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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Where Stove Plants"of various kinds are grown in large quantities by The Storrs & Harrison Company 
baskets to the acre attested the thoroughness of this method 
preparation of this “old new” land. 
The Field Areas. 
Under the guidance of Mr. George, the representative of 
the National Nurseryman was driven over the extensive 
grounds, as the general manager visited the different blocks 
and saw the great tracts of the different classes of nursery 
stock and was much impressed by the systematic arrange¬ 
ment with special reference to the rotation system men¬ 
tioned above. He was also impressed by the interested 
manner in which the work of tree digging then going on, was 
conducted by the laborers, under the direction of the field 
foremen. An unusual degree of activity and intelligence as 
well as interest in the work seemed to pervade the move¬ 
ments of the employees. 
Each part of the ground was utilized with the crop 
which its quality adapted it for, but always with reference to 
the crop which preceded it. 
The land down by the lake 
shore which is also traversed 
by a picturesque and at¬ 
tractively wooded ravine is 
mainly occupied by a great 
block of peach seedlings 
lately budded. This block 
runs considerably over the 
million mark and illustrated 
a wonderful degree of uni¬ 
formity. The well drained 
gravelly loam seems admir¬ 
ably adapted to the needs 
of the peach seedling, re¬ 
sulting in a uniform and 
well ripened growth. A 
wind break of conifers along the shore protects the fields 
from the force of lake winds. 
Although the yearling and two year old blocks of 
pears were exceedingly extensive we were informed that 
the orders in hand covered everything that was available. 
If this great company has any specialty outside of its 
general specialty which is to grow everything in the nursery 
line, this lies in the extensive blocks of field grown roses. 
In the Rambler types of roses alone many acres are covered 
and the total ground given up to this queen of flowers 
amounts to sixty acres. At the time of our visit early in 
October some late blooming varieties were even then a mass 
of flowers. 
Division of Nursery Crops. 
The lands utilized for field grown nursery stock amount 
in round numbers to about 1400 acres. Of this 150 acres 
are occupied by native timber and the remainder is roughly 
divided up something as follows: Orchard fruits 250 acres, 
small fruits 50 acres, ornamental stock 250 to 300 acres, 
roses 60 acres. The remaining acreage is occupied by the 
green-house plant, packing grounds, and fields which must 
be farmed each year in 
order to keep them in con¬ 
dition for the satisfactory 
production of the special 
crop which they are to re¬ 
ceive in the regular rota¬ 
tion. 
Among the striking 
blocks of trees to be seen 
were fine growths of plane, 
(sycamore), Norway maple, 
elm and other well knowm 
deciduous trees; tea’s weep¬ 
ing mulberry made a fine 
showing. In farming opera¬ 
tions and in the preparation 
of land for nursery stock, 
fall plowing is the accustomed practice. The plow is fol¬ 
lowed by the disc harrow which tends to-fine the soil and 
if this is inadequate the cylinder shaped clod crusher is 
used. Some twenty teams are employed, all of heavy 
