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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
GLEN SAINT MARY NURSERIES 
This nursery company, though situated farther south, 
located as it is in the north tier of counties in Florida, had 
as nearly closed up its shipping season as it is possible for a 
citrus nursery to do at almost any period of the year, for 
there is a more or less perennial demand and continuous 
movement of orange, grape fruit and the like. The striking 
thing noted here was the strong demand for satsuma 
oranges on trifoliate stock. The somewhat recent demon¬ 
strations, in which this Nursery has taken a leading part, of 
the superior hardiness of satsuma, especially when worked 
on trifoliate stock, has caused an enormous demand from 
planters in the Gulf States, notably Texas and Louisiana. 
Trifoliate stock is being grown in great blocks, as the peach 
is grown farther north. It has been conclusively proved 
that by the use of this stock the orange may be carried con¬ 
siderably farther north than would otherwise be possible. 
This nursery operates a branch exclusively for oranges and 
these men, as we understand plowing in the North. It is 
simply scratched. One may go into a cotton field, as pre¬ 
pared by the usual type of renter, and find not more than 
three inches of the surface soil stirred, and in some cases the 
cotton is put in by merely opening a furrow between the 
rows of last year’s crop. Then, again, the main dependence 
for the crop of the season is placed upon the fertilizer. It is 
a case of constantly adding plant food. Little or no atten¬ 
tion by this class of farmers is given to the necessity of pro¬ 
viding humus for the land so that the nitrogenous content 
may be kept up. Fortunate it is that nature produces 
abundant and spontaneous crops of legumes and other 
plants which somewhat automatically return humus to the 
land. Prominent among these adventitious crops is the 
beggar weed, a very valuable legume. Among other 
leguminous crops used are velvet bean and cow peas. These 
grow with a luxuriance astonishing to the Northerner. In 
short there seems to be altogether too much dependence 
The Passing of the Southern Pine. Clearing for Pecan Orchards in Southern Georgia. 
tropical stock at Winterhaven, Fla., in one of the most 
reliable orange growing districts of the state. Both Messrs. 
G. L. Taber, president, and H. H. Hume, secretary, are 
actively engaged in promoting fruit interests in the state, as 
well as in furthering business interests through nursery 
development. 
LAND DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH GEORGIA AND NORTH 
FLORIDA 
A considerable advance in price of land has been noted 
as we have visited Florida and Georgia periodically during 
the past five years. The recent improvement in cotton 
prices has done much to stimulate and strengthen interest 
in farming. Areas lying idle for considerable periods are 
now being worked, new lands are being cleared, and not only 
is more cotton being planted, but farming is taking on a 
more diversified complexion. The bane of agriculture and 
horticulture in the South is the traditions of past customs 
and practices, which still remain and are being transmitted 
by the colored renter of the land. The soil is not plowefd by 
placed upon applying fertilizers, and too little upon the 
necessity of keeping up the store of humus in the soil. A 
change of system is bound to come, but it can hardly be 
expected to take effective form while the negro cotton 
grower continues to rent his “one mule farm’’ of thirty to 
forty acres, and pretend to cultivate this with a single horse 
or mule, hence the derivation of the term “one mule farm.” 
THE PASSING OF THE PJNE 
The great pine forests of Georgia and North Florida will 
exist only as memories in a few years. The lumberman, 
the turpentine manufacturers, the perennial forest fires, are 
steadily lessening these picturesque and valuable areas, and 
the exploiter of lumber is being driven each year to more 
and more inaccessible parts of the country. In some places 
the second growth of timber is appearing, but unfortunately 
this is often of the least valuable sort. Short leaf pine more 
frequently succeeds long leaf than otherwise. A good 
forest policy firmly enforced is much needed in this part of 
the country. 
