The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-24

more than an experiment. and an exs perlIneas wnaea was uaasF.akeA w-La e3rehooings, sad Ar. k4s4kes t+l spe.AH.ng st fra1k trse B4e~..is n alao4s0n county. \ d.a aae coms to aAaa4son counts nyse.l nn.ll lAtS. Iae has...ass waS began in nas leSs aaa a laaist way. It's KFawtn aH l-..ks aa 1t Is mas been steady and slow. S-lsl eur .oaucLlon or s.vcA tlr eaen '. tas past ten gears has besa wltA kae p~s- sale exesbt4on of oas Sf tw9 years lses than ghe aemAnd. Except tol ons or two of the pa.L fLtaea years we could have sold more stock thAa We .raIKed
 "At the present sime we have In the nurseries Of ghe Huntsville VI oie Q ,Nursery Company 1.os0 ae es depo q to the gr3wi.g of fru.t trees a. nurseries are located on the Pn aski Pike Road, about eleven miles ffo.n Huntsville ana sixteen miles from e Tenn essee line. Ths line of [ Sash- vile, Chattanooga ana st. Louis 1.ai road is close by tue nursery, but still our shipping point is Au0te ,il c. We have found it aitogethsf ad' aEa 1agsous. to make Huntsville our poiat Of distribution,
 ''The business normaFls gives eua- pioymen to some seventy-eve men, although aur'ng the ssar theFe are seasono in which we have to hi r, handa Ii Is a pity the weather won allow .ua to go out and look Q. CT he nursery and the grounds, We afe ss- peeiaIly proud og the grounds and the cottages in which cur semployes AVe- and we are no less proud Of the n ' telligenee and the loyalty of the me1 who have halpta us build up the business to it's present large proPeFF
 what kinds of fruit trees are ths hest sellersY' Mir. Haikes was asked.
 sIn the number of young trees so.d, peaches will lead. second in tmnor. lance in our sales are pears The thi'a largest demand Is for apne trees Ptun trees are not, 30 fmFo-tant as vet, but there fs q growing Cemaad fer plum trees. We gre growing so ne orna mental trees on both tne nons niaee and the nursery place, but just now no special effort is being made to push these on the market ~
 s,One of ths recent developments Tn Aner'eaa horticuiture is the reuiag xe- ,ie aarn4nd for oi, IVY trees. Ehe Nursery ronpGay is' psss haps, the Iargest grower Of eheFr' tree in the United States. There ees nave become singu arly popular lh the Norm Mfa0 tu9 EOENAN0SS
 'sYol' might ray and th'nk It wollo be of interest to the pao~le ef Ala- oanaa that Madison ceuaty Is the greatest fruit tree growing eounfy In The tinted States. It has no ear'0 's rfysl except ip one pT two of the .ountiea around Ro- hester. New York, Those counties have a large retail trade in fruit trees but they do not produce near 20 many trees as Maoi' Son county does. either in number or Ia Value
 .rb,s industry in Alabama has been baiit from the ground up n tae past twenty yAars When it was begun there was an unAen'aNle pre- 'udice against Alabansa trees. In tine this nveir.dice was rema'sed IL was nef onIv rereVed. but the Alabama grown trees have be"oae the most ponnlar on the unarkeG It mi" n he sa'H tnat today thav are the standard tf4ss'
 sThe nursery busIness has suereHf- ea in Alabama and in Msdisnn county beeause fruit trees can he grown eheap- CT ana better r'ght here h Madison county than anywhere else In the world
 The Chase Brothers are important factors in the nursery business in Mad ison county. There are fouf Of these brothe~s One of she01 ia it the heal of the Alabama 'Nu-sery t'oTna"v' which has 6 beautiful plant within three miles of Huntsville drH p1oer tne shqdow of Monte sano. Three o'her h-Athers are ope~aHp@ me ChAs- N,,rserv Conlnqnv the he7dGuarters "f the eomnapy is five niles >ast Of the cItv on the line of the Nashville. Chat tarooga and St Louis Railroad rms companv. which Is comnaratively a new concern. has 400 acres in fru't traes The AIahsma Nursery Comna7H has some 500 aeres in fruit trees All the Chase brothers are young men
 "Ae you natives of Al1hama! asked during joint and tollsctiVe ih- terview
 "No. we are from Maine. tod a Huntsville man that once, and added
 Tn travelling around the country youll find a lot of people who came from Maine and where you find them you u fira that thev are men of intelligence. He said. Yes. that's true. and tle more inteliigence thev have the quick" er thev came from Maine"
 "A large Uroportion Of fhe men sn'
 eaged in the nursery business are men of Northern birth. Mir. Heikes company was the pioneer in the indus'rv ort men who were engaged in the fuit trAe business soon learned that the trees could he grown cheaper Ana better 10 Alabama than anywhere stss in the country,
 ."Tbts red valley soil suits them part- iciliarfv we'll This Fine climate !" aspAelaliy aaaptsd to them The con- kssettsn nyoduess a condition. wh'eh Sor fruit tree growing dsfies seEnpeti- fIon from any other section ot the
 syyhaTe is our market? Why the aA-
 fra country. only a small per cent of fhe Madison county grown trees is sold in Alabama. As a whole they are
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