting it, both worked and planned. 
“A tree whose thirsty mouth is prest 
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; 
A tree that looks at God all day, 
And lifts its leafy hands to pray; 
Poems are made by fools like me, 
But only God can make a tree.” 
T. H. KENDALL, 
Aurora, Illinois. 
