THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
251 
The bulletin reports the results of seven years work in 
attempting to establish a basis on which trees can be 
identified previous to planting, so far only the leaves have 
been studied, future work is expected to continue the 
study with reference to tree form, appearance of bark 
and growth habits. 
The Shaw method of identifying fruit trees will para- 
lell the Bertillon method of identifying human beings. It 
will be certain but only those trained will be able to use 
it. It will be none the less sure for identifying rogues in 
nursery and orchard. 
HONORS FOR A It is the home town that knows the 
NURSERYMAN man as he is. When we meet broth¬ 
er nurserymen at the convention we 
usually only know them as nurserymen and rank them 
according to their standing in the trade. 
To discover they are highly esteemed in their own 
locality adds to our satisfaction in being associated with 
them in our National Nurserymen’s Association. 
H. S. Day, proprietor of the Fremont Nursery, Fre¬ 
mont, Ohio, was a candidate before the primaries in Ohio 
for the nomination to the office of State Treasurer. Ac¬ 
cording to the unofficial returns published in a local 
paper, Mr. Day polled a plurality of about 123,000 over 
his nearest opponents, or 43,000 over the combined vote of 
his two opponents. In his own counties he received a 
vote of 8 or 9 to 1 against either of them, and received 
3000 more votes than the candidate for Governor. 
We congratulate Mr. Day on such evidence of public 
confidence in his integrity and ability. 
COLORS LIVING TREES 
A German engineer named Reimann has succeeded in 
perfecting a process for coloring living trees. It has 
been found the whole tree, from the end of its roots to 
the topmost leaf, can be completely and permanently col¬ 
ored within forty-eight hours. 
Aniline dye is used. A couple of ounces, together with 
200 quarts of water, are sufficient for one tree. Final 
tests were made in the nearby forest of Tharandt, in the 
presence of a representative of the Saxon Government 
and a number of experts, including professors from the 
Tharsandt forestry school. 
Two Dresden firms have undertaken to exploit the 
patent. Furniture, cigarette cases, penholders and other 
articles are to be put on the market, all made up in the 
new colored wood. Imitations of certain natural woods 
are declared possible through the process. 
RASPBERRY MOSAIC 
Raspberry growers, particularly in the Hudson River 
Valley, are much concerned over the increasing losses 
sustained from raspberry mosaic or yellows. The disease 
is prevalent thruout the State, as well as in raspberry 
sections outside the State, and nearly every planting has 
infected bushes. Practically all plantings of Perfection 
raspberry, a leading commercial sort grown extensively 
in the Hudson River Valley, are now completely infected 
with mosaic, while all other varieties show more or less 
infection. 
Mosaic produces a yellow, mottled appearance of the 
foliage and a dwarfing of the canes and, when once in¬ 
fected, the plant and all its canes will always carry the 
desease. The yield of diseased plants is much reduced, 
and the berries are crumbly and seedy and entirely 
lacking in flavor. So far as is known at present, the only 
way in which mosaic is spread from one plant to another 
is by the raspberry louse or aphid, an otherwise rather 
harmless insect. Since these aphids rarely, if ever, de¬ 
velop wings, the spread of the disease is quite slow and 
it has probably taken many years for mosaic to reach its 
present proportions in commercial plantings. 
Recently, a plant disease expert was appointed to the 
staff of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station 
at Geneva who is to devote his entire time to a study of 
the diseases of small fruits. He has already begun work 
on the raspberry mosaic and, in his opinion, the only 
remedy for the present situation is the planting of 
disease-free stock. Since growers have not been in the 
habit of selecting clean stock, much diseased material has 
undoubtedly gone into new plantings. The big problem 
today, then, is to produce disease-free stock on a suf¬ 
ficiently large scale to supply the commercial grower. 
While this will probably take from 3 to 3 years, the out¬ 
look for the future of the raspberry industry is really 
quite encourging, as it seems reasonable to expect good 
results from the setting out of disease-free stock. 
TWELVE STICKING POINTS OF TIIE NATIONAL 
NURSERYMAN 
1. It is the only publication devoted to the Nur¬ 
sery Trade that did not change its name with the 
obvious intention of misleading the public. 
2. It is the only publication that is dependant 
on the good opinion of the trade it serves. 
3. It publishes all the news it can get of inter¬ 
est to the trade, without resorting to “yellow’’ jour¬ 
nalism. 
4. It is the same as any other publication that 
is sincere in its editorial policy of advancing the 
best interests of the trade. 
5. It does not tire its intelligent readers by de¬ 
voting its columns to puffing its own value. It 
allows the reader to be the judge. 
6. It is edited by a man who has been a practi¬ 
cal nurseryman for thirty-five years and is still in 
the business. 
7. It is the oldest nursery trade paper in Ameri¬ 
ca, founded by C. L. Yates in 1893. 
8. It lives by its advertisements. 
9. Its advertisements prove its standing. 
10. It prints anything tlmt is of interest to nur¬ 
serymen, providing there is no injustice in doing so. 
11. It has a sense of responsibility that makes 
it dependable. 
12. The above are “sticking points,” no “knock¬ 
ing” necessary to drive them home. 
