A WELL EQUIPPED AND PROSPEROUS NURSERY 



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Flowering Shrubs are grown by the houses are used to store hundreds of 



hundreds of thousands, in several 

 hundred kinds and varieties, that will 

 grow in any part of the country. 



Shade; Trees. Ornamental Shade 

 Trees are growing by the hundreds of 

 thousands, every kind that thrives on 

 this continent being represented. 



Rose Plants are one of the greatest 



specialties of this enterprise. Hundreds 



of thousands are sold from the nursery 



every year. The store houses are full 



of them at this time, ready to be 



specimens of Bay Trees, awaiting the 

 opening of the season so that they may 



A DWARF FRUIT TREE. 



shipped to every part of the country. 

 The collection comprises all the old- 

 fashioned, rare, and popular kinds that 

 will bloom in any part of the country. 



Hedge Plants are also seen by the 

 hundreds of thousands. California 

 Privet, Japanese Berberis, American 

 Arborvitae, Hemlocks, and a variety 

 of other plants of which the firm makes 

 a specialty for this purpose. 



There are 250,000 square feet of 

 greenhouses and storehouses. The lat- 

 ter are used for storing ornamental 

 plants for conservatories and exterior 



decorations ; also for all kinds of nur- be shipped to all parts of the country, 

 sery stock which it is necessary to ship A specialty is made of Hardy Vines 

 early in the season. At this time these and Climbers. Many thousand of these 



