THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Activity in this section confines itself to pecan tree planting.— 
Bechtel Pecan Nurseries, Ocean'Springs, Miss. 
The nurseries in the southwest all seem to he growing more 
ornamentals, and all seem to be cutting down their apple plantings. 
Apple and peach trees never were in better demand than at this 
time, so far as this section is concerned.—E. P. Bernardin, Parsons, 
Kansas. 
Most of the nurserymen through this part of the State have 
finished their deliveries, and are now stocking up their cellars with 
trees for next spring’s shipment. We have had remarkably fine 
weather for work this fall, and almost every nurseryman who is 
wide awake has his stock in the cellar, his scions cut, and is ready for 
winter work such as grading, grafting, etc.—Des Moines Nursery 
Co., Des Moines, Iowa. 
Coniitions favorable. Good varieties and good trees are selling 
every day at good prices. Poor trees and poor varieties are a back 
number. The brush pile will get thousands. Our business has 
more than doubled the past year. Good clean apple are selling, 
good clean peach are selling, Kieffer pear are going, strawberry 
plant season not on, ornamentals are being asked for, privet is being 
planted, people are completing their outside surroundings.—J. G. 
Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md. 
Business good, a fine growing season, and a bright outlook for 
spring.—Hoopes Bro. & Thomas Co., West Chester, Pa. 
Good.—J. Van Bindley Nursery Co., Pomona, N. C. 
The outlook for this section of the country is unususdly good.— 
F. W. Meneray, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
The constant attempts to engage in independent nursery busi¬ 
ness, by novices, who know only how to bud and graft, throwing 
blocks of peach, and apple (mostly) on to the market at ruinous 
prices; and the silly, very bothersome and practically ineffectual 
inspection laws, fill the nurseryman’s life with thorns, with little or 
no benefit to the planter.—T. V. Munson & Son, Denison, Texas. 
We find many of the smaller nurseries going out of business, ^ 
while the larger ones are inclined to increase their planting. So, as 
a whole, perhaps the acreage is about the same as it has been in the 
last few' years.—W. N. Scarff, New Carlisle, Ohio. 
Had a good growing season and a good selling season. Nothing 
to complain of.—Smith Brothers, Concord, Ga. 
Trade with us has been good this fall.—Carl Sonderregger, 
Beatrice, Nebr. 
There are no particular changes in the nursery field at this point. 
On the whole, wc think there are considerably less fruit trees grown 
here than in former years, with some slight increase at least in grow¬ 
ing of small fruits, ornamentals, etc.—L. R. Taylor & Sons, Topeka, 
Kansas. 
Great enlargement of the business in the section north and west 
of Iowa.—Wedge Nursery, Albert Lea, Minn. 
There is a heavy demand for nearly all lines of nursery stock, and 
the supply is cpiite limited. This is especially true of apple trees 
and forest seed and seedlings. Outlook good for heavy sales the 
coming.spring. Very excellent weather here this fall and stock has 
ripened up well for winter. The ground is rather dry here now, and 
no snow' at all as yet.—Whiting Nunsery Co., Yankton, S. D. 
HALE’S NEW DEPARTURE 
The N.4TIONAL Nurseryman notes with great interest a new' 
departure made by J. H. Hale, the eminently successful apple and 
peach grower of Connecticut and Georgia, in connection w'ith his 
fruit industries. As a result of the great tax upon his time made by 
those desiring expert advice in regard to the founding of orchard 
enterprises, Mr. Hale has established a Department of Council and 
Advice as a part of his immense orchard business, covering nearly 
. 3,000 acres of land, substituting this for his nursery work at South 
Glastonbury, Connecticut. If there are prospective orchardists 
who do not know of Mr. Hale’s great enterprises, suffice it to say 
that his paying orchards in tw'o states now comprise 200,000 trees, 
or one thousand times the number with which he began in 1869 , and 
that in the fall of 1910 , his entire crop of apples was selling for nearly 
twice the sum quoted on other apples in the Northeast. For 
reasonable fees, Mr. Hale will furnish advice not merely on the 
development of new orchards, but on the making over of old orchards 
which have been con.sidered of little value into productive properties. 
PLANT FORMATIONS ON SOUR SOIL 
On a soil that contains abundance of free humus acids, and is 
more^or less peat-like, there occurs a group of more or less closely 
related formations. Sour soil is intimately associated with a moist, 
cold, or temperate climate. Many species of Heather plants can 
’grow both on extremely dry, warm soil, and on extremely cold, wet 
soil; such is the case with Calluna, Empetrum, several species of 
Pinus, Juniperus communis, Betula nana, Saxifraga Hirculus, 
Ledum palustrc, and Vaccinum Myrtillus in Europe; Pinus Taeda 
in the Dismal Swamps of the United States; and Phormium tenax 
in New Zealand. Many Arctic moors and swamps often become 
completely dried up. In low-moor (sedge-moor, lowland moor), 
the following are represented: Cyperace®, Equisetace®, Epipactis 
palustris, Eriophorum, Juncace®, Geum rivale, Epilobium palustre, 
Caltha, Trollius, Ranunculace®, Menyanthes, Panxissia palustris, 
also Salix, Alnus, Rhamnus, and Ericace®. Moss-bogs prepondei'- 
ate in Arctic and Antartic countries .—Jotirnal of l-Iorticulture. 
Extensive seedling beds of Griffing Bros. Macclenny, Fla. Sub-tropical plants 
grown in large numbers. 
