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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
STARKS “DELICIOUS” APPLES TOO FRAGRANT 
AND TEMPTING TO SHIP 
Past years it lias been the custom of the Stark Brothers 
Nursery and Orchards Company, Louisiana, Mo., to send 
the editor Christmas Greetings along with a package of 
erystalized sunbeams in the form of “Stark Delicious” 
apples. 
This year the greetings arrived, as proven by the pack¬ 
age, but not so much as a core was left in it. Evidently 
the fragrance had been too much for the mail clerks. 
ADAPTATION IN RELATION TO HARDINESS 
M. J. Dorsey (Minn. Hort., 46 (1918), No. 12, pp. 456-469, 
fig. 1). 
A contribution of the Minnesota Experiment Station, discuss¬ 
ing seasonal response, or reaction, of varieties to growing con¬ 
dition as a basis for a clear understanding of what is ordinarily 
meant, in horticulture, hy adaption and hardiness. 
Data are given on experiments conducted by J. C. Whitten at 
the Missouri Experiment Station and described to the author in 
a letter, which indicate that there is a fundamental distinction 
between a variety, or a clone, and a species in respect to dif¬ 
ferences brought about as a result of reaction or adaptation to 
their environment. In these experiments seed of native forest 
trees secured from the northern tier of States so far as possible 
and from each intervening State to Texas and the Gulf tier were 
sown at the Missouri Station over 20 years ago. The northern 
seed came up first generally. The seedlings from the extreme 
northern seed made far less height growth at first than those 
from seed obtained in the center of the natural distribution of 
the species. The northern seed produced trees which, for the 
first few years, took a much shorter growing period, starting 
later in the spring and shedding their leaves much earlier in the 
fall. Some of the seedlings from the South killed back to the 
ground the first season. The extreme southern seedlings had a 
relatively brief rest period, pushing out into growth with the 
first warm days of late winter or early spring and shedding their 
leaves very much later in the fall. At the end of 10 years prac¬ 
tically all the specimens had reached a common habit of growth 
and seemed essentially equal in their hardiness. 
Elberta and Old Mixon Free peach trees, propagated from 
Michigan and Ontario southward to the Gulf States, were planted 
out at the Missouri Experiment Station at 1 year of age. Whitten 
reports that “we have never been able to detect any differences 
in hardiness, in phenology, or in habit of growth or character¬ 
istics of these introduced trees. Evidently if there was any dif¬ 
ference in the trees as propagated in these different States that 
difference was overcome by their first summer’s growth here in 
the orchard.” 
In order to determine something of the season of maturity in 
Minnesota of plants from the southern and northern range of a 
species, 3-eye cuttings were obtained from a wild grape (Vitis 
milpina) from Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, and different sections of 
Minnesota. These were all planted in the same cold frame at 
the fruit breeding farm at Zumbra Heights. In the fall of 1916 
the first killing frost killed the leaves completely on those from 
Arkansas and Missouri, while those from Iowa north were un¬ 
injured. Although the difference in frost resistance was strik¬ 
ing, there was no marked difference in maturity between the 
several lots in the nursery bed, since the leaves were not green 
on each lot. The author also cites from the experience of 
Macoun, who found at the Central Farm, Ottawa, Canada, that 
with apples there is not only a relation between hardiness and 
early ripening of fruit, but also that in hardy varieties both fruit 
and wood ripen early. 
Experiment Station Record. 
H. B. Christensen. Jr., Lakewood, New Jersey, proprie¬ 
tor of the Lakewood Nurseries reports a very good bus¬ 
iness. He recently engaged in the retail nursery and 
agency business and is making gratifying progress. 
NOT APPLICABLE TO QUARANTINE 37 
“You-all gotta wait fo’ yoah supper ’til I ster’lize de 
ice pick,” said a colored cook to her mistress. “I done 
drop’d it on de flo’ and de hygiene teachah toT me to be 
careful er germs.” 
STATE QUARANTINE OR SPECIFIC REGULATIONS 
The following table has been compiled by Prof. J. G. Sanders, Director of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, Harris¬ 
burg, Pa., from recent inquiries as to quarantines in the different States. 
The replies received were in response to the following questions: 
“Does your state prohibit the shipment thereinto of all Five-leaved Pines, or Pines and Ribes from Pennsylvania.” 
‘Have you quarantined against Berberis Vulgaris and varieties, Chestnut trees, Japanese beetle, and Oriental fruit moth?” 
Five-lvd. Pines 
Ribes sp. 
Chestnut Trees 
Barberry 
(Except Jap¬ 
anese) 
Oriental Fruit 
Moth 
Japanese Beetle 
Special State 
Laws for Nur¬ 
sery Stock 
Georgia 
Georgia 
Georgia 
Indiana 
Mississippi 
Delaware 
Alabama 
Illinois 
Illinois 
Michigan 
Michigan 
(under consid- 
(contemplated) 
Arkansas 
Indiana 
(black currant 
Mississippi 
Minnesota 
eration) 
Mississippi 
Florida 
Maine 
only) 
(under consid- 
Ohio 
New York 
Florida 
Louisiana 
(special Permit 
Maine 
eration) 
South Carolina 
(locally, where 
(under consid- 
Michigan 
Maryland 
Maryland 
North Carolina 
Tennessee 
found) 
eration) 
Texas 
Michigan 
Massachusetts 
South Carolina 
Wisconsin 
Virginia 
New Jersey 
Virginia 
Minnesota 
New Hampshire 
New Jersey 
New York 
North Carolina 
South Carolina 
Tennessee 
Virginia 
(Special restric 
tions requiring 
name of con¬ 
signee) 
West Virginia 
Michigan 
Minnesota 
(black currant 
only) 
New Hampshire 
New Jersey 
North Carolina 
South Carolina 
Tennessee 
West Virginia 
Tennessee 
West Virginia 
(special restric¬ 
tion requiring 
name of con¬ 
signee) 
(local district) 
West Virginia 
