THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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ORLANDO HARRISON. 
Herewith is presented a portrait and sketch of Mr. Harrison, 
a member of the American Association of Nurserymen and a 
member of the firm of J. G. Harrison & Sons, of Berlin, Md., 
vice-president of the Exchange and Savings Bank of Berlin 
and director of the Berlin Building and Loan Association of 
Berlin. Mr. Harrison was born in Sussex county, Delaware, 
January 27 , 1867 , and when in his teens started in fruits- 
When at the age of 17 , he with his lather moved to Berlin’ 
Md., where they have since grown nursery stock, making a 
specialty of peach trees, strawberry plants and asparagus roots 
and for the past few years have added apple and pear trees. 
Their planting started from only 2,000 trees for orchard 
purpose and now their annual budded list of peach for the 
past three years has exceeded any other in the United States 
Starting on one farm of 170 acres, to-day they have six smal 1 
farms of the choicest land in that vicinity. Their sales in 
strawberry plants run into the millions and in asparagus roots 
hundreds of thousands. 
In 1893 Mr. Harrison married Miss 
Ada H. Long and to them were born 
three children, a daughter dying at one 
year of age, and two boys now growing 
up with the business. 
THE WATERERS’ NURSERY. 
One of the most noted of English 
nurseries is that of the Waterers, Knap- 
hill, Surrey. On the uplands of Woking, 
approached from the town by a hilly 
drive across picturesque common and 
through shady lanes, says Country Life 
of London, is the Knaphill Nursery of 
Anthony Waterer, a Mecca for all inter¬ 
ested in trees and shrubs. When the 
history of British progress in horticulture 
is written, the Waterers of Knaphill will 
fill an interesting place for their work 
accomplished in raising new shrubs and 
encouraging plantings in forest, wood¬ 
land, and pleasure ground of kinds known to withstand severe 
frosts. This may appear a rash statement. The general reader 
probably presumes that no one would be unwise enough to 
cover acres with things likely to succumb to a hard winter. 
Many woodlands reveal, however, that in the past planters 
were little concerned about the hardiness or otherwise of trees 
and shrubs used to adorn the landscape, especially when un¬ 
tried conifers were first introduced from Japan, delicate shrubs 
quickly afflicted by an ordinary English winter. 
one of the few shrubs disliked by hares and rabbits. Relieving 
the heavy masses of the shrubs are standard rhododendrons, 
many of them between twenty and thirty years of age, and of 
considerable circumference. 
The hardy conifers abound on all sides, and the silvery 
coloring of the variety of blue spruce called Argentea is con¬ 
spicuously beautiful. Knaphill is renowned for its spructs, 
and Abies pungens, the most vigorous and hardy of the whole 
tribe, is represented by noble specimens. One is told that the 
plants are seedlings, not grafted upon the common spruce tree, 
and another shrub, the golden yew, is raised in the same way. 
To those who know little of woodland planting, it may appear 
of small moment whether a shrub be grafted or raised from 
seed, but this is not so. It is one of the most important points 
in shrub culture to get them upon their natural roots, not upon 
some stock that asserts its own superiority, to the disgust of 
planter and destruction of all schemes tor the embellishment 
of the landscape. A seedling shrub is safe ; and Mr. Waterer 
was one of the first to upset the old and careless way of graft¬ 
ing anything and everything, without 
regard to fitness of relationship, with 
the result that the shrubs died whole¬ 
sale, victims to a cheap and objection¬ 
able practice. The silver Atlas cedar 
(Cedrus atlantica glauca) is very beau¬ 
tiful at Knaphill, and amongst silvery- 
toned conifers none is handsomer than 
this, its branches as if covered with hoar 
frost, and the growth extremely rapid. 
There are spurious imitations of the 
Knaphill form, which, however, is sil¬ 
vered over from apex to base, a dis¬ 
tinct and effective shrub. 
FRUIT TREES FOR AFRICA. 
Orlando 
Consul General Stowe of Cape Town 
recently reported that a representative 
of a United States nursery had been 
there eight weeks and sold more in that 
period than he could have sold in the 
Harrison. United States in twenty-four weeks. 
He had only been canvassing the city and suburbs. Fruit 
of nearly all varieties can be cultivated there, but as there no 
frosts, the insects and their larva are not killed as in countries 
where frost occurs; consequently a large number of trees die. 
ROOT GRAFTING THE CHERRY. 
In reply to the question “ Can pieces of the roots of a seed¬ 
ling cherry be grafted to a cherry scion, and made to grow, as 
U dnn, with the apple ? ” Professor Van Deman says in Rural 
The nursery occupies 250 acres, and has been established 
about a century. It is noted for its azaleas and rhododen¬ 
drons. 
When the azaleas are in flower the rhododendron is veiled 
in color, and we think no richer collection exists than that of 
Knaphill. By the margin of the long drive huge leafy masses 
rise up, walls of foliage, here a noble specimen of the R. cataw- 
biensis, there the original plant, we believe, of the pure white 
variety Mrs. John Clutton, with seedlings in thousands, the 
pretty dwarf rhododendrons, myrfifolium, and the familiar R. 
ponticum, planted extensively where game is preserved, and 
New Yorker: 
“ Root-grafting the cherry is very difficult, and rarely pays 
for the trouble of doing it. I have tried it several times, but 
always on whole roots. If pieces of roots were used I think 
that the failure would have been still more pronounced. All 
kinds of stone fruits are much more difficult to graft than the 
apple and other pome fruits, and are propagated by budding. 
The next meeting of the Northwest Fruit Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion will be held at Tacoma, Wash., January 16 , 17 and 18 , 
1900 . 
