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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
Established 1893 by C. L. YATES. Incorporated 1902 
Published monthly by 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
218 Livingston Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
Editor .ERNEST HEMMING, Flourtown, Pa. 
The leading trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in 
Nursery Stocks 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, 1900 
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Rochester, N. Y., March, 1916. 
According to the report of 
THE PROPOSED the hearing before the Fed- 
QUARANTINE ON THE eral Horticultural Board 
WHITE PINE held at Washington, to show 
BLISTER RUST cause why the Quarantine 
should not be put into effect, 
there is little evidence to show why it should have been 
proposed at all. 
If the White Pine Blister Rust is as dangerous a disease 
as claimed and realizing the immense value of the Pine 
timber, to say nothing of the aesthetic value and beauty 
of the tree, the proposed quarantine on a few kinds of 
plants in a few states seems like a childish proposition, 
when such vast interests are at stake. 
To prohibit the movement of nursery stock which is 
under constant care and inspection without being able to 
control private plantations, forests, wild plants, birds and 
wind, seems a futile effort that only works a hardship on 
the nurseryman. 
Broadly speaking nurseries are less responsible for the 
spread of plant diseases than any other vehicle, due to 
present system of inspection and to the fact that the nur¬ 
seryman’s bread and butter depends upon keeping them 
clean. 
Nurseries are well under government control and any 
nurseryman failing to live up to his responsibilities 
should be promptly made to do so or get out of business. 
If the Federal Horticultural Board would fully realize 
this it would find the nusseryman more in sympathy with 
its efforts, because to no one more than the nurseryman 
is the control and eradication of diseases and pests more 
vital. 
Whole-hearted co-operation between the Federal Hor¬ 
ticultural Board and nurserymen will do more than ill 
considered or experimental quarantine. Antagonism 
will make efforts largely null and void. Bugs and di¬ 
sease wil not obey the law. 
If the proposed quarantine is essential to the control 
of the disease, then the nurseryman with a large invest¬ 
ment should be shown that his loss is for the public good, 
lie is hardly likely to submit gracefully to a quarantine 
in political division of territory. Because his nursery 
happens to be within a certain state he is forbidden to 
ship, while his neighbor over the line has no such restric¬ 
tion and potentially just as likely to spread the disease. 
There is serious doubt if currant and gooseberry nur¬ 
sery stock as handled will spread the disease. It is not 
proven that the blister rust lives over in the wood of cur¬ 
rants and gooseberries, according to Dr. Spalding it is 
only on the leaves, and nursery stocks are not shipped 
while in leaf and from all accounts the disease is so read¬ 
ily recognized while on these plants that it would be an 
easy matter for the inspector to have such stocks promptly 
destroyed, especially if subject pines are in the locality. 
The same authority states the process of incubation of 
the spores after they have been transferred from the cur¬ 
rants and gooseberries to the pine, according to Dr. Spald¬ 
ing, is six years. This suggests the one real difficulty of 
controlling the disease and a quarantine may be necessary 
to prevent the movement of white pine from any source 
whatever for the maximum period. 
The fact that the Blister Rust cannot be transferred 
from one pine tree to another except via the genus Ribes 
readily suggests a means of control much more effective 
than quarantining a portion of the nurseries in the 
United States of which it is by no means proved are even 
likely to spread the disease. 
Warren H. Manning submitted a 
ABBREVIATIONS short reprint of a list of botanical 
OF LATIN NAMES names with abbreviations, which 
indicates that before long there 
will be at the disposal of nurserymen a standard work of 
this kind, which no doubt will lo a greater or lesser ex¬ 
tent be adopted and used. 
To anyone who has to write the lengthy Latin names 
many times over it will be a great relief to have a recog¬ 
nized abbreviation. 
The greatest danger perhaps will be in attempting too 
much at the start. While it is necessary to compile a 
very complete list in the beginning for reference, for nur¬ 
serymen to attempt to adopt them in a wholesale manner 
is likely to give him much more labor than writing the 
names out in full, as constant reference will have to be 
made to know exactly what they stand for. 
The idea is in use in many landscape offices and will 
be adopted by the American Society of Landscape Archi¬ 
tects, so that no doubt in time the nurseryman must ex¬ 
pect to receive lists of abbreviated names for quotations. 
THE NURSERYMAN AS KING 
Editor “National Nurseryman,” 
I find the above topic for discussion before the Min¬ 
nesota State Horticultural Society at its recent meeting, 
(and published in the January issue of the “National 
Nurseryman”). I did not attend this meeting, there¬ 
fore do not know what was said on this subject, which 
strikes me as amusing. I do not see from what point of 
view the nurseryman could possibly be compared to a 
