ANNALS, APR 95 



WHAT OUR FRIENDS SAY OF US. 



[From the Red Bank 

 A BIG BUSINESS BUILT UP. 



A Nursery which employs Two Hundred 

 , Men in the Busy Season. 



J. T. Lovett's "Guide" has just been 

 issued. It is far ahead of auy he has 

 previously issued in the number and beau- 

 ty of its colored plates, and no previous 

 number equals it in the amount of infor- 

 mation concerning fruit culture, or in the 

 number of varieties catalogued. Mr. Lov- 

 ett is regarded as the best expert in small 



(N. J.) Register.] 



iness as the fruit nurseries, and fully as 

 many acres are devoted to the one as to 

 the other. So large has this brauch of 

 the busiuess become that separate cata- 

 logues of the fruit and ornamental de- 

 partments are issued. In ornamental 

 plants the busiuess includes not only all 

 kinds of deciduous and evergreen trees 

 aud shrubs, but also all kinds of hardy 

 flowers. In addition to this comparative- 

 ly new department. Mr. Loyett has erect- 

 ed a number of large greenhouses, where 

 flowers are raised for winter sale. This 



bird's-eye view centre 

 fruits in the country, aud at a natioual 

 meeting of horticulturists some years 

 ago he was denominated the " Small Fruit 

 Prince." The nursery business at Little 

 Silver has grown to be so very large that 

 in order to better serve its patrons it has 

 been divided into departments, with a 

 thoroughly experienced and capable man 

 at the head of each. 



Since the Rumson nursery was bought 

 by Mr. Lovett a few years ago, the grow- 

 ing of ornamental trees and shrubs has 

 become as prominent a feature of the bus- 



OF NURSERY GROUNDS. 



winter carnations and violets are the prin- 

 cipal flowers raised. In spring and sum- 

 mer these greenhouses are used for prop- 

 agating small fruit plauts, and thus Mr. 

 Lovett gets double service from them. 



One of the features of the business 

 with which Mr. Lovett is most pleased is 

 that he has so large a business near his 

 own home. Plants and trees from his 

 nursery go to almost every county in 

 every state and territory in the Union, 

 and several thousand dollars' worth 

 were shipped last year to foreign coun- 



