THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
421 
An interesting feature of the field equipment is the large 
area devoted to the herbaceous department. These plants 
are systematically arranged in beds, nicely grouped and well 
maintained in such a way that the characteristics and uses 
of the plants are easily distinguished. 
THE EXTENSIVE TREE NURSERY f 
The field cultures comprise some 240 acres adjoining Mt. 
Carlton, where a large stock of street, park, ornamental trees 
and shrubs in extensive variety are grown in wholesale 
quantities. The demand for this stock by landscape 
gardeners, by park, cemetery and city superintendents is 
constantly increasing. The aim of these men is to produce 
high grade stock adapted to native conditions and to sell this 
stock at a good round 
price, at such a price, 
in fact, as will justify 
the expenditure of 
sufficient labor and care 
in its production as will 
insure the production of 
first class material. A 
planting department is 
maintained which under¬ 
takes private and public 
landscaping and plant¬ 
ing contracts. 
Shipping facilities are 
excellent and a high type 
of efficiency is main¬ 
tained in the packing 
and shipping depart¬ 
ment. The catalogue 
of the nursery is one 
of the most attractive 
which comes to our 
table. It is systemati¬ 
cally arranged, pleas¬ 
ingly illustrated with 
half tone photographs 
and may be used by the 
planter not only as a 
price list but as a guide in 
horticultural operations. 
The members of the company are men who have won 
their way to a position of influence in the plant growing 
world through the intervention of no happy accident, but by 
persistent effort and unremitting application to all the 
details of this exceedingly exacting line of work. 
REASONS FOR PATRONIZING BOBBINK AND ATKINS 
If the reader wishes light on this question let him read in 
addition to this sketch a little folder which can be had from 
the firm setting forth the reasons why they are strong in 
the belief that they have a legitimate claim upon the 
patronage of the planter. The public is informed that 
everything attractive for the lawn and useful for the gar¬ 
den can be purchased here. Roses, Evergreens, broad¬ 
leaved and coniferous flowering shubs and trained fruit 
trees, a rarity on this side of the water, are to be found in the 
well stocked nurseries. Supplement these with small fruits, 
vines, hedge plants, herbaceous plants and the beautiful 
members of the bulb family and the prospective planter 
may readily see his lawn and back yard transformed from ugli. 
ness and barrenness to a condition of usefulness and beauty 
Correspondence 
AN IMPORTER’S KICK 
Business is excellent. France is pretty near sold out of 
fruit and ornamental stocks this season. The demand is 
larger and the supply shorter than usual. 
We have been shut off from taking any more 
orders for French 
stocks this season, partly 
on account of the short¬ 
age, but more we think 
as a result of the agita¬ 
tion among the state 
entomologists. If it 
continues much longer, 
French firms will de¬ 
mand “money first.’’ I 
wish the National 
Nurseryman would join 
the “Let us alone club.’’ 
J. McHutchinson. 
New York 
ONE PHASE OF THE 
NURSERY BUSINESS 
DURING THE PAST 
TEN YEARS 
In being asked to 
review the nursery 
business in this country 
for the past ten years we 
do not know of anything 
more important than the 
question of prices of 
nursery stock as com¬ 
pared with those of ten 
years ago, and the ina¬ 
bility of nurserymen to get together and establish some basis 
on which to charge for their goods. It is true that at the 
present time the prices for most kinds of fruit trees, (plums 
excepted), are high owing to a great scarcity, but if it were 
not for this scarcity these same trees would be offered at any 
price no matter what it might have cost to grow them. 
There is no denying the fact that the cost of growing has 
been greatly increased in the last ten years, but the prices 
have not advanced correspondingly to meet this additional 
cost. Much has been said by different speakers at Conven¬ 
tions and other meetings about the necessity of having more 
uniform prices and it seems to us that it behooves every 
grower to see that he sells his goods at a fair profit and not 
at an actual loss as we feel certain must be the case in 
many instances. J- J- Maloy 
Ellwanger & Barry 
A decorative walk in the Nursery bordered with a combination planting of Ornamental 
Evergreens and deciduous trees. Bobbink and Atkins. 
