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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
IIS THE SOUTH . 
Season’s Trade In General Has Been Beyond Expectations — 
Sales at Snow Hill, Md., Figure Double Those of Last 
Year—Prospects of Good Fruit Yield—Unseason¬ 
able Weather Retarded Planting Some¬ 
what in Sections. 
Winchester, Tenn., April 14. —Southern Nursery Co.: 
“ We have had a splendid spring trade with very satisfactory 
prices. Fall business is coming in right along and our busi¬ 
ness will be fully up to that of last year, which was the largest 
we have ever had. Planting has been somewhat retarded by 
the unseasonable weather, but we have about wound up same 
and will soon have everything in good shape. The stand of 
peach buds at this point is very good, while the stand of pear 
and cherry buds could not be better. In one block of 50,000 
cherry buds we had less than 300 seedlings to pull up. The 
stand of peach seedlings promises well, and grafts are starting 
very nicely.” 
Berlin, Md., April 14. — J. G. Harrison 8 c Sons: “The 
season has been all we could expect. The weather conditions 
have been very unfavorable, which has caused some delay in 
filling orders. The season was quite late to start in with. We 
are now in the midst of shipments of strawberry plants, and 
are getting out a good many thousand per day. We have just 
started our planting of grafts and seedlings to-day. There is 
but little surplus this season.” 
Snow Hill, Md., April 16. —W. M. Perers’ Sons : “ The 
season’s trade with us has been way beyond our expectations, 
not in peach, for we saw that peach trees were scarce and not 
enough to supply the demand, which proved too true ; but 
it seems the demand with us has been for stock in general, not 
confined to peach as much as we anticipated. While not 
quite through shipping all the orders that we booked, the bulk 
of our orders are shipped, and the results we think will be very 
satisfactory. Although the season is nearly over, orders are 
still coming in, and it now looks as though we will have little 
or nothing left in a general line. In fact, never in the history 
of our business, which covers a term of many years, have we 
cleaned up as satisfactorily as the present season. 
“While we have not had the time to do much figuring, we 
think that our sales will figure nearly double that it was last 
year, and the prospects for collecting seem to be favorable, so 
far as we can tell at this time. Profits will surely figure better 
than the past season. Weather has favored us in keeping 
stock from starting as early as in former seasons. In fact, we 
do not recollect a season that has favored us as the present one 
has. It has been nothing but rush now for more than sixty 
days, and now it is still rush to get our spring planting done 
in time ; fear that we will have to leave some off. 
“Too early yet to tell satisfactorily how budding done the 
past season is going to start, the present indications are, we 
think, more favorable than last spring. Our plant will be 
about the same, except in apple, which will be light. Peach 
will probably exceed a million, if seed do as they should. 
Our stock for this fall of peach will be heavier than last sea¬ 
son, probably by 400,000, apples 75,000. We are aiming at 
about our usual plant, not trying to increase it in a general 
line. 
“We see nothing to alarm any one as to the prospects for 
business in a general line for nursery stock for this fall and 
spring of 1903. Every prospect of a good fruit year on this 
peninsula, in all kinds of fruit, yet there is time for some 
disaster to overtake it, before the crop is made. We really 
can see nothing to prevent business being done at a fair mar¬ 
gin of profit, do not think any of the nurseries are overbur¬ 
dened with stock, nothing being carried over to amount to 
anything, consequently this year can hardly be different from 
the one just closed. There are a great many planters that 
have been compelled to wait another season, that could not 
secure trees, especially peach, to plant this spring. 
“ We have turned down orders for peach this spring that 
would aggregate considerably over 100,000 and these orders 
have not been filled and, I suppose, there are others in the 
same position. Much, of course, depends on the present fruit 
crop, as to the extent of the demaad on this peninsula. We 
found the demand general the past season, and not confined 
to any particular locality. It may not be the case this fall and 
next spring. If our collections prove to be as satisfactory as 
our sales, we feel that we can endure less business the present 
year to come, but are in better shape to handle more.” 
THE NURSERYMAN AND HIS BUSINESS. 
A summary of the nurseryman’s business, in every way com¬ 
plimentary to the nurseryman, appears in the May issue of 
Country Life in America, presumably from the pen of the 
editor, Professor L. H. Bailey. It is appropriate to the season 
and it reflects an intimate knowledge of the growing of nursery 
stock, its extent and its conditions. Attention is called to the 
fact that for a generation Western New York has been the 
center of the nursery interests of North America ; and if one 
considers the great number of species of plants that are grown 
and the capital invested, it is still the leading nursery center of 
the New World ; still in the middle and western states there 
are nurseries that are growing trees by the millions. The 
endless detail and complexity of the nursery business are 
touched upon. “The nurseryman,” says the author, “is a 
dealer in raw materials, a manufacturer, horticulturist, sales¬ 
man. He is alert, energetic, forehanded, intimately in touch 
with the horticultural enterprises of the country, and has vital 
interest in all the varied arts of plant-growing, as pomology, 
floriculture and landscape growing.” 
There are relatively few planters, says this author, who care 
for the plant in after years as tenderly as they plant it in the 
beginning ; it fails and therefore there is greater opening for 
the nurseryman. The nurseryman must be up to date ; more 
and more the purchaser is asking for advice and is depending 
upon the nurseryman for the answer. A trial ground, there¬ 
fore, is a necessity to a good nursery business. 
Chattanooga Nurseries, Chattanooga, Tenn.: “Enclosed 
please find $1.00 in payment of our subscription to your valuable 
paper. No nurseryman can afford to do business without it. Please 
quote us a Ivertising rates.” 
Edward C. Morris, President, Brown Brothers Company, Nur¬ 
serymen, Limited, Browns Nurseries P.O., Welland, Co., Ontario. 
Canada, August 30 , 1901 .—“Enclosed please find $ 1.00 in payment for 
another year’s subscription to your valuable paper. I would like to 
compliment you upon the neatness of your issue, and the fairness you 
always display in your editorials.” 
