Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-01

While extensive cotton factories, huge
iron founderies and palatial store houses
make the manufacturing and mercantile
interests prominent 70 the casual observer,
there are other Interests not so prominent
to the eye, yet very important to our
country and widespread in their Influences.
We refer to the nursery business, tho pro-
pagation and raising Of fruit trees and
shruooery for use in our own section.
Heretofore we have mainly depended upon
Northern nurseries for olr supplies in this
lnes-sach 10 the easeno longer. We now
have in the vicinity Of Nashville several
nurseries that can compete with the North
ernlestablishments In variety and far excel
them IN quality Of stock when designed for
planting in our latitude. Certain localities
in the United States appear to be favorable
to the propagation and raising Of nursery
products and have become 'shead eenters''
for this kind Of business as certain other 10
calities have been fa7orabls to the produe-
ton Of fruit. Rochester and Geneva, n.
z, distribute their nursery stock far and
wide, AMI great deal Of money is shovred
into them from all parts Of the United
States and Canada. Our experience for a
long series Of years has ta1gkt Us that a
Northern grown fruit tree unacclimated as
It is to our Southern country and soil does
not succeed so well as one TO the s:Ranor
born" propag2ted and raised to a proper
age for transplanting, under the same eli
mate, and on the same soil, In which It's fu-
ture life Is Lobe
In consequences Of this experience which
many others have felt, demand is made
for Southern raised fruit trees and shrubs.
leading TO the establishments Of extensive
nurseries here at Nashville, which point
promises to become as important to our
fruit growers as Rochester Is TO the North.
Considerable capital is invested Ia some Of
these home nurseries, looking to future re-
suits, (for the trade Is yet in its infancy aud
time is required to develops It. } One nurse
ry here, the Rose Bank, distributes its pro-
ducts widely, as far North as Harrisburg,
Pa, for its '.Wild Goose plum, aud as far
South as Texas for its general pro iuets, In
Guiding Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, north Of
the river, and every one Of the Southern
States. From the Rose Bank nurseries half
million of fruit trees WIN be distributed to all
parts Of the South during the coming
fall and winter. Seyenty-hve thousand dol
lars viii be paid by their Customers, and
the country they reach win be many times
the richer . few years hence, the effects
and results Of this SINCE years business.
Seventy-fye thousand dollars may appear
small to our merchants for q wears Dusi-
ness, but when it is remembered that it il
the result Of labor expended on our own
soil, and that none Of this amount goes
out of the State to enhance the profits Of
outsiders, then compared with the trade Of
mercantile house, this amount gains fair
proportions. Every Indication also leads Us
to the belief that this trade win be doubled
another year, and the fact is that scarcely
enough can be raised at present to meet
the growing demand. Besides the Rose
Bank Nursery there are several others in
the vicinity Of Nashville, each having IA
extensive trade.
We mama the Cumberland Nursery OF
Hamlin & Barnum, at Edgefeid Junction;
Fairview Nursery Of A. Baker, at Madison
Station; Commercial Nursery Of Wiley &
Campbell, at Murfreesboro; Franklin Nur-
sery Of a. Truett, at Franklin; at Nashville,
the Nashville Nursery Of L. g. Lishey;
Richland Nursery OF Cheztham and Glenn
ent; Commercial Nursery Of Underhin &
Newson, and the Rose Bank Nursery OF
Truett Sons & Morgan. Two hundred
thousand dollars viii be paid by the eusto-
mers Of these nurseries during the present
season, making no mean aggregate for this
one branch Of home productions In addi-
ton to this trade which our home nurseries
enjoy, a large sum is annually paid out by
our farmers for the products Of Northern
nurseries. The greater portion Of this is
an useless expenditure, from the fact that
Northern grown trees seldom prove salts
factory, even II they thrive at all, in our soil
and climate.
Tbs nursery trade Is acquired and kept
almost altogether by agents, who swarm
the entire country, and can be found at
every county SCAT, post village, and cross
roads, and very few people escape their
assiduous attentions. They canvass dur
ing the spring and early summer, for orders
to be delivered the ensuing fall, and by
their persuasive efforts, our people are in
duced to buy large numbers Of trees
without learning definitely whore they
were raised.
BY this method Of conducting the bust
ness the Northern nurseries eel quite as
much as our Southern establishments. We
will find then by estimating the trade Of
Southern nurseries, outside Of Nashville, AZ
three hundred thousand dollars including
those at Memphis, Atlanta and Mobile,
which added to Nashville, aggregates a half
million dollars for home productions in this
line. When we add the trade Of Northern
misseries VIC find that full million dollars
is annually expended by our Southern PEG
pie for nursery products.
In time, this amount Of tree planting
must result in greatly increasing the value
Of our farms and the general prosperity
and comfort ofo people. well-fOunded
claim exists that the moral aspects ofia fruit
growing community are fairer than one
which neglects its opportunities. AID
while medical science proves that album
dance Of fruit is promotiv5 Of health, the
claim of increased morality seems also
proven, sincs good health Snd good morals
are so closely connected. In this light then
we claim progress for our Sout bern people,
a rapid and well developed Improvements in
sli the material elements Of great and
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