This fine Southern nursery was only started in 1870, by Samuel H. Rumph, then only in his sixteenth year, when he planted some Peach trees. His first budded trees were sold to the neighbors, with such encouragement, that he set out an acre for budding. He sold every tree, and thus encouraged, he commenced the regular nursery business; the first nursery in Middle Georgia. To-day his orchards and nurseries occupy 360 acres. One of the varieties of peach he has introduced - the El-berta - is a remarkably popular variety. He has 35 acres in strawberries, selling both fruit and plants. He is the first to introduce the raspberry as a market fruit in that section. He has 5 acres in these. The nurseries proper cover 60 acres, all devoted to young fruit trees. The taste for fruit culture has developed all around him, under his successful inauguration of the movement. A neighboring farm has 50,000 bearing trees of the Elberta peach. Another neighbor has now an apple orchard, from which 2,000 bushels of apples were gathered last year; and many others are springing up.