THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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nurserymen will be obliged to charge. Still, we anticipate 
doing a fair trade. 
Yours very truly, 
Welland, Ont. Stone & Wellington. 
SPRING LATE IN ALABAMA 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
We are having a late season; peaches just beginning to 
bloom. It is unusually dry for this time of the year. 
This Spring’s shipping is over here. 
Huntsville, Ala. W. F. Heikes. 
March 18, 1910. 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
I read your article on “Legislation for Sprayers” and I 
wish to write in opposition to that opinion. Such a law 
would be an injustice to the farmer and hinder true prog¬ 
ress. Such a law would also be a very foolish law in con¬ 
sideration of the existing laws of nature by which we can 
control all parasites. Our entomologists do not understand 
the creation of organic life. The proof of this was given us 
in the recommendation of the Ball Weevil Law in Texas 
which was then quickly repealed. 
Clifton, N. J. John J. Ruegg. 
ILLINOIS 
March 19, 1 1910. 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
The winter weather was severe, but a heavy blanket of 
snow kept the ground from freezing to much depth, and 
spring is now opening up early; in fact, we fear too early. 
We think that the early freezes last fall, and but little frost 
in the ground during the winter, while it was intensely cold 
above the snow, did more injury than most nurserymen 
realize and some are going to be unpleasantly surprised. 
All stock is in good demand, especially Shrubbery, Apple 
and Peach. Prospects for trade are bright. 
As far as we know, orchards generally have come through 
the winter in good shape, excepting young trees not pro¬ 
tected, which have been severely injured by rabbits. 
Princeton, Ill. A. Bryant & Son. 
ARSENITE OF LIME 
A WARNING TO FRUIT GROWERS 
The attention of fruit growers is hereby called to an 
important matter. If you are planning to use lime-sulfur 
as a summer spray instead of the Bordeaux Mixture particu¬ 
lar care must be exercised in the use of insecticides. Ex¬ 
periments extending over three seasons and conducted by at 
least five experimenters have shown that arsenate of lead 
may be used with safety and effectively in lime-sulfur 
especially where it is used for the spraying of apples in 
foliage. Some investigators have suggested and some have 
even recommended the use of arsenite of lime with lime- 
sulfur on account of its relative cheapness. The recom¬ 
mendations have apparently been made upon insufficient 
experimental evidence. There has just been issued from 
the Department of Agriculture at Washington, Bureau of 
Plant Industry, Circular No. 54 on the “Substitution of Lime- 
Sulfur preparations for Bordeaux Mixture in the Treatment 
of Apple Diseases.” In this circular, Mr. Scott, the author, 
makes the following statements in regard to the use of paris 
green and arsenite of lime in some extensive experiments 
which he conducted in 1909. 
He says, “The commercial lime-sulfur at a strength of 
1 to 30 in combination with paris green began to burn 
the foliage soon after the first application was made, and 
by midsummer the trees were almost bare. Arsenite of 
lime was also used with the 1 to 30 solution, and the results 
were disastrous. The foliage was burned to a crisp and the 
fruit badly scorched by the first application. Even the new 
twig growth was killed to a considerable extent.” 
“According to the information at hand arsenate of lead 
is unquestionably the poison to use with the lime-sulfur 
mixtures. Instead of increasing the caustic properties of 
the mixture, as at first feared, it apparently has the opposite 
effect to some extent and does not lose any of its insecticidal 
value by reason of the combination.” 
“In all the experiments the combination of paris green 
and the lime-sulfur solution proved to be quite injurious to 
apple foliage, and in the Arkansas work the combination of 
arsenite of lime and lime-sulfur was exceedingly injurious.” 
Growers are therefore warned against the use of anything 
but arsenate of lead in lime-sulfur for the general spraying 
except in an experimental way. 
H. H. Whetzel, 
Plant Pathologist, N. Y. State Coll, of Agr. 
AN EARLY SPRING IN IOWA 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
It will surprise you to hear me say that the nursery 
business is over for this year in Iowa. I have been in the 
business now for thirty years this spring and we never 
expect to finish our deliveries until the fifteenth of May; but 
we opened up this spring with shipments on the twentieth 
of March and as the season has been so forward, we must 
now stop on account of forward spring conditions. In 
general, I think, the nurseryman have cleaned up pretty 
well, but those interested largely in landscape gardening- 
have had a very short and unprofitable season. We would 
have had at least $5,000 more business, ourselves, under 
ordinary conditions. 
We received early in the spring one order for 40,000 
Apples, 20,000 Jonathan and 20,000 Gano, from an orchaul 
company in Montana. I presume that this was the largest 
single order handled out of Des Moines during the present 
shipping season. 
We are glad to get a little breathing spell and have time 
to look over you last issue of Ihe National Nurseryman. 
Remember when you are in the West the next time that the 
“latch string is out.” Call and see us. 
Des Moines, la. M. J. W ragg. 
