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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



force of canvassers soliciting orders which 

 will vary from 1,200 to 1,500 men, working 

 in Canada only." 



A row of Montmorency cherry trees, 

 about 350 in all, on either side of a drive- 

 way half a mile long, running through the 

 middle of the home farm makes a beautiful 

 sight. This roadway is further beautified 

 by a pyramidal arbor vitse hedge inside the 

 row of trees. 



e;xte;nsive; pIvAntings oif fruit trees. 



The Horticulturist representative was 

 driven by Mr. Morris to their various plant- 

 ings of nursery stock, and was surprised to 

 see how extensive they are. On one road 

 the plantings extend along both sides for a 

 very long distance, and on asking Mr. Mor- 

 ris as to what quantities were set out in 

 these fields, he replied that over 1,200,000 

 young fruit trees were planted there, and 

 added that on the next road west, and the 

 one still beyond that, were fields containing 

 hundreds of thousands of other young trees 

 ready for the market. 



With a total area of over 500 acres de- 

 voted exclusively to the growing of nursery 

 stock, every line of nursery product, from 

 the currant bush to the finest of ornamentals 

 is grown. This acreage comprises the 

 home farm of 100 acres, and some eight 



other farms of dififercnt sizes, which are 

 rented for a term of years, thus giving new 

 land for each successive planting. 



It requires at least four years to clear a 

 block of nursery stock. The first year is 

 spent in preparing the soil and adding the 

 necessary fertilizers. " We spend hundreds 

 — yes thousands — of dollars annually," said 

 Mr. Morris, " on ordinary stable manure. 

 One remarkably good feature about the soil 

 of this district is that it produces a great 

 abundance , of fibrous roots. These, of 

 course, are very essential, as they provide 

 the true life-giving power to the tree. Be- 

 sides, there is great variety in the soil of 

 this section within a very small radius, so 

 that various kinds of stock can be planted 

 in the soil best suited for their production." 



Like other successful tillers of the soil, 

 Mr. Morris believes in thorough cultivation. 

 The cultivators' are started in the spring ?s 

 soon as the land is dry enough, and an effort 

 is made to get over the plantings regularly 

 once a week until August. In that month 

 cultivation is stopped, so that too late 

 growth may not be encouraged, as the new 

 soft growth is easily injured by frost. 

 About $20,000 worth of seed potatoes are 

 also handled each year. Although scale 

 pests have never been detected in this dis- 



A Storage House for the Wintering of Nursery Stock. 



This illustration gives a good idea of the jiacking yards and the second storage building erected by the Brown Bros. Company, 

 Nurserymen, Limited, whose place is fully described in this issue. (From a photo£;raph taken specially for The Horticulturist). 



