An Up-to-Date Nursery 
A MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF BAY TREES 
of the great detriments to many of our competing 
nurseries.” 
The main entrance from the street leads up a broad 
flight of steps to a wide avenue that is lined with 
shapely linden trees whose branches grow close to a 
latticed frame work, and form two unbroken rows 
of green as perfectly aligned as the ranks of a regi¬ 
ment on dress parade. 
Each of these unusual trees, imported from a 
European nursery, has been so pruned and trained 
that its limbs evenly balance, and bear a striking 
resemblance to the seven branched candelabra of 
the Hebrews. 
Between the tree trunks to the left one catches 
glimpses of long lines of dwarf evergreens and other 
choice ornamental stock, while to the right extend 
parallel rows of plants in blossom, and shade and 
fruit trees. 
At the end of the avenue are the office build¬ 
ings. A graveled roadway leads past numerous 
storehouses where several trucks are unloading a 
consignment of tall shrubs, all with their roots and 
leaves carefully wrapped, and which have been 
lightered around to the nearest dock from some 
trans-Atlantic steamship. 
A modest farmhouse that nestles under a gigantic 
weeping willow at the turn of the road, seems to 
belie the actual age of this establishment. 
The broad, green velvety lawn in front with its semi- 
formal arrangement, with potted bay trees of round 
and pyramidal shape, causes one to feel that it is the 
growth of a century at least. 
Of course the house and willow tree stood here 
long before the nurseries were opened, and the line 
of beautiful pyramidal bays that extends on the other 
side toward a grove in the rear, has long since passed 
the age of voting. These trees, which are thirty years 
old and until recently owed their allegiance to Hol¬ 
land, are worth three hundred dollars a pair, an 
attendant tells you. 
Not far distant are many long rows of the 
standard bay tree, a semi-hardy plant, graceful in 
shape, rich green in color, now used extensively 
for house decoration in the winter and for formal 
and Italian garden features through the warmer 
months. 
This magnificent collection of 1500 trees in¬ 
cludes some of the largest specimens that have ever 
been imported. The smaller trees, worth in the 
market ten years ago about $100 apiece, may to¬ 
day—because of the immense shipments received 
by this concern—be purchased for about one-tenth 
of that price. 
In marked contrast to many American business 
concerns, one encounters here only courteous and 
obliging employees. The managers encourage in¬ 
spection by visitors and are ready to give full and 
complete information about the care and growth 
of the various plants. There are no secrets to be 
carefully guarded from the public and those owning 
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