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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
along State and eouiity highways, war on price-cutters 
among nurserymen and higlier membership standards. 
Then some one dropped a kindly word in defense of 
nurserymen having tliat age-old accusation of being a 
peculiar grouj) of folk so absorbed in nursing seedlings 
and j)lants that they care nothing for real business and 
politics. Nurserymen from Canada fortunately do not 
i)elieve that old story of the U. S. nurserymen for they 
voice their apj)reciation of co-operation from their fel¬ 
low members on this side of the border and find business 
({uite satisfactory for themselves. 
No matter what the pro and cons of discussions might 
have been it was unanimously agreed that the bamiuet 
was a ri])ping success and much pleasure derived there¬ 
from together with an interesting talk on the fruit and 
shi'ub conditions in Europe. 
The entire program was enjoyed and it is believed 
that continued progress remains ahead of the Northwest 
and that its nurserymen will play a prominent part in it. 
NEWS EHOM NORTH CAROLINA 
Ry W. C. Daniels 
Lest you forget—the Southern Nurserymen’s Associa¬ 
tion meets in Oreensboro at the O’llenry Hotel, Septem¬ 
ber 3rd and 4th, 1924. Every nurseryman should plan 
to attend this convention; it’s going to be worth while. 
Paul C. Lindley, of Pomona, N. C., was recently elect- 
(•d chairman of the Recreation Section of the Greensboro 
Community Chest, for the purpose of making a survey of 
Greensboro for jiarks, jilaygrounds, municipal golf 
course, etc. Dr. Willis A. Parker, of the Playground and 
Recreation Association of America, has given valuable 
time to bis work, and so far one eighty acre tract has 
been jiurchased for park imrposes, and another tract of 
72 acres has been given the city by a local real estate 
company. This is all in line with the “distribution 
problem.” 
These figures will convey some idea of the way N. C. 
is growing into a fruit producing state. In June around 
400 cars of dewberries were shipjied to northern mar¬ 
kets, 176 cars were loaded and shipped from the small 
town of Cameron in one w eek. Eor several w^eeks Sand¬ 
hill peaches have been moving to the northern market, 
and it is estimated that 2600 iced refrigerator cars of 460 
crates each will be shipped before the season is con¬ 
cluded in August, and that several hundred other cars 
will either be canned or distributed throughout the state 
direct to consumers. It is estimated that there will be 
shipped from this section a fraction more than 2 peaches 
each for every inhabitant of tbe U. S. Three or four 
canneries built this season are but the beginning of an 
extensive sysem of canning and marketing the sandhill 
jieach. The crop this season is more than twice as large 
as any jirevious crop in that section. 
Erom Eastern Carolina, 1900 cars of strawberries w ere 
^bipjied this spring, in comparison with 1193 cars ship¬ 
ped last year. 
Earm products in North Carolina this season are suf¬ 
fering greatly from the alfects of too much rain, 400% 
more fall than usual. This condition is somewhat detri¬ 
mental to the nursery business. The farmer is “blue” 
and orders that he would olherw ise place now, for nur¬ 
sery goods, w ill come in later, as soon as he can tell how" 
his crop w ill be, or else w ill not be jilaced at all this 
year. Towm and city business is quite satisfactory. 
Out-of-tow n nurserymen visiting North Carolina nur¬ 
series the jiast month included Mr. Deens, of Mt. Arbor 
Nurseries; Mr. S. R. Howell, of Howell Nurseries, Knox¬ 
ville, Tenn.; a representative of Lookout Nurseries, Chat¬ 
tanooga, Tenn.; Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Taylor, of Topeka, 
Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor had quite an unpleasant 
experience while in Greensboro. Having unfortunately 
lost their license plate enroute to this city, upon their 
arrival the Greensboro “coppers” selected their car as a 
likely hiding place for “bootleg liquor.” Happily none 
was found. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor were having quite a 
time explaining when Mr. Lindley appeared on the scene 
and cleared the atmosphere. After a very pleasant visit, 
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor w ere supplied another number plate 
and went their wmy rejoicing. 
In order to show' that North Carolina also handles some 
jiroduce as w'ell as Bridgeton, N. J., the following Dixie 
Data may be interesting to nurserymen: Over one rail¬ 
road in 1923 the following cars were shipped from East¬ 
ern North Carolina: Lettuce, 683 cars; beans, 271 cars; 
cucumbers, 1141 cars; garden peas, 46 cars; mixed 
vegetables, 66 cars; pejiper, cabbage, carrots, spinach, 
turnips, beets, 17 cars; Irish potatoes, 1384 cars; sweet 
potatoes, 69 cars; cantaloupes, 309 cars; watermelons, 
679 cars. 
All nurserymen are cordially invited to attend the 
Southern Association meeting. The Lindley Nursery 
Co., Pomona, N. C., will gladly send information as to 
hotel rates, etc., upon request. 
NURSERY NOTES FROM MISSOURI 
By F. a. Weber 
The month of March was cold, raw and unseasonable 
for tbe proper handling of nursery stock. April came in 
with a rush, and the only thing that saved us was that it 
jemained cold throughout the month of April and the 
greater part of May. 
This section has had entirely too much rain. In fact, 
w e have had almost continuous rains since the middle 
of May and it has been impossible to do much cultivating 
of any kind. Stock that we got out early all made a 
good start, but on account of too much moisture, it is 
impossible to work the stock as it should be. In fact, 
many of our cuttings failed. Have not had a cultivator 
in them since they have been planted. It w ill cost us a 
large amount of money to clean up these blocks, if we 
ever do get them cleaned up. It might be cheaper to put 
a plow' into them and jilow' them up. 
Peach crop is very light and then only on a few of the 
hardier varieties. About 76 miles south of us they have 
a fairly good crop and we understand a very heavy crop 
dow n in the southern part of the state. 
Apples are not nearly as heavy as last year. Pears on 
(*ertain varieties have a good crop. Cherries—fine crop 
on most all varieties, but too wet, and growers are hav¬ 
ing trouble in getting their fruit picked before it rots. 
Corn is in bad shape. Most of it has been re-planted 
