Statement 
Gregory L. Smith, owner and manager of 
the Flowerwood Nursery, returned about the 
first of November, after serving three and 
a half years in the Navy. Sidney Meadows, 
a graduate horticulturist, came to us on Jan- 
uary Ist after being discharged from the 
Navy as a lieutenant in charge of a sub- 
chaser in the Pacific. John Moreland, a 
physicist who has decided to become a 
nurseryman, joined us on being discharged 
as a lieutenant in the Army. These young 
men, together with Harold Lyons, who has 
been with us a number of years, will be in 
charge of the Flowerwood Nursery. Our 
organization is the best we have ever had. 
We have been very busy making improve- 
ments we were unable to accomplish during 
the war. With efficient dirt-moving machin- 
ery we have moved thousands of yards of 
top soil into our lath-house beds. Practically 
all of the space in our lath-houses is now 
filled with fine healthy plants of the best va- 
rieties. We have acquired the finest spray 
truck and equipment made and are using 
it to keep our plants free from diseases and 
insects of all kinds. We have never had such 
healthy looking azaleas and camellias. 
We are doing our best to make this our 
most successful rooting season. We have 
over a half million azalea cuttings rooted in 
sand and by next Spring hope to offer the 
finest azalea liners we have ever grown. 
We have more cuttings of finer varieties of 
camellias than we have ever had and hope 
to root a large number of them, but the liners 
from such cuttings will not be ready until 
the Fall of 1947. 
While grafting operations in this territory 
were not generally successful this year, it 
now looks like we are going to have over six 
thousand fine grafts, including many of the 
best varieties, such as Audusson Special, Ad- 
miral Nimitz, White Giant, Rasen Zome, 
Lindsey Neil, Tea Garden Donkelaari, Rosea 
Superba Variegated, September Morn, 
Eugene Lizze, White Empress, Nagasaki 
Special, Elizabeth Boardman, Swan, Black 
Dragon and many others. 
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