THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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ahead of that of central Georgia and the shipping facilities 
are being carefully looked after by the officials of the Cotton 
Belt Railway who are themselves financially interested in 
fruit-growing. 
One is much impressed by the warm eloquence of the 
Texan land promoter when advocating the advantages of 
the region, but we are free to say that a single demonstration 
of the type of the Morrill orchard Co. is more efficacious and 
of greater advertising value than reams of printed matter, 
or hours of oratory. 
The Truck and Frnit-Growers’ meeting developed, or one 
might say, degenerated into a series of disconnected hurrahs 
for Texas soil, climate and recourses. A reasonable amount 
of this was first rate and enjoyable because characteristic, 
but even a good thing begins to pall upon a satiated appetite 
after a while. 
The personal comfort of the visitors was cared for most 
efficiently by Mr. W. C. Dunlop of the Passenger Department 
of the Cotton Belt Railway. 
After this brief visit to the edge of Texas and short ac¬ 
quaintance with her hospitable people, we are prepared to 
guarantee that the 1906 meeting of the Association of Nur¬ 
serymen will be one of the most interesting in the history of 
the organization. The hospitality of the people of Texas 
is proverbial and that the railroads will lend their powerful 
aid towards making the convention an unqualified success. 
Quiz Column. 
Carmel, N. Y., May 2G, 1905. 
What sort of a stock can I bud cherry or to dwarf it for pot or tub 
culture? 
H. Carmel, N. Y. 
Undoubtedly the best stock to dwarf either sour or sweet 
cherries or plums, is the native sand cherry. There are two 
forms of this sand cherry, the eastern and western. The 
first is known to botanists under the name of Primus pumilla, 
and the second which is found in the plains of Nebraska and 
Kansas, Prunus Besseyii. This plant forms a low growing 
bush of sprawling habit. It is evidently intermediate in 
relationship between plum and cherry, probably more nearly 
related to the plum than the cherry. It intergrafts with 
plum, cherry, and peach quite readily. It is easily grown 
from seed, and like peach seedlings can be grown large enough 
for budding in a single season. Not all of the seedlings will 
reach budding size the first year, but a considerable portion 
are usually suitable. Some of the smaller ones can undoubt¬ 
edly be transplanted and worked the second season. Seed 
or plants of this stock may be secured in small quantities 
from western nurserymen, whose advertisements will be found 
in the pages of the National Nurseryman. 
If trees are to be grown in pots or boxes, the stocks should 
be set out in these and budded at the proper time, so that the 
tree will become gradually accustomed to its environment. 
The experiment station of South Dakota has made quite 
extensive experiments with this stock, and has found it useful 
as a dwarfing stock for the peach as well as the plum and 
cherry. 
T. E. Griesa, Lawrence, Ivans. You will find enclosed $1.00 for 
the renewal of The National Nurseryman, which I think one of the 
best publications for nurserymen that we have. 
THE SPEECH THAT CARRIED THE CONVENTION. 
MR. STANLEY II. WATSON OF TEXAS. 
We are all of us bowed down by a load of gratitude to the State of 
Indiana for the magnificent entertainment it lias afforded us here; we 
appreciate what the people of Indiana have done for us. Don’t you 
ever propose to give the people of the South-West a chance to even up 
this debt that you have been piling upon them the last thirtv vears? 
Don’t you ever propose to ex¬ 
tend that opportunity to the 
millions of this American 
Union beyond the Missis¬ 
sippi? According to this As¬ 
sociation the United States 
is bounded on the west by 
the Mississippi River, and I 
am here to call your attention 
to the fact that beyond that 
river lies an empire, an em¬ 
pire that will welcome you 
with open arms. 
There has been something 
said about Dallas being hot, 
and there lias been something 
said about Dallas beingalong 
way off. We will eonfess t hat 
we have not got the North 
Pole in Dallas County, Texas, 
but the idea that the desert 
of Saraha lies in Texas is all 
a mistake, and while it may 
be a little warmer than it is 
at the North Pole, I do 
not think that you need to worry about suffering from the heat in 
Texas. Texas in June is one of the most pleasant places of the earth. 
If you come down there, we will show you the time of your life. As 
a matter of fact, just before I left home we put a whole lot of old 
hens into training and when you get down there you will find that 
spring chickens are just ripe. 
There has been something said about the eastern Nurseryman not 
going so far and that we will lose all these great men from the State of 
New York, that they won’t go to Texas. But, my friends, no matter 
where you hold this Convention, remember that little line from Holy 
Writ which says, “Where you find the worm is, there, will you find the 
hen also,” and these big men are hunting for these small nurserymen, 
and they will go to the Convention if you go to Honolulu. Notice that 
my friends, they are deeply interested in you; it is the small nursery¬ 
men upon whom they grow rich; they are interested in you just the 
same as the interest which is illustrated by this little story: One 
warm afternoon—that is away down in the south of Texas where it ?.s 
warm--I will call your attention to that—a gentleman was walking 
along the banks of one of our beautiful crystal streams and two little 
nigger boys were fishing on the bank of the stream, and the little nigger 
boys you know get sort of sleepy in the afternoon. One of them dozed 
off and lie slipped down into the water, “ker-ehunk”; the other one 
looked around, saw him in the water, dived in after him, pulled him 
out, laid him on the bank and this gentleman went up to him, patted 
him on the back and lie said, “Brave boy, that was a gallant deed, what 
is he, your brother?” “No,” he said, “that nigger ain’t my bro¬ 
ther.” “Why,” the gentleman said, “was he your friend?” “No, 
sir, not any particular friend of mine.” “Well, don’t you love him?” 
“Of course I don’t love that nigger chap.” “Then why did you risk 
your life for his?” “Because that nigger had the bait in his pocket.” 
(Laughter) Just so long as my friend the small nurseryman of the 
west and southwest carries the bait in his pocket, you can depend on it 
that the big fellows are going to come. Besides that, have you ever 
figured on the particular variety of watermelon you get in Texas in 
June. Don’t you know that if you come down there we will stuff you 
so full of watermelon that you won’t lick dust. 
Now, about this place where we have had so delightful a time, I am 
informed, and I have taken the gentlemen’s word for it, I am informed 
that of a certain liquid known as “Water” there are thirteen varieties. 
STANLEY H. WATSON 
Dallas, Texas. 
