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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The National Nurseryman 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 
THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUBLISHING CO., Inc. 
205 Cox Building, Rochester, N. Y. 
President, .THOMAS B. MEEHAN 
Vice-President and Editor, .JOHN CRAIG 
Secretary-Treasurer and Business Manager, . C. L. YATES 
The only trade journal issued for Growers and Dealers in Nursery Stock 
of all kinds. It circulates throughout the United States and Canada. 
Official Journal of American Association of Nurserymen. 
A WARDED CHE GRAND PRIZE AT PARIS EXPO IT ION, 1900. 
SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 
One year, in advance,.. $1.00 
Six months,. .75 
Foreign Subscriptions, in advance,.1.50 
Six Months,. .1 00 
Advertising rate3 will be sent upon application. Advertisements 
should reach this office by the 20th of the month previous to the date 
of issue. 
Payment in advance required for foreign advertisements. Drafts 
on New York or postal orders, instead of checks, are requested. 
Correspondence from all points and articles of interest to nursery¬ 
men and horticulturists are cordially solicited. 
Address Editor, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Entered in the Post Office at Rochester, as second-class mail matter. 
Rochester, N. Y., November, 1905. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
President, E. Albertson, Bridgeport, Ind.: vice-president, Orlando 
Harrison, Berlin, Md.: secretary, Geo. C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y.: 
treasurer, C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 
Executive Committee—Thomas B. Meehan, Dreshertown, Pa.; Theo. Smith, 
Geneva, N. Y.; J. H. Dayton, Painesville, Ohio. 
Transportation—W. C. Reed, Vincennes, Ind.; J. W. Hill, D.es Moines, la.: A. L. 
Wood, Rochester, N. Y.; C. T. Smith, Concord, Ga. 
Tariff—Irving Rouse, Rochester, N. Y.; H. T. Jones, Elizabeth, N. J.; H. P. 
Kelsey, Boston, Mass. 
Legislation—C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la.; W. T. Hood, Richmond, Va.; N. W. 
Hale, Knoxville, Tenn.; R. C. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga.; William Pitkin 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Programme—John S. Kerr, Sherman, Tex.; H. S. Chase, Huntsville, Ala.; C. J. 
Brown, Rochester, N. Y. 
Publicity—Ralph T. Olcott, Rochester, N. Y.; John C. Chase, Derry, N. H.; 
Stanley H. Watson, Houston, Tex. 
Exhibits—J. H. Skinner, Topeka, Kas., J. C. Hale, Winchester, Tenn.; C. C. 
Mayhew, Sherman, Tex. 
Editing Report—J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa.; C. J. Maloy, Rochester, 
N. Y.; George C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y. 
STATE AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS. 
American Nurserymen’s Protective Association —President, R. C. Berckmans, 
Augusta, Ga.; vice-president, A. L. Brooke, secretary, Thomas B. Meehan, 
Dreshertown, Pa.; treasurer, Peter Youngers. Meets annually in June. 
Nurserymen’s Mutual Protective Association —President, N. H. Albaugh, 
Phoneton, O.; secretary, George C. Seager, Rochester, N. Y.; Meets annually 
in June. 
American Retail Nurserymen’s Protective Association— President, Charles 
J. Brown, Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, Guy A. Bryant, Princeton, Ill. Meets 
annually in June. 
Eastern Association of Nurserymen —President, W. C. Barry, Rochester, N. Y.; 
secretary-treasurer, William Pitldn, Rochester, N. Y.; Meets annually in Jan¬ 
uary. 
Western Association of Wholesale Nurserymen —President, Peter Youngers, 
Geneva, Nebraska; vice-president, A. Willis, Ottawa, Kansas; secretary, D. J. 
Holman, Leavenworth, Kansas. 
Southern Nurserymen’s Association —President, Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md. 
vice-president, John A. Young, Greensboro, N. C.; secretary-treasurer, Chas. T. 
Smith, Concord, Ga. Meets at Chattanooga, Tenn., third Wednesday in Aug¬ 
ust, 1906. 
Southwestern Nurserymen’s Association —President, J. W. Preston, King¬ 
fisher, Okl. Terr.; secretary, J. A. Taylor, Wynnewood, Ind. Terr. 
Texas Nurserymen’s Association —President, E. W. Kirkpatrick, McKinney, 
Texas; vice-president, B. L. Adams, Bonham, Texas; secretary-treasurer, John 
S. Kerr, Sherman, Texas. 
Pacific Coast Association of Nurseryman —President, S. A. Miller, Milton, 
Ore.; secretary-treasurer, C. A. Tonneson, Tacoma, Wash. Meets annually in 
June. 
Pennsylvania Nurserymen’s Association —President, W. H. Moon. Morrisville, 
Pa.; secretary, Earl Peters, Mt. Holly Springs. Pa. Next annual meeting at 
Harrisburg, in January. 
National Association of Retail Nurserymen —President, William Pitkin 
Rochester, N. Y.; secretary, John B. Kiley, Rochester, N. Y. 
A few years ago an Illinois nurseryman, Mr. Cotta, made a 
specialty of propagating double worked trees. This was for 
the special purpose of meeting the climatic conditions of 
northern Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa 
double Undoubtedly this was good work. But there 
working. are other reasons aside from climatic con¬ 
siderations why nurserymen should propa¬ 
gate trees in this way. Many of our best varieties are poor grow¬ 
ers in nursery. Why not top work in nursery either by budding 
or grafting such varieties as King and Spitzenburgh, which on 
their own stocks are subject to cankerous troubles of the 
main branches and stem.' We are of the opinion that there 
is an excellent field in this line of work. Let some nursery¬ 
man enter it. Let him grow a nice smooth line of Northern 
Spies to two year old, and then bud in the branches with 
Wagner, Boiken, King and Spitzenburgh. He will thus have 
not only a strong healthy stem, but also avoid many of the 
crotch difficulties which characterize some of the varieties 
mentioned. Other kinds that might be improved by this 
method are Newtown Pippin, and Maiden’s Blush. 
It is said that the first plantings of apple trees along the 
Ohio River and its tributaries were made by a philanthropic 
but remarkably eccentric individual, who hailed from New 
England. His name was John Chapman, 
the plantings But his sobriquet in the new West was 
OF johnny Johnny Appleseed. It is recorded, that 
appleseed. laden with apple seed he made annual 
pilgrimages at great personal discomfort 
and privation through parts of the then unexplored states of 
Indiana and Ohio, establishing here and there little gardens, 
planted with apple seed which he protected with rude brush 
f epees against injury by deer and other wild animals. This work 
was carried on co-incidentally with the arrival of settlers into 
the new land, and these settlers were encouraged in every 
way to plant, and promote fruit culture. The Indiana meet¬ 
ing recalled the interesting though highly imaginative account 
of this strange man’s life work in the story recently published 
under the name of “The Quest of John Chapman,” by Dr. 
Newell Dwight Hillis. However, much or little of fact there 
may be about this man’s life story, the glamour of senti¬ 
mentalism and tradition will always shroud it with a mantle 
of charity, which should act as an incentive for the 
promotion of similar works of enduring altruism. 
California is making important progress in the control of 
injurious insects by the importation and establishment of 
forms parasitic upon these destructive types. California is 
especially favored in this respect. Take the 
SUPPRESSION cottony cushion scale, for instance, one of 
OF insects by the dangerous orchard pests—it is being 
natural restrained in an effective manner by a 
enemies. parasite, (vedalia cardinalus). The per¬ 
nicious scale, San Jos6 scale, is also para¬ 
sitized by a chalcid fly, to such an extent that it does not 
threaten the fruit interests of the South Pacific Coast in the 
manner in which the peach regions of the East are menaced. 
The latest move in this work of pitting insects against insect 
is the importation by the California expert, Mr. Compere, of a 
parasite for the purple scale. These were shipped recently 
