THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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genera Ribes and Grossularia from the countries above 
specified, should be forbidden. Any person interested 
in the proposed quarantine will be heard, either in per¬ 
son or by attorney. 
The genus Ribes includes gooseberries and both, ftow- 
ering and fruiting currants. The genus Grossularia is 
synonymous with Ribes. — Editor. 
Notice of Proposed Quarantine on Account of the 
White Pine Blister Rust (Peridermium strobi Kleb.) 
The Secretary of Agriculture has information that a 
dangerous pine disease known as the white pine blister 
rust ( Peridermium strobi Kleb.) not heretofore widely 
prevalent or distributed within and throughout the 
United States, exists in the States of New Hampshire, 
Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and 
Pennsylvania, on account of which it apears to be neces¬ 
sary to quarantine said states, or such portions thereof 
as may be found to be essential, in accordance with Sec¬ 
tion 8 of the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 
(37 Stat. L., 313), to prevent the movement from said 
states to other states and territories of five-leafed pine 
nursery sock and black currant nursery stock. 
A public hearing will be held at the Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, D. C., at ten o’clock A. M., on 
February 4, 1916, in order that any person interested in 
the proposed quarantine may be heard either in person or 
by attorney. 
Notice of Proposed Quarantine on Account of the 
White Pine Blister Rust (Peridermium strobi Kleb.) 
The Secretary of Agriculture deems it necessary, in 
order to effectively prevent the introduction into the 
United States of the white pine blister rust ( Peridermium 
strobi Kleb.), to extend the provisions of Notice of Quar¬ 
antine No. 7, issued May 21, 1913, to forbid the importa¬ 
tion of all five-leafed pines from the Dominion of Canada 
and Newfoundland. 
In compliance with Section 7, of the Plant Quarantine 
Act of August 20, 1912, (37 Stat. L., 313) a public hear¬ 
ing will be held at the Department of Agriculture, Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., at ten o’clock A. M., on February 4, 1916, 
in order that all persons interested in the importation of 
five-leafed pines from the countries specified may be 
heard, either in person or by attorney. 
THE PENNSYLVANIA WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION 
LAW 
This law went into effect January first. There ap¬ 
peared to be some doubt as to whether a nurseryman 
would be exempt from the operation of this law in view 
of the fact that the Legislature passed a supplement to 
the act, which reads:— 
“That nothing contained in any article or any sec¬ 
tion of an act, entitled the Workmen’s Compensation 
Act of 1913, shall apply to or in any way affect any 
person who, at the time of injury, is engaged in 
domestic service or agriculture.” 
The question was laid before the Workmen s Compen¬ 
sation Board at Harrisburg, and they have ruled as fol¬ 
lows :— 
“Those engaged in the business of fruit growing, 
poultry raising and horticulture as a business and 
not merely incidental to general farming, come un¬ 
der the Compensation Act and are not exempted by 
Act 343 of June 3, 1913 wh ich is a supplement to 
the general Compensation Act.” 
This would make it appear that a Nurseryman is not 
an agriculturist. What is he? Will some nursery¬ 
man please answer. 
WHAT SHOULD A MAN SPEND ON HIS YARD? 
What should a man spend on his yard is really a ques¬ 
tion that needs answering, not only to cheer the heart of 
the nurseryman, but for the benefit of the man who has 
a home with a yard and wants to get the full value from 
his investment. 
An investigation in some localities of present conditions, 
by a wag, would result in the answer, not a “durned” 
cent if lie can help it, but in other localities it would be 
10 or 13 per cent, the cost of the house. 
Of course there can be no rule about the matter as 
there are too many governing conditions. 
Very often the home builder’s pocketbook is the chief 
dictator and curbs his inclination, but the grounds of a 
house costing $10,000 up, in a suburban locality certainly 
ought to have definite consideration in the estimates. 
Even when provided for, too often the house costs more 
than the original estimate and the grounds suffer in con¬ 
sequence. 
That the planting of the grounds does not receive 
enough consideration is often very evident. The build¬ 
ings are often splendid in design and material and the 
workmanship of Hie best, yet the grounds are neither 
properly graded nor planted, the latter often consisting of 
a few common trees put in where they will do the most 
harm from an artistic point of view. 
Yet the interiors are finished and furnished with the 
very best. The rug of one room costing as much as it 
would take to properly plant the grounds. 
When one conies to think about it, this is not right 
from any point of view, as the occupants spend as much 
time on the outside on the porches as they do waking 
hours inside and one would think beauty would be as 
much appreciated outside as in. The work of the finest 
artist or master workman cannot compare for a moment 
with the beauty of a well grown plant. 
In localities at a distance from nurseries and large 
cities the question of skilled labor to look after the 
grounds is the governing factor, the owner being quite 
willing to spend if he was assured of being able to have 
them cared for after laying out. 
The California Nursery Company, Inc., Niles, Calilor- 
nia, has issued a very large and comprehensive catalogue 
of the plants they carry. The book, for so it deserves to 
be called, is really a very good cyclopedia of the plants 
in cultivation on the Pacific coast. There are no prices, 
no selling talk and very little practical information. It 
is beautifully gotten up, terse descriptions and fully illus¬ 
trated. It contains 123 pages, and lists both orna¬ 
mental and fruit trees. 
