THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
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the skylights built through the center and only admit light 
from the north side. There should also be a separate room 
where trees are received at first so that there need be no air 
admitted while storing and repacking stored trees, as we find 
that the opening of large doors admits too much dry air and 
helps to dry out the stock stored, if the utmost care is not 
taken.” __ 
N. H. ALBAUGH’S ADVICE. 
One of the first to give advice to nurserymen regarding the 
storage of nursery stock is N. H. Albaugh, Phoneton, O., who 
said at the convention of the American Association of Nur¬ 
serymen in Chicago in 1899: 
“ A storage house is essential and I have learned much by 
experience, regarding the matter of construction. I would 
never make it below ground. There is more danger of damp¬ 
ness collecting in it if you dig down at all. Then again, it is 
harder to put stock in and to take it out. You cannot drive a 
full load into a cellar. A space 30 x 100 feet should be 
selected and it should be covered a foot thick with gravel. 
Then build up your stone walls several feet and side up with 
matched lumber, putting in paper lining. Leave an air space 
and then put more paper under the inside wall. Building 
paper should also be placed under the roof. At first we used 
sawdust between the double walls ; but we found that it set¬ 
tled down, got wet, rotted the frame work and was worse than 
useless. Such a storage house will hold 35,000 peach trees. 
We found that heeling in the stock caused premature sprout¬ 
ing in spite of all precautions. We learned that cording up 
the stock was the only satisfactory way. A little heat goes a 
great ways in such a house. 1 he cost of such a house 
is $600.” 
JACKSON & PERKINS CO. 
A recent visit to the nurseries of the Jackson & Perkins Co., 
Newark, N. Y., to view the new rose, Dorothy Perkins, brought 
out the fact that this is one of the largest and most thoroughly 
equipped nurseries in this country. 1 he fields of roses, com¬ 
prising all the well-known varieties, are worth going many 
miles to see; for roses are a specialty with the Jackson & 
Perkins Co. Of roses in the fields there are 60 acres ; large 
flowering, clematis, such as Duchess of Edinburgh, Henryii, 
Ramona, Jackmanni, etc., three acres ; also three acres of 
peonies in a general assortment of varieties. In flowering 
shrubs there are 15 acres; growing among these are included 
such kinds as berberries, deutzias, Azalea mollis, fringe trees, 
purple and white lilacs, honeysuckles and Hydrangea panicu- 
lata grandiflora, the latter numbering over 50,000 plants in the 
field. Fifteen acres are planted with ornamental deciduous 
trees, and ten acres with evergreen trees and shrubs. 
In the fruit department there are eight acres of currants, 
five acres of gooseberries, four of grape vines, ten of standard 
pear trees, and twenty of peach trees. These are all of 
marketable size and do not include stock yet in nursery rows. 
The greenhouses of this firm cover an area of more than 
30,000 square feet. Here many thousand ornamental plants 
are propagated. The three storage warehouse have a capacity 
of 200,000 cubic feet. A new warehouse, 80,000 cubic feet, 
is to be ready for use this fall. 
In addition to the 310 acres of nursery operated in Newark, 
N. Y., the Jackson & Perkins Co. has a nursery of 60 acres 
in California where roses, chiefly of the American Beauty, 
Mrs. John Laing and La France varieties, are grown. The 
young stock is rooted and grown one season at the Newark 
establishment, then it is lifted and shipped to California, 
where it is planted out and grown one season. After the wood 
is ripened thoroughly, it is lifted and shipped back to the 
Newark plant and sold from the home office. 1 he stock thus 
grown is gaining a wide reputation as being of superior 
quality. 
The Jackson & Perkins Co., is the sole representative in the 
United States for Charles Detriche, Sr., Angers, France, 
grower of fruit tree stocks, rose stocks of every description, 
and young stock of all ornamental and forest trees, coni¬ 
fers, etc. 
The original partnership of Jackson & Perkins was formed 
in 1861, with the object of conducting a business as market 
gardeners and growers of small fruits, the partners being A. 
E. Jackson and C. H. Perkins, his son-in-law. The cultiva¬ 
tion of ornamental plants with roses and clematis as special¬ 
ties was made the principal business. A. E. Jackson died in 
1895, and on July 1, 1896, Jackson & Perkins Co., succeeded 
Jackson & Perkins. G. C. Perkins, son of C. H. Perkins, was 
admitted to partnership, as was also E. A. Miller. C. H. 
Perkins retains the controlling interest. He is the owner of 
several canning factories. A force of 85 men is required in 
the nursery. 
THE APPLE CROP. 
Reports regarding the apple crop vary greatly. The Na¬ 
tional Apple Shipper’s Association, which held its annual 
meeting in Rochester last month gave out an estimate that the 
apple crop this year would be the largest since the bumper 
crop of 1896. Prominent growers, however, assert that while 
there are many summer apples, the crop of winter apples will 
not be large. The government crop report conforms to the 
latter rather than the former estimate. It is a fact, though, 
that trees in Western New York are laden. 
A. Emerson Babcock, of Brighton, N. Y., one of the largest 
apple growers in Western New York, said : 
I am convinced that there is not a large crop of apples either in New 
York state or throughout the country. Many orchards are not bearing 
at all, this year, and in those where the yield is good it has been due to 
the good care which has been given the trees, especially in the matter 
of spraying. Where the orchards have been neglected, almost no crop 
is the result. Even in the orchards of my neighbor, C. M. Hooker, 
the yield this year will be fully a quarter less than it was two years 
ago, and Mr. Hooker is a careful orchardist, too. 
A Western buyer who recently made a careful examination of the 
orchards from Brockport to Sodus told me that there are more apples 
in that territory than in all the West. The fact that so many Western 
buyers are in New York state just now is very significent too. It 
shows that they cannot get what they want in their own section or 
they would not be out here. 
I base my estimate of the apple crop in New York largely on con¬ 
ditions in Rochester and vicinity. There are a great many good summer 
apples this year, but the crop of winter apples is badly spotted. If we 
get 75 per cent of a crop we shall be doing well. 
It’s an old trick to send inflated estimates broadcast through the 
papers of the country in order to frighten growers into low prices. 
Many growers were caught by this means in 1900 and sold their crops 
for $1 a barrel and even lower. Those who hung on, however, ulti¬ 
mately-received $2 and $ 3 . The old scheme has also worked this year 
to some extent. 
