THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Ranking with the fruit list as a whole, The Jewell 
Nursery’s propagation of deciduous seedlings for 
prairie planting is of equal importance. This was the 
first nursery to grow and offer in large quantity the 
yearling Golden Willow and Carolina Poplar stock as 
a substitute for the River Willow and Cottonwood 
seedlings which had been planted to such an enormous 
extent in the West. 
While the business of The Jewell Nurseries has 
been primarily a retail one, owing to the increased 
cost of propagation in the North, they are still able to 
grow many things successfully for the trade, and issue 
regular semi-annual surplus lists each year. 
SHIPMENTS, PAYROLL AND STORAGE EQUIPMENT. 
Their shipments the past year approximated 400 
carloads, the bulk of which was their regular L. C. L. 
retail shipments. Their average payroll in the nursery 
throughout the season is 150 men, to whom they paid 
over $70,000 in wages last year. They have recently 
built a complete boarding house, accommodating 
seventy-five men, for the purpose of taking care of 
their transient help. 
This is located in the 
center of their nurs¬ 
eries, near the stables, 
blacksmith shop and 
implement houses. 
Last season they built 
a concrete storage 
cellar below ground, 
covering over one- 
half acre floor space, 
and put a concrete 
roof on their old stor¬ 
age cellar, which is 
about one-half this 
The Jewell Nurseries. Overlooking the largest field of apple trees ever grown in 
Minnesota. Over a million one and two year olds in this biock. 
size. In this manner 
they have an abso¬ 
lutely fireproof stor¬ 
age and ample room 
to handle their early 
shipments before the 
severe weather of 
late winter has sub¬ 
sided. The nursery 
is provided with mod¬ 
ern office equipment, 
including a complete 
printing plant, a pho¬ 
tographic outfit and a 
telephone s y s t e m, 
all parts of the nursery and 
The Jewell Nurseries. Minnesota militia taking ‘‘ a hike” thru the Jewell Nurseries. 
connecting 
buildings. 
TEN CARLOADS DAILY. 
The C. M. & St. P. Railway, which bor¬ 
ders the east side of The Jewell Nurseries, 
has built a spur track directly to their 
packing platform and storage with ample 
loading facilities for their retail business. 
Their records show an average number of 
ten cars loaded daily during the spring and 
fall packing seasons. Three large packing 
houses enable them to pack everything 
under cover, a necessary precaution in 
Minnesota, owing to frequent drops in 
temperature during the shipping seasons. 
This nursery was selected by the State 
of Minnesota to erect the horticultural dis¬ 
play at the Pan-American Exposition and 
also at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 
The Jewell Nurseries. . Forest seedlings grown in quantity. An important product in the Their fruit also furnished a material part 
“western nurseries. 
