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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
NURSERYMEN COOPERATING WITH THE U. S. D. 
OF A. IN THE PRODUCTION OF AMERICAN 
GROWN FRUIT STOCKS 
President Lloyd C. Stark lias appointed the following 
committee to cooperate with the Bureau of Plant Indus¬ 
try in connection with its investigation in the raising of 
fruit and other stocks in this country. 
Chairman, J. H. Skinner, Topeka, Kansas. 
Robert Chase, Chase, Alabama. 
Tom Rogers, Winfield, Kansas. 
Homer Reed, Louisiana, Mo. 
F. A. Wiggins, Toppenish, Wash. 
,1. Harold Hume, Glen St. Mary, Fla. 
J. F. Jones, Lancaster, Pa. 
It is very probable the supply of foreign grown seed¬ 
ling stocks will be completely shut off in a few years, 
so it is one of the most important subjects before Amer¬ 
ican nurserymen at the present time. 
As President Stark points out “It behooves the nur¬ 
serymen to approach the matter in the most aggressive, 
constructive manner’” and be lias selected men who can 
be depended upon to work hard to assist the Department 
in its investigations that are so vital to the nursery in¬ 
dustry. 
Prof. L. C. Corbet, Horticulturist, and Mr. L. C. Scott, 
Pomologist, Bureau of Plant Industry, have charge of 
the investigations. 
Obituary. 
MRS. CHARLES L. YATES 
Word lias only recenlly been received of the death of 
Mrs. Charles L. Yates, which occurred in Los Angeles, 
California, August 5th last. 
Mrs. Yates was the widow of Charles L. Yates, the 
founder of the National Nurseryman. 
After the death of Mr. Yates, his widow resided some 
time in Rochester, then spent her winters at Los Angeles. 
Later she sold her house and moved permanently to Cali¬ 
fornia where she resided up to the time of her death. 
Of late years her health has been poor but it had been 
hoped that the climate of California would cause im¬ 
provement. 
PACIFIC COAST ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 
The Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast 
Association of Nurserymen will be held at Seattle July 
12, 13, and 14 and an interesting event is anticipated. 
Nurserymen on the Pacific Coast are now lining up to 
produce and supply the seedling and ornamental stocks 
formerly imported now being affected by quarantine. 
M ith this in view the propagation of these stocks will 
be given prominent place for careful consideration at 
the coming convention. 
The local nurserymen at Seattle in conjunction with 
the Park Board, the Agricultural Department of the 
Public Schools and Seattle Horticultural Association 
are preparing to make an exhibit of flowers and ever¬ 
green plants in Volunteer Park during the closing day 
of the Convention. 
Plans for excursion to the beautiful Island of Vash- 
on and to the famous berry field of the Puyallup Valley 
are being prepared. 
Propagators of fruit tree seedling stocks and rose 
stocks are reporting good prospects for a high quality 
product and the quantity will be much larger than was 
available last year. 
The supply of prune trees is likely to exceed the de¬ 
mand owing to a demoralized market for the dried 
prune crop of last year, which like other fruit await re¬ 
adjustment of freight rates and capacity of consumers 
to purchase. 
The general cleanup has been very good regardless 
of many cancellations as new buyers took the place of 
those unable to complete their contracts. Cherry and 
pear for the coming season reported rather scarce, ap¬ 
ple will be adequate, peach plentiful and other classes 
normal. 
C. A. Tonneson, 
Executive Secretary. 
Burton, Wash. 
NURSERYMEN ASKED TO COOPERATE IN 
PREVENTING SHIPMENTS OF WHITE PINES, 
GOOSEBERRY AND CURRANT PLANTS INTO 
WESTERN STATES IN VIOLATION 
OF THE LAW 
Many illegal shipments of currant and gooseberry 
bushes and five-leaved pines have been made in the past 
four years, a large majority of them by nurserymen. 
An analysis of the violations of blister rust quarantines 
which have been discovered shows that out of a total of 
1122, 49 nurseries were responsible for 105 of these 
prohibited shipments. 
White pines were discovered, in a few shipments, un¬ 
der the name of “Jack pine,” or other yellow pines. Vio¬ 
lations have occurred from Massachusetts, New York, 
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, 
Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, 
and Alabama. Some of the shipments were made from 
regions infected with blister rust, and a few came from 
nurseries known to have diseased stock the previous 
year. 
All such violators of this quarantine will be pros¬ 
ecuted. A number of convictions have already been se¬ 
cured. A force of inspectors is in the field, and drastic 
action will be taken to make the quarantine effective. 
The cooperation of all nurserymen is requested in up¬ 
holding the Federal and State blister rust quarantines. 
Federal Quarantine No. 26, effective June 1, 1917, pro¬ 
hibits the shipment of five-leaved pines, currants, or 
gooseberries (the host plants of the blister rust) from 
points east of and including Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, 
Arkansas, and Louisiana to points west of these States. 
This quarantine also prohibits the shipment of five¬ 
leaved pines and black currants from New England and 
New York to any point outside of these States, and pro¬ 
hibits, further, the shipment of five-leaved pines and 
