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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Our company has greatly increased their stock of budded 
and grafted pecan trees, persimmon trees, Amour River 
Privet hedge plants, Scuppernung and other Muscadine 
grape vines; aurea nana, arborvitae and other ornamental 
trees and plants, many of which have heretofore been 
ordered from Northern and Northeastern Nurseries. With 
our favorable climatic and soil conditions, we are in a posi¬ 
tion to furnish this class of trees in a better quality and at a 
lower price than they can be grown or furnished in the 
North and East. 
In making a specialty of growing this class of stock, we 
are in a position to give a high quality and quick service. 
Our planting and propagating along these lines another 
season will be on a more extensive scale than in the past. 
We have great confidence in the future of the nursery 
business in the lower South, especially along lines in which 
we are specializing. 
C. M. Griffing, Secy. 
The Griffings Bros. Co. 
Jacksonville, Fla. 
A FLORIDA PECAN GROWER. 
Our business this year has been very good; in fact, 
better than ever before. We have sold considerably more 
trees than we did last year, and the present indications are 
that we will be almost completely cleaned up at the end of 
the season. We still have a good assortment, however, in a 
few of the leading varieties, especially Stuart 3-4 and 5-7 ft. 
grades. Pecan seedlings in this section have not made a 
good growth this year, and for this reason there will not be 
as many grafted this winter as usual. From this cause, as 
\t r ell as the general improvement in business conditions, we 
think there will be a strong demand for trees next fall. 
The Nut Nursery Company, 
Monticello, Fla. R. C. Simpson, Mgr. 
TEXAS. 
Trade conditions in the southwest have been good. 
Most of the nurseries have pretty well sold up their fall sur¬ 
plus and have a reasonable amount on hand for spring trade. 
The fall and winter so far have been very favorable indeed, 
and trade has continued brisk up to this writing. Collec¬ 
tions are proving very good. 
Texas Nursery Co. 
Sherman, Tex. 
THE NEW PACIFIC NORTHWEST, EASTERN WASHING¬ 
TON. 
While there is a fair demand for nursery stock at paying 
prices, I am not too sanguine about the business flourishing 
for the next year or two. The most of the trouble we have 
to cope with is in the multitude of “farmer nurseries;’’ these 
fellows who purchase from eastern nurseries a small 
quantity of root grafts and propagate them, then don’t 
know how to dispose of them and put them on the market 
at slaughter prices. These little nurseries are springing up 
all around us in every valley. It is not so much the 
quantity of trees they sell as it is the impression they leave 
upon the planters. Nearly all of them are of the opinion 
that the nurseryman is making altogether too much money. 
There was a large increase in the acreage of nursery stock 
in this state last year but it will probably be mostly all 
worked off before the season is over. Owing to the high 
prices of seedlings this year this acreage will probably be 
reduced during the season of 1909. Then there will prob¬ 
ably be a return to conditions as they have existed in the 
past few years. 
If the government irrigation projects and a fair average 
of the private irrigation schemes are successful the demand 
will probably be good for next spring deliveries. Planters 
are gradually coming to the knowledge that fall deliveries 
are the best. 
THE FRUIT CROPS. 
With regard to the prices of fruit, you have probably 
only heard the very best results and those stories are doubt¬ 
less true; in some instances on small acreages the returns 
of fruit crops have been something almost unbelievable to 
the person who does not actually know the circumstances. 
This year we have had probably the best apple crop the 
state has ever known. The earlier sales were low in price 
but yet the immense yield has given the fruit grower good 
returns. 
At present the farmer is receiving $1.50 for Spitzenberg 
and $1.25 for Winesap and Jonathan and about these 
prices for other high grade apples. This price is per box. 
Pears have paid a good profit as also have sweet cherries. 
The peach crop while good in quantity was low in price and 
probably the least money was made in this variety of fruit, 
yet I believe there was a profit even this year. I know of 
one orchard that netted the owner $300.00 per acre on 
Elberta and Sal way. Of course this was a splendid orchard, 
well cared for and sold to better than average advantage 
this year. This is like the stories you have heard; the very 
best to be found in the valley. 
Eastern people can hardly realize the productiveness of 
this soil when once put under irrigation and properly cared 
for. It is no wonder that there are many people who hesi¬ 
tate to believe what they hear concerning this western 
country, and yet, all of these reports can be proven. It is 
like a mining country, you hear of the fellows who make 
the great strikes but the multitude that do less are not 
noticed. There are not very many people who make an 
absolute failure in fruit growing here, in fact, I believe 
there are the smallest precentage of failures among the 
fanners here of any locality I have ever seen. 
Yakima Valley Nursery. 
North Y'akima, Wash. 
EASTERN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN. 
This association met in Rochester on January 27th. 
The meeting was well attended by representatives from 
Ohio and the principal nursery region of New York. An 
informal discussion on trade matters occurred after which 
the election of officers took place resulting in the install¬ 
ing of the same men. 
