THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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timber. I mention all these things to show that the field is 
open to the nursery business. By reason of the climate we 
can sell trees twelve months in the year. We can deliver dur¬ 
ing six months, from October 15th to April 15th. Instead of 
going West or staying North, come South. If you want to get 
a foretaste of Heaven, come to Eastern Tennessee and become 
acclimatized.” 
Some of the nurserymen of the North have been South at 
conventions during the hot weather of June and have thought 
the foretaste was anything but that of Heaven; but they had 
not become acclimatized. Since Mr. Hale called attention to 
the advantages of the South and referred to the need of a nur¬ 
serymen’s association in that section, the Southern Nursery 
Association has been organized with Mr. Hale as president. 
Fifty delegates attended .the convention of this association at 
Chattanooga on August 1st of last year, and adjourned until 
July 31st of this year. The territory represented in the list of 
officers is the Southeastern portion of the United States. 
During the early part of last month there was a notable gath¬ 
ering of farmers, horticulturists, cotton growers and stock 
raisers at College Station, Texas. It was the third annual 
Texas Farmers’ Congress. Hundreds of producers of the 
great state of Texas were present during the week’s proceed¬ 
ings. In connection with the congress, the fifteenth annual 
convention of the Texas Horticultural Society was held; a re¬ 
port of the proceedings appears in another column of this 
issue. Upon this occasion, also, was formed the Texas Nur¬ 
serymen’s Association. The constitution and by-laws provide 
that the membership may consist of active nurserymen through¬ 
out Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and the Indian 
Territory. Thus is the Southwestern section of the country 
provided with an association of nurserymen which will work 
with the Southern Nursery Association as the two will work 
with the Eastern Nurserymen’s Association and the Western 
Association of Wholesale Nurserymen, the interests of these 
four Associations being the same as those of the American 
Association of Nurserymen, which includes in its membership 
the leaders of the local associations. The president of the 
Texas association is E. W. Kirkpatrick, of McKinney, well 
known to members of the American Association. Stanley H. 
Watson, of Brenham, is the vice-president, and John S. Kerr, 
of Sherman, is secretary and treasurer. 
The nurserymen of Texas took prominent part in the pro¬ 
ceedings of the big farmers’ congress. Professor Fred W 
Mally, professor of entomology at the Agricultural and Mechan¬ 
ical College, at College Station, was for some time a grower of 
nursery stock. He is the entomologist for the state of Texas and 
at the convention of the Horticultural Society last month was 
elected president of the society. This is the first time that a 
state entomologist has been placed in such relations with the 
fruit growers of the state. Professor Mally promises to attend 
the convention of the American Association at Niagara Falls 
next June. It is safe to predict that he will have something 
worth coming that far to say. 
“ The South is beyond question the section of the country 
in which the largest ratio of development and progress is to be 
looked for during the next quarter of a century,” says the 
United States Investor. The same journal notes that senti¬ 
mental considerations have heretofore had much to do with 
deterring capital from embarking in enterprises located in the 
Southern states. It has been no uncommon thing in the past 
to hear men of capital and enterprise in the North decline to 
consider meritorious undertakings merely because they were 
located south of Mason and Dixon’s line. 
The Investor declares that, so pronounced and sure is the 
march of progress in the South to-day, whoever possesses 
a property of iron or coal, a tract of accessible timber land, a 
cotton factory or a railroad, may well feel complacent as to his 
future condition. For whatever periods of depression may be 
experienced by the country at large during the next twenty- 
five years, they will bear more lightly upon the South, with its 
diversified resources and rich endowments of nature, than upon 
any other part of the country, and on the other hand, what¬ 
ever prosperous periods may come, the South will reap rela¬ 
tively the greatest share. 
PROTECTION WITHOUT LAWS. 
While nurserymen have shown a disposition to comply 
cheerfully with state laws regarding the inspection of nursery 
stock when those laws do not operate to prevent the transac¬ 
tion of the nursery business, we have heard, now and then, the 
statement of fact, that in states which have no laws regulating 
the inspection of nursery stock, nursery stock is inspected in a 
very complete manner, simply because the nurseryman knows 
it is decidedly to his advantage to exercise this care. 
“We have no inspection lawin Kansas,’’said ex-President A. L 
Brooke at the Chicago convention of the American Association 
in June, “but we have inspection of nursery stock. We have 
the best kind of an entomologist in Kansas. We pay the ex¬ 
pense of inspection and the certificate goes. Why be scared 
by any bugaboo ? There isn’t any; there hasn’t been any. 
The scale scare is not as big as it was four years ago. It is 
growing less.” 
And State Entomologist F. W. Mally, president of the Texas 
Horticultural Society, said last month: “ Confidence in the en¬ 
tomologist does more toward getting the nurserymen and fruit 
growers to apply rational systems of protecting their interests 
than all the drastic legislation that can be trumped up. We 
have absolutely no laws regulating these matters on our stat¬ 
ute books, and yet I know from my professional relations that 
we maintain a very high standard with reference to warfare 
and protection of our own interests and those of others against 
injurious insects.” 
There is no doubt in the minds of very many that if the 
laws in all of the states relating to the inspection of nursery 
stock were erased from the statute books, ample protection 
from the ravages of insects, so far as the nurserymen are con¬ 
cerned, at least, would result from the law of self-preservation 
as regards the continuance of the nursery business. 
AN EXTENSIVE PLANTING. 
An exchange notes the fact that Dr. W. Seward Webb 
lately completed one of the largest jobs of tree-planting ever 
undertaken in this country by one man. He set out 155,000 
White and Scotch pine on his Shelburne farms in Vermont, 
and it took 400 men a whole month to do the work. The 
trees are two to three feet high, laid out in 24 groves. About 
12,000 of the trees form a covering especially for pheasants. 
About 50,000 smaller trees have since been planted. The 
trees came from Illinois, and cost, with the planting, $50,000. 
