THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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A LINE FROM PRESIDENT KIRKPATRICK 
PROGRESS IN TEXAS.—WEST BADEN MEETING. 
Texas nurseyraen are alert in growing an increased stock 
of superior trees and plants of improved varieties for the 
increasing trade in the southwest. A large number of im¬ 
proved varieties, new strains of fruits, are being originated and 
introduced to the exclusion of older inferior sorts. Many 
thousand hybrid and crossed peaches, plums and other fruits 
will be fruited this season and valuable things are anticipated. 
Our legislature is doing what it can in giving us some 
drastic inspection and fumigating laws. Men who make 
arid execute our laws, are frequently of that class who are at 
the ragged edge of business and it is not surprising that they 
often take hold of the wrong end of the problem in making 
laws. , 
We have prospects for an extra large yield of fruit with 
little damage from insect or disease. 
The President’s late visit to Texas was the occasion of the 
most notable ovation ever seen here. Mr. Roosevelt could 
enlist one million rough riders here in his next regiment! 
The approaching meeting at West Baden, Ind., on June 
14-16, of the National Nurserymen promises to make a new 
record both in attendance and in interest. The many new 
or special features of this coming session will appeal strongly 
to many who have not attended regularly heretofore. Mr. 
Moore on “Inocculation of the Soil,” Mr. Heclgecock on 
“Root Tumor,” or “Root Knot,” Mr, Stringfellow on “New 
Horticulture” and others will repay many times over to all 
investigators, for time and expense of their attendance. 
The many new acquaintances of intelligent, enthusiastic 
and noble men and women; the comfort, beauty and grand¬ 
eur of the hotel and its surroundings, the great banquet of 
feasting, music and oratory, the show of new fruits, rare 
flowers, and other horticultural products, the unexcelled 
opportunity of rest and recuperation, the polite and pleasing 
hotel service, the endless variety for entertainment and 
amusement together with the excursion to Mammoth Cave; 
these and many other attractions will furnish an endless round 
of interest and pleasure to the occasion. 
Horticulture is rapidly winning increased interest and 
importance in this and other countries. 
McKinney, Texas. E. W. Kirkpatrick. 
. VISIT THE VINCENNES NURSERIES. 
HEARTY INVITATIONS EXTENDED. 
Editor National Nurseryman. 
Sir: —There have been quite a number of Western Nursery¬ 
men writing me in regard to stop-over privileges at Vincen¬ 
nes on their way to West Baden to the convention to be held 
there June 14th, 1905. I have taken the matter up with the 
B. & O. R. R. Co., and have made the following arrangements, 
providing we can get up a party of twenty or more. 
Parties arriving in St. Louis in afternoon or night may 
take a sleeper at Union Station any time after 9:30 p. m., 
June 12th. This will leave on the regular train at 2:05 a. m., 
arriving in Vincennes at 6:00 a. m., where the sleeper will be 
side-tracked and you may get up when your rest is over. 
(Sleeper berth will only be $1.50 or $1.75 each for two in a 
berth.) 
After breakfast the party will be taken in charge by the 
Vincennes Nurserymen. After a drive over the two nur¬ 
series, a visit will be made to the city, which is the oldest in 
the Northwest Territory. It was settled in the year 1702 
and is a very beautiful city containing many points of interest. 
We will leave here at 12:55 p. m. for West Baden and 
arrive there at 5:55 just in good time for supper Tuesday 
evening. We will join the New York delegation at Mitchell 
and all arrive at West Baden on the same train. 
Can you not plan to be with us? Those who wish to do so, 
will please drop me a letter, stating how many berths you 
wish and I will reserve them, or rather arrange for same. 
Would be pleased to hear from you soon, so that we may 
guarantee the R. R. Co. the required number to insure a 
special car. 
Come, bring the ladies and enjoy yourselves. We want to 
make this the largest attendance in the history of the As¬ 
sociation. Yours very truly, 
Vincennes, Ind. W. C. Reed. 
Editor National Nurseryman. 
Arrangements are being completed by which all nursery¬ 
men passing through Vincennes enroute to the meeting at 
West Baden next June can get a stop over here. We trust 
a number will take advantage of this and pay us a visit. 
Come to the West Baden meeting in June and bring your 
wives. You will not only get the benefit of the convention 
but you also visit one of the finest watering places in 
America. Yours sincerely, 
Vincennes, Indiana. H. M. Simpson & Sons. 
Doings of Societies. 
FRUIT GROWERS OF GEORGIA FROM LOCAL ORGANIZATION. 
THE PIEDMONT FRUIT COMPANY. 
At Baldwin, Ga., the first local organization has been formed for the 
purpose of marketing the peach crop to the best advantage. Mr. A. M. 
Kitchen is the President and Mr. Ethan Philbrick the Secretary. 
On March 2nd a meeting was held at Cornelia aqd by-laws and articles 
of incorporation were drawn up. A petition has been filed for a 
charter which will make them a corporate body under the name of 
Piedmont Fruit Company. The capital stock of this company is 
$5,000.00 which has all been subscribed and 10% paid in to insure the 
granting of a charter. 
This company intends the first of the year to hire a manager who 
will be competent to handle the entire peach crop of that section in an 
intelligent way, and insure growers against placing their peaches 
where they will come in contact with a glutted market. 
The Piedmont Fruit Company comprises the counties of Habersham 
and Banks. Headquarters will be at Baldwin, Ga. It is hoped that 
many other local organizations will be formed which may eventually 
agree to work in harmony witli one another. 
The following quotation from a letter written by A. M. Kitchen, Presi¬ 
dent of the Piedmont Fruit Company, explains this matter very clearly: 
“ It was the unanimous opinion of the fruit growers attending the 
meeting at Macon that some form of organization of local companies 
is necessary for the intelligent marketing of our crop and this idea that 
I suggest has for its object, when we are fully organized over the State, 
viz:—the employment of a State Secretary of the present Fruit 
Growers ’ Association, to whom each local company, through its manager, 
who will report every morning the number of cars for shipment each day. 
It will be the duty of the State Secretary immediately on the receipt of 
these reports to wire back to all the local managers the number of cars 
that will be shipped from every section of Georgia that day, and to 
give to the local managers directions for shipments or diverting so 
that we will avoid glutting the various markets.” 
The officers of the Piedmont Fruit Company have been free to 
extend an offer of assistance to all communities where local organiza¬ 
tions will be formed. It is hoped that many such will organize in 
order that the benefit of a centralizing of the peach interests of the 
State may be insured. K, I. S. 
