THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Two-year-old Evergreen Seedlings in Winter Quarters 
on Grounds of R. Douglas’ Sons, Waukegan, III., 
Nurseries. 
EVERGREEN SEEDLINGS WINTERING. 
We present herewith an interesting cut showing how ever¬ 
green seedlings pass the winter at the Waukegan, Ill., Nur¬ 
series of R. Douglas’ Sons. 
Robert Douglas, the founder of the Waukegan Nurseries, 
bought his first nursery stock in 1848. He was the first per¬ 
son in America to raise evergreens from seed in the open air. 
He was laughed at by New York Nurserymen when he said 
he would send nursery stock from Illinois to the East, but 
before his death he had sent millions there. This nursery 
was the first to introduce Blue spruce, Douglas spruce and 
other Colorado evergreens to the trade. The firm confined 
itself to evergreen seedlings and forest tree seedlings from 
1862 to 1895 when it added a general nursery stock. It has 
made the largest forest planting of any firm in the world, over 
3,000,000 trees being used. The business is now being con¬ 
ducted by two sons of the originator under the name of R. 
Douglas’ Sons. 
The March issue of Country Life in America is a gardening manual 
number, containing many spring features. Wilhelm Miller describes 
the Arnold Arboretum under the title “The World’s Greatest Tree 
Garden.” Numerous articles cover a wide range of practical subjects 
and the wild flowers and nature of the spring woods and fields. 
Dreer’s Garden Book for 1904, published by Henry A. Dreer, Phila¬ 
delphia, is a veritable encyclopedia regarding up-to-date matters 
connected with seeds of all kinds. It is a handsome publication of 
208 pages, four colored plates, many half-tone views and an embossed 
cover showing the Shirley poppy. The most complete list of the 
kind in America or Europe is here shown. 
Hmong Growers and Dealers. 
E. L. Parmenter, Menominee, Mich., will enter the nursery business 
this spring. 
T. E. Cashman, Owetonna, Minn., will continue the business of L. 
P. Lord & Co., who have sold out to him. 
E. B. Lewis, Lockport, N. Y., died January 21st. He leaves a 
widow, five children and 13 grand-children. 
The Wichita, Kansas, Nursery Company has purchased IS acres 
in Wichita for the planting of nursery stock. 
C. L. Whitney, Warren, O., has purchased 100 acres at Thomasville 
Ga., which he will plant as a pecan orchard. 
The imports of nursery stock—plants, trees, shrubs, vines, etc.— 
into the United States for the year ending June 30, 1903, showed a 
total valuation of $1,373,198, against $1,172,570 for 1902, an increase 
of $200,628. 
John Watson, of the Pioneer Nurseries Co., Salt Lake City, forrherly 
of Texas, is the secretary of the recently formed King Standard Oil 
Company, of that city. The company will work the Farmington Oil 
fields in Utah. 
P. Loef Az will withdraw from the firm of P. Loef Az & Co., Boskoop, 
Holland. J. C. Von Heiningen and P. J. VonHeiningen will continue 
the business under the name of Von Heiningen Brothers & C'o., 
Boskoop, Holland. 
Superintendent Lanev of the Rochester, N. Y., park board advocates 
the planting of the elm, red oak, oriental plane, sugar maple, tulip and 
canoe birch in city streets. He discourages the planting of the horse 
chestnut and the sycamore maple. 
The Riverside County, Cal., supervisors have passed a law giving 
the county board of horticultural commissioners power to destroy all 
nursery stock imported from any place, where peach yellows, peach 
rosette, phyloxera, red spider or white fly prevail. 
