CIbe IRdtional IRurservtnaii 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated. 
Vol. XXL ROCHESTER, N. Y., DECEMBER. 1913 
GROWING NURSERY STOCK IN 
CALIFORNIA 
No. 12 
THE CALIFORNIA NURSERY COMPANY’S 
PLANT AT NILES 
Most eastern nurserymen have little conception of nursery 
work as carried on in California and it was with interest that 
The various varieties of Franquet and other improved 
Walnuts are also a specialty and are grown in enormous 
quantities, while everywhere large blocks of French Prune are 
seen. Mr. Ebberling grows much of his Prune on Almiond 
ENTRANCE TO CALIFORNIA NURSERY CO., Inc., NILES, CALIFORNIA 
your correspondent took the trip from San Francisco to Niles. 
These nurseries were founded in 1865 at San Jose by the late 
John Rock and were successfully conducted by him. until 1884 
when he started the plant at Niles after closing out the San 
Jose establishment. Mr. Rock died in 1894 when the nursery 
was bought out by Mr. Ebberling. 
At the present time the plant covers some 600 acres wholly 
devoted to growing fruits and ornamental trees and shrubs for 
California and other Pacific coast States trade. 
Palms of every description thrive here to perfection and 
are grown in great quantities, being one of the specialties for 
which the nurseries are noted. Specimens thirty feet or m.ore 
in height are common all over the place and a long avenue of 
these extend on either side of the driveway leading from the 
main highway to the office, while thousands of plants from 
three to fifteen feet high are growing in the nursery row. 
Standard Roses are grown in great quantities. Even the 
stocks are produced on their own grounds. 
stocks as he claims that they stand drought better then when 
worked on Plum. 
That Mr. Ebberling believes in producing his own “raw 
material” instead of importing it is amply borne out by the 
fact that he grows every year, about 100,000 Mannetti Rose, 
500,000 M3Tobalan Plum and 300,000 Almond stocks, these 
all for his own use. 
And they can grow these stocks as good and as well as they 
can be produced in any French nursery. The blocks of these 
seedlings were a revelation to your correspondent. 
They go even further, they not only grow their own seed¬ 
lings, but they grow their seed as well. One large orchard 
of mature trees produced sufficient seed last year to grow the 
500,000 Myrobalan Plum. 
But Mr. Ebberling is not satisfied to have just a fine, well 
established nursery. He wants to be sure that what he grows 
is true to name and for this purpose he has a large plantation 
of bearing fruit trees in all varieties from which his buds and 
