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THE NATIONAL NURSEEYMAN 
XUKSLHY NEWS FHOM NORTH CAROLINA 
.1. Horace MeFaiiane \\ as a recent visitor to the J Van 
LiinUey Nursery Company. Pomona. North Carolina. 
While in Oreenshoro he made an address before the 
Chaml)er of Commerce of Greensboro, on the subject of 
“Civic Beautification.” 
Other visitors were: 
A. H. Hill, Dundee, Illinois. 
W. K. Labar, Stroudsburg, Pa. 
E. C. Robbins, Pineola, North Carolina. 
Mr. Parthemore, McFarland Publicity Service, Har¬ 
risburg, Pa., rejiresentative of Wadley & Smythe, New 
York City. 
The Van Lindley Nursery Company recently received 
a solid car of Namlinu domestica from the far south; also 
a carload of liroad-leaved evergreens from the Pacific 
coast. 
Representatives of the landscape department of the J. 
Van Lindley Nursery Company have given talks on city 
and town beautitication during the past winter to the 
following clubs; 
Civilian Club, Greensboro, N. C. 
Woman’s Club, Mebane, N. C. 
Woman’s Club, Albemarle, N. C. 
Kiwanis Club, High Point, N. C. 
Rotary Club, Thomasville, N. C. 
Reidsville Garden Club, Reidsville, N. C. 
Guilford College Community Club, Guilford, N. C. 
The Van Lindley Nursery Company has recently ac¬ 
quired an addition to their acreage at Friendshi]), nov/ 
having a total of 400 acres. 
Mr. George M. Long, expert plantsman, formerly with 
Holm & Olsom, St. Paul, is with the landscape depart¬ 
ment of the J. Van Lindley Nursery Company. 
Robert C. Young, one of the newer nurserymen, is 
forging ahead. He has recently increased his plant very 
materially. In addition to tree and shrub seedlings, he 
is propagating boxwood very heavily. 
The City of Greensboro will employ a planting super- 
int(mdent to help make the city more beautiful. 
The Woman’s Cluh of Winston-Salem, N. C., is plant¬ 
ing 10 miles of roadway with sugar maples and crepe 
myrtles, alternated. 
The first week in March, Greensboro was visited by 
one of tbe worst sleet storms in many years. Thousands 
of dollars’ worth of damage was done to shade trees. 
There is hardly a tree left that is not disfigured in some 
way. 
0. .loe Howard, Hickory, N. C., made a recent trip 
south, going as far as Jacksonville, Fla. 
FRUITFUL 
“The stork has brought a little peach,” 
The nurse said with an air, 
“I’m mighty glad,” the father said, 
“He didn’t bring a pair.” 
HONORS FOR HARLAN P. KELSEY 
Mr. Harlan P. Kelsey, Salem, Massachusetts, President 
of the xAmerican Association of Nurserymen, has been 
named by the “Council of National Parks, Forest and 
Wild Life,” to serve on a committee to determine on a 
national park in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. 
Mr. Kelsey is a former president of the “Appalachian 
Mountain Club” of Boston and will represent it on the 
council. 
Editor, "National Nurseryman” 
We are beginners in the growing of Norway Spruces. 
We want to learn more about what soil of soil is the best 
for this tree. Just what soil is best for them and the 
best way to treat them. Can you recommend a book 
treating on the subject? 
Very truly yours, 
E. S. H. 
We gather from your letter that you will make a 
specialty of growing Norway Spruce and want to find 
out everything there is to know about this particular 
plant. 
While books on Horticulture treat the Norway Spruce 
incidentally, along with other firs and spruces, we do not 
know of one that is likely to give you any very special in¬ 
formation, as regards the culture of this plant. They are 
usually treated with other evergreens. You will find 
your own observations and experiences of the most value. 
Perhaps you know it is a native of a much more north¬ 
ern latitude than say Philadelphia and New York. In 
other words it is not quite at home in this latitude—this 
is evidenced by the fact that it seldom attains a very 
great age. You will find them scattered all through the 
country where farmers have planted them near their 
homes. They will average, in age, possibly thirty to 
fifty years and you will seldom see one of this age that is 
not very much on the decline. We think this is due to 
the occasional hot and dry summers, which encourage red 
spider and other pests, which weaken the trees and 
cause them to lose their lower branches before they 
should when grown as single specimens. 
The finest specimens we can recall seeing in Pennsyl¬ 
vania are growing in the National Cemetery at Gettys¬ 
burg. They are fifty or sixty feet high with branches 
sweeping the ground, showing they have never suffered 
during any part of their existence. 
We assume, however, that you are not particularly in¬ 
terested in the Norway Spruce after it gets past the sal¬ 
able size in tbe nurseries, say ten feet or so. In the young 
state they are about the easiest and free growing of the 
conifrous evergreens and are found to be adaptable to 
most any kind of soil, jirovided it is fairly well drained 
and retentive of sufficient moisture to insure their not 
suffering during hot, dry summers. 
Deep plowing, especially if you have a hard sub soil, 
is advisable—it insures moisture being held in suspen¬ 
sion. Too much manuri' or too rich a soil is perhaps 
likely to make them grow too fast, inducing them to make 
very long leaders, which cause the whirls of branches to 
be widely separated. This, however, can be overcome by 
