THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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the investigations by the special committee. Unfortunately, 
I offered the resolution from the floor of the convention 
without having taken the precaution to put it on paper. I 
have no doubt that the secretary’s minutes have it projjcrlv 
worded and would suggest that you obtain a copy and publish 
it in the next issue of the Nurseryman. As, perhaps, the 
most significant action of the Convention, it seems to me 
that the adoption of the resolution should have proper notice 
in the official organ of the association—regardless of whether 
or not it may have met the approval of the editor. 
Yours very truly, 
Jefferson Thomas 
[Note: ThN action of the Asso¬ 
ciation was overlooked. We are 
glad to call attent'on to it. 1 he 
opportunity for a well d'rected inib- 
I’city movement in the interests of 
the AssociatCn is excellent.— 
Editok.) 
LIGHTNING’S FREAKS 
■ Mr. Fred. Green, formerly 
L. Green & Sons, Perry, Ohio, 
but who started a nursery at 
Famiville, Va. about two years 
ago, after closing out the Perry 
place, writes as follows: 
“Just met with a little bad 
luck here Friday night. I had 
a very fine new barn which I 
built since I came here, all well 
connected with sheds of all 
kinds, it was struck by light¬ 
ning and burned to the ground, 
killing two of my best horses 
and burning up a large lot of 
stuff of all kinds, so have been 
a little confused here for the 
last two or three days, but 
will be straightened out again 
in a few days.’’ 
fruit and plant 
Notes 
TREE SURGERY 
notably susceptible to injury by a disease known as collar 
rot, which working insidiously and continuously, finally 
engirdling the tree, destroys life. Such disea.ses arc sus¬ 
ceptible of surgical treatment at the hands of the plant 
doctor. 
Again, productive specimens of pears and apples are 
affected in stem and main branch by canker forms of blight 
which, if untreated, split or destroy the trees. 
The rational fonns of treatment entail the cutting out of 
all diseased tissue, baring the inner wood, and depending 
upon the subsequent growth of the tree to cover this bv 
healing. The various methods of grafting by approach and 
inarching are methods worthy 
of careful consideration. The 
accompanying i 11 u s t r a tion 
shows how a valuable pear in 
an orchard on the Pacific 
Coast, affected by a cankerous 
form of blight which jjrac- 
tically engirdled the stem, 
was saved by planting auxil¬ 
iary grafts near the base and 
inarching these above the 
affected portion. In the same 
way wounds may be bridged 
over. Almost every year we 
have our epidemic of mice and 
rabbit girdling, resulting in 
the loss of large and valuable 
trees, and this note is insert¬ 
ed for the purpose of calling 
attention to the whole ques¬ 
tion of tree surgery and the 
very large opportunity it off¬ 
ers in that individual and 
careful type of orchard man¬ 
agement which brings the 
largest return to the operator. 
Business 
jVIovcTnents 
MR. W. C. BARRY MEM¬ 
BER OF STATE FOOD 
COMMISSION 
The interest which is being 
awakened in connection with 
the care and surgical treat¬ 
ment of shade trees is being reflected to a considerable 
degree in similar type of effort directed towards fruit trees. 
It often occurs that a valuable and productive specimien in 
the orchard is being destroyed by a form of disease which 
appears from a superficial examination to be fatal in the 
natural course of events. A closer study of the subject 
occasionally reveals the possibility of saving such a subject 
by the application of rational surgical methods. 
In the East the King apple and some other varieties are 
The National Nursery¬ 
man congratulates Governor 
Dix on the appointment of 
the well known senior member, Mr. W. C. Barry, of the firm 
of Ellwanger & Barry as a member of the food investi¬ 
gating commission. His co-workers are the Commissioner 
of Agriculture, the State Health Commissioner, Dean Bailey, 
Dr. Jordan and Frank N. Godfrey, master of the State 
Grange. The commission is authorized by legislative act 
to inquire into the purity, prices, production, distributing 
and consumption of food stuffs and farm products and to 
recommend remedial legislation to the legislature next year. 
Bridge Grafting used to save a tree affected with Body Blight. 
