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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
II. We do not have difficulty in obtaining any kind of 
nursery stock excepting a few rare things of which there is 
never a large quantity. 
III. In the use of evergreens we occasionally use sheared 
specimens when the formality of the design in our opinion 
calls for the sheared plant. In all other cases we prefer 
evergreens of the natural shape. However, certain ever¬ 
greens, such as the Hemlock, will always transplant better 
if they have been sheared each time they were transplanted 
in the nursery. This is a question of proper management 
on the part of the nursery. 
IV. In regard to the use of native plants, we find that 
certain nurseries always carry a good supply of our best 
native plants. 
V. In regard to the size of trees, shrubs, etc., we have 
no preference. The size all depends upon how much the 
appropriation is and what the market will offer, also the size 
that transplants best. 
For the guidance of the mrrserymen we would suggest 
as a most important matter that stock should be trans¬ 
planted frequently in the nursery to produce a thick growth 
of fibrous roots in order that the stock may endure trans¬ 
planting and shipping with success. 
Very truly yours, 
Olmsted Brothers. 
In answer to your letter of January gth, we are pleased 
to make the following statements: 
We in general find no difficulty in procuring the proper 
kind of nursery stock to carry out our plans. It is seldom 
that we are obliged to make any important change in a 
plan made in our office owing to difficulty in getting the 
stock called for. 
Our tendency is to get immediate effect as far as possible 
and so we prefer mature-looking stock. 
For evergreens we like to get the thick, sheared speci¬ 
mens rather than the loose-grown sorts because we find they 
grow better. 
As a rule we are not able to purchase very large ever¬ 
green stock, owing to the expense, and since we must look 
into the future for the effect these plants will produce, we 
naturally choose the kinds that will grow most rapidly and 
be surest to succeed, and we think this is the case with the 
sheared specimens. 
Of late we have had some difficulty in getting good 
varieties of rhododendrons, and one kind of plant which 
is most apt to be sold out is the native Azalea. We can 
almost always get calendulacea somewhere, though not 
always in good size and it is getting very expensive as are 
all the Azaleas, but Vaseyi and arborescens seem to be 
scarce in the market. 
We have no particular preference in the kind of shrubs 
or in the sizes; so much depends upon the individual client, 
but as I say, otrr tendeney is to plant for immediate effect, 
and so where the client is willing to spend the money, we 
get large sizes, particularly in trees and evergreens. 
Our suggestion to mirser^mien, based on our own ex¬ 
perience, is that their stock would be very much augmented 
in usefulness if it included better specimens of such plants 
as Lilac, Bush Honeysuckle and Mock Orange, which may 
frequently be used with propriety for positions flanking 
doorways or gateways in simple designs where evergreens 
are not suitable. There is a very small amount of trimmed 
privet on the market. Shrubs of this sort are tremendously 
useful. In making a planting around a house if one could 
use only a limited number of large specimens, he would 
give the design a character at the beginning which would 
be impossible without them, and it would also make it less 
necessary to put in deciduous shrubs at very close spacing 
for the first planting for the sake of getting the ground 
covered. 
•Yours very truly, 
Henry P. White, 
Pray, Hubbard & White. 
Replying to your letter of January gth, would advise that 
I have had difficulty in getting all variety of plants in one 
order from the same nurseryman. 
I prefer the open and natural grown evergreens. 
Among the native plants that should receive more atten¬ 
tion from the nurserymen are the White and Red Cedar and 
Hickory. 
I prefer to plant small stock. 
Yours truly, 
(Signed) Loring Underwood. 
Replying to your letter of January gth I have often had 
some difficulty in obtaining evenly matched yoUng avenue 
trees in the ten to fourteen foot sizes which have been 
properly grown with enough free space around them. Es¬ 
pecially is this scarcity noticeable in the case of Sugar Maples. 
I prefer evergreens thick and bushy and sheared. 
Among the native plants I find that do not receive atten¬ 
tion from many nurseries are, the Common Red Cedar (Juni¬ 
per) and the White Dogwood. It has also been hard lately 
to obtain matehed Hemlock in quantities in the three to six 
foot sizes at reasonable figures. 
I use largely trees in the ten to fourteen foot sizes of 
strong caliper, shrubs in the two to five foot sizes and ever¬ 
greens in the four to five foot sizes. 
Yours very truly, 
Charles W. Leavitt, Jr. 
William Walker of Honeoye Falls, N. Y., attended the 
Fruit Growers’ Convention at Rochester and took the 
occasion to pay us a visit and tell us that the National 
Nurseryman was beginning to really represent the nursery¬ 
men. 
Another caller was J. J. Norton of J. J. Norton Sc Son, 
Dansville, N. Y., with words of praise. 
We begin to feel the National Nurseryman is getting 
on the right track. 
Mr. C. R. Burr, of the firm of C. R. Burr & Co., Man¬ 
chester, Conn., called at the National Nurseryman’s 
offices, and incidentally explained in person why he and- 
Mr. Thomas B. Meehan could not speak above a whisper 
for a week after their visit to New York. 
