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PACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 163
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A perfect wonderland is the H. W. Smithwick orchard gar
dens at Americus, Ga. Mr. Smithwick specializes in pecans, but
as an all round commercial horticulturist his accomplishments
place him well toward the Burbank rank. His pecan grove con
tains eighty-five acres, and produced over four thousand pounds
of merchantable nuts in 1916. He began in 1905 by planting
twelve trees, adding from 250 to 400 trees a year until 1912.
The annual production began with nineteen nuts in 1908, and
reached four thousand pounds in 1916.
Mr. Smithwick's home orchard and garden produces some
thing of almost everything interesting in flowers, fruits, vege
tables and grains. There are delicious Satsuma oranges, grown
successfully that far north by being grafted on frost-resisting
trifoliata or hedge-orange roots; Barbary plums, peaches, grapes
in abundance and of many varieties, pomegranates, Japanese per
simmons, Persian and English walnuts, cherries, grapefruit, and
figs — celestial figs — maturing in succession throughout the whole
summer season.
Oats and pea vines are grown in the young orchards until the
trees are profitably bearing. The hay brings $20.00 a ton. A
three-quarter acre cabbage patch netted him $130.00; the same
acre in sugar cane brought $140.00. Superior Cuba leaf to
bacco was another small but profitable crop.
PEACH BLOSSOM OF KENNESAW, No. 217149. OWNER, RALPH W. NORTHCUTT, MARIETTA, GA.