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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
at all times, as it will be necessary occasionally to make 
application for the lice when it will be useless to add the 
arsenical poison” (and vice versa). 
Mr. W. D. Garden, Inspector for the Eastern Division of 
San Joaquin County, California, reports highly satisfactory 
results from using "Black Leaf” upon maple trees infested 
with red aphis, and upon elm trees infested with green aphis, 
at a dilution of one to 60. 
‘‘Black Leaf” is permitted by the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture to be used in official dipping of sheep and cattle 
for scab and mange—in which connection, ‘‘Black Leaf” is 
marketed under a positive guarantee to the United States 
Government, the exact wording on the cans being as follows: 
‘‘A sample of this product has been submitted to the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture for examination. We guarantee the 
contents of this package to be of the same composition as the 
sample submitted to the Department, etc.” 
‘‘Black Leaf” offers great advantages over home-made 
‘‘tobacco decoctions” the uniformity being maintained by 
careful chemical analysis and not by guess work. 
The Kentucky Tobacco Product Co., Ixc., 
Louisville, Ky. Manufacturers. 
VINE HILL NURSERY COMPANY 
On Jan. 26th, the Vine Hill Nurseries of Mt. Pleasant, 
Texas, owned by M. G. Black, was taken over by the Vine 
Hill Nursery Company which is incorporated under the laws 
of the State of Texas with capital stock of $20,000 full)’ paid. 
M. G. Black was elected president and general manager, C. 
0 . Lide, vice-president, J. W. Russell, secretary, E. S. 
Liliernstern, treas. 
The new company will be prepared to do a much larger 
business in the future. This nursery is located one mile 
north of the thriving little city of Mt. Pleasant, Texas, a 
town of 5,000 inhabitants. It is in the heart of the Elberta 
district. M. G. Black, Pres. 
NEW FRUIT JOURNAL LAUNCHED 
“The Intermountain Fruit Journal” will be the name of a 
monthly fruit paper, to be published in Grand Junction, 
Col., beginning with the February number. The editor and 
manager will be Clyde H. Smith, formerly of the Colorado 
Fruit Grower of Grand Junction. While the editorial and 
business offices of the new paper will be located in Grand 
Junction the paper will be published in Colorado Springs, 
and mailed from that city. 
Mr. Smith will have entire charge of the paper, and will 
begin at once a vigorous campaign for subscribers, in the 
states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Idaho. The 
paper, for the present, will consist of 24 pages and colored 
cover, with a special design each month. The February 
number will be devoted largely to the apple show, and the 
cover will be a reproduction of the Western fruit jobber’s 
cup, which was won by A. B. Stoddard of Clifton .—Grand 
Junction Daily News. 
V FLUIDS AND APTERITE FUMIGANTS 
The question of just how to best protect nursery stock 
and fruit trees from the attacks of the numerous fungous 
and scale diseases has been uppermost in our minds for 
many years. 
Progressive growers are taking every advantage of the 
use of remedial measures to reduce the loss from insects and 
disease. Various remedies, mostly in crude form and 
involving considerable trouble in preparation by the 
orchardist before they can be applied have been generally 
used. This rough chemistry is a precarious undertaking 
and often leads to disappointment because the quality and 
uniformity of the materials used can seldom be tested by the 
grower. Many are now preaching as the result of actual 
experiment and observation that the continued use of some 
at least of these crude remedies exert a destructive action 
on the cambium, or bark producing cells of the trees. 
It goes without saying that the chemist can here be of 
value. Detecting the need of properly prepared and 
thoroughly reliable preparations put up in convenient form 
and ready for immediate application by a simple dilution 
with water our laboratory staff has worked upon the 
problem for several years past in different countries and the 
production of our Vi, V2 and V3 Spray Fluids and ‘‘Apter- 
ite” Soil Fumigant are the result of their labors. 
A spray should be effective and non-injurious to the trees 
easy to mix and apply—free of sediment and not objection¬ 
able to the user. These are conditions we have met and 
while we do not desire to encroach upon the opportunity 
you have kindly given us of contributing this brief article 
to your valuable journal, as a matter of common interest to 
orchardists, nurserymen, florists and others, we make the 
bold assertion that the many obstacles inseparable from the 
use of crude materials which it would be unfair for us to 
enlarge upon here but which are best known to the users, 
have been entirely overcome in the manufacture of our new 
preparations, which we venture to predict will in time prove 
a greater boon to the fruit industry than to ourselves as a 
commercial undertaking. 
Root Insects 
The destructive action of insects is not alone confined to 
the trees as we see it above the ground, but they also attack 
the roots, the main stay of the plant. This underground 
damage is more serious since it goes on undetected^—at least 
until considerable harm has been done. The chief and most 
commonly met of these underground pests is the woolly 
root aphis—it punctures and sucks the roots causing serious 
injury and deformity—thus sapping the vitality and im¬ 
pairing the natural functions of the tree. What is the 
result? Poor trees, having no vigor—how can they be 
vigorous, the insects are robbing them of their nutritive 
juices. For many years the only remedy known was Car¬ 
bon bi-sulphide which owing to its objectionable odor as well 
as heavy cost has never come into common use—and being 
highly inflammable and evaporating rapidly it requires 
special care in application. After fighting this problem for 
some time the Soil Fumigant “Apterite” was invented and 
has been used with considerable success by large fruit grow¬ 
ers and nurserymen. It is a powder and can be applied 
quite readily by mixing with soil. 
William Cooper & Nephews. 
