The National Nursery 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOC 
Copyright, 1893, by the National Nurseryman Publishing Co. 
VOL. 11 . 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., DECEMBER, 1894. 
MODEL STORAGE AND PACKING HOUSE. 
The frontispiece of this issue presents a view of the cold 
storage building and packing house of The Farmers 
Nursery Co., at Tadmor, O. To the left of this 
building is the residence of H. W. Freeman, secretary 
of the company, under whose management it has 
achieved a national reputation as the disseminator of the 
leading fruits—the Crosby peach and the Greenville 
strawberry. The secretary is the designer of the storage 
cellar and packing house named. Probably no nursery¬ 
man has a more attractive, convenient and serviceable 
building. The cellar is 24x60 and 10 feet in height. 
The wall is two feet thick and contains two windows at 
each end and two on the north side. The openings, 
3x3^^ feet, give plenty of light and ventilation, as well 
as good service in storing stock. The cellar has an inside 
and outside stairway, the one to the packing floor above 
and the other to the packing ground, which is on the 
south side of the building and on a level with the packing 
floor notwithstanding the depth of cellar. The north and 
east wall has an exposure of 3 feet 8 inches to make room 
for the windows. This also permits wagons to drive along 
the north side and be loaded without lifting heavy boxes 
and bales, from the large sliding door in center of side. 
There is no exposure of wall at the west end, except that 
required for the windows, the slight incline needed for the 
driveway protecting the wall. At the south there is no 
exposure, so that the cellar is practically frost proof each 
cellar window being protected by doors. Looking from 
the packing house floor are two windows at each end and 
two at each side. There is an ordinary door on the north 
side, near the west end, and there are two sliding doors 
on the south side, one for driveway and the other for con¬ 
venience in packing stock and storing or receiving it from 
the cellar, as at this point there is a large trap door in the 
cellar floor, through which trees can be dropped from the 
puddle hole just outside the sliding door. 
The drainage is good, as a tile runs all around the wall 
and is received by a large tile, 25)^ inches in diameter, 
that takes the place of a former ditch between the secre¬ 
tary’s residence and the office—annexed to the south side 
of the main building. This office takes up a space in the 
main building of 6 x 18 feet, and extends southward nine¬ 
teen feet. It is divided into two rooms, with the secre¬ 
tary’s desk so situated that he has a good view of either 
the packing floor or packing ground without moving his 
position, while one of the office doors opens upon the 
packing floor and the other upon the packing ground. 
While this company is having a heavy run on the 
No^J-yi. 
Crosbey and Greenville, and on the Kansas—atfla Eureka 
raspberries, it also grows a general line of nursery 
stock, and at this writing is offering as fine 3 year 
apple and 2 year cherry and plum, etc., as can be 
produced. Like other Miami Valley nurserymen these 
keep abreast of the age in introducing and disseminating 
fruits of merit. The fact that a fruit is being pushed to 
the front by them is sufficient guarantee to nurserymen 
of its value. 
AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
The twenty-fourth biennial session of the American 
Pomological Society will be held in Sacramento, Cal., on 
January i6th, 17th and i8th, at the invitation of the Cali¬ 
fornia State Board of Horticulture. 
It is requested that all who intend to meet with the 
society in Sacramento, will so inform the secretary at as 
early a date as practicable, in order that the California 
friends may be informed of an approximate of the aggre¬ 
gate number of attendants to be provided for at the hotels 
and places of entertaining, which have promised to give 
reasonably reduced rates. Also, to enable the committee 
working for reduced fare rates to report the probable 
number to railroad passenger associations, which may in¬ 
fluence a more favorable action by them. Furthermore, 
all present members are kindly urged to renew their mem¬ 
bership, and to secure as many additional members as 
possible before or during the time of the session, so as to 
enable the treasurer to meet the expenses of publishing 
the volume of transactions of the meeting without delay. 
All persons who desire to join the excursion and par¬ 
ticipate in the courtesies offered by the California State 
Board of Horticulture must qualify themselves as members 
of the American Pomological Society, by remitting either 
the biennial-membership fee of $4 or life-membership fee 
of $20 to the treasurer, Benjamin G. Smith, Cambridge, 
Mass., who will upon receipt of the fee issue a certificate 
of membership, which will entitle the holder to all the 
privileges offered to members of the society. 
This session of the society at Sacramento promises to 
be one of the grandest events in the history of American 
pomology. Eminent pomologists, representing the art in 
all its most recent developments, and their successful 
application to all lines of practice, are expected to gather 
at this convention from all parts of the United States and 
the Canadas, and will present papers on important 
topics for consideration and discussion. The results of 
the work of such an assemblage cannot fail to be interest¬ 
ing and of great value to all present—a veritable collec¬ 
tion of knowledge upon all that relates to the present pro- 
