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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Quiz Column 
THE LOGAN BERRY 
Tazewell, Term., Dec. n, 1909. 
National Nurseryman, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Gentlemen: 
Would like a little information if you care to give it and 
shall highly appreciate same. 
1. Do you know anything about a berry called the 
Logan Berry cross blackberry and raspberry. 
If you cannot tell me can you refer me to a party that 
can. I want to know its origin and if it will pay to raise 
them. 
2. I would like the address of a nursery sending out good 
illustrated catalogue of fruits of general line. 
R. N. Plank. 
ANSWER 
The raspberry or so called raspberry, called Loganberry, 
is as you say a supposed cross between the blackberry and 
raspberry produced by Judge Logan of California some 
years ago. Its habit of growth is vigorous and in a general 
way it resembles the red raspberry. It is grown very 
successfully in the Northwest Pacific from Victoria south¬ 
ward to British Columbia. It is also grown and appre¬ 
ciated, we may say, in Britain where it appears to be well 
adapted to soil and climatic conditions. It is not suffi¬ 
ciently hardy for cultivation in New England on the North¬ 
east and would certainly not succeed in the Middle West. 
Whether it could be grown successfully in Tennessee we 
are unable to say but you might secure this information 
by applying to the Experiment Station officials at Knox¬ 
ville. A full description with the history of the origin 
of this berry is to be found in “Bush Fruits”—Card—• 
published by the Macmillan Company, and also in a 
recent bulletin by the Washington Experiment Station, 
Pullman. 
Replying to your second question, if you will consult 
the advertisements of the National Nurseryman and 
send a post card to the leading advertisers you will un¬ 
doubtedly obtain catalogues which will furnish you with 
samples of excellent literature of this type. You will 
hardly make any mistake in selecting any advertisers in 
our columns. 
Editor. 
CONNECTICUT NURSERYMEN 
At the last meeting of the Connecticut Nurserymen’s Associa¬ 
tion C. W. Atwater, Collinsville, Conn, was elected president and 
John R. Barnes of Barnes Bros., Yalesville, Conn, was elected 
secretary. 
Business JVIovemcnts 
Girard, Pa. —Our sales at this time are excellent. We are 
budding the largest and finest block of peaches it has been our 
pleasure to grow. We have a very large assortment of all kinds of 
ornamentals, which are making a very satisfactory growth. Pros¬ 
pects look very good indeed. 
Pennsylvania Nursery Company. 
Doings of Societies 
SOUTHERN NURSERYMEN 
“The Southern Nurserymen’s Association met in its 12th 
Annual session at Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 24, 25, 26, 1910 and the 
nurserymen of the south especially, along with the interested fruit 
growers attended and helped to make this the most profitable 
meeting yet held. This Association prides itself in discussing a 
class of subjects that are altogether practical. 
The meeting was held in Morrill Hall on the ground of the 
University of Tennessee where extra facilities toward making the 
meeting a success are to be had. 
While the Association meets principally for business yet the 
entertainment committee composed of Knoxville men provided 
social features which were heartily enjoyed. An especial invita¬ 
tion was extended to the entomologists of the different Southern 
states to meet with the Association. 
Officers of Association: R. C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga., 
president; W. A. Easterly, Cleveland, Tenn., vice-president; A. I. 
Smith, Knoxville, Tenn., secretary and treasurer. 
We hope to present a full report in our next issue. 
GRAFTED TREES AND NURSERY STOCK 
[Advice to Growers by an English editor.] 
Those who have charge of the plantations in which trees have 
been cut over and re-worked with other varieties or nurseries where 
young stocks are growing their inserted buds or putting forth shoots 
from grafts will do well at this time to look sharp after the weevils. 
We have had under our notice from widely separated districts 
evidence of serious damage to shoots by these pests. One grower 
sent us a bundle of shoots some four inches long which had been cut 
off from apple trees and, enclosed in a small box, one little weevil 
which it was thought was doing the mischief. This weevil proved 
to be Rhynchites coeruleus, commonly called the “twig-cutting 
weevil.” This little weevil is shiny blue in color, and the one sent 
was about one-sixth inch long, not including the rather prominent 
snout. The female weevil bores a hole with her proboscis in the j 
tender shoot and then cuts it off below the point in which the egg is 
deposited. All the shoots that we have received this season con¬ 
tained the oval yellowish white egg. The shoots die and fall to 
the ground, and when the little full-fed maggot enters the soil to 
pupate every shoot should be gathered and burnt at once. When 
many of the beetles are present the shoots should be well sprayed 
with arsenate of lead. It is possible that a strong smelling fluid 
such as H emulsion would do much to protect the shoots. 
There are other weevils that do much damage in nurseries by ' 
eating the leaves, such as the oblong leaf weevil, Phyllobius oblongus. 
Where these are found to be present the stock should be sprayed 
with arsenate of lead immediately. Where it is found that the 
bark of the shoots is being eaten off the presence of the clay colored 
weevil, otiorhynchus picipes, may be suspected. This is one of the 
most destructive of weevils. Fortunately it cannot fly, and may 
be caught with grease band or be shaken off at night into sheets 
or even into inverted umbrellas, tipping the beetles out into paraffin. 
Arsenate of lead is useful against this pest also, but shaking them 
down is the better plan. Raspberries often have their shoots cut j 
off in great numbers by this pest. 
— The Fruit-Grower, Fruiterer, Florist, June 2, 1910. f 
DETROIT INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION 
This exhibition, promoted by the business men of progressive 
Detroit, took place between June 20th and July 6th. It aimed to 
draw attention to the attractive opportunities afforded manufactur¬ 
ers and others interested in industrial work by Detroit. We learn 
that it was a success in every sense of the word, under the manage¬ 
ment of Wm. G. Rose, J. L. Hudson and Chas. B. Sawyer, supported 
bv an active committee of business men. 
