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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Cdorkers 
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Circular No. 3 issued May nth, 1908, is devoted to tumors or 
knots on apple and quince trees. This describes various swellings 
which appear on the stems and main branches of these trees, and 
nurserymen are advised “To be careful in the selection of scions 
and stock for propagation to see that they are always taken from 
healthy trees.” The investigator believes that these troubles are 
largely distributed by careless propagators, that diseased scions 
mean diseased stock and that healthy trees are only secured by 
selecting from clean, vigorous parent stock. 
DISEASES OF ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
A useful pamphlet on this subject has recently been published 
as a reprint from the year book of the Department of Agriculture, for 
1007. It includes a discussion of diseases of trees due to unfavorable 
surroundings, diseases due to parasites, together with suggestions 
for prevention and treatment. The interest in the care of shade 
trees is constantly increasing and this small pamphlet is timely. 
Another bulletin of the same type but very much fuller has been 
published by the Cornell Experiment Station which includes in 
satisfactory detail the particulars of shade tree management with 
special reference to the pruning and care of the trees. 
STRAWBERRIES FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
[New Hampshire Experiment Station. Bulletin No. 137.! 
This is a very interesting essay on the culture of strawberries in 
New Hampshire. It is supplemented by an extended descriptive 
list of varieties. The bulletin is tastefully illustrated and should be 
of great service to the strawberry grower not only of New Hamp¬ 
shire but in the New England states generally. 
CATERPILLARS INJURING APPLE FOLIAGE IN LATE 
SUMMER. 
[New Hampshire Experiment Station Bulletin No. 139.] 
An illustrated bulletin of some twenty pages describing the work 
of the fall web worm, the yellow necked apple caterpillar, the red 
humped apple caterpillar, the hickory tiger moth, the rusty tussock 
moth and the white marked tussock moth. These insects are all 
injurious to a greater or less extent to the foliage of apple trees in the 
late summer and early autumn. Unfortunately their presence is 
often overlooked and the damage which they cause is entirely 
unappreciated. 
Book Reviews 
The American Apple Orchard. F. A. Waugh. Orange, Judd 
Company. Price $1.00; 7F2 by 5 inches, 214 pages, illustrated. 
An interesting discussion of American methods of growing 
apples. It is primarily a book for the planter and as such it is 
suggestive and useful. The principal topics entering into the 
economy of apple growing, its soil management, tree management, 
fruit management and the like, are pleasantly discussed. 
Physical Properties of Soils. Arthur G. McCall. Orange, 
Judd Company. Illustrated, 5 by 7 inches, 106 pages, cloth, 50 
cents. 
A book for the instructor in soils. As a laboratory guide it 
should be very useful. 
First Course in Biology. L. H. Bailey and Walter M. Coleman. 
7M by 5 Vx inches. Made up of three separate books aggregat¬ 
ing 590 pp., illustrated, price $1.25. Macmillan & Company. 
The book is divided into three parts, first “Plant Biology,” sec¬ 
ond “Animal Biology” and third “Human Biology.” The whole 
volume is an effort to present in suitable form the elements of 
organic life to the students in the lower grades. The book is said to 
“stand between unorganized nature-study of the intermediate 
grades and the formal science of the more advanced grades.” As a 
combination elementary plant and animal science the material is 
most suggestively arranged. 
The Tree Doctor, by John Davey. 9 Ya, by 6 2 35 PP-> illustrated. 
This unique literary production is a re-issue by the author of his 
first publication under the same name. It describes the methods 
of pruning trees with special reference to the healing of wounds, 
decayed spots and the like. The title of the volume describes its 
purpose very accurately. The author’s directions for the im¬ 
provement of diseased, decrepit and injured trees, are excellent, but 
some of his speculations are rather wide of the mark. We can 
hardly subscribe to the statement that “pear blights and other 
blights are not a disease but the result of injuries, the source of dis¬ 
ease,” or “the cause of peach yellows, the far removal of trees from 
their native environment,” but despite several equivocal statements, 
the volume is full of suggestions and cannot be otherwise than of 
great service to the beginner or the owner of either fruit or shade 
trees. A campaign of this kind in order to save street trees from 
the devastations of the linemen and park trees from destruction from 
ignorant workmen, is urgently needed and the author has illus¬ 
trated and presented the subject in a very effective and taking 
manner. The volume is published by the Stallfield Publishing 
Company, Akron, Ohio. 
Business JVIovements 
A recent issue of the Arlington Review Hearld contains a very 
attractively illustrated sketch of the nursery of Marshall Brothers, 
situated near that town. The article shows not only attractive 
views of the nursery, but also the pleasant homes of the members 
of the firm. 
WILLIS NURSERIES, OTTAWA, KANSAS. 
In the last issue of the National Nurseryman, the Willis 
Nurseries were inadvertantly moved from Ottawa to Topeka, Kan¬ 
sas. This is to say that they are still doing business at the old stand, 
where the proprietor Mr. A. Willis is on tap ready to take orders for 
A-1-nursery stock, with a leaning towards good apple seedlings. 
The mistake was the National Nurseryman’s. 
COOPER’S SPRAY FLUIDS. 
These well known manufacturers of sheep dip have been study¬ 
ing the question of fungicides and insecticides for some years and as a 
result of careful experiment now offer to plant growers a series of 
spray liquids. They have recently issued a booklet giving a great 
mass of testimonials covering a wide range of territory. They wish 
fruit growers to test the merits of their formulas before accepting or 
rejecting their statements. This is fair. The address of the firm is 
William Cooper & Nephews, 177 William Street, Chicago, Ill. 
NEW COMPANIES. 
The Satsuma Nursery Company was recently organized at 
League City, Texas for the purpose of doing a general nursery busi¬ 
ness. Genuine seedless Satsuma orange trees grafted on hardy citrus 
Trifoliata roots is a specialty. 
Dear Sirs: Snyder, Texas, January 4, 1909. 
I am preparing to open up business here this season on a moderate 
scale and believe I will have fairly good success from the start. 
Our business will be known as The Snyder Nurseries, S. E. Smith 
and myself proprietors. We will grow a general line for this section 
of the country. W. K. Eastes. 
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W. J. Rimp, of the firm of B. Rimp Royal Moerheim Nursery, 
Dedemsvoort, Holland, who has made his American headquarters 
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., has returned to Europe. His address is 
Dedemsvoort, Holland. 
Henry P. Hill formerly of Irondequoit, N. Y., has changed his 
address to Penfield, N. Y. 
W. B. Cole, Painesville, O., is making many improvements in his 
nursery, including electric lights. 
Thos. Meehan & Sons, Inc., of Philadelphia, have opened a 
branch office in the Metropolitan Life Building, New York ,for their 
retail department which is constantly enlarging. — Flo. Ex. 
