10 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
EXIT THE OLD 
ENTER THE 
NEW. 
The volume containing the record of 1904 is closed. Be¬ 
fore sealing it, let us hope that the account which we might 
head “Experience” has been carefully balanced. What did 
we lose that might have been avoided; 
when was bad management conspicuously 
in evidence; in what transactions did 
lack of confidence in our fellowmen or in 
ourselves, or over-confidence in ourselves 
become apparent and result in loss; in what respects did 
our judgment fail or did the enterprise lag for want of 
knowledge on our part? 
The year has greatly added to our store of experience. It 
should have tempered our judgment; it should have increased 
our worldly goods; it should have widened our sympathies and 
enlarged our friendships. Is it worth while to ask ourselves 
some of these questions? 
It is a trite thing to say that we should at the end of the 
year balance our accounts and all that. Nevertheless some 
of these trite things are unquestionably true. This is one in 
which we thor¬ 
oughly believe. 
You have seen 
men in all walks 
of life who never 
stop to think; 
and you have 
seen the same 
men in the nur¬ 
sery business. 
They are too 
busy blundering 
ahead. Is it not 
often a fact that 
a man who ap¬ 
parently wastes 
time in consider¬ 
ing ways and 
means, out¬ 
distances his 
harder worked 
Quiz Column. 
DISPOSAL OF SCALE INFESTED STOCK. 
Editor National Nurseryman 
Dear Sir: Can you give us any information as to whether 
there is a state law in New Jersey, which obliges a person to 
burn nursery stock found infested with San Jose scale? The 
reason I ask the question is this: A week or so ago we shipped 
a bill of stock to a party in New Jersey, and received word 
from them that some of the trees had been rejected on account 
of their having San Jose scale. We wrote them in reply that 
the stock had been fumigated with hydrocyanic acid gas and 
the scale was therefore in all probability dead and harmless, and 
requested that such trees be returned to us as we wished to 
have the scale examined to see if it were alive or dead. 
In a day or so we received answer that according to State 
Law the trees had to be burned and were, so it was impossible 
to return them. Inquirer. 
ANSWER BY PRO¬ 
FESSOR J. B. 
SMITH, STATE 
ENTOMOLOGIST 
OF NEW JERSEY 
Replying spec¬ 
ifically to your 
question, there is 
nothing to pre¬ 
vent the return 
to the shippers 
of any stock 
found unaccepta- 
ble for any 
reason. 
When I get 
track of a lot of 
Fig. 17. 
but less thought- 
lul competitor? A friend of ours has a work-shop in the top of 
his house. In it he has a bench and a tool-chest. The chest is 
equipped with a complete set of the best tools obtainable. 
He does not fill in many hours in actual accomplishment; in 
other words he does not carpenter a great deal, but he does 
spend a good deal of time in keeping his tools in first-class 
order by sharpening them frequently. The business man, 
and the nurseryman keep their business tools in order by read¬ 
ing, by studying and by thoughtful consideration of the 
changing phases of their pleasant avocation. The man who 
is excessively busy is often so because of unsystematic meth¬ 
ods; and unsystematic methods prevail when the worker 
does not study his enterprise and plan his campaign. 
LAWRENCE PEAR. 
Jackson & Perkins Co. have a national reputation as rose growers. 
A photo taken during the blooming season. 
scaly stock in a 
nursery I simply 
notify that nurs¬ 
eryman that he must not use it on penalty of having 
his certificate withdrawn. He can send it back or des¬ 
troy it as he may arrange. If I find infested stock from 
outside, in the hands of a grower I again notify him of its 
character and advise him not to plant. I also notify the 
nurseryman who sent the stock and the inspector under whose 
certificate it arrived. We never destroy without notifying 
the shippers. 
New Brunswick, N. J. 
Obituary. 
Just now the Lawrence is in prime eating condition, and any 
one who enjoys pears will rarely forget the flavor of a Lawrence, 
when eaten in the surroundings of the family room along side 
the fireplace about ten o’clock at night! The Lawrence is not 
the finest in quality of all pears but it is exceedingly “easy to 
take,” when nicely ripened. The fruit is of medium size, 
smooth and regular in form; the flesh is pleasantly sweet, and 
melting. It is not as highly flavored as Malines but is less 
cloying than Seckel. How does Lawrence succeed with you? 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
Will you kindly notify the readers of the National Nurseryman in 
the next issue, of the death of John Rupert of Conneautville, Pa. His 
death occurred on December 6 in an Erie hospital. Mr. Rupert was 
well known and highly regarded by nurserymen of Brighton, having 
put up his sales here the past thirty years. 
Brighton, N. Y. J. F. Norris. 
