. Descriptive catalogue of fruits and flowers. Nurseries (Horticulture) Georgia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. IntroductdoNo N THIS (the sixth) edition of the Cherokee Nursery Catalogue we have endeavored to be as practical as possible. The instruction and descrip- tions here given are gleaned from our own experience and from other reliable sources, and we believe that if the advice contained in this little work is carefully followed the results will be entirely satisfactory. Our aim is to grow the very best trees that can be grown. Our soil and
. Descriptive catalogue of fruits and flowers. Nurseries (Horticulture) Georgia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. IntroductdoNo N THIS (the sixth) edition of the Cherokee Nursery Catalogue we have endeavored to be as practical as possible. The instruction and descrip- tions here given are gleaned from our own experience and from other reliable sources, and we believe that if the advice contained in this little work is carefully followed the results will be entirely satisfactory. Our aim is to grow the very best trees that can be grown. Our soil and climate are the finest in the world for this business, and it is a fact now fully demonstrated that on the high pine lands of South Georgia and North Florida, where the soil is light, porous, and underlaid with clay, the climate moist, the seasons long, and the winters just cold enough to ripen up the wood perfectly, trees can be grown, in one year, larger, better rooted, and in all respects far superior to Northern-grown trees two years old ; even Middle and North Georgia cannot compete with the wire-grass section in this respect. Here is the natural greenhouse of the United States ; the sunny sky is the glass roof and the earth the sandy loam. We speak from personal knowledge when we say that no place on earth has more natural advantages for propagating plants than ours. The North at one time furnished the South with fruit trees. From the very nature of things this is being reversed. Already numerous Northern nursery firms have started branch nurseries in the South, and some of them are considering the advisability of moving their entire business. This proves that even they concede the superiority of Southern-grown trees. It is to our interest to send out no trees that are not suited to the section where they are to be planted, and in the selection of varieties grave mistakes are often made. We advise our patrons to be very careful in this respect, and if you leave this matte
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