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FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated. 
Vol. XX. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY, 1912 
No. 5 
DANSVILLE NURSERIES DURING THE WINTER SEASON 
AS DISCOVERED BY AN AMATEUR 
Specially Prepared for the National Nurseryman 
By E. L. BERNAYS 
A Great Fruit Tree Producing Region 
While the nursery industry in Geneva and Ne^vark is 
concentrated in the hands of a few large growers, we find 
that the opposite holds true in Dansville, New York, for 
here the industry is in the hands of as many as one hundred 
twentv-five men. In fact, we find that a local nurserymen’s 
nursery stock. Its soil is good with good sub-drainage, 
doing' away with the tile drainage required in Geneva and 
other regions. Even the heavier hill soils are adapted to the 
growing of stock. The climate is advantageous, for the hills 
act as protection from disastrous winds. There is no San 
Jose scale present, nor are other plant diseases in evidence. 
THE PLANT OF THE GEO. A. SWEET NURSERY CO. 
organization exists in the town, and although there are 
conflicting opinions as to the amount of good that it ac¬ 
complishes, the fact remains that it is a hopeful sign of the 
times and deserves to be encouraged. 
Dansville and the surrounding nursery region is situated 
in the Genesee Valley, and the three thousand acres devoted 
to the nursery industry here are principally in fruit. Dans¬ 
ville has artificial and natural advantages for the raising of 
Insect pests are very few. The nursery inspection has been 
thorough and rigid. Mr. Morey, Mr. Maloney, and other 
nurserymen believe that it has been due to the efforts of Mr. 
Barden, the state inspector, and his assistants that the scale 
has been kept out of this region. Mr. Barden, during his 
administration of ten years, has destroyed hundreds of 
thousands of cions and stocks which have come in with the 
scale on them. The railroad facilities afforded Dansville 
