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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1914 



More than twenty years ago Biltmore Nursery 

 was established upon a small scale as a sort of ex- 

 periment. It was believed, from the nature of the 

 wild flowers in the mountains of Western North 

 Carolina, where the Nursery is located, that the 

 scientific cultivation of plants would prove suc- 

 cessful. Experts in floriculture were secured to 

 begin the undertaking. Ample room was provided 

 for the growth of the nursery in the event the 

 experiment proved successful. Little was said 

 about the venture at the time. 



The first season or two demonstrated that the 

 region possessed wonderful advantages. In half 

 a dozen years a few flower-wise people began in- 

 quiring for plants and trees grown at Biltmore 

 Nursery. Of late years it has required great fields 

 of spreading acres to grow the product. And the 

 demand for Biltmore Nursery stock increases every 

 year — just as more and more people come to un- 

 derstand the sturdiness and beauty of the plants 

 and flowers grown away up there in the mountain 

 ranges of the state. 



Success Has Not Begotten Carelessness 



Indeed, with the many years of good reputation behind it, the institution is more careful than ever to 

 see to it that every specimen is perfect before it is shipped. Great pains are taken in handling, packing 

 and shipping, and discretion is shown in filling orders regardless of their size. If one should order trees 

 or plants from Biltmore Nursery for a region in which such varieties would not prosper, the order 

 would not be filled. If one should describe his home or premises, and ask Biltmore Nursery for plants 

 and trees suitable for such a place, the order would be placed in the hands of an expert who could tell 

 exactly what should be planted upon such an estate and the customer would be assisted in making a 

 selection of the specimens best suited to this location. 



These Biltmore Nursery Books are Full of Planting Facts 



To aid planters in selecting suitable trees, shrubs and plants Biltmore Nursery has published a series of 

 valuable books. They are too expensive for general distribution, but if you contemplate planting soon, 

 a copy will be sent free if you tell us what plants you are interested in. 



" Biltmore Nursery Catalog." A guide to the cultivated 

 plants of North America. 196 pages, 212 illustrations. 



"[Flowering Trees and Shrubs." Beautiful Biltmore speci- 

 mens described and pictured in a helpful way. 64 pages. 



"Hardy Garden Flowers." Full descriptions and complete 

 pictures of perennial plants and their uses. 64 pages. 



"The Iris Catalog." Magnificent flowers shown in all the 

 colors of nature. A fascinating book. 16 pages. 



" Biltmore Rose Book." Hundreds of illustrations, many 

 in natural colors. The only book of its kind in the world. 



Write today for the book you need and tell us of your 

 planting plans. 



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Fighting Frost With Fire 



IN THE principal fruit areas of the West orchard 

 heating, or "smudging" as it is more com- 

 monly known, has been most generally adopted as 

 a means of protecting the trees from frost, and it 

 has been most highly developed in the arid fruit 

 districts of the western slope of Colorado. In the 

 spring of 1908 several growers in the Grand River 

 Valley of Colorado experimented with the burning 

 of oil in simple pots of the lard pail type, with the 

 result that they saved their entire crop on the 

 heated areas and saw it killed on the unheated 

 tracts. The spring of 1909 saw the adoption of 

 smudge pots in every fruit section of the state, 

 and their use reached the experimental stage in 

 several other states. In the spring of 19 10, there 

 was not a fruit growing state without them, and 

 many sections of several states were almost as 

 fully equipped as Colorado. 



The thrilling and successful frost fights in Colo- 

 rado were an inspiring object lesson to the growers. 



At Canon City, they organized and appointed 

 an orchard heating committee, the first in existence. 

 With an appropriation of $1,000 at their disposal, 

 its members set zealously to work on a series of 

 experiments to determine just what could be ac- 

 complished in raising the temperature of entire 

 orchards, and what the cost and the conditions of 

 work would be. For six months they tested coal, 

 wood, and oil as fuel, and all the various devices 

 for producing fires. When their experiments were 

 concluded, they unanimously recommended oil as 

 the most practicable fuel owing to the ease and 

 rapidity with which the heat could be generated. 

 The growers were quick to learn their lesson, and 

 in some sections of the state eighty per cent, of the 

 orchards were equipped the same year. The spring 

 of 1909 was one of the severest the fruit industry 

 had ever seen. Under the old methods of trusting 

 to the mercy of the elements, little if any fruit 

 would have been shipped from the state. With 

 orchard heating in general use, there was one of 

 the largest crops in the history of the state. The 

 saving was estimated as $4,000,000. The experi- 

 ments of the orchard heating committee showed that 

 the temperature could be raised fourteen degrees 

 with a hundred small oil pots to the acre. 



The last night of April the temperature in the 

 Canon City district fell to seventeen degrees above 

 zero. The orchardists with heaters kept the tem- 

 perature up to twenty-eight or thirty degrees, 



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Copyright, 1911, by P. H. Troutman 



Night photograph of a Colorado orchard showing oil 

 heaters in operation 



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