THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
351 
Oil another ])age we publish a lel- 
VALUi: OF ter from tlie Custodian, Division 
NUKSfdO STOtilK Headquarters, Camp Lewis, W'asli- 
ington, asking for donation of trees 
and plants to beautify the Camp and the reply thendo. 
This is lh(‘ seeond of sueh reciuests that has been brought 
to our notiee and shows how general is the idea that nur¬ 
sery stoek is of little value ev(m among those whom you 
would think would know better. 
The surplus stoeks and brush pile is one of the main 
eauses of this impression so prevalent with the layman, 
and we eannot blame them. They naturally think the 
nurseryman is a type of Jiian who would rather give his 
surplus to a good eause than burn it, w ithout stopping to 
think he is taking advantage of the nurseryman’s misfor¬ 
tune. 
Another ])eeuliar phase is the common belief that 
promiscuous planting or sticking any kind of plants 
around heautilies, even nature does not do that but se¬ 
lects her plants w ith extreme care. 
We never lind desert plants in the sw^ainps or tropical 
plants in the arctic regions. 
There is plenty of work ahead for the Market Devel¬ 
opment. — 
CANADIAN NURSERIES 
One has to be very much alive to keep posted on the 
progress of the nursery business in their ow n home state 
but w hen it comes to the distant provinces of Northwest 
Canada, we are apt to consider them almost unexplored 
countries that will be without nurseries of any moment 
for several generations to come. 
The catalogue of the Prairie Nurseries, Limited Es- 
tevan, Saskatchewan, Canada, has just come to hand. 
A province lying north of Montana and the Dakotas does 
not appeal to the average nurseryman in the states as n 
promising place to start a nursery. Yet the Prairie 
Nurseries has grown from the modest start of $2000.00 
capital in 1911 to the largest nursery concern in Western 
Canada, employing from 50 to 75 men to fill orders in the 
packing season. Last fall during the month of October 
37 carloads of stock were shipped to customeis living 
along the railroads of the province. 
Here is a nursery barely seven years old in a locality 
we are apt to consider pretty close to the arctic circle, 
thinly populated and about as poor a field for the nursery 
salesman it would be posible to imagine, has established 
a school for their salesmen. Last year the cost of this 
school, which Was in session in Estevan from March 4th 
to the 14th cost the firm $1,200.00. Such a scheme means 
. real Market Development. It is easy to imagine the esprit 
de corps that would be developed among the salesmen 
before going on the annual trips to say nothing of the 
knowdedge of the goods and the information they would 
have to give to their customers about the care and culli- 
vation of the trees, fruits and plants they sell. 
Their Policy Points as published in their catalogue in¬ 
dicate a broad liberal policy toward their customers and 
are wmrth comparing with those of progressive concerns 
in the States. 
1. We pay express or freight charges on shipmenls 
made to any station in W estern Canada. 
2. No charges are made for boxing and packing the 
order or for containers, moss, paper, etc. W e use great 
care in packing the orders -it insures healthy trees. 
3. We line all boxes and bales with paper. It costs 
more but it keeps out wind and frost. We spend over a 
thousand dollars a year for paper alone. 
4. W'e quarantee safe arrival. Orders lost or dam¬ 
aged in transit are relilled free. 
5. Stock is guaranteed true to name. If mistake oc¬ 
curs full replace is made free of charge. 
G. Our Main Policy is to lill orders with the Finest, 
Healthiest, Hardiest trees grown in the north, for the 
same price or less than you w ould pay for inferior stock. 
7. Only varieties that have been proved absolutely 
hardy in the Prairie Provinces are offered for sale. 
8. All stock that fails to grow will be replaced for a 
period of two years at half price. 
9. Our unrivalled Service provides full Planting and 
Cultural Instructions, as well as the free services of our 
Landscape Gardening Department. 
10. Satisfaction is certain. We aim to treat every 
customer fairly and honestly. All of our salesmen. Nur¬ 
sery employees and members of the oflice staff are proud 
of the record made by the Prairie Nurseries, Limited, and 
exert every effort to give Satisfactory Service. 
The list offered in their catalogue, due to the northern 
locality, and the short existence of nurseries or testing 
stations in this new country is necessarily brief. 
Leaders among the trees are Acer neyando, Fraxiiius 
viridis. Poplars, Willows, Rirches, Hackberry, Elm and 
Mountain Ash. 
The evergreens are represented by Pinus poiiderosa, P. 
divaricata, P. syiveslris, P. resinosa, Picea niyra, Picea 
alba and P. piinyens ylauca. 
The apples are Hibernal and the Duchess of Oldenburg, 
both of Russian origin. Patten’s Greening, evidently of 
local origin is considered the leading apple for the Pro¬ 
vince. 
Plums, cherries and Siberian crabs are offered. Small 
fruits, strawberries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries 
are evidently a specialty as they naturally would be 
among the farmers and settlers of this vast w heat grow¬ 
ing country. 
Hedge plants seem to be confined’to the Ruckthorn, 
Plunnnus catfiarticus, Siberian Pea, Carayatui arbor- 
escens and Russian Olive. 
The leading flowering shrubs are the lilacs, spiraeas, 
primus, Philadelphus, common snowball, bush honey¬ 
suckles, flow^ering currants, elders, red-twigged dog¬ 
wood, Amelanchier and the hardier kinds of H. P. roses. 
.ludging from a full page advertisement in a leading 
newspaper of the province, W\ T. Torgeson, the man¬ 
aging director is evidently not hampered by tradition, he 
sees the great need of the Prairie Country is trees and he 
is aiming to supply it. 
