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A Rose Garden Planting Scheme 



THE KING'S ACRE NURSERIES, LTD. 



The Nurseries of England, in more senses than 

 one, have been the sources of supply for the soundest 

 stocks over all parts of the civilised world, and in the 

 realms of horticulture few establishments have a finer 

 past record or better prospect than these nurseries, 

 established so far back as i7vS;j, and transferred to the 

 present proprietors in 1899. 



In addition to the cultures on an area of upwards 

 of 140 acres of the best fruit-growing land in Here- 

 fordshire there is, further, a department in High 

 Town, Hereford, specially to deal with orders for 

 seeds, plants, cut fiowers, floral devices, horticultural 

 sundries and fertilisers. 



Upwards of 60 acres alone are devoted to fruit 

 trees in all forms of training, whilst Roses, trees, 

 shrubs, forest trees, and Alpine and Herbaceous 

 plants are grown in large quantities, and it is no 

 exaggeration to say that these products are sent to 

 almost all parts of the habitable globe. 



Up-to-date methods are adopted throughout, and, 

 as a natural result of care in building up the character 

 of the soil, the company achieved the proud distinc- 

 tion of raising the largest apple known in the 'history 

 of fruit culture, and some very remarkable models 

 have been presented to the Hereford Museum. The 

 latest triumph of the company was at the recent Im- 

 perial Fruit Show, held at the Crystal Palace, where 

 grown upon the fruit trees supplied by King's Acre, 

 W. A. Whiffen, Esq., of Hownhall, Ross-on-Wye, ex- 

 hibited the 20 boxes of fruit for which he was awarded 

 the premier prize for the finest dessert apples grown 

 in the British Empire. 



The grounds are plotted out in half-acres, so that 

 -when planting fruit trees and other stocks the firm 



