THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
43 1 
TEXAS CHEERFUL 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
Nearly all of Texas has had rains recently. While the 
cotton crop was cut short by drouth in the summer, the high 
price makes amends. It is the highest since the war. 
I can remember when the gins would give the cotton seed 
to anyone who would haul it away. Then we found that 
cattle could easily be learned to eat the seed and they 
charged three cents a bushel and soon they were worth ten 
cents a bushel for cow feed ($6.00 a ton). Then the oil 
mills came into existence and the price went to $16.00 to 
$20.00 a ton. This year they are paying $26.00 a ton. A 
farmer gets nearly as much for the seed as he got for the 
cotton a few years ago. 
From the way business is starting off we feel sure of an 
unusual demand from now until April. 
Years ago if a man wanted to sell his place you could 
FAVORABLE CONDITIONS IN NEW JERSEY 
We think the present conditions are so far in advance of 
those ten years ago that they can scarcely be compared. 
Ten years ago, we were selling stock in many cases for less 
than it cost us to produce it. After working hard for a 
whole year, at the expiration of that time, we were not very 
far ahead, but now we think we are safe in saying every 
nurseryman is making money. Of course some are making 
more than others. We have no reason to complain as we 
are doing all the business we can attend to properly. 
We think the trade papers are doing an immense amount 
of good in helping along the nursery business. 
We wish to thank our friends who have patronized us in 
the past and hope to be favored with their orders in the 
future. 
Yours respectfully, 
Elizabeth, N. J. The Elizabeth Nursery Co. 
Office of Bobblnk & Atkins draped with vines and shaded by a graceful weeper. 
hardly give him any trees; now many are buying to make 
their places sell. It seems the good sermons the nursery¬ 
men preached twenty to thirty years ago without any visible 
results are beginning to soak in. 
The demand for evergreens and ornamentals is increas¬ 
ing wonderfully. The masses are observing the comfort, 
beauty and value that is added to a home when it is backed 
up with groves and clumps and masses of shades, evergreens 
and shrubs. Thank the Lord we may live to yet see this 
condition the rule instead of the rare, stingy exception. 
All pendulums swing back. The nurseryman is being 
looked to as man’s best friend as never before. We are all 
going to realize better prices. Experience has taught us 
that we must get more. Anyway, a tree is intrinsically 
worth several times the price we get. We are going to 
think more of ourselves and more of each other. I am glad 
I am living. Come down and we’ll open a keg of nails! 1 
will do better than that. I will do the best thing that can 
be done: I will have you stay in Texas. I was born here 
and it was “choice” not “accident.” 
Austin, Texas. F. T. Ramsey. 
fruit and plant f'Jotes 
STEVEN’S PEACH 
Syn. — Stevens' Rare-Ripe 
One of the peaches which year after year in Central New 
York is reliable and fairly satisfactory, is the white-fleshed 
Stevens, which hails from New Jersey. Among the good 
points which are to be credited to it are vigor and produc¬ 
tiveness of tree. The fruit is medium or above in size. It 
is roundish ovate in form, a yellow white ground with a pink 
or dark red cheek. The flesh is white throughout except 
near the pit where it is stained with red. The pit is quite 
free. In texture it is tender and juicy, with a sprightly, 
agreeable flavor. This is an excellent cooking variety and 
from the standpoint of shipping quality it is desirable. 
Season is from the first to fifteenth of October in Central 
New York. 
Stevens is subject to occasional attacks of scab, which 
affect its market value considerably, but as this can now be 
prevented by summer spraying with lime and sulphur it 
should not weigh too heavily against it. 
