THE BELLEVILLE NURSERIES 



SOME of Canada's leading nurseries 

 have recently been described in The 

 Horticulturist. Among these must be in- 

 cluded the Belleville Nurseries, at Belleville, 

 managed by Mr. W. C. Reid. While the 

 area of these nurseries seems small, when 

 compared with the mammoth nurseries in 

 the Niagara district the firm fills a field 

 peculiarly its own. Being situated in East- 

 ern Ontario, it is able to produce stock 

 specially adapted to the requiremen.ts of that 

 portion of the province. The number of 

 varieties handled being comparatively small 

 enables the management to make a specialty 

 of those produced. 



"My object," said Mr. Reid, to an editorial 

 representative of The Horticulturist, who 

 recently visited these nurseries, " is to get 

 hardy stock which will suit the northern 



climate, and then secure the very best 

 variety of this hardy stock. When I started 

 here some eight years ago, with about two 

 and a half acres, many people said that 

 nursery stock could not be grown success- 

 fully at Belleville. However, I have suc- 

 ceeded well enough to now have about 35 

 acres in nursery stock of different lines. 



The home nursery consists of six acres, all 

 of which are inside the corporation. Practi- 

 cally all of these six acres are planted in 

 ornamental stock and comprise evergreens 

 and shrubs of different kinds. One fine 

 block of Norway spruce averaged three to 

 five feet in height when the representative 

 of The Horticulturist visited the place, 

 while another block averaged 18 to 24 

 inches, making a total in all of about 20,000 

 trees. Besides these Norway spruce, the 



Norway Spruce at the Belleville Nurseries. 



A block of Norway Spruce growing In the Belleville nurseries is here shown. This variety of spruce is a very popular evergren from 

 Europe which is being extensively planted in this conntry. It is valuable for wind breaks, screens and hedges, aud is well known as one of 

 the best evergreens for ornamental purposes. (From a photograph taken specially for The Horticulturist). 



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