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PINEIIUEST, N. C. JAN. 10, 1902
PKICE THREE CENTS
TOMATOES IB BLOSSOM.
All Kinds ol Garden Truck Now Grown In
Green-Houses at the Pinehurst Nurseries.
A PLACE WORTH YISITING.
Just now one of the most interesting
points in or about Pinehurst is that
which murks the locution of the nurseries
und green-houses. About seventy-five
acres of land are devoted to this purpose
and the great quantity and variety of
flowers, plants, shrubs, vines and trees
grown and marketed from this same plot
is remarkable; to say nothing of the
great quantities of garden truck it pro
duces to supply the hotels, boarding
houses and cottages of the village.
The nurseries were established by Mr.
James W. Tufts in 1895 for the purpose
of propagating flowers and shrubbery
for the lawns and park-plots of Pine
hurst, which are to-day a source of
pleasure and attraction to all visitors.
Under the efficient management of Mr.
Otto Katenstein, the nurseries were
very successful and within the past few
years have developed into a distinct and
prosperous individual commercial enter
prise. The Pinehurst Nurseries are now
famous the world over for their superior
producs of native North Carolina plants
and shrubbery ; and specimens of these
products are found in nearly all the
magnificent and beautiful parts of north
ern cities, as well as in many of those
of England, France, Germany and other
parts of the old world. Special atten
tion is given to the cultivation of holly,
sourwood, flowering dogwood, dwarf
alder, loblolly bay, arbor vitiae, and
peculiarly trained dwarf fruit trees,
called cordons, rare California lillies,
the already famous Pinehurst violets and
other herbaceous plants, roots and herbs.
The one product of these nurseries
though, which receives special attention
above all others, is Abies Arizonka
Argentea, or silver cork fir; this spruce
is generally acknowledged to be one of
the choicest, if not the very finest of all
conifers known to cultivation at present.
The bark of trunk and branches of these
trees is of a pure white or sometimes
grayish color, while the silvery foliage
adds to the appearance in a striking way
which cannot be surpassed. The full
beauty of the creamy bark is best shown
in trees of four feet height and upwards,
but even the smallest seedling has the
magnificent silvery foliage, which makes
it an object of admiration.
This beautiful specimen is obtainable
only at the Pinehurst nurseries and is
marketed when from nine to eighteen
inches high at $3.00 per tree. The seed
alone sells for $2.50 per ounce and the
supply barely meets the demand. There
are supposed to be not more one thou
sand specimens of this tree in existence
today and as a result there is a great
demand for them among park and land
scape gardners. A number of very small
specimens may be seen at the nurseries
at any time.
But probably the most interesting
thing to the casual visitor at the present
time about the nurseries would be the
large new green-houses, which are
devoted almost exclusively to the culti
vation of garden truck for winter use.
This is a new departure here and already
promises to be a decided success. Toma
toes are in blossom, pea-vines are from
six to eight inches high, beans, mush
rooms and watercresses are all growing
rapidly, radishes are now ready to use
and lettuce is seen at all stages of
growth ; some of it is ready for use now
and probably being served to-day on
some of the hotel tables ; while in other
boiler room, which is a stone vault,
22x24x10 feet, is the packing room, and
above this the employes quarters, con
taining several large and well lighted
rooms which are heated by steam. This
building, with the green-houses adjoin-81
ing, was completed during the past sum
mer, and is only one of the many
improvements and additions constantly
being made to Pinehurst, the perennially
progressive.
Just beyond these buildings may be
seen a section of a pine grove which sug
gests the work of pre-historic mound
builders; but instead of being really
ancient mounds, these elevations are
only heaps of sand and pine-needles
under which are hurried potatoes, car
rots, sweet potatoes, etc. By thus bury
ing them in the earth, these vegetables
are kept free from changes of heat or
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plots, the little seedling plants are barely
large enough to be visible. This con
servatory market gardening is a very
expensive and very exacting business,
but it has always been the policy of Mr.
Tufts to provide Pinehurst with every
luxury and convenience usually found in
northern cities ; so, to avoid the necessity
of using green stuff from northern nurse
ries, which would necessarily suffer
some damage and lose its pristine fresh
ness in transportation, he had built these
two large new green-houses.
They are each 160x23 feet in size and
equipped with every up-to-date appliance
for regulating temperature, ventilation,
etc. They are artificially heated by hot
water from a boiler in an adjoining but
independent building; four thousand
feet of two-inch pipe is used to distribute
the heat and the combined capacity of
pipe and boiler is about ten thou
sand gallons of water. Over the
cold and prevented from drying up and
becoming tasteless.
. Beyond this plot is another extensive
one, which, at first glance, does not
appear to be under cultivation at all, but
a closer investigation shows that it is
covered with long rows of virgin shrubs
and trees, among them holly, sourwood,
dogwood, etc., even the open spaces in
the pine grove are taken up with small
persimmon trees which can be grown
here only in the shade and of all of
these great quantities are shipped to dis
tant points every year, the United States
Department of Agriculture being a good
and regular customer. This point affords
a good yiew of the three thousand gal
lon tank which is the nursery reservoir:
the water is pumped into it b the
thirteen-foot wheel which surmounts a
sixty-foot tower near the ninth hole o
the golf course.
Then there are the violet beds, the
various experimental plots, the many
oddly trained dwarf fruit trees, none of
them over thirty-six inches high, which
have long since arrived at bearing age and
suggestive of the Liliputians by their
diminutive yet powerful and sturdy
appearance. .
On the whole, the nurseries are more
than worth a visit ; they are not pretty
nor especially pleasing to the eye at this
time of year, (except perhaps the vege
table plots in the new green-houses) but
they are, especially when one sees them
under the guidance of the ever courteous
Manager Katzenstein, most attractive
and interesting.
AN ELOQUENT ADDRESS.
Dr. Hall Speaks Effectively and Power
fully to a Small Audience.
u Yesterday, to-day and forever," was
the subject chosen by Dr. William Edwin
Hall for the lecture at the Village IIa.ll,
Sunday, January 5. The title carries
with it nothing absolutely definite except
the, eternal existence of the Saviour ; the
lecture, however, was not only a suc
cess, but a surprise to the hearers. Dr.
Hall's philosophy and logic was evident
at every turn and his able defense of the
religion of God, his thorough demolition
of the doctrines of Atheism won the
praise of his audience. Dr. Hall is one
of those gifted orators whose efforts can
move an audience to tears as well as, the
next moment, convulse them with laugh
ter and at the unanimous request of Sun
day night's audience he has promised to
return to Pinehurst at some future date
and deliver one of his celebrated week
day lectures, which promises to be a rare
entertainment.
It certainly must have been a matter
of great difficulty for a man of Dr. Hall's
standing and ability to do himself any
thing like justice before so small an
audience as greeted him Sunday evening,
but it is hoped that when he returns the
attendance will be more in keeping with
the merits of the entertainer.
The management of the Village Hall
has made and is making every effort to
provide high-grade and pleasing attrac
tions and it seems but fair that these
efforts should be appreciated by our vil
lage people and visitors to an extent that
would justify similar efforts in the
future.
Mr. Bilkins To-morrow is your birth
day, my dear. Would you like a surprise?
Mrs. Bilkins Certainly; I do wish you
would get up and start the fire. Ohio
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