rUK NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
seeds were sown in l)e(ls. M'o this day, his id(‘a is 
eai-ried out and at the Sherinan Nursery Uo. tlu' arbor 
or shade illustrated, covers an area of ten aci-es, 
thou^>’li they have ai)|)roxiuiately twenty acres in all 
covered with sci’eens and devoted to the ^-rowino- of 
small ever^’reens. 
Their stock is sold both at wholesal(‘ and retail. 
The retail trade is handled almost exclusively 
through regularly authoiazed agents, who work on a 
straight salary oi- on a commission basis as the case 
may warrant. 
Idle office building is one of the tinest structures of 
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11 is also iut(M‘(‘sting to know that tlu‘S(‘ tri'cs arc* 
all standing on land which was oi-iginally tre(‘l(‘ss; 
there not being even as mnch iis a riding whij) on the.i 
])lace when i\Ir. Sheianan’s fath(*r took ])oss(‘ssion of 
it in 185(). 
THE NEW BANKING LAW AND THE NURSERY 
BUSINESS. 
By FREDERICK W. KELSEY. 
The decision of the banks all over the connti'y, in¬ 
cluding the largei' banking institutions in the monied 
cenitres, to come under the ])rovisions of the new 
ea of ten acres at the Sherman Nursery Co., Charles City, Iowa. 
its Size in the west, and was idanned and constructed 
with a xdew to convenience and economy in office 
management. Eighteen peo-ple are enpiloyed at the 
office work steadily, while in the rush of the packing 
season each spring and fall, an additional office force 
is required. 
The growing of Coniferons Trees has ])ractically 
been a life work of ]\fr. Fd. ^1. Sherman, as his father, 
Buel Sherman, was a nurseryman befoi'e him and 
about the first work ever assigned to him, was aiding 
in the transplanting of small evergreens. 
The old home farm is still the iirojierty of 'Slv. 
Sherman, and on this place there are jiroliably 150,- 
000 trees of the various tyqies of Siiruce and Line of 
from 50 to 60 years of age. Most of these would now 
make fair lumber. 
banking law, should give eucouragement to those 
identified with Horticultural interests as well as 
those engaged in hnancial and industrial euter])rises 
generallv. 
The fact that no more money ])anics are likely to 
o(‘cur under the new law is in itself enough to o])en 
the way ])ermanently for more stable couditious ot 
credit everywhere, '^riie doul)le advantage under the 
new system of having the surplus cash ot ithe country 
and the commercial credits available from the region¬ 
al banks in various ])arts of the counti\v, should also 
I'emove the ('auses for money distni’bances, as they 
have under the ])r(‘sen!t banking law existed for the 
fifty years since the Civil A ar. 
AVhen the new banking system is in full o])eration, 
every manufacturer, nursei’yman or ])roprietor of 
