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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
the Lake Pepin Valley, determined that here 
should be the spot for him to locate perma¬ 
nently. His choice was good, as a better site 
for a nursery could not be found. The suc¬ 
cessive stages of water in the Mississippi Wi¬ 
ley, as it has slowly receded to its present bed, 
left the land at this point in several successive 
benches, which afford soil of varying quality, 
whereby different classes of stock find proper 
conditions for their growth. 
In this initial venture he associated with 
him his brother-in-law, Mr. J. M. Underwood, 
who is now president of the company which 
conducts the business, thus making it a con¬ 
tinuous management from the beginning. 
Both Dr. Jewell and Mr. Underwood have 
been associated with the State Horticultural Society from 
the first, Mr. Underwood having served as its president six 
years. The Jewell Nurseries were originally established 
upon ten acres of ground, and on this ten acres the concern 
is now planting a “ study garden,” in which specimens of 
all the native and other hardy ornamental shrubs and plants 
are to be grown for the purpose of study by the hundreds 
of visitors who annually 
The Jewell Nurseries. View of the stables, with field of tree roses in the fore ground. 
This nursery is now using mules to a considerable extent. They work about 
forty head all told. 
seek their grounds for 
horticultural information. 
TWELVE HUNDRED AND 
FIFTY ACRES. 
The Jewell Nurseries 
now occupy about 1,250 
acres. Of this, fifty acres 
is rough creek and bluff 
land, impossible of culti¬ 
vation. About 300 acres 
are employed in produc¬ 
ing corn and hay for their 
forty head of horses and mules, and the balance is employed 
in nursery propagation. It is probably not generally known 
even among nurserymen that such a large plantation of 
nursery stock exists in the extreme North. Since the Ameri¬ 
can Association met in Minneapolis a good many years ago, 
the nurserymen, as a body, have not been very near this 
section of the country and, as a result, have not appreciated 
that what was then a small nursery is, like the coun¬ 
The Jewell Nurseries. Digging and grading apple trees. In Minnesota they 
produce an 11-16 up tree in three years. 
try in which it operates, assuming large proportions. 
In connection with the propagation department, this 
nursery has a well equipped greenhouse plant, which they 
employ exclusively for the purpose of starting rose plants 
and other ornamental stock. Originally built for cut flower 
trade, they found that the growing demand for different 
varieties of nursery stock, which required starting in the 
greenhouse, made it nec¬ 
essary to use their glass 
entirely for that purpose. 
incorporation: present 
MANAGEMENT. 
In 1884 The Jewell 
Nursery was incorporat¬ 
ed, with J. M. Under¬ 
wood as president, S. M. 
Emery as vice-president 
and J. Cole Doughty as 
secretary. Both Mr. 
Emery and Mr. Dough¬ 
ty are known to many of the older members of the Asso¬ 
ciation. Mr. Emery served as its president in the 90’s. Both 
of these gentlemen severed their connection with The Jew¬ 
ell Nursery Company ten years ago, the entire business then 
passing into the hands of Mr. Underwood. In 1899 the 
business was again reorganized, with the following officers: 
J. M. Underwood, president; E. A. Smith, vice-president; R. 
D. Underwood, secretary; A. P». Underwood, treasurer. 
The Jewell Nurseries. Some of the working teams in line. 
SOME FRUIT SPECIALTIES. 
This nursery has long given the improved 
native plum special attention, and for the rea¬ 
son that it seems by nature particularly fitted 
to this climate. Being in the center of a region 
where it grows wild to perfection, they have 
followed up all the latest discoveries and im¬ 
provements in this line. Small fruits, of 
course, are a particularly important branch of 
nursery propagation in the North, as the rasp¬ 
berry, strawberry, currant and gooseberry are 
especially adapted to that section. 
