THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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nursery stock should be grown on the same land longer 
than for one crop, and then it should be renovated. My 
remedy is to select grafting or budding wood from healthy 
trees and sell the trees at one and two years old. 
I use two horse turn plows and sub-soilers in breaking 
my land in the fall, and in the spring, just before the plant¬ 
ing is done, I run a cutaway harrow over the land ahead 
of the planting. The cultivation is done with Planet Jr. 
plows. 
The packing or “heeling” ground is used to good advan¬ 
tage, especially in filling small retail orders. We use 
shingle tow mostly in packing trees for shipment. Small 
fruits, roses and ornamentals we use moss grown here on 
the nursery to pack in amongst the roots. 
I have been very much annoyed in shipping trees by 
poor freight service, especially where it has to be trans¬ 
ferred. Many times it takes the railroads two weeks to 
get freight to its destination when the distance is not over 
a hundred miles. Express is the quickest but the rates are 
prohibitive. In Georgia we can figure on good express 
rates, but when trees have to go as an interstate shipment, 
we get it hard “in the neck.” 
Taking everything into consideration I think we are 
holding our own in the nursery line. Before the spring 
season is over we will be pretty well cleaned up on all 
salable stock. James Cureton. 
Austell, Georgia. 
THE QUAKER STATE. 
ROSE GROWER OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
We have done the best business for fall in our history. 
It has been mostly in Holland Bulbs, House plants, Dor¬ 
mant Roses. and shrubbery. 
We are preparing for a large spring business, and we 
fail to see yet, why we should not get it. 
We are not growing fruit trees. The most of our 
plants are grown in the green houses, and our shipments 
nearly all made by mail or express. 
Tpie Conrad & Jones Co., 
West Grove, Pa. 
NEW YORK I. 
NOT FAVORABLE FOR VINE GROWTH. 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
The past season has been an off year in many respects 
and below the average in growing power. The spring and 
early summer were cold and wet and stock started late. 
Vines made a good root growth but tops are under size. 
Trade has been good for fall and better than a year ago 
and the outlook for spring is promising. There will be 
no surplus in grape vines for spring and on some kinds a 
shortage. Labor and all other material are higher than 
ever and nurserymen must necessarily get good prices to 
i come out whole this 3 ^ear. 
Your correspondent who asks about propagating Dela¬ 
wares no doubt had as good success in growing Nortons 
and Delaware cuttings as others. These two varieties are 
very hard to propagate. We can get but a very small per¬ 
centage to grow and with our many years’ experience can 
not improve the conditions. T. S. Hubbard Co. 
Fredonia, New York. 
NEW YORK II. 
COMPETENT HELP SCARCE. TRADE BRISK. 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
Dear Sir:—We are pleased to state that we have found 
conditions in our business this fall quite satisfactory in 
almost every respect. Our sales have been sufficient to 
keep us more than busy and in fact we have been unable to 
get sufficient experienced help to carry out all of the work 
we ha*' 0 had in sight. The weather conditions have been 
extremely favorable, and from the orders already booked 
for spring delivery we can see that we will have very lit¬ 
tle surplus stock to dispose of. We do not think that the 
business depression will affect nursery interests to any 
great extent, for the reason that farmers are generally 
more prosperous than ever before, and seem to be alive 
to the advantages to be gained by planting fruit for profit, 
as well as ornamenting their home grounds. 
There has been more or less complaint from the cus¬ 
tomers about the slowness of freight. It may be possible 
that if some action is taken we in New York may be able to 
get better service through the agency of our new Public 
Service Commission. W. & T. Smith Company, 
Geneva, New York. 
OHIO I. 
S PUPPING SEASON NOT A HAPPY TIME. 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
We do not know that there is anything of special in¬ 
terest to say in regard to fall trade. We have had about 
all we could attend to. 
There seems to be no limit to the troubles of the nurs¬ 
ery trade. Shortage of help, the necessity of fumigating and 
striving to comply with a lot of different state laws in mak¬ 
ing shipments, and slowness in which the majority of 
freight in less than car lots is handled, all conspire to make 
the nurseryman’s life anything but happy in the shipping 
season. 
It seems to us there will be a large shortage in all lines 
of fruit and ornamental trees in No. 1 grades. We had a 
poor growing season, a very late spring, and stock did not 
make up anything like its usual proportion of first class 
Grades. The Storrs & Harrison Co. 
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Painesville, Ohio. 
OHIO II. 
LARGd demand for spring. 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
Trade conditions here have been all that one could de¬ 
sire; the demand for many lines of stock having largely 
