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tSk mational IRurservmaE 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
The National Nurserymaii Publishing Co., Incorporated. 
Vol. XIX. ROCHEwSTER, N. Y., NOVEMBER, 19ii No. n 
A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF STOCK 
AND TRADE CONDITIONS THROUGH¬ 
OUT THE COUNTRY 
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The Season Abnormal in Many Respects; Strong Autumnal Growth 
of Nursery Stock 
THE NURSERYMAN IS LIKELY TO SECURE HIS FULL SHARE OF 
THE COUNTRY’S PROSPERITY 
NEW ENGLAND 
The season was dry during July, but abundant local 
showers since then have occurred, so that our nursery has 
made an unusually favorable growth. Our business is 
largely retail and confined principally to ornamentals for 
general landscape work. Notwithstanding the general 
impression that people are reluctant at the present time to 
spend money freely, our business is showing an unusual 
activity for this season of the year. We find it an economy 
all around to put into storage for spring work more largely 
each year, and are equipping ourselves accordingly. There 
is no doubt of the rapidly increasing demand for choice 
ornamental stock throughout the Atlantic Coast states, at 
least. There is an increased willingness each year to pay a 
fair price for well grown stock, large sizes for immediate 
effects being in steady demand. 
New Haven, Conn. The Elm City Nursery Co. 
We are glad to give you our season’s report, which has 
been varied, to say the least, from the first day of March up 
to the present writing. 
The frost was not out of the ground here until April 15th. 
Our planting was done during the dry month of May, and we 
figured at that time, we would get a 20% stand, but Nature 
seemed to favor us and we have from 80 to 90%. 
The whole season has been very dry up to September ist, 
and our stock has made a fair growth, as good as could be 
expected. 
Our retail sales are some 20% ahead of our sales last year, 
but we have made an extra effort. We believe stock is not 
selling as well as it did in the season of 1910. Of course, 
apples are in good demand, and on some varieties, there will 
be a decided shortage next spring. 
Our wholesale trade has been good, and we do not expect 
to have a surplus when the season closes. 
This summer we have added a new concrete storage 
building, 75 x 100, on the saw tooth plan. This is something 
every nurseryman needs, if he wants to get his orders out on 
time. 
Your question on the management of a nursery is a rather 
hard one to answer, and we do not think we are in a position 
to do so, but would say, it«meahs continual hammering, grow 
good stock, deliver when you agree to, and give fair and 
square treatment to all. Working along these lines, we 
believe results at the end of the year will be satisfactory. 
We are not handling many new varieties, but would very 
much like to see about 60% of the old ones cut down, and we 
trust the time is not far distant when the Association will 
take this matter up and get the majority of the members to 
do this when issuing their catalogues. 
Manchester, Conn. C. R. Burr & Co. 
At my nurseries, both here and in North Carolina, the 
season has been extraordinarily dry, seriously effecting the 
start of nursery stock, and making the growth very slow. 
Later rains have done much to equalize the growth, and on 
the whole, stock has not suffered seriously. 
It has had considerable effect, however, on trade condi¬ 
tions, and has made a great many customers put off planting, 
fearing the drought will continue. 
Naturally, in my trade. Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Androm- 
edas, hemlocks, and similar stock are most in demand, as 
my specialty covers the best hardy native plants. 
This season I have almost doubled my plantings of the 
more valuable stock, cutting out the common plants in many 
cases altogether. 
It is my opinion that this is the future of the nursery busi¬ 
ness, and specializing will come to be more and more a neces¬ 
sity in good nursery management. 
Of the most promise of the rare plants I offer, are the 
Carolina hemlock and Rhododendron punctatum, which not 
only have proved hardy but will stand unusually well in 
difficult situations, particularly the Rhododendron, excepting 
in the coarsest kind of planting. 
A great many of the loose growing shrubs, such as Comus 
stolonifera and similar plants, will be used less, and this will 
require a much closer discrimination in the varieties grown 
by the nurseryman. 
Fall business is about as usual; outlook for spring unusually 
good. 
Salem, Mass. Harlan P. Kelsey, 
We had it very dry here during the spring and early 
summer. The growth of stock was poor before the rains 
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