The National Nurseryman. 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK. 
Copyrighted 1902 by The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated. 
“ The guidance of creative forces is in our hand* and on us rests a great world movement." —Luther Bcrbank. 
Vol. X. ROCHESTER, N. Y., DECEMBER, 1902 . No. 12 . 
PACIFIC COAST INDUSTRY. horticultural meetings. 
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Busy Plant of the Oregon Nursery Company—Branches In Cali¬ 
fornia and Washington—Facilities for Handling a Large Trade 
—Citrus and Deciduous Trees—Modern Appliances. 
The Oregon Nursery Company, whose headquarters are at 
Salem, Ore., is one of the largest nursery concerns in the 
country. Its main propagating plant covers 200 acres and 
there are branch propagating plants at Santa Paula, Los 
Angeles and Pomona, Cal., and at North Yakima, Wash.; and 
branch offices at Missoula, Mont., and Sacramento, Cal. The 
company was established in 1867 and was incorporated in 1900. 
The 200 acre plant is not all contiguous. It is in such blocks 
and locations as suits the peculiar needs of the sort of trees 
grown thereon. This latter feature is the object aimed at, 
rather than a contiguity of the tracts used, which, with the 
growing of only one crop of trees on a given piece of land, are 
large factors in producing uniformly healthy, vigorous trees. 
To this end the Oregon Nursery Company does not purchase 
land, but leases from year to year just what is needed, and 
covering with each successive nursery crop, new soil. 
In addition to the standard varieties of fruit and ornamental 
trees as grown throughout the country, the Oregon Nursery 
Company grows citrus fruit trees at its California branches, 
supplying a large California trade. The company employs 60 
to 100 men during the busy season in addition to its force of 30 
office and traveling men. 
The main offices, packing and storage houses are located 
under the shadow of the state capitol. Electric cars connect 
at the grounds with all parts of the city. The Salem depot on 
the Southern Pacific Railway is two block away. Shipping 
connections are made also by steamer lines with the Oregon 
Railway and Navigation Co., Oregon City Transportation 
Company and the Oregon Central & Eastern Railway. The 
packing houses, with 175 feet frontage, running 195 feet in 
depth, furnish facilities for rapid and careful packing and 
shipping. Here several hundred thousand trees are often 
stored at one time, awaiting shipment. 
During the packing season electric lighting is employed 
throughout the buildings, and packing goes on uninterruptedly, 
day and night, regardless of weather conditions. 
Appliances for baling trees by electric power, a fumigating 
house and storage buildings are being installed. 
The officers of the company are as follows : President, M. 
McDonald ; secretary and treasurer, A. McGill ; assistant 
secretary, F. W. Power ; vice-president and superintendent of 
nurseries, A. W. McDonald. 
During the coming year the Oregon Nursery Company will 
introduce for Luther Burbank, of Santa Rosa, Cal., his latest 
fruit, the Maynard plum. 
Ontario Fruit Growers, Walkerton, Dec. 1-3 ; Virginia, 
Lynchburg, Dec. 2-3 ; Northern Illinois, Sterling, Dec. 2-3 ; 
Missouri, Springfield, Dec. 2-4 ; Michigan, Hart, Dec. 2-4 ; 
Minnesota, Minneapolis, Dec. 2-5 ; California Fruit Growers, 
San Francisco, Dec. 2-6 ; Indiana, Indianapolis, Dec. 3-4 ; 
Iowa, Des Moines, Dec. 9-12 ; Connecticut, Hartford, D«c. 
10 ; Western Nurserymen, Kansas City, Dec. 16 ; Ohio, Clyde 
Dec. 16-18; Southwestern Iowa, Clarinda, Dec. 16-18; Illi¬ 
nois, Champaign, Dec. 17-19 ; Maryland, Baltimore, Dec. 18- 
19 ; Peninsula, Newark, Del., Jan. 6-8 ; New York Fruit 
Growers, Buffalo, Jan. 7-8 ; New Jersey, Trenton, Jan. 7-8; 
Nebraska, Lincoln, Jan. 9-11 ; Oregon, Portland, Jan. 13-14; 
Rhode Island, Providence, Jan. 15. ; South Dakota, Woon¬ 
socket, Jan. 20-22 ; Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Jan. 20-21 ; 
Eastern Nurserymen, Rochester, Jan. 21 ; Western New York, 
Rochester, Jan. 22-23 ; Wisconsin, Madison, Feb. 2-4 ; Amer¬ 
ican Carnation, Brooklyn, Feb. 19-20 ; Mississippi Valley 
Apple, Quincy, Ill., Mar. 26. 
NUT GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION. 
Pursuant to arrangements a convention of the Southern Nut 
Growers’ Association was held at Macon, Ga., October 6th. 
The largest delegation was from Louisiana. Papers on the 
growing of nut trees were read, and there was considerable 
discussion, showing interest in the subject. Several of the dele¬ 
gates reported large profit from the culture of pecans. A 
single tree in Georgia yielded nuts to the value of $164 in one 
season. President Bacon stated that one year when his cotton 
crop failed he was saved from financial embarrassment by his 
pecan crop. It was decided to change the name of the associ¬ 
ation to the National Nut Growers’ Association. These officers 
were elected : 
President—G. M. Bacon, Dewitt, Ga. 
Vice-Presidents—William Nelson, New Orleans. La.; J. B. Curtes, 
Orange Heights, Fla. 
Secretary and Treasurer—J. F. Wilson. Poulan, Ga. 
Executive Committee—H. C. White, Valdosta ; George Ketchum, 
Macon; E. Mead Wilcox, Auburn, Ala.; Theo Bechtel, Ocean Springs, 
Miss.; S. H. James, Mound, Ind. 
State Vice-Presidents, for Georgia—J. P. Wright, Cario; for Flor¬ 
ida, H. Harold Hume, Lake City ; for Louisiana, H. F. Burnette, 
Baton Rouge ; for Mississippi, Charles E. Pabst, Ocean Springs. 
New Orleans was selected as the convention city for 1903. 
SATISFACTORY TO THE TRADE. 
New Haven Nurseries, New Haven, Mo., Jan. 13, 1902.—“ We 
enclose herewith check for$l to pay for the National Nurseryman 
for 1902. We think you are getting out a publication that is very sat¬ 
isfactory to the trade. It certainly meets our approval.” 
