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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Quiz Column 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
Dear Sir: Is the pecan hardy in Illinois? Could you 
give me the name and address of some reliable nursery com¬ 
pany or individuals who sell the paper shelled pecan a good 
grade of English walnut and the Japanese chestnut 5 Also 
where in your opinion is the best part of the country for 
these to be grown in? How is Alabama near Mobile? 
Could you give me any information where I could get the 
best or a first class book on the culture of the Pecan, English 
walnut, Japanese chestnut and the Cherry? I want to get 
these books as soon as possible. Please let me know by return 
mail. I am, yours truly, 
Chicago, Ill. Samuel Toles. 
Answer 
The home of the pecan is in the Gulf States. It runs as 
far north as southern Indiana and there are one or two thin 
f 
shelled varieties of this northern hardy form which are 
apparently worth cultivating. The southern type would 
not be hardy in any part of Illinois. We would recommend 
you to correspond with the nut nursery companies adver¬ 
tising in this Journal and other firms making a specialty of 
nut culture. There are several specialists in the propaga¬ 
tion and cultivation of the Pecan whose advertisements 
appear in our pages. The walnuts of commerce, however, 
are grown in this country mostly on the Pacific Coast. 
They range from northern California through Oregon, in 
parts of Washington and to some extent in British Colum¬ 
bia. There are few, if any varieties, reliable in the East 
and we do not think that any of them would succeed in the 
upper Mississippi Valley States. The Japanese Chestnut 
succeeds in New Jersey and the Middle Atlantic States, but 
after all is not likely to prove as satisfactory as the improved 
forms of the Spanish Chestnut. The best book on the Pecan 
is published by the Petersburg Publishing Co., Petersburg, 
Va., and written by H. Harold Hume. A general work 
covering nut culture, is published by the Orange Judd Co., 
written by Fuller under the title of the Nut Culturist. 
If you are interested in nut culture you should subscribe 
for the Nut Culturist a periodical devoted to the industry 
and the organ of the National Association of Nut Culturists 
published by Dr. J. F. Wilson, Poulan, Ga. 
Editor. 
NURSERY INCORPORATED 
The Southwestern Nursery Co., of Okemah, Okla. have in¬ 
corporated under the laws of Ohio, with C. N. Peters as president, 
R. H. Gibson, of Troy, Ohio, as secretary and treasurer, and C. M. 
Redmond, of Okemah, Okla. as general manager. Mr. Redmond is 
a thoroughly reliable and competent nurseryman, having been 
nursery foreman for Peters & Co., of Troy, Ohio for nearly twenty- 
five years. 
Enclosed find $1.00 for another year’s subscription. You are 
putting out a very good trade Journal and I think it should have 
the patronage of all Nurserymen. 
Odessa, N. Y. Elmer Sherwood. 
COLORADO APPLE EXPOSITION 
The great Colorado National Apple Exposition will be 
held in Denver, January 3-9, 1910, under management of 
Colorado fruit growers and Denver chamber of commerce. 
The Stark Brothers Nursery Co., of Louisiana, Mo., is 
very much interested in the development of the apple 
industry of Colorado. They have given more than 2,00c 
nursery trees to the exposition association to be used as 
premiums for displays of apples. This is only a sample of 
the interest that is being taken in the exposition by persons 
and firms outside the state. Whatever Colorado attempts 
usually is a success, and in this case the reputation of the 
state is not likely to be lessened. The apple growers of 
Colorado will see to it that the show is just a little above the 
standard. 
The prize list as it is being arranged is to be one of the 
most attractive ever offered for a like show. For example, 
one prize is $1,750 for carloads, $1,000 the best, $500 for 
the second and $250 for the next. 
NATIONAL APPLE SHOW 
The National Apple Show to be held at Spokane, Wash., 
November 15-20, has for its objects the following: 
To popularize the apple as a national fruit and food. To 
assist growers in orcharding and the marketing of their 
products. To encourage the growing of cleaner and better 
fruit and more of it. To supply the every-increasing demand 
for high grade commercial apples. To demonstrate to the 
West the possibilities of intensive cultivation, and, to show 
to the East the value' to the whole country of this develop¬ 
ment. 
These are the chief objects of the National Apple Show, 
Inc., headed by Howard Elliott, president of the Northern 
Pacific Railway Co., which will award prizes and premuims, 
aggregating more than $25,000, at its second competitive 
exhibition, free and open to the world in Spokane, Novem¬ 
ber 15 to 20, inclusive; 
The chief prize this year is the sweepstake of $1,500, to 
be awarded in the carload class. This calls for 630 boxes or 
210 barrels of commercial winter apples of one or more 
standard varieties. There will be carload competition on 
varieties, also contests, barrel, box, pyramid, basket, jar 
and plate displays, in each of which the management has 
arranged for the distribution of substantial prizes, in addition 
to gold and silver medal banners and diplomas. 
The association has adopted the rules of the American 
Pomological Society, and in making the awards the judges 
will consider these points: First, value of the varieties for 
the purposes to which they may be adapted; second, color, 
size and uniformity of fruit; third, freedom from marks of 
insects and other blemishes; fourth, pack. 
While the primary purpose of this enterprise, originated 
and fostered by the people of Spokane, is to establish a 
standard, to assist growers in the culture and marketing of 
the fruit and to create and supply the increasing demand 
for the apple, it is designed also to bring together the grow¬ 
ers and the men who handle the products of orchards in a 
commercial way, with a- view toward the greater develop¬ 
ment of the industry. 
