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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
218 Livingston Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
President,. THOMAS B. MEEHAN 
Vice-President and Editor, . ..JOHN CRAIG 
Secretary-Treasurer and Business Manager, ... C. L. YATES 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nur¬ 
sery Stock of all kinds. It circulates throughout the United 
States, Canada and Europe. 
Official Journal of American Association of Nurserymen. 
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Address, Editor, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester , as second-class matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., December, 1910. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President—-W. P. Stark, Louisiana, Mo.; vice president, E. S. Welch, Shenan¬ 
doah, Iowa; secretary, John Hall, Rochester, N. Y; treasurer, C. L. Yates 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—-J. H. Dayton, Painesville, 0.; E. M. Sherman, Charles 
City. Ia.; H. B. Chase, Huntsville, Ala.; Wm. P. Stark, Ex-Officio, Louisiana. 
Mo.; John Hall, Ex-Officio, Sec’y, Rochester, N. Y. 
Chairmen of Committees. 
Transportation —D. S. Lake, Shenandoah, la.; Chas. M. Sizemore, Louis¬ 
iana, Mo. 
Tariff —Irving Rouse, Rochester, N' Y. 
Legislation East of Mississippi River—W m. Pitkin, Rochester, N.Y. 
Legislation West of Mississippi River —Peter Youngers, Geneva, Nebr. 
Co-operation with Entomologists —J. W. Hill, Des Moines, Ia. 
Program —J. H. Dayton, Painesville, O. 
Publicity —Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md. 
Exhibits —J. W. Schuette, 5600 GravoisAve., St. Louis, Mo. 
Arrangements —John Hall, Rochester, N. Y.; J. H. Dayton, Painesville, O., 
F. A. Weber, Nursery, Mo. 
Editing Report —Tohn Hall, Rochester, N. Y.; Prof. John Craig, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Entertainment —F. A. Weber, Nursery, Mo. 
Forestry —A. T. Brown, Geneva, Nebr. 
Co-operation with Fruit Growers and Associations —J. M. Irvine, St. 
Joseph, Mo. 
Trade Opportunities —Jefferson Thomas, Harrisburg, Pa. 
Nurserymen’s Share in Civic Improvement —J. Horace McFarland, Harris¬ 
burg, Pa. 
Root-Knot —E. A. Smith. Lake City. Minn. 
Membership —John Watson, Newark, N. Y. 
STATE AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS. 
American Nurserymen’s Protective Association—-President, R. C. Berckman 
Augusta, Ga.; secretary, Thomas B. Meehan, Dreshertown, Pa. Meets annually 
in June. 
American Retail Nurserymen’s Protective Association—President, Charles J. Brown, 
Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, Guy A. Bryant, Princeton. Ill. Meets annually in 
June. 
Association of Oklahoma Nurserymen—President, J. A. Lopeman, Enid, Okla. Terr.; 
secretary C. E. Garee, Noble, Okla. Terr. 
Canadian Association of Nurserymen—-President—E. D. Smith, Winona; secretary, 
C. C. R. Morden, Niagara Falls, Ont. 
Connecticut Nurserymen’s Association—President. C. W. Atwater, Collinsville, 
Conn. Secretary, John S. Barnes, Yalesville, Conn. 
Eastern Association of Nurserymen—President, Wm. Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y.; 
secretary-treasurer, William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. Meets annually in 
January. 
National Association of Retail Nurserymen —President, Wm. Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. 
secretary, F. E. Grover, Rochester, N Y. 
National Nurserymen’s Association of Ohio—President, J. W. McNary, Dayton, 0 . 
secretary, W. B. Cole, Painesville, O. 
Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen—President, C. Malmo, Seattle, Wasn.; 
secretary-treasurer, C. A. Tonneson, Tacoma, Wash. Meets annually in 
June. 
Pennsylvania Nurserymen’s Association—President, Samuel C. Moon, Pa., secre¬ 
tary, Earl Peters, Mt. Holy Springs, Pa. 
Southern Nurserymen’s Association—President, R C Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 
secretary-treasurer, A. I. Smith, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Tennessee Nurserymen’s Association—President, A. I. Smith, Knoxville, Tenn.; 
secretary, G. M. Bentley, Knoxville. Tenn. 
Texas Nurserymen’s Association—President—T. B. Baker, Ft. Worth, Texas; 
secretary-treasurer, Tohn S. Kerr, Sherman. Texas. 
Western Association of Nurserymen—President, E. P. Bernardin, Parson, Kans. 
secectary-treasurer, E. J. Holman, Leavenworth, Kan. Meets in July and 
December at Kansas City, 
From time to time, variations of standard 
varieties of apples appear, some of 
APPLE SPORTS which are improvements, and some of 
which are merely different. The Rural 
New Yorker recently records a sport of 
the twenty-ounce, which has been named the Hitchings. 
This sport varies from the type in producing a fruit which is 
solid red in color, instead of being striped like the typical 
twenty-ounce. It is more regular in shape, and usually 
not ribbed at all; in flavor, it is twenty-ounce; in season, 
it is about two weeks later than the type. This variation 
appeared in a lot of trees purchased from a New York 
nurseryman, H. S. Wiley, of Cayuga, planted by Grant 
Hitchings of Onondaga County, N. Y., some seven years 
ago. Its distinctive feature is the much higher color and 
its relatively later keeping season. Another variety of 
twenty-ounce is known as the Collamer, which appeared in 
the orchard of J. B. Collamer & Sons, of Hilton, N. Y. It 
is interesting to know that the twenty-ounce is so prolific of 
useful variations. Mr. Hitchings, the orehardist of Ononda¬ 
ga County, expects to propagate this variety for his own use, 
at any rate, and may possibly put it on the market. 
A bulletin entitled “Field Studies of the 
Crown-Gall and Hairy-Root of the Apple 
CROWN GALL Tree,” being No. 186 of the Bureau of 
BULLETIN Plant Industry, has just been received. 
This publication, a pamphlet of 99 
pages, accompanied by ten full-page plates, is by George 
G. Hedgcock. This document is one which has been 
awaited with considerable interest by members of the 
American Association of Nurserymen. We shall present 
a full review of this in a subsequent issue. Mr. Hedgcock 
says that the crown gall type of disease occurs on apple trees 
in two forms, the soft and the hard, and the hairy type in 
four forms, each of which is described. These diseases 
develop chiefly the first year on seedlings and root grafted 
trees in the nursery, gaining entrance almost entirely 
through wounds. Experiments aimed to ascertain the 
effect of these excrescences on the growth of nursery and 
orchard trees showed that nursery trees were stunted very 
slightly, but that orchard trees were affected so little that 
the difference was hardly perceptible. The bulletin does 
not discuss the communicability or infectious character of 
the malady at length, although it is stated that “the disease 
apparently did not spread from tree to tree in the nursery 
rows in the experiments.” 
The author concludes with recommendations for the 
avoidance of this root trouble by sanitation, using healthy 
scions and seedlings, making close-fitting root grafts, 
storing in sand, and planting moderately deep, avoiding 
heavy or wet soils, and avoiding the bruising or wounding 
of the grafts. 
The editorial office is in receipt of beautiful specimens 
of Delicious and King David apples from Messrs. Stark 
Brothers of Louisiana, Missouri. We have previously 
expressed our high opinion of the excellent quality of 
Delicious which these specimens”confirm. King David has 
marked Jonathan characteristics. 
