An Up-to-Date Nursery 
LATEST PRODUCTS AND METHODS OF RAISING 
SHRUBS AND FLOWERING PLANTS 
By G. BERTRAND MITCHELL 
T HE traveler who has journeyed at this season 
of the year along the old brick paved road 
which winds itself from Leyden to Haarlem, 
will never forget the gorgeous stretches of hyacinths, 
tulips, anemones, crocuses and lilies that line the 
roadway on either side. These fields, really nothing 
more than countless small enclosed gardens, are the 
famous nurseries of Holland, where, centuries ago, 
capitalists and merchants traded in bulbs and 
plants, making and losing fortunes in a single day. 
Yet, within eight miles of New York’s City Hall, 
across the North River, on the New Jersey side, one 
single firm has to-day almost as great an area devoted 
to the cultivation of shrubs and flowering plants. 
Characteristic of American enterprise, this vast 
business, established only as many years as it is miles 
distant from the metropolis, has grown as rapidly, aye, 
far more rapidly, than many a wonderful plant which 
the casual visitor may notice here, that has been nur¬ 
tured and forced by modern methods of cultivation. 
These nurseries lie along the historic old Plank 
Road and are at all times of the year an objective 
point for excursionists and local visitors. 
From the first day of its incorporation it has been 
the policy of this concern to have, not an output 
for the spring and summer alone, but for the four 
seasons of the year. “We plan for 365 days in the 
year, barring Sundays if you will,” said one of the 
men. “This enables us to employ our experienced 
gardeners with no possibility of their being laid off 
for lack of business and in consequence not to be 
found when needed on some unexpected order, one 
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