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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
imported fruit stocks, to guarantee by means of a state¬ 
ment on the label that the plant has heeti grown by a 
certain person and it seems hardly the tit subject of leg¬ 
islation to make such a re(}uirement. 
(3) The same comment of impracticability or im¬ 
possibility can be assigned to the requirement to state 
where the plant was grown. 
(4) It surely is extraordinary to note that this bill 
proposes to recjuire that nursery stock given away by 
people must be labelled and that the penalties for failure 
to label or mislabeling attach to such gifts. 
Yours very truly, 
Curtis Nye Sjiith. 
THE CANADIAN GLADIOLUS SOCIETY 
The Canadian Gladiolus Society Executive Committee 
has decided to have the annual exhibition and convention 
on August 20th and 21st, at the Ontario Agricultural Col¬ 
lege. This institution is also headquarters for the official 
trial plots. It is expected that the exhibition will be of 
even more interest for the gladiolus public than last year. 
The prize list, almost completed, far excels any previous 
list. The trial plots will no double contain some of the 
finest varieties in cultivation sent from all over the con¬ 
tinent as well as Europe. Membership has almost reached 
the four hundred mark but it is expected many bundreds 
yet will join the society. New" members are joining from 
all over the Dominion as well as the United States and 
parts of Europe and the Antipodes. 
THE APPLE INDUSTRY IN THE NORTHWEST 
Northw"estern apple shipments to March 1st totalled a]i- 
proximately 46,000 cars, or about 9,300 in excess of last 
season’s total output. 
The four Northwestern States may foiwvard close to 
50,000 cars, w"hich w"ill be the largest movement on 
record. 
Financially, the season has not been entirely satisfac¬ 
tory, although production records have been broken. Con¬ 
sidering the increased yield, it is barely possible that net 
returns will be a little more than last season’s. 
Extracts from Crops & Markets, March 15. 
Editor National Nurseryman, 
Dear Sir: In the March number of your publication 
I have read w ith much interest the article on page 68. 
“The Cramton Bill,” and also on page 82, the remarks 
of that good old scout, Mr. Vaughan, on the same subject. 
I wonder if this proposed legislation has not been in¬ 
vited by the uplift propaganda of the last few years? 
One of our trade papers and eloquent orators have per¬ 
sistently and loudly proclaimed that the nursery trade 
w"as rotten, full of crooks and crooked practices. 
Many associations have adopted “standards of ethics" 
which promise obedience to the law s and imply the aban¬ 
donment of methods of a crooked nature. 
Why should not our trade be strictly regulated w Ikmi 
w e have shouted vigorously and noisily that we w ei e a 
menace to the public? lyf -r nj,,,. 
COLLEGE TRAINING 
Ill view of the interest in college training in evidence 
among nurseiymen in the United States, it is worth while 
to note the drift of thought on the subject as expressed 
in connection with Kew gardens, and it is to be hoped 
the National Arboretum, now under consideration, wilt 
develo]) along tbe lines of a borticultural university 
worthy of this countrv. 
Dr. A. W. Hill, M. A.. F. R. S., F. L. S., in the course 
of a lecture delivered before the Royal Society of Arts 
on December 5, 1923, on “Tbe Work of tbe Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Kew ,” after dealing wdth tbe origin and general 
routine work of the gardens, remarked on the training 
of the young men at Kew. To quote Dr. Hill’s remarks, 
as reported in the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, 
vol. Ixxii, p. 97: 
“I must, however, jiass on to the consideration of a 
further spliere of usefulness to which we attach great 
importance, and which has been attended with far-reach¬ 
ing results; that is, the wmrk of completing the botanical 
and horticultural training of the young men wdio came to 
Kew" for a period of twm or three years as student- 
gardeners. 
“In this respect Kew" may be regarded as a University 
of Horticulture, and perhaps more particularly of tropi¬ 
cal horticulture, since so many of her sons go out to 
every part of the Empire to carry on the science and prac¬ 
tice of horticulture in the botanic gardens and agricul¬ 
tural stations in the Tropics. 
“That this should be the case is only natural, since in 
no other institution in this country can so much be learn¬ 
ed about the vegetation of the Tropics and the proper 
method of cultivation of tropical economic and other 
plants. Men trained in botany and agriculture in our 
universities are no doubt w^ell equipped in the scientific 
principles underlying their subject, but they are perforce 
sadly handicapped, ow ing to their lack of practical 
knowTedge of the plants which they will meet in our 
Colonies in connection w ith their wmrk. 
“With the growling and legitimate demand for men 
w ho have passed through a university on the part of the 
Colonial Governments, the men trained at Kew are often 
placed in a difficult and unfavorable position; but I ven¬ 
ture to say that the best of our students will be found, 
in the long run. w ith their practical knowdedge added to 
the theoretical instruction provided for them at Kew, to 
be able to hold their own in comparison with the men 
w ho have had better opportunities in the w ay of a course 
at a university or at an agricultural college. 
“Neither class of men, I would submit, are entirely 
satisfactory for sending out straight from home to some 
distant colony w here they w ill be confronted w ith prob¬ 
lems with which they are, to a great extent, unfamiliar; 
but now" that the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture 
has been successfully established in Trinidad, I am con¬ 
vinced that at last w e have the opportunity of completing 
the education necessaiy both for the university candidate 
and for the man trained at Kew'. so that they may be¬ 
come efficient scientific officers ([ualified to serve in 
wbicbever of our trojiical colonies or dominions their 
services may be required.” 
