ELLWANGER <fc BARRY'S 



orchard has been a conspicuous feature of our business. No other similar attempt on sa 

 broad a scale has been made in this country, either by individuals or the government. 

 From the moment we started, to the present, we have spared no time, labor nor expense to 

 maintain this orchard, in such a manner as to derive from it the greatest amount of good; 

 and now after so many years of experience we can testif}^ that nothing in connection with 

 our business has been productive of such satisfactory results as the important information 

 we have acquired from the tests in those grounds. It has enabled us to determine by our ^^ 

 own observations the fruits best adapted to this country-, and the lists of varieties now pub-^| 

 lished give evidence of the careful labor performed. 



In addition to the grounds devoted to the trial of fruit, w^e have always given much 

 space to specimen ornamental trees, shrubs, &c. Our collections embrace everything that 

 has been found suitable for planting in this and similar climates; and we annually add every 

 novelty which appears to have merit. These collections have always been well cared for, 

 correctly labeled, and open to the inspection of the public. 



In the preface to our catalogue published in 1817 it was stated we had enlarged our 

 !N'urseries to a considerable extent, in order to be the more fully prepared to meet the 

 increasing demands of the public for nursery productions. " They cover at present twen- 

 ty-three acres of land, and ten acres more, now in complete readiness, will be planted the 

 ensuing fall and spring. "We state these facts to show that we are earnestly endeavoring 

 to carry out our designs of making this the largest, most correct and complete in the Union.'" 



Twenty years later Mr. John J. Thomas, then, as now, editor of the " Country Gentle- 

 man," made the following statement in the " Register," concerning this establishment : 



" This Nui'sery was established in 1840 by Messrs. Ellwanger &, Barry, in the southerly ^ 

 part of Rochester, since which time it has been so enlarged that it now covers five hundrecl * 

 acres, probably the most extensive Nursery in the world. The wide celebrity of this great 

 establishment, its extent of business, and the interest generalh' felt to know its operations, 

 require a notice of corresponding fulness : — 



" The fruit department occupies 350 acres, in about the following proportion of the 

 different kinds : Standard apples, 72 acres; dwarf apples, 31 acres; standard pears, 69 acres: 

 dwarf pears, 57 acres; standard and dwarf cherries, 25 acres; standard and dwarf plums, 

 20 acres; and 82 acres of other fruit trees, seedling stocks, &c., &c. 



" The ornamental department occupies 90 acres, about as follows: 24 acres of evergreen 

 trees; 50 acres of hardy deciduous trees and shrubs; 8 acres of dahlias, bulbs and herba- 

 ceous plants; 5 acres opecimen trees, &c. 



" The men employed are about 225 to 250 in the season, and about 80 through the winter. 

 Three men are constantly employed in book-keeping, correspondence, &c., in addition to 

 the extensive labor in correspondence performed b}' the proprietors themselves. They 

 have opened and built a street, which is exclusively occupied by their foremen, head work- 

 men, (fee. 



" A single season's budding numbers about 700.000 in the fruit department, and 100,000 

 in the oroamental. To insure complete accuracy, one of the proprietors cuts all the buds, 

 which he immediately passes to a number of hands who accompany him, who remove the 

 leavec, when they are marked and transferred to the foreman of the respective budding- 

 companies." 



At the commencement of the twenty-first year, the following reference to our prosperous 

 growth was made in a new catalogue issued at that time: 



" We give this brief history of our progress, not in the spirit of boasting, but simply tc^ 

 show our friends and patrons how their generous encouragement has aided us in extending ' 

 and perfecting our culture, and in carrying on the plan of a large Nursery, upon which we 

 started twenty years ago, and xcliich was then considered a youtJiful chimera by almost every- 

 body but ourselves." 



" During the period of seven years that have elapsed since our last edition was issued, 

 fruit culture has made a greater progress in this country than it ever did before in the 

 same period of time. Not only have fruit trees been planted to an extent altogether 

 unequalled, but numerous societies have been vigorously prosecuting the work, in all parts 

 of the country, of eliciting and collecting information regarding the best modes of propa 

 gation, culture, and general management of fruit trees, the best varieties for the various 



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