Office of Adams Nursery, Inc., on Route 20 between Springfield 
and Westfield 
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T HREE SCORE AND TEN” is heard frequently, but “four score and ten” is so rare 
that it at once becomes a mark of distinction. Few men, and fewer industries, reach 
the honorable age of ninety years; yet that span of time covers the history of Adams 
Nurseries. 
Hardy pioneers, pushing their way westward in the “days of forty-nine,” smiled when 
John W. Adams started a little nursery near Portland, Maine. There the venture was carried 
on, despite the severe climate, until about 1867. Mr. Adams then brought the business to 
Springfield, securing a tract of land on North Main Street. 
Here the nursery remained until 1912, when a farm of about 40 acres, on the Spring- 
field-Westfield Highway, was purchased. The main office and salesroom remained in 
Springfield for ten years longer. In 1896 Mr. Adams’ two sons, Walter and Charles, were 
taken into the business and have been active in its management since that time. 
While history is interesting, and teaches us many lessons, it is the present and future 
that concerns us most. We believe that buying trees, flowering shrubs, garden plants, 
or bulbs, should be made as easy as purchasing furniture, a radio, or a new gown. To 
bring this belief to actuality we have established: 
1. A location convenient to Springfield and Westfield, and only a short distance from Pittsfield, Green¬ 
field, Holyoke, and other important New England points. 
2. A Landscape Department, with a staff of trained men, who will consult with you about your plan¬ 
ning and planting problems. Most of the illustrations in this book show the work of this Department. 
3. A display garden where visitors may enjoy and study plants and flowers from tulip-time in May 
to chrysanthemums in late October. The tulips include many of the recent novelties as well as older 
and popular sorts. Words fail to describe the beauty of the rose-garden—the first blooms open in early 
June and we have from four to six weeks of color and fragrance. There are some flowers all summer, and 
usually a second burst of color in September. 
4. A prompt and efficient delivery service, bringing trees, shrubs, and plants to your home within a 
few hours after they are taken from the ground. 
5. An organization that will look after your interests from the first interview, and continue this interest 
long after the planting is completed. 
Our business has been built on these foundation stones, and during all these changing 
years the purpose of the founder has never been altered. The principles of honest quality, 
of careful service, and reasonable prices, continue to govern our associations with friends 
and customers. ADAMS NURSERY, Inc. 
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In the plant kingdom there are certain plants which possess such outstanding characteristics that one 
thinks of them reverently as belonging to the nobility. 
It might be a beautilul flower or Iragrance such as the May-flowering Viburnum, or an exuberance of 
brilliantly colored fruits such as are possessed by the Flowering Crab-Apple or Mountain-Ash. 
J his Ninetieth Anniversary Booklet does not mention or list all the varieties we grow. It contains only 
those that we consider Plant Aristocrats of New England. 
