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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The demand for stock of all kinds continues good, and we 
are maintaining prices all along the line. The past season we 
had a large acreage in peas in addition to our nursery stock. 
This land we will plant in trees next season. Altogether, we 
think the outlook is encouraging. 
Winchester, Term. Cedar Hill Nursery Co. 
The season for the growth of nursery stock this year has on 
the whole not been satisfactory in our territory. We have 
had sufficient rain to prevent any damage resulting to our 
nursery stock, but the growth on it has not been quite so 
heavy as it usually is. Trade conditions have been the best 
in the history of our company, our sales to date being about 
20% more than ever before sold. We find the strongest 
demand for apple. Last year we tried to push the sale of one 
year instead of two year apple with only reasonable success. 
This year, almost without effort on our part, our sales have 
drifted very largely toward one year apple stock. We find 
also splendid demand for peach. 
Last year we bought a farm of 2 7 5 acres within one mile of 
our old farm, which we expect to use for the most part in 
growing apple. Considering the season, our this year’s 
planting of apple grafts is showing up finely on this new land. 
Knoxville, Tenn. Knoxville Nursery Co. 
THE GREAT SOUTHWEST 
Some parts of our state were dry in the early spring, but 
this section had rains just right from the first of the year 
until the middle of May. Since then it has been very dry 
most of the time, but trees made about an average growth 
from the early rains. 
We had the poorest peach and plum crop in thirty years. 
It improved toward the north, and was good in the northern 
part of the state. Twenty to thirty years ago, if the peach 
crop failed, it was hard for agents to make sales. That has 
all changed of late years, and we have our usual pile of orders. 
We look for a perfectly satisfactory trade the coming 
season. The per cent, of fall and winter orders has steadily 
increased for fifteen years, and we see signs of a big bound this 
year. 
The demand for ornamentals is increasing wonderfully. 
Home owners are considering whether it pays to put a $500.00 
piano in the house, and expensive wall paper on the walls, 
which is seen by few people and used by no one except the 
flies, while they put $1.75 worth of shrubs in the yard. 
One man figured out that in ten years his wife wanted new 
paper and a new piano, while if he had spent $100.00 intelli¬ 
gently in things for the yard the place could have been sold 
for $1000.00 more and the value would be still increasing. 
The people—most of them—are ripe for a little teaching. I 
make it a rule to challenge any doubter to name a way in 
which he can spend a little money that will add so much and 
such lasting beauty, comfort, and value to his home. 
Of recent years, some berries have originated in Texas that 
seem to be crosses between dewberries and blackberries. 
They simply eclipse anything for certainty of crops, amount 
of fruit to the acre, and in the amount of dollars easily taken in. 
There is a new peach, the Leona, very much like Elberta, 
that we believe will make everybody simply drop Elberta. 
The tree is slightly more dwarfish, but immensely more pro- 
ductive. It is a shade earlier than Elberta. 
Up until five years ago, when we had a winter almost 
without any frost, we thought we had a.pretty good peach 
country. Since then we seem a little far soutlVfor peaches, 
of most of the large sized, standard varieties. 
It has made us go to propagating twelve or fifteen varieties 
of smaller peaches on the style of ordinary seedlings that have 
made reputations for never missing a crop. 
Two and three years ago the department at Washington 
sent me some buds and also some seedlings of some new 
Jujubes from central China. They are all bearing and are all 
different, one being round. The buds—four sorts bear fruit 
fully two or three times as large as the old sort first introduced- 
Perhaps some day these will be planted in everybody’s 
orchards. They are thornless, or nearly so. 
Pecans 
If I thought anyone would persist in pronouncing these 
pea cans, I would not write about them. (Reader please 
say pe cons with accent on last syllable). 
The wild trees line the creeks and rivers of Central and 
West Texas. One can travel for five hundred miles up the 
Colorado River and never be out of sight of a pecan tree, and 
in places the groves spread out in the valleys until they are a 
mile or two miles wide. Choice new varieties are brought to 
notice each year. There are millions of trees and no two of 
them are alike. People now are fast getting in the notion of 
cutting the tops off of their trees (except a chance choice one) 
during the winter, and budding fine sorts on the new growth 
the next summer. They commence bearing the second year. 
I doubt if there is anywhere an investment so certain and 
inviting as the buying of some cheap land covered with native 
pecan trees, and then top working them. 
Austin, Tex. F. T. Ramsey. 
The season has been exceedingly dry in most parts of the 
Southwest. 
The effect on the growth of stock has been to retard it 
considerably. Grades will be light as a rule. 
Trade conditions are reasonably good. Feed and grain 
crops are light. The cotton crop is reasonably good and 
bringing good prices. We look for a very fair demand. 
Peach and plum stock we think most in demand. 
A new wholesale packing house on the railroad track is a 
recent improvement with us. No very extensive improve¬ 
ments are being made by nurserymen generally this year. 
Nursery management is receiving a great deal of attention, 
and as business increases, more thorough system is required. 
There are many new varieties of fruits, among others we 
will mention five varieties of peaches ripening after Elberta, 
introduced by J. W. Stubenrauch of Mexia, Texas. 
Many old varieties have been discarded in this section, or 
rather have been replaced by new and better ones, the recital 
of which would take considerable space 
Sherman, Tex. Texas Nursery Company. 
Season opened up in February with fair amount of rain, 
with promise that drouth conditions existing the year before 
would be broken, but in this there was disappointment, as 
practically no more rain fell during the spring and early 
summer, with high temperature during May and June. 
Young stock such as cuttings and grafts, that was lined out 
suffered. On July 17, a good rain came that broke the 
drouth, and stock since then has made good growth. By 
constant cultivation much stock was saved that would have 
otherwise perished during the drouth in early summer. In 
August the rainfall was above normal, but so far there has 
been no rain in September. Will have to have rain before 
much digging can be done. 
Retarded in early summer, plants made good growth since 
August, so that stock will grade up to average. Stock one 
year old last spring will be above average this fall, as it seems 
that stock already established did not suffer as did stock lined 
out in spring. Forest trees seemed to suffer more than any¬ 
thing else, that is, the natural timber 15 to 50 years old in the 
forests. Young shade tree blocks came thru allright. Good 
cultivation was the salvation. 
In spite of the loss of the com and oat crops in this part of 
the United States by drouth, trade conditions look fair at this 
writing. 
Peach and grape for north and central Texas. Gulf Coast 
is now going to grapes pretty heavily. A few years ago figs 
and oranges were the leaders, and they will be planted heavily 
yet. In certain sections apples are in demand. 
