THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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foreign iRotes of Unterest 
A succession of cold Springs and wet, sunless Summers has so demor¬ 
alized the majority of fruit trees that they now present an overgrown 
appearance, and suggest that restrictive measures will have to be 
adopted to bring them again into a state of fruitfulness, says Gardeners’ 
Magazine, London, Eng. 
An Ipswich, England, correspondent states that he has grown the 
perpetual-fruiting strawberry known at St. Antoine de Padua during 
the three past years, and has annually had splendid crops during the 
latter part of September, and in October and November. He also 
states that the plants fruit freely during the usual strawberrv season. 
In the matter of encouraging and enlarging the fruit industry in 
Germany, one community paid as much as 3,000 marks ($714) per 
annum for each person graduated from the classes of its horticultural 
schools during the years 1891, 1892, and 1893. New colleges, schools 
and educational institutions of agriculture and horticulture are being 
erected and opened all over the Empire. 
The seventeenth annual dinner of the United Horticultural Benefit 
and Provident Society, of Great Britain, was held in London in Octo¬ 
ber. Peter Barr, V. M. H., the president, presided. There were 111 
present. The Society has a membership of 1,040 and a reserve fund 
of $110,000. “The Chairman” was proposed 
by C. H. Curtis, who eulogized the services Mr. 
Barr had rendered to horticulture, spoke of his 
wonderful travels during the past five years, 
and his unabated spirit now. In reply, Mr. 
Barr said that he hoped to visit Khartoum, 
Egypt, and Greece, and every important gar¬ 
den in Britain! This was a remarkable speech 
for a man approaching eighty years of age. 
"The Horticultural Press” was neatly proposed 
by Mr. Thomas Winter, and appropriately re¬ 
sponded to by Mr. R. Hooper Pearson, who 
remarked that Professor F. A. Waugh, when in 
England, had obtained a copy of the society’s 
rules and taken it back to the United States 
with him, so that there was a prospect of an 
American development on similar lines. 
The firm consists of three, J. G. Harrison, the father, and 
Orlando Harrison and George A. Harrison, the two sons, 
who will be glad to welcome any nurseryman or horticulturist 
to look over their plant at any time. 
E. S. WELCH. 
J. G. HARRISON & SONS. 
The frontispiece of this issue gives a 
view of some of the buildings and pack¬ 
ing grounds of J. G. Harrison & Sons at 
Berlin, Md. In addition to the plant shown, they own and 
cultivate in Peach, Apple, Pear, Plum and Cherry trees, 
Asparagus roots, Strawberry plants, twelve hundred acres 
of land, all located within two miles of the packing house and 
office, where all stock is taken to grade, check and pack. They 
have a railroad siding which runs parallel with the building 
and holds twenty cars, which enables them to handle trees 
without exposure. 
They have made the Peach their specialty since they started 
sixteen years ago, and have since made Apple trees their 
second Fall specialty to handle, and have at this time a com¬ 
plete list of Apple trees, and a most excellent plant for next 
season’s sales. 
Their specialty for Spring has always been Strawberry 
plants, and they have them by the million, as this season’s 
growth has been very good. They give the nursery business 
undivided attention; no side lines. They grow and sell trees 
largely to the wholesale trade. 
E. S. Welch. 
W e present herewith a likeness of one of the leading nursery¬ 
men of the United States, E. S. Welch, proprietor of the 
Mount Arbor Nurseries at Shenandoah, Iowa. Born in Illi¬ 
nois in 1869, he is one of the youngest men in the class of 
really large growers of nursery stock. He is not only an 
enthusiast in the business, but is thoroughly trained in all 
its branches and an indefatigable worker. He has climbed 
from the bottom, starting to work in the field when a boy 
thirteen years of age. 
While the Mount Arbor Nurseries was established in 1875, 
it had but a comparatively small plant and meagre facilities 
when it passed into the hands of Mr. Welch in 1891. Under 
his progressive management it has made great strides to the 
front. The present annual wholesale business exceeds $100,- 
000 , besides a large amount of retail 
sales. 
The plant is one of the largest, cleanest, 
most varied and up-to-date in methods 
and equipment in the West. Commodi- 
ious frost-proof storage buildings and 
packing sheds are electric-lighted and 
connected by private telephone system. 
A railroad side-track runs full length of 
the packing grounds. City water is sup¬ 
plied to every building and to all parts of 
the five acres on which the office and build¬ 
ings are located. Every modern conven¬ 
ience is at hand for the safe and rapid 
handling of an extensive trade. 
Southwest Iowa is a most favored sec¬ 
tion for agricultural purposes and Mr. 
Welch is fortunate in owning several hun¬ 
dred acres of the choicest land most 
desirable for growing nursery stock. 
Shenandoah is a lively little city of 4,500 with a wide 
reputation in the nursery business. No small portion of 
this record is due to the energy and enterprise of Mr. 
Welch and the Mount Arbor. 
Mr. Welch is an earnest, working member of the American 
Association of Nurserymen, as well as several other societies 
pertaining to his business. As is usually the case with respon¬ 
sible nurserymen, he is prominently identified with the up¬ 
building and welfare of his home city, filling the position ot 
director of one of the principal banks, treasurer of the Home 
Building and Loan Association, and member of the Board of 
Education, and Carnegie Library Board. 
ADVERTISING THE MOTIVE POWER. 
“Advertising is the great motive power of the business world 
to-day, and you nurserymen must get in line if you expect to keep 
pace with this twentieth century and American progress.—Frank B. 
White. 
