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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Jx'autiful trees had wrought niueli havoc in the last few 
years 
One of the sj)eakers in favor of the subway stated 
he had listened to a lot of sob slutf about grass and 
trees, but he had not heard a word about the people who 
are packed in the subway ears like pigs. 
The affair, of course, was only a local one to New 
York City, but it is also true of all the larger cities, to 
a greater or lesser extent, increased poi)ulation, trans¬ 
portation problems are eontinually encroaehing on the 
o])en spaces and vegetation in cities which make life 
worth living and add so miieh to the beauty of them. 
The Editor has been the recipient of many beautiful 
Christmas cards, a unique one came from our friend, 
Frank A. Weber, Nursery, Mo. The picture sketches 
a man in dressing gown, bead swollen and muffled 
up, one foot heavily bandaged resting on a chair, 
the other soaking in a pan of boiling water. Numerous 
bottles of medicine are on the table. The verse reads: 
The pas/ year's be^n so fu|l of drief, 
That I evan spr?[l a lea/: 
*11^3 h^en cusseit, abjjsed & ch3at©&— 
In fact darn0t) badly mistr^aUcd! 
I fear I’l/ soon ht begdjn’; 
Either thgt, or staA bootleggint. 
w/en it comes to Christmas C/eer 
IC 5 a lot mOre planti/u/ tht^n beer 
1 aend Kind Reg«r</s; I can sond no morC 
And hope t/iflgs’ll be briber in 24 . 
A large box of all kinds of evergreens was received 
by the National Nurseryman on the afternoon of Decem¬ 
ber 24, with the enclosed card : 
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS 
Hello folks! How are you 
This merry Christmas morn? 
I hope you’ll have the jolliest day 
You’ve had since you were born. 
E. C. Robbins, Pineola, N. C. 
We thank Mr. Kobbins and wish he could have been 
at the oliice and seen how many people he made happy. 
INSECT AND PEST ACT 
In order that the provisions of the Destructive Insect and 
Pest Act and regulations there under should be generally known, 
a pamphlet covering the matter has been issued from Ottawa, 
and can be had free on application to the Publications Branch 
of the Department of Agriculture. Both Act and regulations 
are administered by the department through an advisory board 
comosed of Messrs. Arthur Gibson, Dominion Entomologist, 
chairman; E. S. Archibald, director, Dominion Experimental 
Farms, vice-chairman; J. H. Grisdale, Dominion Deputy Minister 
of Agriculture, H. T. Gussow% Dominion Botanist, and L. S. 
McLaine, Chief of the Division of Foreign Pests Suppression, 
secretary. The regulations took effect on September 1 this 
year.—Canadian Horticulturist. 
CULTI\ATEI) EvEUGHEENS 
The work just published “Cultivated Evergreens” 
edited by L. H. Bailey should receive a hearty welcome 
from nurserymen and others interested in plants. 
Apart from the limited number of the commoner kinds j, 
there is no grouping of plants about which there is more | 
confusion as to their identity, and there is no grouj) of | 
plants more worthy of attention by the nurseryman. The I 
choicer kinds, which are always in demand, should be 
grown in larger quantities and brought to the attention 
of the buying public to a much greater extent than they 
are. 11 
For a long time the need of a book treating exclusive- |] 
ly of evergreens has been felt and the work just pub- ;; 
lished should satisfy this need. It is practical enough ! 
to satisfy those who are only interested in the cultiva- | 
tion, hardiness and the eommercial possibilities of the q 
plants of which it treats; and technical enough to insure | 
accuracy to those botanically inclined. It is copiously j 
illustrated giving the habits of evergreens, making it 1 
esjiecially valuable to the landscape gardener, who i 
wishes to know what the subjects he is using look like jj 
at maturity. j ■ 
The book is written by ex])erts who are familiar with ! I 
the peculiarities of the differeid species and varieties, j 
cultural note showing the real iilantsmaiTs knowledge of j 
them. It is a book all nurserymen should have, for ' j 
reference, in the office. Published by the MacMillan j 
Company, New York, N. Y. Price $7.50. 
STANDARDIZED PLANT NAMES 
Ah it’s come! Not so big either, when you compare it ; i 
with Index Kewensis. | 
Looks like a headache inside. 1 
I’ll bet the editors were glad when the final proofs 1 1 
were o. k’d. | 
Let’s see how it works. Look uj) Norway Spruce. i 
“Noixvay Maple, Norway S])ruce, etc.—see Maple, 
Spruce, etc. 
Not so good for the first reference one reference should | i 
be enough for sueh a common tree. j 
Here it is. Norw ay Spruee. P. excelsa. Wonder w hat ; | 
P. stands for? Pinus, Picea, Ah that’s it. It used to be | j 
a Spruce not a Fir. Let’s see, the abies were spruces now' 
they are firs, oh shueks! I don’t know what they were. 
Now aecording to standardized plant names Norway '■ 
Sju'Lice is Pirea excelsa and it is a fir. no a spruce. 
Try if again on tlu' .lajionicas the lady gardeners ask 
you about. Nothing doing. That is funny, there should * 
at least have been a note, saying Japonica was merely 
a plant’s tail and only heads were named. 
Oh lor! just as we were getting so we could say i 
Evonymous we have to go back to Euonymons. 
Now try a I’cal hard one. There used to be a tree at ' 
Meehan’s Nurseries Zizi/phus roiiuniinis. xNothing do- 
