THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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It is pleasing to note, however, that indications of sub¬ 
stantial progress are appearing. Such indication comes to 
our desk in the form of a bulletin by H. P. Gould, Pomolo- 
gist in charge of Fruit District Investigation in the Bureau 
of Plant Industry, Washington. This is Bulletin No. 135. 
It comprises a list of the orchard fruits of the Piedmont and 
Blue Ridge regions of Virginia and the South Atlantic 
states. The pamphlet includes a description of soils of the 
region, the climate and the variety grown. The grower of 
that region will find valuable information in reference to the 
varieties^ and the different classes of fruits which are most 
likely to succeed. 
We announced in our last issue that the 
BROWN Brown Tail moth, an enemy which has 
TAIL been causing damage to fruit and forest 
MOTH. trees in eastern New England for a num¬ 
ber of years, has been found in several 
importations of French apple stocks by New York nursery¬ 
men. The discovery of this'pest is due to the watchfulness 
of the nurserymen, who immediately referred the unknown 
insect to official entomologists. The fact that these im¬ 
portations were found by New York nurserymen is not a 
suggestion that New York state is the only region which 
received them, but is rather a tribute to the vigilance of the 
discoverers. In fact, it has been found elsewhere. 
Most of the apple and pear stock comes into the country 
at or about holiday season. It is widely distributed. 
Brown Tail Moth was first found in three consignments 
to different nurserymen in the Empire state. It is highly 
improbable that all the insects brought in were confined to 
these three particular importations. Nurserymen, there¬ 
fore, are reminded that they should be on the look-out for 
the enemy. We published last month a description of the 
insect and an outline of its life history and habits. Fore¬ 
warned is forearmed. Examine your fruit stocks clean 
and thoroughly. Burn all packing material. Take no 
chances. We have enough enemies now to contend with, 
and prevention is much better than cure. We are indebted 
to Prof. M. V. Slingerland and Dr. E. P. Felt for photographs 
used in illustrating last month’s article. We are also 
indebted to Professors Parrott, Gillette and Symons for 
exceedingly instructive articles in the present issue on the 
more general aspects of insect control. 
The story of the evolution of the American 
AMERICAN grape is one of the most interesting in the 
GRAPE whole history of fruit growing in America. 
CULTURE. The grape was. the first fruit which 
attracted the attention of the pioneers, 
on their arrival in the New World. The grape is the fruit 
which has been most profoundly modified by the influence 
of the cultivator. Because of the great range of native 
species, there has been unusual opportunity for the making 
of new combinations. Added to the native species the 
European form has played an important part in the im¬ 
provement of our garden and vineyard varieties. 
Each region has had its noted worker. In the east the 
list of noted hybridists is long and honorable. In the 
southwest we have among the workers of today a man who 
has made grape growing possible and even profitable where 
a quarter of a century ago nothing but the native grape 
prevailed. Prof. T. V. Munson, of Denison, Texas, has 
done a grand work in developing a race of grapes suitable 
to the great variety of soil and climate found in the vast 
stretches of Texas land. 
It is most interesting to note that Mr. Munson has 
brought together in attractive form his experiences and 
knowledge of grapes, gathered as a grape botanist, a vine- 
yardist and hybridist. He has collated from the day book 
of experience and now has prepared for publication a volume 
which is certain to be replete with fact, suggestion and 
inspiration. This book is to be of good size and well illus¬ 
trated, with full page engravings. Work of this kind is 
rarely a profitable publishing enterprise. Mr. Munson has 
found difficulty in securing a publisher to take hold of it, and 
has decided to publish privately a limited subscription 
edition. This will be issued at the rate of $3.00 pel volume. 
Those who desire to secure a copy of this first edition, 
which will be limited to one thousand copies, should write 
to the author. 
COLORADO’S INSPECTION LAW. 
Orchard Interests to be Thoroughly Protected. 
The writer has received so many inquiries from nursery¬ 
men who wish to know the exact requirements of Colorado’s 
new inspection law, it is possible that a short article upon the 
subject may be of interest at this time. 
First let me explain that Colorado, along with a few- 
other states in the Rocky Mountain region, occupies a 
somewhat unique position. Our orchard sections have 
gained an enviable reputation for the production of the 
choicest fruits, that are highly colored, of excellent flavor 
and, perhaps most important of all, remarkably free from 
the unsightly blemishes due to fungous diseases and insect 
pests. Our orchardists are able to put clean, perfect, 
attractive fruit upon the market and sell it at high prices, 
chiefly for tw'o reasons. First, there is no place in the world 
where better care is taken of the orchards or more thorough 
and intelligent spraying done to keep down insect pests, 
and, second, many of the worst orchard pests, both of 
insects and diseases, we do not yet have to contend with. 
For example, the following enemies and handicaps to 
fruit growing are not yet knowm in Colorado: San Jose 
Scale, White Peach Scale, Plum Curculio, Apple Curculio, 
shot-hole Bark Borer, Round-headed Apple Borer, Railroad 
worm, Gipsy Moth, Brown-tail Moth, Canker Worm, Apple 
Scab, Bitter Rot, Peach Yellows and Little Peach (lucky 
Colorado— Ed.) Many other pests and diseases of more or 
less importance known to other sections might also be added. 
Some troubles that we do have, such as Crown Gall, Peach 
Mildew, Black Peach Aphis, Black Cherry Aphis, Peach 
Borer, Flat-headed Borer, Oyster-shell Scale, etc., only occur 
in very limited localities and are being kept well in hand. 
None of the pests or diseases mentioned can be originated 
in the orchards. We can get them only by having them 
brought in from localities where they already occur, and 
about the only w r ay these troubles can come to us is upon 
nursery stock. 
In the control of orchard pests, as in the control of 
diseases that attack the human race, an ounce of prevention 
is worth many pounds of cure. It is said that the Brovm- 
