An Up-to-Date Nursery 
Standard Bay Tree 
ground. One form of rose bush particularly strikes the visitor as being 
worthy of mention, a product of the experimental departments here. It is 
the standard or rose tree. Of the hybrid, there are ioo varieties alone. 
Originally, rose trees were grafted on the English briar, but were 
extremely susceptible to frost. The standard rose is grafted on the Rosa 
rugosa and cinnamon stalk, is cut back to four or five eyes, and is perpetual. 
Trained linden trees were mentioned as forming the decorative fea¬ 
ture of the shaded avenue through which we entered from the street. 
The trees we find in stock, trained specially for forming arched ave¬ 
nues, natural pergolas, gateways or formal garden effects, the idea being 
introduced and copied from old European estates. No extra skill seems 
to be necessary in keeping them in the original shape. The trained fruit trees, however, 
form the great bulk of the unusual output. One remembers with delight the curious 
little gardens in France and Belgium, where the most luscious apples, plums and 
pears were grown on trees which were outstretched so closely to the white plastered 
stone walls, with their red tile copings, that it seemed as if their limbs must have been 
flattened out by some gigantic press. 
Plucked for the premier dejeuner by a rosy cheeked maid, the fruit from 
these quaint gardens, where every tree had been so planted that the sun’s 
warm rays could reach every twig and leaf, was far finer in flower, far 
sweeter to the taste than the fruit procured in the village market. This 
arrangement called a cordon can be seen here as well as the palmelte 
horizontal and palmette double branched forms of pear and apple trees. 
Then, too, for limited space, here is the globe, dwarf and the pyramidal form. Apples, apricots, 
cherries, figs, nectarines, plums, quinces, peach trees in pots for forcing, in fact every kind of fruit that 
can be grown. Of the pears, there are varieties, which bear fruit, a variety for each month of the year. 
Passing down a rustic bridle path, lined with evergreens and many plants in bloom, we come upon 
a long line of laborers, who, under the guidance of superintendents, are cultivating long rows of various 
plants. From here we see on the western limits of 
the nursery grounds, the attractive roomy residences, 
side by side, of the firm members, surrounded by 
evergreens and plants that have been nurtured by 
their own hands. Pleasant indeed to live amidst 
one’s life-work, especially when it is the sort that 
brings one so close to nature. 
Neither time nor space can be given to vis¬ 
iting and enumerating the other beds of plants 
or the hothouses where the less hardy varieties are 
confined. 
One can but imagine the chromatic display when 
the great beds of peonies bloom forth in all their 
glory. 
There are also the beds of hardy iris of which 
the Iris Kasmpferi is considered the most beautiful of 
all the summer flowering plants, the beds of stately 
golden glow, hybrid pansies, chrysanthemums for 
the late fall, and the poppies of which there are alone 
twenty varieties. 
Outside of the trained fruit and shade trees 
already mentioned, the importation of which amounts 
to many thousand dollars a year, there are fifteen 
acres devoted to common shade trees. These are 
allowed to grow until the trunks are from two to 
three and a half inches in diameter. They under¬ 
go several transplantings when they are carefully 
pruned so as to cause more fibrous roots to break out, 
thus ensuring their future success when planted 
blue spruce in nursery rows amid new scenes and new surroundings. 
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