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An extensive field of one year Currants. Thoroughly mellowed soil aids the rooting of the cuttings. The Storrs & Harrison Company. 
draft type. In early days mules were used but these 
have been gradually replaced with the Percheron draft 
horse. 
Glass Equipment. 
The glass houses have been enlarged and improved, 
gradually at first and rapidly of late during the past thirty 
or forty years. They now comprise an area of 170,000 
square feet and in these houses are grown everything in the 
way of green-house stock in demand by the amateur or the 
professional florist. One of the strong lines is +he palm and 
we noted some fine houses devoted to this handsome foliage 
plant. The mail order business associated with the florist 
department is large and growing. Hard by the glass houses 
is a group of frames in which woody ornamentals and 
herbaceous plants are propagated. Vast numbers of these 
ornamentals are grown and sold as nicely rooted small 
plants. Our illustration shows the handling of these 
plants in the frames. In 
this respect the nursery is 
carrying on a line of work 
somewhat similar to that 
practiced by European 
nursery concerns. 
Packing Houses. 
These are large and 
convenient and are sup¬ 
plemented by a car house 
big enough to accommo¬ 
date several cars, under 
cover, greatly facilitating 
the handling of stock dur¬ 
ing inclement weather, and 
making for the shipment 
of stock in good condition 
at all times of year. The 
car house is a substantial 
building made of cement blocks paralleling the packing 
house on one side. The Lake Shore Railway main¬ 
tains a switch on the grounds and shipping is also done 
by the B. & 0 . and the Nickel Plate Railways. The ship¬ 
ping work of the company is also facilitated by a trolley 
station on the line which connects Cleveland with the 
towns east and west. Large quantities of express matter 
are transported by this trolley. 
Labor. 
Two classes of laborers so far as nationality is concerned 
perform most of the manual work. These are Italians and 
Hungarians. Their work is directed by American foremen, 
and the whole of the field operations are under the eye of 
Mr. Robert George. The green-house work is directed by 
Mr. Ed George and the visitor cannot help being struck by 
the health and general appearance of thriftiness exhibited 
by the plants under glass. A large number of the 
employees are housed in homes provided by the com¬ 
pany on the grounds. Some thirty tenant houses are 
thus occupied. 
Members of the Firm. 
The personnel of the 
firm at present is as fol¬ 
lows: President, J. J. 
Harrison. Mr. Harrison 
has long been known in 
pomological and fruit grow¬ 
ing circles in the United 
vStates. He has the dis¬ 
tinction at the present time 
of being with two others, 
Messers J. T. Lovett of 
New Jersey and J. C. 
Vaughan of Chicago, the 
only surviving charter 
members of the American 
Association of nurserymen. 
He has been a member of 
the American Pomological 
Society, nearly if not 
quite half a century and has been one of the most 
regular attendants at its meetings. Mr. Harrison has 
served on many committees both in the national organ¬ 
izations and in the Ohio State Horticultural Society. 
End view of car shed which parallels packing house. 
