Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . nce of bacteriosis, often called southern tomato blight. Huntsville, in northern Alabama, has a large and flour-ishing nursery business. Several large wholesale es-tablishments are located there, and the fertile Tennes-see River Valley lands prove to be admirably adapted tothe growth
Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom . nce of bacteriosis, often called southern tomato blight. Huntsville, in northern Alabama, has a large and flour-ishing nursery business. Several large wholesale es-tablishments are located there, and the fertile Tennes-see River Valley lands prove to be admirably adapted tothe growth of a good quality of nursery stock. Over1,300 acres are now devoted to this business in thisneighborhood, the annual shipments fill 150 cars, includ-ing 1,500,000 fruit trees, besides roses and other orna-mentals; and the sum of $40,000 is paid out annually forlabor. Beginnings have been made in fruit and vegetablegrowing at various other points in the state, particularlyat Cullman, Montgomery, and Evergreen, on the Louis-ville and Nashville railroad, and at Friiithurst, in north-eastern Alabama, on the Southern railway. No data havebeen secured as to the total shipment from these variouspoints, but the combined amount is very small, as com-pared with those from the Mobile region. One road, the ALABAMA 39. Mobile and Ohio, torwarded 343 cars of home-grownfruits and vegetables from the Mobile depot during figures do not include the shipments from otherstations on this line, nor those carried by the Louisvilleand Nashville. Such, in brief, is the present status of commercialhorticulture in Alabama. In attempting to outline thepossibilities of its future development, it will be neces-sary to glance at some of the more prominent topograph-ical features of the state. For our purpose, it may beroughly divided into four regions. First, at the north isthe Tennessee River region, or, as it is often called, thegrain belt (Fig. 58, A). Its strong clay soils produceabundant cro
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