THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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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. 
AWARDED THE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPOSITION , /goo. 
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serymen and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Address Editor, Ithaca N. Y. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester , as second-class matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., November, 1908. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President—Charles J. Brown, president of Brown Bros. Co., 
Rochester; vice-president, C. M. Hobbs, Bridgeport, Ind.; secre¬ 
tary, Geo. C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Forestry—J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la. 
Transportation—F. H. Stannard, Ottawa, Kansas. 
Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y. 
Legislation—Wm. Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. 
Co-operation with Entomologists—Hon. Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md. 
Program—-Jas. M. Pitkin, Newark, N. Y. 
Publicity—J. M. Irvine, St. Joseph, Mo. 
Exhibits—Thomas B. Meehan, Dreshertown, Pa. 
Arrangements—Geo. C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y. 
Editing Report—Geo. C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y. 
Entertainment—Wm. Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. 
National Council of Horticulture—-Chas. J. Maloy. 
STATE AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS. 
American Nurserymen’s Protective Association—President, R. C. Berckmans, 
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, John S. Barnes, Yaleville; 
secretary, Frank E. Conine, Stratford. 
Eastern Association of Nurserymen—President,. W. C. Barry, Rochester, N. Y.; 
secretary-treasurer, William Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. Meets annually in’ 
.Tanuary. 
National Association of Retail Nurserymen—President, Wm. Pitkin, Rochester, N. Y. 
secretary, F. E. Grover, Rochester, N. Y. 
Nurserymen’s Mutual Protective Association—President, N. H. Albaugh, Phoneton, 
O.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y. Meets annually in June. 
National Nurserymen’s Association of Ohio—President, J. W. McNary, Dayton, O.; 
secretary, W. B. Cole, Painesville, O. 
Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen—President, W. D. Ingalls, North Yakima, 
Wash.; secretary-treasurer, C. A. Tonneson, Tacoma, Wash. Meets annually in 
June. 
Pennsylvania Nurserymen’s Association—-President, Thos. B. Meehan, Dreshertown 
Pa., secretary, Earl Peters, Mt. Holy Springs, Pa. 
Southern Nurserymen’s Association—President, Charles T. Smith, Concord, Ga.; 
secretary-treasurer, A. I. Smith, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Tennessee Nurserymen’s Association—President, J. C. Hale, Winchester, Tenn.; 
secretary, G. M. Bentley, Knoxville, Tenn. 
Texas Nurserymen’s Association—President—E. W. Knox, San Antonio, Texas; 
secretary-treasurer, Tohn S. Kerr, Sherman, Texas. 
Western Association of Nurserymen—President, E. P. Bernardin, Parson, Kas.; 
secretary-treasurer, E. T. Holman, Leavenworth, Kan. Meets in July and 
December at Kansas City. 
West Virginia Nurserymen’s Association—President, W. A. Gold, Mason City; 
secretary, R. R, Harris, Harrisville, W, Va, 
A good deal of capital is being made in 
SPRAY newspaper columns recently of a bulletin 
INJURY. issued by the Colorado Experiment Sta¬ 
tion on the “arsenical poisoning of fruit 
trees.” This bulletin is written by the 
professor of chemistry and geology of the Colorado State 
College of Agriculture. Had it been the work of a professor 
of vegetable pathology or plant physiology our faith in the 
force of its assumptions would be much stronger. 
It is probable that excessive and unnecessarily heavy 
sprayings will not only injure the tree itself but will influence 
injuriously the quality of the soil in the immediate vicinity. 
Colorado sprayers have the reputation of spraying copiously. 
They use large quantities of arsenate of lead and have been 
employing other arsenites very freely. It is not out of the 
range of possibility to believe that young and somewhat 
tender barked trees might be injured by soaking them in 
arsenical solutions, however weak, but this sort of treat¬ 
ment is not spraying; it is drenching, and no sane orchardist 
thinks it necessary to “soak” his trees in this fashion. 
Spraying in this manner is on the principle that if a little 
is good, more is better, an entirely mistaken idea. 
However, the warning is a timely one and owners of 
young orchards wherever located should remember that there 
is a possibility of having too much of a good thing. Spray¬ 
ing like most other horticultural operations must always 
be conducted with a good admixture of common sense. 
A report emanating from Kansas City 
SPRAYING gives the impression that a movement is 
LAWS. on foot in that region for the institution 
of a law which will regulate the quality of 
insecticides and fungicides and to some 
extent formulas used in spraying. The first part of this 
seems quite feasible and not unreasonable. That is to say a 
given material as Paris Green for instance, should contain a 
definite quantity of the essential poison; arsenic, or copper 
sulphate should contain a definite quantity of the essential 
substance but if we are not mistaken this feature is already 
covered by the Pure Foods Law. 
The second part of the act, that which proposes to re¬ 
gulate formulas would not only be impracticable but 
absurd. It would be just as reasonable to ask for a law to 
regulate the treatment of human diseases so that physicians 
would prescribe uniform remedies. In the case of treat¬ 
ing diseases of orchard trees or insect enemies, the remedy 
must always be applied with due respect to environment and 
local conditions and it would be ridiculous to insist that the 
West Coast fruit grower should use exactly the same formula 
in treating San Jose scale, codling moth or apple scab as the 
man who lives in New England or on the Atlantic Coast. For 
a number of years Canada has enforced an adulteration act 
covering the manufacture of Paris Green and other common 
insecticides. In a bulletin recently issued by the chief 
analyst of the Inland Revenue Department, which gives a 
report on 150 samples of Paris Green obtained throughout 
Canada in the spring of 1908, only a single sample did not 
conform to the provision of this act. In 1895 the first year, 
of the work, out of 72 samples examined, 15 were found to be 
