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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
that now pays its own expenses, supplies the family with fresh 
fruit from the first of June until fall, and then earns a net profit 
from the sale of surplus fruit. 
Mr. Pearsoji, of Texas, advertised his surplus fruit only one 
year—the first. His neighbors now come after it and pay $1 to 
50 cents per bushel more than they are willing to pay others. 
Mr. Darnell says that his two acres in fruit are the most pro¬ 
fitable part of his farm. 
Mr. O. A. Green sold the peaches from twenty-five trees for 
$125, and got as much more from a few apple trees. 
And so on and on. 
This is what wide-awake farmers are doing, and they are no 
better situated than the rest of us for having more fruit and 
better fruit. The difference is that these successful ones have 
not just talked about good fruit. They have actually ordered the 
trees and have done their part by them—and reaped their re¬ 
ward. We can do the same if we will. Isn’t it time to really 
try it—and not just talk about trying it sometime? 
Suppose you and Mrs. Farmer carefully look over the blank 
on page 10 and see whether you think it will do you any harm 
to use it. 
LET’S SEND THIS ORDER TO SOME NURSERYMAN NOW 
The following blank was printed in last week’s paper, but we 
are printing it again in the hope that some readers who missed 
it last week will use it now and so make a real start at last 
toward getting the joys of good fruit for themselves and their 
families. The trees and shrubbery listed will give ripe fruit 
over a long period of time, and will furnish enough shrubbery 
for a foundation planting. Change the list by cutting out or add¬ 
ing to as your needs warrant, and mail to some nurseryman 
whose reliability is guaranteed to you by the fact that he adver¬ 
tises in The Progressive Farmer. 
P. O.R. F. D.Box . . . .State . 
Dear Sir;—Below is a list of fruit trees, etc., that I am con¬ 
sidering planting. Please let me know if you can furnish all 
these and at what prices fo” good quality. 
Name . 
Muscadine Grape 
•1 Sciippernong 
2 .Tames 
Fig 
2 Brown Turkey 
2 Celeste 
Plum 
1 Abundance 
1 Red .Tune 
1 Wild Goose 
1 Panison 
Dewberry 
12 Lucretia 
Raspberry 
6 Cuthbert 
6 St. Regis 
Apple 
2 Early Harvest 2 
2 Yellow Transparent 
2 Red .Tune 5 
2 Delicious 6 
2 Winesap 0 
2 Yates 
Strawberry 1 
500 Klondyke 1 
500 Lady Thompson 1 
Pear ' 
2 Pineapple or Sand 
2 ICeiffer 4 
Cherry •’ 
1 'Montmorency 4 
1 EaP” Pi'dnv.ond 2 
Peach 
Mayflow’er 
Carmen 
Hile.v 
Belle of Georgh 
Elberta 
Pecans 
Stuart 
Schley 
Moore 
Success 
Bunch Grape 
'Moore’s Early 
Delaware 
Concord 
White Niagara 
Japanese Persimmon 
2 Tane Nash! 
Mulberry 
2 Hicks or Downing 
Blackberry 
12 E'lrlv Harvest or 
Eldorado 
Shrubbery 
2 P nk blossom Crape 
iMyrtle 
12 Abelia Grandiflora 
0 Hydrangea 
12 Spirea Van Houtel 
MANURE 
Nurserymen need not be told that manure is getting 
scarce and expensive. In some localities it is simply un¬ 
obtainable at a cost at which it can be used. 
Chemical fertilizers soiling crops are alright in their 
way, hut barnyard or stable manure is a material for 
which there is no substitute in nursery practice. 
Those nurseries that are located in territory where 
cattle raising is an industry, the solution of the problem 
is to add another department to the nursery and go into 
cattle raising so as to obtain the hy-produet, manure. 
This is Ix'ing done successfully and pi’ofitahly by large 
trucking or market gardening concerns. 
The i)lan is to grow sulTieient forage and feed eiops 
and then buy a number of steers for fattening in the 
fall, keeping them housed up, only allowing tliem out 
in the pound, where ample straw is kept to conserve 
manurial values. 
Toward spring, if properly cared foi% they should have 
put on enough weight to sell for enough, at least, to pay 
hack the original purchase price and the cost of their 
feed, with the manure as a profit. 
A PRODUCT FROM THE PALMETTO TREE 
There has never heim up until now a use for Floiida’s 
Palmetto tree. 
A process has been discovered by which they can make 
an interior wall hoard from it. The tree is sliced up aud 
dried into veneer like layers. 
This Palmetto is known as the cabbage palmetto! It 
is im[)ossihle to use it as a lumber because of its very 
fibrous texture. It is very tough and re([uires a sjTCcial 
set saw. 
There is only one mill at present and it is on the East 
Coast of Florida. 
The tree sometimes grows as high as eighty feet and 
lives to he one hundred years old. 
UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION 
The United States Civil Service Coimnission announces 
the following open competitive examination: 
Pl ANT Quarantine Inspector 
An examination for plant (piarantine inspector will he 
held throughout the country on December 10. It is to 
fill vacancies in the Federal Horticultural Board, Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, at aii eutrance salary of $1,860 a 
year. Advancement in pay may he made without change 
in assignment up to $2,400 a year. 
The duties of the position are to assist in the enforce¬ 
ment of the various (luarantine and regulatory orders is¬ 
sued under the jilant quarantine act of August 20, 1912. 
Competitors will be rated on either entomology or plant 
pathology, practical questions in plant-inspection work, 
and education and experence. 
CATALOGUES RECEIVED 
Forest Nur. Co., McMinnville, Tenn. 
Wholesale Trade List. 
J. C. Hale Nur. Co., Winchester, Tenn. 
Peach Trees. 
F. M. Crayton & Sons, Biltmore, N. C. 
Lining Out Plants, Cuttings and Seeds. 
Robert C. Young, Greensboro, N. C. 
Pew Bargains. 
E. C. Robbins, Pineola, N. C. 
Wholesale Trade List. 
Leesley Bros. Nurs., Chicago, Ill. 
Wholesale Catalogue. 
D. Hill Nur. Co., Dundee, Ill. 
Special Offer of Choice Stock. 
Lining Out Stock. 
Beverly Nur. Co., Beverly, Ohio. 
Choice Fruits, Trees, Shrubs, Etc. 
H. F. Hillenmeyer & Sons, Lexington, Ky. 
1924—1925 
Old Farm Nurs., Boskoop, Holland. 
Special Wholesale Price List 
Griffing Nurs, Beaumont, Texas. 
Price List 
E. TurUat & Co., Orleans, Prance. 
Wholesale List 
S. R. McKee Nurs. and Rose Gardens, Jacksonville, Texas. 
Royal Palm Nurs., Oneco, Fla. 
Tropical Planting Book and Catalogue 
