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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Business jVIovcmcnts 
The Morris Nursery Company, of West Chester, Penn¬ 
sylvania, who recently lost a packing shed by fire, are 
erecting a two-story building on its site, which will be 
36 X 8o feet. 
INCORPORATED 
The Greenville Nursery Co. has recently been incor" 
porated with a capital of $10,000, at Greenville, South 
Carolina. The officers are Greenville citizens: John H. 
O’Neal, president; W. S. Bradley, vice-president; J. B. 
Bruce, treasurer; J. J. MeSwain, secretary. Mr. W. P. 
Wilson, the general manager, is an experienced nursery¬ 
man from Knoxville, Tennessee. 
NORTHWESTERN APPLE SELLING AGENCY 
The adjourned meeting at Walla Walla, Washington, 
of the apple growers who had previously met to discuss the 
question of forming an apple marketing agency resulted in 
the organization of such an agency, and the formulation of 
plans for its operation. This central agency will have the 
exclusive selling of all products controlled by the district 
associations which are connected with it, the charge not to 
exceed ten cents a box for apples. 
The last report from Mr. J. McHutchison of McHutchi- 
son & Company, Importers, 17 Murray Street, New York, 
found him at Trinidad, B. W. I., on March 30. 
Mr. J. Dykhuis of Felix & Dykhuis, Boskoop, Holland, 
is making his annual business totir of the United States and 
Canada. He arrived in New York on the S. S. Rijndam 
April 17, and is now calling upon nurserymen in the 
country. Among the novelties which he is pushing are 
new roses, hydrangeas, rhododendrons, and conifers. 
MONTANA SHIPPING REGULATIONS 
E D. National Nurseryman: 
The prime object of Montana Nurserymen in forming a 
state organization is to work for the repeal of several 
obnoxious features of our present horticultural law which 
might fairly be entitled “An Act to Discourage the Growing 
of Trees and Retard the Development of the Nursery 
Business in Montana.’’ Here are some of the provisions of 
the law and rules of the State Board of Horticulture to 
which nurserymen object: 
Nursery stock shipped into the state “shall be unpacked 
from the boxes or bales and examined’’ at certain points 
designated as quarantine stations, though these quarantine 
stations are in many cases hundreds of miles from the 
destination of the shipments. 
Stock found infected with Crown Gall or Woolly Aphis 
“shall be destroyed by burning’’ and, if five per cent of a 
shipment is so affected, the whole is to be destroyed. 
Nurseries are required to give the Secretary of the State 
Board of Horticulture five days’ notice before they may 
take stock from the nursery rows and pack it for delivery, 
and a nurseryman is required “to notify the Secretary of 
the State Board of Horticulture of his intention to ship an 
invoice of fruit trees, plants or nursery stock * * at 
least five days before the day of shipment.’’ 
Goods may be passed by one inspector and after de¬ 
livery to the customer, condemned by another inspector. 
The owner of nursery stock has no appeal from the 
decision of any inspector and may not even require the 
return of trees condemned for Root Gall, or any other so 
called “infectious disease.’’ 
It has been said that when a doctor makes a mistake 
he buries it; when our Montana inspector makes a mistake 
he bums it, and the victim of his mistake has no recourse, 
for the inspector is responsible to no man. 
D. J. Tighe, Secretary. 
A WESTERN NURSERY IN THE MAKING 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
The Olympic Nature Nursery is the only one of its kind 
in the Pacific Northwest. It is a logged-off forest conserva¬ 
tory, comprising five forty-acre tracts of land, touching 
salt water, and rising to the shot-clay upland. The area 
has been logged three times, in the last thirty years, and 
then burned over by forest fires. The last crop of timber, 
harvested two years ago, sold for $7,500, and, beneath the 
young trees, and around the stumps and logs, were left 
millions of native plants. 
One year ago I left the city editorial desk, resigned 
several public offices, and decided to go back-to-the-land. 
The first months were spent in clearing land, building 
houses, and making garden. Then came the forest fires, 
that swept over about 150 acres of my nursery, destroying 
plants, shrubs, and timber worth at least $10,000, and 
burning within too feet of the dwelling house. One forty- 
acre tract was a mass of rich rhod.odendron flowers in 
June, and a wreck of burnt logs and black stumps in July. 
Being Chairman of the Washington Conservation Com¬ 
mission, and first President of the Washington Logged-off 
Land Association, and an enthusiast in nature-study, I 
felt the loss more than many others; but an unknown 
friend suggested asking conservation people to give me a 
benefit. To this I replied: “No. Sympathy is a good 
act, charity a humane deed, and friendship a necessity. 
But, the word I need to help me now is business. Let 
me have orders for plants, flowers, and trees and I will 
appreciate the assistance of conservationists and all nature- 
lovers.’’ 
My plants are taken from the burned-over districts of ; 
years ago, insuring good stocky specimens, with fine roots. ; 
They are lifted by a long steel bar, made in wedge shape, 
without disturbing the growing system, and the roots are 1 
immediately packed in wet moss, to retain soil and mois- | 
ture. Then the specimens are labeled, the moss packing | 
covered with wax paper, or newspapers, and the package 
wrapped in stout mailing paper. In that condition the mail i 
order plants leave me and are sent to every patron, with I 
the guarantee of perfect satisfaction or money refunded. i 
