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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
PLUM STOCKS SUBJECT OF STATION BULLETIN 
POISON IVY 
A Guide for Nurserymen and Fruit Growers—Myrobolan 
Stork Found Best 
How different root stocks affect the growth and yield of the 
common varieties of plums forms the subject of a bulletin en¬ 
titled Stocks for Plums just issued by the New York Agricultur¬ 
al Experiment Station at Geneva under the authorship of Dr. 
U. P. Hedrick, Station Horticulturist. Experiments were begun 
on the Station grounds in 1912 in which six different stocks 
were tested out with fifteen varieties of plums commonly grown 
in New York. The effects of the stocks on the growth of the 
different varieties for ten seasons and on the yield for six sea¬ 
sons have been noted and the conclusion reached that the pres¬ 
ent tendency among New York nurserymen and fruit growers 
to use Myrobalan stock for plums is fully justified by the results 
secured in the Station experiments. 
“Cultivated fruit trees are unions of ‘stock’ and ‘cion’ and 
these react on each other for better or worse,” says the author. 
“The fruit grower as well as the nurseryman has much at stake 
in the stocks upon which his trees are grown. The Station ex¬ 
periments show that of the stocks now in general use in New 
York, as regards vigor and productiveness of the resulting tree, 
Myrobalan is best for Bradshaw, Grand Duke, Italian Prune, 
Lombard, Reine Claude, Shropshire, and Drap d’Or. Abundance 
and Burbank grow about equally well on Myrobalan and on 
peach stock. Wild Goose, Pottawattamie, Forest Garden, and 
Wayland, native plums, will probably do best on Marianna 
stock, altho they make very satisfactory trees on Myrobalan 
also. DeSoto does best on roots of its own species. Fortunate¬ 
ly, Myrobalan is now the commonest stock used in the nurser¬ 
ies and orchards of New York.” 
The bulletin is now available for distribution and may be had 
free of charge by anyone interested in the subject upon appli¬ 
cation to the Station at Geneva. 
LISTS NEW FRUITS FOR NEW YORK 
Station Bulletin Describes Merits of New Tree and Bush 
Fruits—Stocks Limited 
Under the title of New or Noteworthy Fruits, Dr. U. P. Hed¬ 
rick, Horticulturist at the New York Agricultural Experiment 
Station at Geneva, has just issued a new bulletin describing- 
some of the more promising new varieties of fruits tested out 
on the Station grounds. Four new varieties of apples, one new 
variety each of pear, peach, cherry, and nectarine, seven new 
kinds of grapes, three new raspberries, and three new straw¬ 
berries are described in the bulletin. Several of the new fruits 
are illustrated, some in colors. The bulletin is now available for 
free distribution to those who will address a request for it to 
the Station at Geneva. 
“This Station makes an effort to test every new fruit offered 
by American nurserymen which seems suited to the soil and 
climate of New York,” says Dr. Hedrick. “The Station is also 
attempting to breed new varieties of all hardy fruits, and, from 
time to time, these new fruits are described in special bulletins, 
such as the one referred to above. 
“It must be said at once, however, to prevent futile inquiry, 
that plants, cuttings, or cions of these new fruits cannot be ob¬ 
tained from the Station. All varieties originating on the Sta¬ 
tion grounds are distributed at about the cost of production by 
the New York State Fruit Testing Cooperative Association, Inc., 
the Secretary of which can be reached by addressing communi¬ 
cations to the Association in the care of the Experiment Sta¬ 
tion. However, the stock of most of these new fruits is quite 
limited. In the case of fruits which have been developed else¬ 
where and found suited to New York conditions in the Station 
tests, stock should be purchased direct from the originator 
whenever possible.” 
George A. Marshall, Arlington, Nebraska, is spending 
a few weeks at Mercer, Wisconsin, but very busy, as 
usual, but at a job that he likes better than nursery work, 
it's fishing. 
According to I he Public Ledger, Philadelphia, Dr. Al¬ 
bert St t ickler, of 327 South 16th street, a dermatologist 
of the Samaritan Hospital, has discovered a new method 
of treating ivy poisoning so effective that 95% of the 
cases treated are cured within forty-eight hours. 
He has outlined his treatment in the Journal of the 
American Medical Association, after three years of ex¬ 
perimentation. 
I)r. Strickler said a solution of glucosidal was injected 
into the muscle tissue of I lie patient. Some cases showed 
improvement within ten hours after the first injection. 
Considerable work lias been done in immunizing those 
who are susceptible to ivy poison. The number of injec¬ 
tions required varied from three to five, depending upon 
the severity of the attack and the response of the patient. 
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