THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Merely as an arithmetical proposition this demonstrates the 
great worth of pecans to Texas. It is, a crop that can be harvested 
with the minimum of expense and can be grown almost anywhere in 
Texas. In certain sections irrigation would probably be necessary 
but the yield is said to be generally sufficient to warrant such ex¬ 
penditure. 
The department’s bulletin contains the written ideas of experts 
on nut culture. General directions for nut growing are advanced by 
E. W. Kirkpatrick, Fernando Miller, H. A. Halbert, C. Falkner, 
Harvey C. Stiles, Frederick W. Mally, Gilbert Onderdonk and F. M. 
Ramsey. The best pecan is described by H. P. Attwater, E. E. 
Risien, T. V. Munson and others mentioned in the foregoing section. 
Transplanting, b dding and grafting are explained by C. Falkner, 
John S. Kerr, Charles L. Edwards and others enumerated. Top 
working also comes in for its share of analysis by Mr. Risien, Mr. 
Halbert and J. F. Sneed. The subject of walnuts is exploited by 
G. A. Schattenberg and Harvey C. Stiles. Marketing pecans is 
explained by Mr. Halbert, Mr. Ramsey and Z. T. Fulmore. The 
bulletin contains some forty pages of interesting and instructive 
matter which was principally incorporated in papers read before the 
convention of the Nut Growers’ Association. The Texas Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture has any quantity on hand and will be glad to 
furnish bulletins to any interested person. 
MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The flower show at Horticultural Hall, Boston, on August 8 and 
g, though not large, contained many interesting exhibits. It was 
composed mostly of hardy flowers. R. & J. Farquhar made quite 
an exhibit of Lillium auratum which contained many fine flowers. 
F. J. Rea, the Bellevue Nurseries, and the Blue Hills nurseries, each 
had a fine exhibit of herbaceous plants, while T. C. Thurlow & Co., 
William Whitman and Mrs. A. W. Blake made displays of phloxes. 
Annuals were shown by Wm. Whitman, Mrs. J. L. Gardner, Mrs. 
E. M. Gill and others. 
Fruits formed a fine section of the exhibits, many fine speci¬ 
mens of apples, peaches, pears, etc., being shown. 
Another exhibition of the society was August 22 and 23, when 
the leading exhibits were phloxes, asters and gladioli. 
the growing of useful trees. My reader is very likely to be the very 
person to awaken an interest and set an example to make tree¬ 
growing fashionable. 
Get some of your congenial acquaintances together and form a 
club. Write to Superintendent of Documents, Forestry Service, at 
Washington, D. C., for a catalogue of books, pamphlets and leaflets 
on trees, published for free distribution, and select what you think 
will be useful. You will find that the instructions for growing trees 
as given in such papers as are printed by the Government, or for 
that matter, by outside parties, are principally for nurserymen or for 
extensive tree planters, but to follow directions is beyond the sphere 
of the average person. 
The value of the method of growing trees by the aid of the dis¬ 
carded tin can appeals especially to persons having some experience 
in propagating trees. Plant some tree seeds in a box, lightly 
covered with sandy soil (not plastic). When not more than three 
inches high transfer into cans with bottoms well perforated, and 
bury the cans to tops in some well-protected spot, shade from hot 
sun and keep the soil in the cans continuously moist. 
Generally, if your seed is good and the above rules are strictly 
followed, you will meet with success. 
The common method of propagating trees requires so much 
space and labor that very few of our people have participated in it, 
and most of those who have, became discouraged. 
In the wild it is only by chance that a tree seed finds a resting 
place where right conditions are maintained; thus few of the 
millions of seeds which fall ever develop into trees, even with those 
that happen to sprout: so it is inadvisable to sow tree seed 
broadcast unless under special conditions. 
One purpose of the organizations of the Federation of Tree 
Growing Clubs of America is to distribute seed; exchange, one with 
another, thus a general diffusion of species will result. As for 
instance, at Monterey, Cal., we have two very valuable indigenous 
trees, the Monterey cypress and the Monterey pine. Seeds of these 
beautiful trees can be had for the asking and postage. 
A tree-growing fad is inexpensive and I think the most satis¬ 
factory, besides it would be the most interesting and useful one ever 
started in the world. 
Speak of this to your friends! 
H. A. Greene, 
President F. of T. G. C. of America. 
NEWPORT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
A regular meeting of this society was held on Tuesday evening, 
August 11, with President John T. Allan in the chair. A. J. Rick¬ 
ards, of New York, was elected to membership and a certificate of 
merit was awarded to Samuel Speer’s new gooseberry “E. H. 
Green.” 
President Allan urged upon the members the importance of the 
work being done in the school gardens and called for a greater 
interest on the part of the society; he suggested that something 
could be done in helping the children in the selection of seeds some¬ 
what better than those supplied by the government. 
FEDERATION OF TREE-GROWING CLUBS. 
In a letter to the Irrigation Age, H. C. Greene speaks of a move¬ 
ment in which nurserymen will take varying degrees of interest. 
We quote the letter as printed over his name: 
Monterey, Cal., April, 1908. 
Since our people have become aware that we are facing a wood 
famine the subject of tree-planting has received much attention 
from publishers: 
It seems to me that tree growing would become popular if the 
right kind of people in each community would start it. Roller 
skating, bicycling and bridge may be good wholesome fads, why not 
a tree-growing fad? It would do so much more good in every pos¬ 
sible way and so many more of our people, young and old, would be 
enticed into it. The time is now ripe for a new fad, then let it be 
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next year if left un¬ 
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We sold 250 dozen 
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