THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Quiz Column. 
DISEASED PEAR. 
I send you a pear affected by a disease or insect. Please 
tell me about it? 
South Byron, N. Y. C. E. 
Answer:—The Winter Nellis pear you forwarded is attacked 
by the same disease which causes the familiar black spots on 
apples. This disease attacks both apples and pears. It 
may be prevented by spraying before and after blossoming 
in the spring. The past season has been unusually favorable 
for the development of the disease, and in some parts of the 
country it has caused a great deal of damage. The standard 
remedy is Bordeaux mixture. 
PROPAGATING CURRANTS AND GOOSEBERRIES. 
Please give us some information concerning the growing of 
currants and gooseberry cuttings; we have tried it twice 
and failed. We have just ordered a number of cuttings and 
wish to plant them according to your instructions. Would 
you plant them now (November) in sand? If so would you 
put them in a cellar in box or in an out building which 
would you do put the tops down or huts ? Would you cover 
them entirely up? 
Ohio. Small Fruit Grower. 
NEBRASKA. 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
A fair rental price for land here in Nebraska where we are 
located would be about $3.50 per acre, yet the same class of land 
will rent at Topeka, Kansas, for from $9 to $11 per acre. In answer 
to question No. 1 we do not think the nursery stock exhausts the land 
any more than ordinary farm crops, in fact we have better results in 
planting corn or grain following nursery stock than we have on land 
that never had nursery stock on it. We have orchards bearing, on 
land that had been in nursery stock for a number of years before the 
orchard was planted. We have never grown a cover crop in the nursery 
as we cultivate clear up until the last of August, and keep the ground 
loose letting the earth act as a mulch. 
Youngers & Co., Geneva, Neb. 
Ans. 1—From mere observation we would say that it seems the 
exhaustion is only temporary at times and not real. We notice we 
get excellent crops of corn, and millet following trees, although in the 
fore part of the season while plants are small they often appear weak 
and yellow, but recover from this as the season advances and seldom 
fail to make heavier crops than when they follows ordinary farm crop. 
Ans. 2—We grew an excellent 40-acre orchard on such land. 
Ans. 3—Although we have practiced this but little we believe it 
will prove of great value. 
Ans. 4—We always try to get the very best land obtainable, and 
and feel that we can afford to pay about 1J the price paid when ordi¬ 
nary crop is grown. We consider the clean, thorough, deep cultivation 
we give of great advantage to the land and we have noticed that the 
com crop for two or three years showed better growth in the section of 
the field where we had grown a crop of forest seedlings and given deep 
cultivation when seedings were dry than elsewhere. 
J. A. Gage, Beatrice, Neb. 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Enclosed find check for $1.00 covering renewal for the National 
Nurseryman. Also check covering advertising bill. 
We find the National Nurseryman very helpful and are much 
pleased with the energy shown in the get up of recent issues. 
Yours truly, 
Missouri New Naven Nurseries. 
GEORGIA INSPECTION LAWS. 
The following Rules and Regulations are now in force in Georgia. 
“ All trees, shrubs or other plants commonly known as nursery stock 
(with the exception of conifers and strawberry plants) offered for sale, 
sold or given away in this State shall be fumigated with hydrocyanic 
acid gas by the grower, under the direction of the State Entomologist. 
Each and every nurseryman within this State, grow T ing nursery stock 
for sale, shall construct and maintain upon his premises an air-tight 
fumigating house or box, and shall maintain such fumigatorium in 
first-class condition for fumigating nursery stock, between the 1st day 
of August each year and the 1st day of May following. Said fumigating 
house or box shall be regularly inspected by the State Entomologist 
or his assistant in connection with the inspection of nurseries, and 
the owner of each nursery shall be required to demonstrate to the in¬ 
spector that he has practical working knowledge of fumigating methods. 
Upon failure of the fumigating house or box to pass a satisfactory 
inspection at the time the nursery is inspected each year, no certificate 
shall be granted until such fumigatorium has been placed in condition 
for properly fumigating nursery stock. The expenses of the inspector, 
when making an inspection of such fumigating house after its repair 
or alteration, shall in all cases be paid by the nurseryman. Upon fail¬ 
ure of any nurseryman or dealer in nursery stock to comply with these 
requirements certificate shall be withheld or cancelled.” 
(The above regulation supercedes Regulation No. 12, on page 8 of 
Bulletin No. 10 of the Board of Entomology. The Regulations given 
below are new, and do not in any way modify or change the regulations 
already in force, which are given in Bulletin No. 10.) 
“ Certificate tags of a standard size shall be secured through the State 
Entomologist, for attaching to all shipments and deliveries of nursery 
stock within this State. Such tags shall bear the printed seal of the 
State Board of Entomology and the facsimile signature of the Ento¬ 
mologist, and shall be furnished to nurserymen holding proper certi¬ 
ficates at the schedule of prices given in Regulation 9.” 
“ On and after January 1st, 1905, all nurserymen or dealers in nursery 
stock, selling nursery stock within this State, shall be required to 
thoroughly fumigate, in accordance with the directions furnished them 
by the State Entomologist, all nursery stock which they may receive 
from points without the State, before selling or delivering such stock 
within this State.” 
“Upon the inspection of any nursery, the owner of said nursery, 
when requested to do so by the State Entomologist or by the Inspector, 
shall file with the State Board of Entomology an affidavit to the effect 
that all nursery stock grown by him, or for him under contract, has 
been inspected and that the inspector has been advised of the location 
of all nursery stock owned, controlled or contracted for by him. Cer¬ 
tificate shall be withheld until such affidavit is placed on file.” 
Respectfully Yours, 
William Newell, 
State Entomologist. 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
g[ Nebraska nurserymen made about the usual plant last 
season, generally with good results, the stand averaging very 
fair and -with growth exceptionally good. The Nebraska 
fruit crop for 1904 was, on the whole, hardly satisfactory, 
although strawberries,, early cherries and peaches fruited pro¬ 
fusely and were of the best quality. The apple crop in 
Southern Nebraska was very fair in quantity; Northern 
Nebraska very light, fruit good size, but more or less affected; 
hence not keeping satisfactorily. We are having a very cold 
January, but the ground being covered with a coating of 
about 10 inches of snow, we hardly anticipate any damage to 
the 1905 fruit crop, unless this should prove a little too much 
for the peaches. The west central states are, generally speak¬ 
ing, in fairly flourishing condition, hence, we nurserymen 
look forward to a fair spring’s trade. Yours truly, 
Arlington, Neb. Marshall Bros. 
