The Purpose of this Booklet 
O portion of our wonderful country offers greater natural 
advantages for beautiful home grounds and profitable or- 
chards than does the South. Here the climate is agreeable 
to plant life, the soil is adapted to growing a large variety 
of trees and shrubs, and the moisture supply is sufficient. 
Even with all these things in our favor, and with a great ' 
number of trees and shrubs that will grow almost anywhere, 
we really do not have the attractive home grounds that might 
be ours, nor do we, as a people, seem to know the value of such plantings. 
Too many of our people are content to live in a house set in the midst of 
sandy barrens, with never a tree to cast its welcome shade or a shrub to 
give fragrant flowers or a vine to screen the porch. Just a small sum would 
provide these simple comforts. On ever>' home grounds deciduous trees 
should be planted for the shade they afford, shrubs for their graceful 
appearance and bloom, roses for their beauty and delightful fragrance, 
evergreens for windbreaks, and hedges and vines for screening unsightly 
objects. 
To make the Southern home more beautiful and cheerful, the Southern 
orchard more profitable, and to assist the home-lover and orchardist to 
obtain better results from his plantings, is the aim of the Southern Nursery- 
men's Association. To help our friends and neighbors to have better home 
surroundings and more profitable fruit trees is the sole purpose of this 
oooklet. It is not a catalogue, but a guide for Southern planters, prepared 
under the direction of men who have spent many years in growing the 
very things mentioned herein, and the information given is the result of 
their labor and experience. 
The booklet has lx;en written with the needs of the orchardist and home- 
lover of the South especially in mind. There is nothing technical about 
the contents. It is written in every-day language, and if its simple direc- 
tions arc followed, you should experience no trouble in securing satisfactory 
results from your plantings. 
The Southern Nurserymen's Association, under whose direction this 
booklet was prepared, is composed of the leading nurser>'men of the South. 
The nurseryman who presents this booklet to you is a member of this 
Association, fie stands ready at any time to help you in every way po.s- 
sible with suggestions and advice as to the projier planting of fruit trees 
and ornamentals. If you have some planting problem which you do 
not fully understand, do not hesitate to communicate with him. He is 
a practical grower himself, and his many years' experience will help you 
to make your planting more pleasing and profitable. 
We are indebted to Mr. W. N. Hutt, State Horticulturist of North 
Carolina, for many helpful suggestions in preparing this booklet. 
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Copyrigbted, igi7, by The J. Horace McFarland Co. 
