REPORTS OF AUXILIARY SOCIETIES. 535 



JACKSON COUNTY 



Has no active horticultural society at present, but is coining to the front in 

 the production of celery, onions, berries and grapes. Land in the vicinity of 

 the city of Jackson is being used more for gardens and less for farm crops, 

 though the renting and purchase price is still quite low compared with other 

 cities. Products which a few years ago where shipped in from surrounding 

 sections are now mostly supplied from within the limits of this county nota- 

 bly raspberries and blackberries, celery, cauliflowers, spinach, etc., and the 

 shipment of produce to other markets is fast increasing. The demand for 

 flowers and bedding plants is quite large and is pretty fairly met by our local 

 growers with the ordinary varieties, but there is an excellent opening here for 

 a nursery which will produce the finer ornamental shrubs, roses and exotics. 

 Jackson is a good shipping point for all directions. The country is rolling, 

 sometimes hilly, with frequent intervals of rich mucky soil underlaid with 

 gravel. The upland is mostly either a warm sandy loam, or a heavier gravelly 

 soil and the timber principally oak and hickory. The low land and tamarack 

 swamps, formerly ugly and useless spots on the face of the country, are really 

 our best garden lands, being usually drainable and rich, and are helping to 

 bring our county forward as a gardening region. 



K. T. McNaughton. 



