Gbe national nurseryman 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK 
Copyrighted 1908 by the National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated. 
Vol. XVI. ROCHESTER, N. Y., NOVEMBER, 1908 No. 11 ' 
A GREAT DEPARTMENTAL NURSERY. 
THE STORRS & HARRISON COMPANY 
A Company which Supplies Everything from Flower Seeds 
to Giant Shade Trees; and the Whole Range of Exotics 
from Greenhouse Plants to Fruits and Shrubbery. 
[Written and chiefly illustrated by the Special Representative of The National Nurseryman.] 
T HERE are two general types of nurseries: The 
nursery which cultivates specialties-and the nursery 
which covers the whole plant field, representing as it 
were, the complete modern department store. The first 
One of the most remarkable institutions of this com¬ 
prehensive kind of nursery, complete in its full line 
of departments and each department replete in its 
assortment of stock, is the subject of our sketch located at 
may be said to be the product of soil or climatic conditions 
on the one hand, or on the other, the training and pie- 
dilection of the owner. The second, however, is the result 
of the direct energy and aggressiveness of the proprietors. 
Painesville, Ohio, some twenty-five miles east cf Cleveland. 
The early history and founding of such an establish¬ 
ment is always full of interest for we all like to know how 
“great oaks from little acorns grow. This dates from 1853 
