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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
BOOK REVIEW 
Cyclopedia of Hardy Fruits 
By U. P. Hedrick 
U. P. Hedrick, Vice Director and Horticulturist of the 
New York Agricultural Experiment Station has done for 
Hardy Fruits, what Prof. Bailey did for Horticulture 
when he complied and edited the Standard Cyclopedia of 
Horticulture. 
The Cyclopedia of Hardy Fruits by U. P. Hedrick just 
published by the Macmillan Company, New York, is a 
real satisfying work. How many times during the year 
do the nurserymen and others having to do with fruits, 
Iry to identify a specimen and after much time given to 
searching obsolete authorities on the subject, give up in 
despair and long for a work that is complete and up-to- 
date. 
Mr. Hedrick’s Cyclopedia of Hardy Fruits fills this 
need completely. Although dealing with so many items. 
104 species and over 1200 varieties, all of which are now 
under cultivation in the orchards and nurseries of North 
America it is arranged so conveniently as to give easy 
reference. 
The book consists of 8 parts, treating the different 
fruits in their respective groups, giving the botany and 
showing the origin whence the varieties sprung. 
The varieties are then arranged in alphabetical order. 
The apples, pears and peaches are illustrated by cross 
section of the different fruits and described in detail in a 
most uniform and thorough manner. 
Other fruits by outline drawing and cuts that are very 
illustrative of their characteristics. 
Miscellaneous Fruits such as Persimmons. Mulberries, 
Pawpaws, etc., received attention. We almost wish nuts 
had been included. 
We hope the author will receive enough financial en¬ 
couragement from the sales of the present work to insure 
a supplement being issued at intervals, to record new va¬ 
rieties under the same analysis and description, to keep 
this invaluable work from becoming obsolete. 
The book is a credit to the publishers, the colored 
plates being especially well done. 
Price $6.00 published by The Macmillan Company, 64- 
66 Fifth Avenue, New 7 York. 
PROMISING NEW FRUITS 
At the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, 
Geneva, N. Y. 
Improved varieties of fruit which really are superior 
in some way to standard sorts are not nearly so pre¬ 
valent as the claims of the fruit catalogs would seem to 
indicate. This is strikingly demonstrated by the small 
number of new 7 fruits recommended by horticulturists 
at the New York Agricultural Experiment Station at 
Ceneva out of the immense number tested by them as 
deserving a trial by the fruit grower. For a number of 
vears many different varieties of trees and small fruits 
have been grown on the Station grounds, together with 
innumerable seedlings and crosses of standard varieties 
in the hope of developing new and better fruits. Only 
a very few 7 of these have survived the rigid selection to 
which they are subjected; but these few 7 in the opinion 
of the Station experts, are so superior in one w r ay or 
another to existing varieties that they are well worth an 
extended trial. In fact, some of these new fruits are 
already looked upon with favor by many large fruit 
growers. 
Of the new apples especially recommended, Cortland 
is regarded as by far the most promising, due to its close 
resemblance to the McIntosh and to the fact that it ma¬ 
terially extends the season of this excellent type of ap¬ 
ple. The Golden Delicious and Tioga are also regarded 
as promising new apples. Other tree fruits deserving 
the attention of the fruit grow 7 er include the Cayuga 
pear; the Wilma peach; the Imperial Epineuse, Agen, 
Formosa, Drap d’Or, Oullins, and Pacific plums; and the 
Chase sour cherry and the Ida sw^eet cherry. 
Among the small fruits, the Donboro red raspberry 
is most highly recommended because of its marked re¬ 
sistance to the mosaic disease which has forced so many 
growers out of business. The June and Ontario red 
raspberries; the Poorman gooseberry; and the Portland, 
Brockton, and Ripley white grapes, and the Cananda¬ 
igua and Sheridan black grapes are all most promising 
sorts for both the amateur and the commercial grower. 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
FEDERAL HORTICULTURAL BOARD 
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO REGULATIONS SUPPLEMENTAL 
TO NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 37 (REVISED) 
Under authority conferred by the plant quarantine act of 
August 20, 1912. (37 Stat, 315), i + is ordered that Regulation 7 
of the rules and regulations supplemental to Notice of Quaran¬ 
tine No. 37, governing the importation of nursery stock and 
other plants and seeds into the United States, effective August 
1, 1921, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows. 
Regulation 7. Conditions of entry: Inspection, certification, 
and marking; freedom from sand, soil, or earth, and approva* 
of packing material. 
The importation of nursery stock and other plants and seeds 
from countries which maintain inspection will not be allowed 
unless the invoice is accompanied by an original certificate and 
unless each container bears a cony certificate, issued by a duly 
authorized official of the country from which it is exported stat¬ 
ing that the nursery stock and other plants and seeds covered by 
the certificate have been thoroughly inspected by him or under 
his direction at the time of packing, and found, or believed to 
be, free from injurious plant diseases and insect pests. 
All nursery stock and other plants and seeds offered for im¬ 
port must be free from sand, soil, or earth, and all plant roots 
rhizomes, tubers, etc., must be freed by washing or other means 
from such sand, soil, or earth, and must be so certified by the 
duly authorized inspector of the country of origin: Provided. 
That sand, soil, or earth may be employed for the packing of 
bulbs and corns when such sand, soil, or earth has been steril¬ 
ized or otherwise safeguarded in accordance with the methods 
'prescribed by the Federal Horticultural Board and is so certified 
by the duly authorized inspector of the country of origin. The 
use of such sand, soil, or earth as packing for plants other than 
bulbs and corns is not authorized. 
All packing materials employed in connection with importa¬ 
tions of nursery stock and other plants and seeds are subject 
to approval as to such use by the Federal Horticultural Board. 
Such packing material must not previously have been used as 
packing or otherwise in connection with living plants and ex¬ 
cept as provided in the preceding paragraph for bulbs and corns 
must be free from sand, soil, or earth, and must be certified as 
meeting these conditions by the duly authorized inspector of the 
country of origin. 
Nursery stock and other plants and seeds from countries 
which do not maintain inspection shall not be delivered to the 
