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probably come the nearest interesting such leaders in a 
way to draw out the best work. 
There will be among a large force of men a number 
that are disposed to shirk and clamor for short hours, 
etc. These should be spotted and dropped out as rapidly 
as possible as they are an injury to the other workers ; 
their grumbling tending to spread dissatisfaction. It is 
better to raise the wages of the best workers and put 
them on the hunt of workers of their own stripe, which 
they usually prefer—as an industrious, energetic hand 
dislikes to work with a shirk. In this way the quality of 
the force employed may be raised to a higher standard. 
Owing to the great variation in the amount of help 
really needed at different times in the year, those 
nurserymen who are situated so that they can secure 
transient help for a few days only, as they usually can 
near our large cities, are to say the least, fortunate. 
Those who live in more isolated localities are obliged to 
keep on slates a large amount of what might be termed 
stock work, such as repairs of buildings, clearing of old 
blocks and rubbish, fencing, ditching, digging cellars and 
preparing storage caves, repairing greenhouses, etc., to 
turn the force on at any time or all times, where the 
growing stock does not receive attention. 
LARGEST OF ITS KIND. 
The immense small fruit plant establishment of a. l. 
WOOD AT BRIGHTON, N. Y.—AN INCREASE OF ONE HUN¬ 
DRED AND FIFTEEN ACRES IN TWELVE YEARS—BUSINESS 
BUILT UP ENTIRELY BY MR. WOOD—ORIGINAL VARIETIES. 
We present with this issue a frontispiece illustrating 
the residence and grounds of Allen L. Wood, the lar¬ 
gest grower of small fruit plants in the country. Mr. 
Wood has always made a specialty of this business and 
his success is evidenced by the fact that in twelve years 
he has built up his immense business. In 1881 he began 
with one acre near his present location. He found a 
demand which caused him to increase the size of his 
plant at once. So successful were the results of the 
first two or three years’ business that he made arrange¬ 
ments for doubling the capacity of his grounds. He has 
continued to do this from that time. 
Mr. Wood’s nursery is located in the town of 
Brighton just outside of the city limits of Rochester, in a 
most desirable section both because of its proximity to 
excellent transportation facilities and its favorable soil 
and climate for the purposes desired. The nursery com¬ 
prises one hundred and fifteen acres of the most suitable 
land in this vicinity. Among the buildings on the grounds 
are a large packing shed and a large mailing shed. 
Another packing shed and a mailing shed will be built 
this year. There is also a large trial bed in which new 
varieties are tested. This is an important feature of the 
establishment. Mr. Wood grows all the new varieties 
of small fruits, including such favorites as the Greenville 
strawberry, the Red Jacket gooseberry, the Royal Church 
raspberry, the Kansas raspberry. 
To be the largest grower of small fruit plants in the 
country means a great deal and when one learns-that 
Mr. Wood sends out tons of small plants at one order 
he realizes the extent of the business. Mr. Wood’s fac¬ 
ilities are such that he can fill within 24 hours an order 
for 100,000 plants. His entire business is wholesale. 
He intends this year to construct a large root cellar by 
means of which he will be able to ship orders at any 
time. He does an enormous mail order business and 
in addition has extensive contracts with large retail cat¬ 
alogue dealers. He supplies most if not all the small 
fruit plants called for at Geneva, N. Y., sending this 
year at one time i 5 carloads to that center. He pre¬ 
pared 5000 express orders for one Canadian firm, and 
packed over 20,000 mail orders and several thousand 
express orders for James Vick’s Sons this season. 
Mr. Wood is producing a new variety of blackberry 
and a new variety of gooseberry, both of which promise 
to be important additions to the lists. He will place 
them on the market as soon as he can arrange to have 
a stock on hand He employs from thirty to forty men 
in the conduct of the nursery, and keeps constantly on 
hand a full stock of the standard and newest varieties. 
No other grower in the country‘on so large a scale makes 
a specialty of small fruit plants. Mr. Wood also makes 
a specialty of transplants of all kinds of small fruits. 
The demand for small fruits increases each year, and 
if there is any one industry that should be given greater 
encouragement and more thoughtful investigation gen¬ 
erally, it is the culture of small fruits. Prices are re¬ 
munerative and the business is found profitable when 
properly conducted. The need of energetic, industrious, 
skilled small-fruit growers never , was greater than at 
present, and the advantages offered the planter at the 
Woodlawn Nurseries, in Brighton, are unsurpassed. 
The Nurserymen’s Protective Association of the 
United States held its regular annual meeting at the 
Sherman House, Chicago, on June 7th. There was no 
business transacted except approval of the executive 
committee’s report for the year’s operations. The 
following officers were elected ; President, J. S. 
Josselyn, New York ; vice-president, C. L. Watrous, 
Iowa ; secretary, Thomas B. Meehan, Pennsylvania ; 
treasurer, A. B. Whitney, Illinois ; executive committee, 
J. S. Josselyn, George H. Thomas and A. D. Pratt, of 
New York. The next annual meeting will be held at 
Niagara Falls. 
Giuseppa Sada, via Principe Umberto 18, Milan, Italy. 
—“Your very splendid ‘The National Nursbrman’ (June 
number) reach me now. My hearty thanks for it. Such an unri¬ 
valled imblication is worthy of the largest favour among horticul¬ 
tural trade. Please write the cost for one year subscription and 
advertisement enclosed.” 
