The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-27
BY ANDREW JOYNER.

Greensboro, N. c., July 24.-It
would be difficult to find d better OBJ
ject lesson Of the value modern dis
covery and scientific experimentation
in the agricultural and horticultural
realms than the one [ picked up yes
terday from that veteran nurseryman,
pomologist, horticulturist, and agricul-
turist, J. Van LindIey, of Pomona,
Guilford county. While Mr.. Lindley
is known all over the country as the
most extensive nurseryman in the en-
tire South, supplying the whole cOun-
try for the past forty years, as did his
1ather before him with fruit trees
from his now immense acreage Of over
700 acres OF fruits, flowers, shrubs and
Urna mental tree stocks, he has IN the
meantime been largely engaged III ad-
Tanccd agriculture of the standard
crops Of corn grain, and other farm
products. He has developed other
industries, being really a pioneer in
the South in the making of a regu-
lar mercantile success of the eat flow
CT business. his fifteen large green
houses at Pomona. with $4,000 square
feet of glass covering attesting the
value Of developing an idea into a
practical result. Another industry,
new when begun. which Mr.. l.
Ceveloped, was the manufacture of
terra Gotta tiling, drain, sewer and
.ruter piping. This was begun many
!-c2rs ago to furnish his many farms
TIC necessary drainage. Now his terra
Gotta works a mile from his home, is
:, i~etty good sized village where hun
GCCGS of wOrknen find employment,
ana the product of this factory finds
ready sale all over the country, it be
iaG the largest in the whole country
except possibly the extensive plant of
Chattanooga.
-l}is much predatory to an under
s-oG3ting of the fact, that when a pio-
neer and a determined man like Mr..
! :r,.!lcy concluded to test the practi-
ca@iIity of raising peaches for the
s'-:oinent of the fruit itself, the San
.~rac scale and the curculiO, and the
~fach borer and other pests met their
tinal conquerer, and the people Of
-<.:i IN Carolina at least can acknOWl
""~a him as a benefactor. Mr.. Lind
! IS experience in this new venture
--a1ld have made a less determined
I'm have given up in despair. In
7:%1, he organized the J. Van Lind
Icy Orchard Company, several CT his
rs taking stock in the enterprise.
. oGllinG over the country, he selected
NJ ore county as the best prospective
h-grOWing section, and purchased
s! Q acres of land about midway be-
r''-@eo Southern Pines and Pinehurst.
"n 800 acres Of this land were plant
g $4,000 peach trees, and never did
- S grow faster, and never was there
. hctter prospect Of big money than
"rCIa the shipment of fruit from this
immense orchard. When the trees
rHr~o into bearing the sales were re
n2"no'a tive. and the prospect of bet
to- TrcGts by larger crops as the trees
- older were fine.
mere was, however, great trouble
to nrotect the fruit from the curculio,
a'-'f0ugh the very expensive resort of
shaking the trees then Dracticed by
the best peach raisers and getting the
pest that way was a considerable help.
Then came the worm, which was
found in many peaches, preventing
their keeping and damaging their
real and their market value. But pros
poets were bright and with the ex-
pectation of big crop in 1894 the
company was in good cheer. On March
18th, 1894, came the unprecedented