34 THE NURSERY 



to the surrounding environments. Our best nurseries 

 are located in the best fruit producing sections, and usually 

 in those which are the most progressive. It is not the 

 purpose of the nurserymen to educate the people to buy 

 certain kinds of stock, but simply to grow and furnish 

 the people what they want, hence a location in a poor 

 fruit-producing section would be contrary to the first 

 principles of economics. We therefore find, that our largest 

 and best nursery companies are located in the chief centers 

 of production, and usually in the most progressive and 

 desirable points in those centers. Accordingly the finan- 

 cial returns and the success of the business follows as a 

 sequent. 



The bulk of the capital invested in nurseries lies in the 

 central or more thickly populated parts of the United States. 

 This is largely because the demand of the surrounding 

 territories calls for their particular kind of fruit; also, 

 partly to the fact that nursery companies located farther 

 south or north could not supply all the different kinds of 

 materials required by the orchardists. 



Small Nursery Plats. Anyone contemplating going 

 into the nursery business as a special line or on a large 

 scale would find it advisable to take an apprenticeship 

 course with some of the larger companies. There are 

 plenty of opportunities for learning the ways of big nur- 

 series through the numerous companies now in existence. 

 The only requisite for such an apprenticeship is a willing- 

 ness to work and a strong desire to know how things are 

 done. Nurserymen are always willing to have such men 

 around, and the willingness of the companies to retain such 



