THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Correspondence 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
Sir: From information just received from our houses 
abroad, we are not very optimistic about the adequacy of the 
supply of European nursery stocks, especially seedlings and 
the smaller sizes of deciduous and coniferous stocks. 
The stocks grown from cuttings, etc., and planted out had 
severe droughts to contend with right after planting, a 
condition which prevailed practically the entire season, and 
which has left large blanks in many a nursery row. 
To quote from one of our correspondents under date of 
August 2oth: 
“We are experiencing here a summer of unknown drought 
and heat, the thermometer hovering about the 90 Fahrenheit 
mark. 
This is something altogether new to om country (Holland) 
and where situated on high land, most stocks perish, making 
many a nursery a sad sight in general. 
In Germany, it is still worse, I am informed by nurserymen 
who have traversed that country and the same conditions 
prevail in France.” 
This seems to be borne out by the fact that seedling stocks 
have been rising in price the last four weeks, since it has been 
possible to get at a fair estimate of the stock that would get to 
a salable size. The number one sizes of fruit stocks especially 
are at present practically all sold out. 
There are of course some favorite spots where stocks have 
done very well considering everything, but these are few and 
far between. Is this one of nature’s methods of preventing 
overproduction, a condition that sometimes seems to con¬ 
front our trade ? 
The Horticultural Co. 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
Sir: Trees which are established in the ground have the 
roots sufficiently protected so that they can get the moisture 
from deep in the ground and especially in Holland, where the 
subsoil is always wet trees do not suffer from drought. 
Transplanted trees have suffered very much all over Europe, 
but trees which are transplanted in the spring are not sent out 
in the same season. Rhododendrons are badly burned, that 
is, the top leaves from some of the varieties are scorched and 
will be brown, and we are waiting for rain to find out in how 
far they have suffered. I do not consider this much of a loss, 
as the plants are healthy, and will grow in price, if kept a year 
longer, but it may give a shortage in some sizes, and in most of 
the tender sorts which are used for forcing. Conifers are 
growing nicely now. Pot grown stock, that is shrubs, as 
Lilac, Prunus Triloba, Malus in sorts, etc.,which are taken up 
in August and planted in pots to be used for forcing, will not 
be very good this year. The greatest loss will be on the small 
transplanted stock in the nurseries, and also on the one year 
old seedlings. The top soil being dry, the seeds did not 
sprout well, and even when they did, the young plants did 
not grow much, so that there will be a shortage on French 
seedlings. 
ENFORCEMENT OF INSECTICIDE ACT OF 1910 
The Secretary of Agriculture has organized, to assist him in enforc¬ 
ing the Insecticide Act of 1910, the Insecticide and Fungicide Board, 
composed of four members of the scientific staflfs of some of the bureaus 
of the Department. Sections i and 2 of this act refer to persons trading 
in insecticides and fungicides between the United States and her insular 
possessions or Alaska, making it punishable by fine or imprisonment to 
manufacture or sell an adulterated or misbranded insecticide of fungi¬ 
cide in the above-mentioned territories. It is the duty of the depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, according to Section 4, to examine specimens of 
insecticides, Paris greens, lead arsenates, and fungicides, to discover 
whether any such are adulterated or misbranded. Further informa¬ 
tion may be obtained from the Insecticide and Fungicide Board, Dept, 
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
FARM DRAINAGE 
It is coming to be recognized that a fundamental require¬ 
ment of permanent orcharding or satisfactory tree-growing is 
the fitting of the ground by laying tile drains to remove sur¬ 
plus water and regulate the moisture-holding capacity of the 
soil. The department of soils in the various colleges of 
agriculture are paying a good deal of attention to this. One 
of the most suggestive bulletins which has come to our desk 
is “Farm Drainage Operations” by W. H. Day of the On¬ 
tario Agricultural College. This discusses the whole ques¬ 
tion of underdrainage from the standpoint of the surveyor 
and leveler, and the installation of the tile and completion of 
its outlet. Undoubtedly copies of this bulletin can be 
obtained by applying to the Agricultural College of Guelph. , 
BOOM IN THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES 
The reclamation project which has been under considera¬ 
tion for so many years in reference to the draining of the 
everglades has been finally got under way to the extent that 
a considerable area of this partially submerged portion of 
Southern Florida is now redeemed and waiting the efforts of 
the cultivator. Considerable areas in the vicinity of Miami 
are said to be suitable for the growing of sugar, bananas, 
and pine apples. A mild boom is in process and big things 
are expected in the way of land deals in the near future. 
This land is supposed to be in the small frostless zone of 
Florida. 
personal jVIcntion 
Geo. S. Josselyn, of Fredonia, N. Y. and wife attended the wedding 
of the daughter of Charles Brown of Brown Bros. Nurseries, Rochester, 
N. Y., the third week of September. 
John Fraser, Jr., of Huntsville, Ala., during the month of September, 
called at the office of the National Nurseryman, and other nurserymen 
in Rochester and western New York. 
“We simply could not do without the National Nurseryman. 
Missouri. H. J. Weber & Sons. 
* TEXAS OFFICERS 
At its meeting in Waca, Sept. 12—13, the Texas Nurserymen s Asso¬ 
ciation elected the following officers; J. R. Mayhew, president, Waxa- 
hachie; J. R. Downing, Wichita Falls, vice-president; J. S. Kerr, 
Sherman, secretary and treasurer. 
P. OUWERKERK. 
