THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
5 8 i 
The Labor Problem is Sometimes Difficult of Solution in Southern Nurseries. 
Women are Occasionally Employed. 
NUT INTERESTS 
The past five years has seen the development of a great 
pecan industry in South Georgia and North Florida. This 
nut leads all fruits in point of public interest. Large areas 
are being planted and exploited in various ways. Some of 
this exploitation is reasonable and some of it is unreasonable 
and unsafe. Those best qualified to judge, believe the 
interest in pecan culture to be well founded. We have no 
doubt that it will prove very much the same with the pecan 
as has been found to be true with other fruits, that judgment, 
intelligence, and right practices will be rewarded with 
reasonable, and perhaps large profits, but in the great mass 
of planting and in the large number of schemes being 
exploited we can always count upon a certain percentage of 
failure. We saw seven-year old trees of grafted varieties, 
25 to 30 feet in height, which bore 30 lbs. of high grade nuts 
in 1909. We saw a block of 80 acres of five-year old trees 
which the owner refused to sell for $80,000.00 a few weeks 
ago. These instances are quite in line with the glowing 
reports which come to us of the success in apple growing on 
the Pacific Coast. At any rate large blocks of peccns are 
going out and many of the orchards are being cared for 
intelligently and thoroughly. It would appear that this 
business is just as stable as Oregon and Washington fruit 
growing, where much larger prices are now being paid for 
land upon which to grow a product of a perishable character, 
which must be shipped at least three thousand miles before 
reaching the home of the consumer. 
THE INSPECTION BILL 
As we go to press representatives of the American 
Association of Nurserymen are in Washington in the 
interests of the bill providing for inspection of import 
nursery stock. There has been considerable difficulty in 
adjusting the practical necessities of the case to the theoreti¬ 
cal requirements of the situation. The nurserymen have 
insisted that dock inspection is 
impossible. The descriptive article 
on the conditions prevailing at the 
port of entry in last month’s issue 
of the National Nurseryman 
supports this contention, and the 
point is likely to be conceded by 
the promoters of the bill. Inspec¬ 
tion then will take place at the 
point of destination. 
The United States Entomologist 
is, however, properly concerned 
over the possibility of introducing 
new and dangerous pests, and 
should have such authority as will 
permit him to exclude importa¬ 
tions from nurseries or regions 
known to be infested with danger¬ 
ous insect pests, or from nurseries 
flagrantly careless in reference to 
these enemies. Authority of this 
kind will have a salutary influ¬ 
ence on European growers importing stock into this 
country. /It will also tend to bring about a better and 
more thorough system of inspection of the nursery shipping 
the stock. The report of the Legislative Committee is given 
on page 598. 
SPECIAL TRAIN SERVICE TO DENVER 
F. A. Weber, Chairman of the Arrangements Com¬ 
mittee, has a plan for running a special train out of St. 
Louis to Denver. It is part of that plan that special cars 
from the East shall join at St. Louis, the cars made up of 
the delegations from Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois and 
points adjacent to St. Louis. The Kansas City delega¬ 
tion could be met on the line, and the Iowa and Nebraska 
nurserymen picked up at Wyoming, Nebr. This is all 
figured by the Burlington Route. In this way, a special 
train of five or six coaches would be made up. 
“Boxed” Pine Trees. Sap is Gathered from which Turpentine ■ 
and Resin are Manufactured. 
