THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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moreover it is about three years before llic plants are 
salable. 
Kven then it is rather risky to plant it out except in a 
very favorable position, for unless the wood is well rip¬ 
ened and hardened, you are likely to have it winter- 
killed. 
The j)lants that have j)rovcd the most sueeessful have 
been those that have been layered and rooted while on 
the parent plant; the wood in this ease is well able to 
stand the most severe winters. 
It will he interesting to know if others have also been 
fortunate in raising seedlings of this rare tree. 
Edwin Matthews^ in Florisls' Exchange. 
MT. AHliOU NUKSEKIES ARE INCORPORATED 
The Mount Arbor Nurseries are incorporated with an 
authorized capital stock of $300,000.00 with a paid up 
capital stock of $200,000.00. The oflicers of the corpora¬ 
tion are E. S. Welch, president; E. E. May, vice president 
and treasurer; R. M. Gwynn, secretary; E. W. Welch, su¬ 
perintendent and R. N. Adair, assistant superintendent. 
The imrpose of incorporating the Mount Arbor Nur¬ 
series is to perpetuate the business and secure the ad¬ 
vantages of the corporate form of organization. Its 
president, E. S. Welch, can look hack over a quarter of a 
century of business success, unparalleled in the history 
of the nursery business in the United States. 
The Mount Arbor Nurseries were established in 1875 
and came into the hands of E. S. Welch in the spring of 
1891. It has grown from an embryo plant into one of 
the largest nurseries in the United States. 
The rapid growth of the business has been possible 
partly because of the favorable conditions and soil for 
the growth of nursery stock, hut more especially because 
of the efficient management of the business. 
Since 1891 and until the present date the business has 
been ow ned and managed by E. S. Welch. As to how- 
well he has succeeded can only he measured by the large 
volume of business that has been developed. 
E. E. May, vice president and treasurer, is a Nebraskan 
by birth, graduated from the State University of 
Nebraska and was employed for four seasons in the sales 
department of D. M. Ferry & Go., of Detroit previous in 
locating at Shenandoah. He helped organize and was 
superintendent of a county high school in western 
Nebraska two years, and is well qualified for his duties 
in the new corporation. 
R. M. Gw^ynn, secretary, has been actively connected 
w ith the management of the business for the past seven 
years. He was formerly cashier of the Shenandoah Na¬ 
tional bank, is a director in the Home Building and Loan 
Association, and well qualified to handle the many duties 
of the secretary of a large business. 
F. W. Welch, superintendent, has had active super¬ 
vision of the nursery plant for many years. He has 
been engaged in the production and handling of nursery 
stock since boyhood, and has been actively allied with the 
Mount Arbor Nurseries during the greater part of his 
business career. 
Robert N. Adair, who has grown up in the business, is 
assistant field superintendent. Mr. Adair is a very cap¬ 
able and energetic man and has rendered valuable assis¬ 
tance in the development of the business. 
THE ('.BOWING OF A NORWAY MAPLE 
The seed of the Norway Maple ripens along in early 
fall. Sometimes the seed is purchased from the seed 
dealer hut it is always better for the nurseryman to 
gather his own. He then may select to a large extent 
the type of tree he prefei’s. There are many different 
types, and the seedlings w ill always more or less perpet¬ 
uate or have characterislics of the parent plant. 
The seed should he sown very soon after it is gathered, 
w Idle it is quite fresh, as it soon loses vitality unless ex¬ 
tra precautions ari^ taken. As in all other crops it al¬ 
ways pays to well prepare the seed beds. The seed 
should not be sown too thick, because practically evej’y 
one will germinate and if they are too thick the young 
plants will be weak and spindling. The first year if 
sown in the fall, as advised, the seed will be in the 
ground and in position to take advantage of the spring 
growing weather. 
The first year’s growth will vary from six to eighteen 
inches according to the conditions of soil and moisture. 
There is nothing to do to them except keep the weeds 
cleaned out. The second year the stand of seedlings 
should range from one to two feet and the third year 
from three to four feet. 
After they have made the third year’s growth in the 
seed beds, they are in condition to dig up, grade and have 
in leadiness to plant where they will get more room. 
Many nurserymen transplant direct from the seed bed 
to the nursery rows. While this may be the easiest 
method, it does not mean it is the best, better results, and 
perhaps even more economical, can be obtained by bed¬ 
ding them for a couple of years, that is, transplanting 
them in beds of well prepared soil, setting the plants 
three or our inches apart. This treatment has a ten¬ 
dency to make the young plants grow^ straight and tall. 
After being tw o or three years bedded out, they should 
be in prime condition for planting in the nursery rows. 
It is at this stage that nurserymen often make the mis¬ 
take in not being more particular in grading and throw¬ 
ing out the culls and unpromising plants. It is well 
known the Norway Maple is a crooked tree in its young 
state, due to their losing their terminal buds. If, how¬ 
ever, the grow th is clean and otherw ise unchecked, the 
crooks caused hy the dying of the terminal bud are soon 
obliterated and the tree becomes perfectly straight by the 
time the caliper reaches two to two and a half inches. 
It is only the serious faults such as neglected double 
leaders, wounds and delayed or unskillful pruning that 
causes the culls, w hich are so expensive and finally land 
on the brush ])ile. 
In planting out permanently in the nursery rows, it is 
W'Oll to set them a good distance apart, and if possible 
plant them so they can be harrowed both w^ays. When 
one comes to look hack over the life history of a Norway 
Maple on the nursery and realizes that it has to be grown 
anyw here from seven to ten years before it finds its way 
on the market, and then looks at the price at which they 
are listed in the nurseryman’s catalogue, it makes one 
wonder if it is a profitable crop, and if one would not 
get more if he grew eight to ten crops of corn on the 
same ground. 
