The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-24
By wIll i. sheehan.

Huntsville. Dec. 28.---. Spsclal Cor
 respondenee. l--Tha largest Htr-ery in the Ln.ted sta.es and what Is s4id to be the .argest nursery In the world is located In Mad son c.unty. MaagsoA A county grows more fruit trees than
 any other county in the United States This was news t6 ne, and ] hal fattered myself that mad at le1st 1n average amount Of .n.bsa.atIon about the Sfate, l had known that the 1T sery inteTe ests of Mad son coluty we. very large and that they had contrio uted to bosn the prosperity and n general advertisement ot the Stale, 1al q did not know EnI. fou..d cut here from men who know that Madiso { conntS grew more fruit t.ees ts&n any other county in the United ' ss and that the Huntsville Who .esale Nursery Company had more aces ss-
 voted to the growing of fruit trees i than any other nursery of the Unitei States. and for that matter more acses thsn any other nursery of the w"r Many things the wore to le Tn on this trip and among them wss the fact that cf all trees grown Tor nur
 sery purposes--the Alabama own trees had the hest an l the w.de [ r0p utatIcn throughout the co ruon ceaH- try. learned. for instance. that an Indiapa or say. an Iowa. fruit 6 owe was AGGu&SoHeO 70. @S HAiN AtNsA Ak nurserymen Alabama Crown trees, as representing the ,st in ths np : ! seryznan'e business ! laasnSd, too that thcre were dealers In the North
 and the Northwest w2o hand ed uoth- ing else and made a eneeialtT of Ala
 bama Grown" trees. On the iette"
 heads Of these E''sseFsnaen there 70 peared such statements as %laea hn Grown trees hand ed exc nsively-' aaw X couple Of such letters One ef them was from Delta. Colorado. If ia not common knowled.e h Aia-
 bama that the fruit trees grosn in 1 her nurseries have the same sort or reputation as Georgia waterne ons, I California fruit. Teanesse" eA-,ta Ioupes. or. Vermont apples. but lt is 1 true, nevertheless. In the sate ek i nave the highest ana the finest stand
 ings in the Northern and the Western markets
 The lIuntsy,rs Wholesale Nursery ! Company. which was estaDl! he'd as Tar :! back as 1872. has between a thous lnd i and eleven hundred acres of the cn. red land of Madis0n countS. devote :
 to the prop .gation ef f.ult tres
 which arn te he nIaRteI in Northern
 and Western orchards A fev Of the
 trees from this immense erehasd ar"
 planted in Alabama nut mare than the three-fourtns of the markets O. the big nursery are to be had In the Northern and Western States.
 W. P. Helkes, Presidsn. Of the Ala
 hamA Hortieu'tursl Society. is wee
 president ana general mana CT CT tee IiunfsvilIs Whole ale Nur~~rv Compa- ny He Is an .1hioan, wne nas 10. nearly thirt3 years been a geslSsnt ot Madison county and who has contr,h ulea ip great 6sgree to the IT. b II d. ing of this particular industry wh'eh
 has meant so much for Hpats 'ii z and
 Madison enuatS
 Ills distinguished eharaeterisS!r Is
 an ever pleasant modesty, ! d.d not learn rom him. that the nursery ef
 which he Is Sral manager ana part owner. is the largest in the plltee States. ! got the info nation rom other uprserynen. A though l had r long interview with Mir. HeiSes. tH
 which a veIisy of agssrtonE were nred at hira. One of tnose QuesIlo IS was
 .sWhieh Is ths largest nursery in
 Madison countyf'
 He delsbara.sG . moment ever taaf leading duestton and then satd owl
 ssrhe Huntsville Nu sery compa ly.
 that is cur company. haa more acres devoted to growing fruit trees, tan any othsF nursery .a tie eopaty," Tat was ail.
 BlgEeSt in the WoEid.
 It was not until later when in the
 desire to make the artiele on the aHrs cry industry of Maa'son County 4s