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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Business jYIovcments and 
Hctivities. 
P. J. Berckmans, of Augusta, Ga., the best known florist and 
horticulturist in the state, has been given the task of making the 
flower gardens about the grounds of the Georgia Academy for the 
Blind. The work of the florist will be to lay out the grounds artisti¬ 
cally and furnish trees and shrubbery that will be needed. 
The Texas Nurserymen’s Association met July 8, at College sta¬ 
tion, when some interesting papers were read by various members of 
the trade. Officers were elected as follows: J. B. Baker, Fort 
Worth, president; R. H. Halbert, Arcadia, vice-president; J. S. 
Kerr, Sherman, secretary-treasurer. 
At the meeting of the Western Association of Nurserymen, J. H. 
Skinner of Topeka, Kans., said that a hole the size of a silver quarter 
in a box will allow the useful wren to pass through for nesting pur¬ 
poses, but will exclude the robbing and murdering English sparrow. \ 
The Clinton Falls Nursery Co., Owatonna, Minn., will build two 
more rose houses this fall, making eleven large houses devoted to 
roses, with four in carnations and two in chrysanthemums, besides 
smaller houses for miscellaneous stuff. 
The delegates in attendance at the convention of the Pacific 
Coast Association of Nurserymen, recently in session at North 
Yakima, were the guests of the Washington Nursery Co., July 9, on 
a tour of inspection. More than 30 growers from the northwest 
looked over the young trees. One of the most interesting features 
was the inspection of 1,000,000 young grafted trees in variety, all 
growing in one block. 
A Colorado Nurseryman, J. E. Spencer, Grand Junction, Colo., 
says that 1,000,000 trees have been sent out this year in the valley 
in which he lives. 
The park of Equerry Von Oheimb in Pohlschildern, Lignitz, 
Germany, boasts of the oldest Liriodendron tulipifera in Germany, a 
magnificent specimen, 65 feet high and 10 feet in circumference. 
Tradition has it that this tree was brought in 1 720 as a sapling from 
Italy to Pohlschildern by an ancestor of the present proprietor.— 
Moeller’s Deutsche Gcertner-Zeitung. 
A NEW NURSERY. 
Frank W. Power, Salem, Ore., has been out of the nursery busi¬ 
ness, so far as any financial interest is concerned, for more than six 
months. 
Last December, Mr. Power disposed of his remaining interest in 
the Oregon Nursery company. The Capital City Nursery company, 
the Albany Nurseries and the Portland Wholesale Nursery company, 
to M. McDonald. Previous to this time, in May, 1907, Mr. Power 
had sold a part of his interests, the Chico Nursery company, to 
Bouillard & Wightman and the deal of last December left him with¬ 
out any financial interest in the above properties. 
At the request of Mr. McDonald, who was obliged to be absent in 
California on account of the sickness of his wife, Mr. Power consent¬ 
ed to remain as general manager of the Oregon Nursery company 
until after the spring packing this year. 
Mr. Power retires from the various prosperous concerns with 
which he has been identified for many years, with the best and most 
friendly feelings on all sides. He retires simply as a business pro¬ 
position, believing that he can better himself financially, and steps 
out with the cordial good wishes for the success of the enterprise with 
which he has been identified so long and wishing these concerns the 
same full measure of success and prosperity. 
Mr. Power commenced work for McGill & McDonald, proprietors 
of the Oregon Wholesale Nursery company nine years ago, after it 
had been under the control of the above firm about five or six years 
and the business by hard work had been built up to about $33,000 to- 
$35,000 per year. In 1900, the company was re-roganized as the 
Oregon Nursery Company, Ltd., and about five years ago, Mr. Power 
became a stockholder and vice-president of the company, holding 
this position in the corporation until his retirement. 
About four years ago, Mr. Power purchased a large interest in 
the Chico Nursery Company and shortly afterward moved to Chico, 
Cal., to manage the business. He was very successful in building up 
a large business in California. The sales last year amounted to over 
half those of the old company in this city. However, owing to the 
climate being unfavorable to the health of himself and family, Mr. 
Power sold out his interests at Chico, in May, 1907, to Bouillard & 
Wightman, and returned to Salem, where he again took up active 
work with the Oregon Nursery Company. Last year he sold his 
interest in the companies as noted above. 
Mr. Power’s plans for the future are somewhat unsettled. He 
has been repeatedly asked to start a nursery in this city and has the 
matter under consideration. However, he has other business open¬ 
ings and may decide to go elsewhere. 
With his experience as an officer and stockholder in the various 
enterprises with which he has been identified for the past nine years 
and in which he has been conspicuously successful, there is no doubt 
whatever of Mr. Power’s equipment and ability to make a venture of 
this kind a great success. The labor problem is an ever present one 
in the nursery business and Mr. Power’s ability to find the right kind 
of a field man and a first-class office man will have something to do 
with his final decision in the matter of embarking in business here. 
Many friends will earnestly hope that Mr. Power may be able to 
make arrangements to launch his new enterprise and remain in Salem. 
As chairman of the general cherry fair committee he worked night 
and day and contributed not a little to the flattering success of that 
great show. 
pecan 
PECAN NUT INDUSTRY. 
That pecan growing is conducted in Texas on a paying basis 
may be judged from the fact that the crop of 1907 was estimated at 
over $1,500,000, of which $250,000 worth of nuts was bought by 
New York dealers, at the exceedingly low figure of from eight to 
twelve cents a pound. The largest shipment on record in the 
industry—12,000,000 pounds of nuts or about fifty carloads—filled 
about half of the New York orders .—Garden Magazine. 
A NEW PECAN COMPANY. 
The Yazoo Valley Pecan Co. has been incorporated at Memphis, 
Tenn. by S. L. Parks, F. M. Gulick, B. W. Darham and C. T. West, 
all of Memphis. The capital stock is $500,000. The officers are 
W. R. Barksdale, president; J. E. Van Trees, vice-president; W. M. 
Kavanaugh, second vice-president, and R. L. Sparks, secretary and 
treasurer. 
TEXAS PECAN BULLETIN. 
Prominent Growers Contributed Various Articles as to Care and 
Culture. 
The bulletin of the Texas Department of Agriculture, touching 
the pecan industry of Texas, made its appearance recently and con¬ 
tains expositions of pecan growing and the culture of other nuts as 
well that are calculated to prove of enduring benefit to farmers and 
nurserymen. 
Touching this industry Commissioner Milner said that its 
development should not be neglected by the farmers of the state if 
for no other reason than that of its commercial importance and 
value. He made a rapid calculation of the possible value of the 
pecan crop of Texas had every farm owner in Texas planted at least 
an acre in such trees. Figuring on a basis of 300,000 farms, fifty 
trees to the farm and $10 as the net revenue derived from one tree, 
Commissioner Milner calculates, purely as a hypothetical case, that 
this year’s crop would have been worth in the neighborhood of 
$150,000,000. 
