The National Nurseryman. 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK. 
Copyrighted 1903 by The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated. 
“ Future orcharding on the western prairie depends upon hardy roots.” —Dewain Cook. 
Vol. XI. ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE, 1903. No. 6. 
THE CONTINENTAL NURSERIES. 
Extensive Plant of Brown Brothers Co., Rochester, N. Y. — Sev¬ 
enteen Acres of Park Surround the Colonial Offices — 
Large Storage Cellars and Packing Houses— 
Seventy-two Office Employees. 
The views that have been appearing as frontispieces in the 
National Nurseryman were taken in the park surrounding 
the offices of Brown Brothers Company, Continental Nurseries, 
of Rochester, N. Y. The grounds occupy a high situation 
adjoining Brighton village, a suburb of Rochester, and com¬ 
prising about 106 acres, of which 17 acres are devoted exclu¬ 
sively to park purposes. In these days of commercialism 
when the average nurseryman devotes his land exclusively to 
the propagation of trees and plants, it is refreshing to come in 
contact with one who puts into effect the theory advanced by 
nurserymen for the adornment of one’s home grounds. 
The park surrounding the offices of the Brown Brothers 
Company is most attractively laid out and contains a choice 
collection of hardy flowering shrubs, shade trees, evergreens, 
perennials, etc., that can be successfully grown in this locality. 
This park is personally looked after by Mr. Charles J. Brown, 
the president of the company, who perhaps is as great a lover 
of the beautiful in nature as the most liberal patron of his 
company, and who thoroughly believes in the fact that the ex¬ 
terior requires adornment as much as the interior. One can 
see in this park the rarest kinds of shrubs and trees grown in 
this country. The park has been planted now some three 
years, and the views show the effect of judicious planting most 
satisfactorily. 
The remainder of the land is devoted exclusively to nursery 
purposes, it being the object of the company to grow here a 
limited assortment of a large number of different varieties so 
as to have them handy during the packing season. The main 
growings of the company are in its nurseries at Irondequoit 
and Penfield, both within four or five miles of their packing 
cellars. The company here grow perhaps as large an assort¬ 
ment in as large quantities as any concern in the country. 
On the Brighton grounds is one of the largest storage cellars 
in the country, constructed of stone, 314 feet long and 80 feet 
wide, and with an average height of 18 feet. Its walls are two 
feet thick on a stone foundation, four feet below the surface of 
the ground and four feet thick. There are both inner and 
outer walls by which method of construction an air space is 
formed all round the building. The roof of the cellar is sup¬ 
ported by fifty-six oak posts which rest upon brick and stone 
piers. An abundance of light has been provided by ten box 
ventilators each about 6 feet by 10 feet. So perfectly frost 
proof is this storage cellar and so properly ventilated that stock 
is perfectly free during the severest weather from any frost, 
and from the same cause there has never been discovered any 
trace of mildew on the stock in the cellar. Contiguous to this 
cellar are two large packing houses, work shops, etc., making 
it probably one of the most complete plants in the country for 
handling stock either at wholesale or retail. 
The office is located to the right of the park grounds at the 
point of entry, and is a colonial structure 100 feet by 30 feet, 
divided into departments by glass partitions enabling a view 
of the entire office from either end. 
This company is one of the most progressive in the country, 
and the annual increase of its trade has been most gratifying. 
The packing of the company started about the 22nd of last 
January, and at this writing, May 2nd, is still continuing. It 
requires 72 office employees to attend to the details of the cor¬ 
respondence, etc. 
The writer would suggest that any brother nurseryman vis¬ 
iting here call at the grounds of Brown Brothers Company, as 
he believes it will be an object lesson, both as to the manner 
in which the average nurseryman should surround his offices 
with all that is beautiful in nature, as well as to note the care¬ 
ful manner in which the nursery itself should be kept up. 
MINNESOTA’S NURSERY LAW. 
The legislature of Minnesota at the session of 1903 passed a 
bill “to prevent the introduction and spread of injurious in¬ 
sects and dangerous plant diseases in the State of Minnesota.” 
The law constitutes the entomologist of the state experiment 
station as the state entomologist charged with the execution of 
the new law. He may appoint qualified assistants. The law 
provides: 
He shall, by himself or his assistants, between the first day of May 
and the fifteenth day of September, in each year, when requested by 
the owner or agent, or when he has reasonable ground to believe that 
any injurious insect pests or dangerous and contagious plant disease 
exist, carefully examine any nursery, fruit farm or other place where 
trees or plants are grown for sale, and if found apparently free from 
any injurious insect pests or dangerous or contagious plant diseases, he 
shall issue his certificate stating the facts (good for one year unless re¬ 
voked) and shall collect therefor a fee of five dollars ($ 5 . 00 ) per day 
and expenses. 
It is provided that quarantine regulations may be established 
in any nursery, orchard or garden and treatment of trees or 
plants may be prescribed or the trees and plants may be burned, 
the owner to pay the cost in all cases. 
A certificate on stock shipped into the state shall be regarded 
as prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated, but the 
authorities may inspect such stock at any time and act accord¬ 
ing to the above provisions of the law, charging the cost to the 
owner or the person in charge of the stock. It is unlawful to 
send into the state any nursery stock not accompanied by a 
certificate. The law is in effect from and after June 1, 1903. 
