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The new storage shed is of concrete, has two air spaces and 
its dimensions are 160 by 60 feet. The fruits only, graded very 
carefully and arranged in order, have their roots protected 
by excelsior, which is moistened occasionally. The varieties 
are very carefully labeled and are arranged in good order on 
stacks that reach to the ceiling. In these storage houses 
400,000 rose stocks from England were observed. 
A separate house, colder than the former, is devoted to the 
pereiinial plants, which have been rooted and are stored in 
sand. The place is kept cold, in order to prevent too early 
growth in the spring. Daisies are here kept in sawdust. 
Clematis, a specialty with Jackson and Perkins, is first rooted 
in the hothouse and then stored here over the winter. Whole 
benches full of phlox are contained in this house. 
Conveniences and Precautions 
The system of heating for the storage house in case of very 
cold weather is by a hot water heating system. It had not 
been run for seven years, but had been started this year as a 
safeguard. The other equipment is in keeping with modern 
times. A telephone system connects all the different parts 
of the plant, chemical fire extinguishers are situated in con¬ 
venient places, and electric lights are scattered around the 
buildings. A night watchman system is maintained thruout 
the year for fire protection. 
A shop in which are all the farm wagons that Jackson 
& Perkins use gives us an idea of the many different depart¬ 
ments required to make up the modern nursery. Electric 
power is used in this shop for driving an emory wheel, a wood 
saw, and so forth. A 40 by 100 foot building harbors the 
shrubs. Lilacs and tree hydrangeas were much in evidence. 
The tree lilacs were especially desirable. One large store 
cellar was filled exclusively with potted roses one year old 
which were going out in the field next spring. The upper 
part of this building is utilized for the shipping department 
of the mail order trade during the season. 
Specialties 
But the largest part of the plant of Jackson & Perkins 
is devoted to the propagation of roses and soft hydrangeas. 
Besides a large number of propagating frames, where the 
flowers are set out in the spring, there are seventeen green¬ 
houses, heated by eight boilers, and connected by an alley 
way running at right angles to the houses. The first con¬ 
tained clematis and rose stocks; the second 30,000 young 
roses from rooted cuttings, among which two new varieties 
were observed, the Sunshine rose, yellow, and the 
Genevieve Clark, salmon; the third house contained an 
assortment of chrysanthemums and carnations grown from 
cuttings. The next was filled with healthy stock rose plants 
grown from cuttings and now being used for that purpose. 
The fifth showed a new type of hydrangea, the Avalanche, 
and roses grown from cuttings. Others were filled with 
roses in the second stage of evolution towards full bloom, 
some with asparagus, and one was devoted to young orange 
and lemon plants grown from cuttings. Two were brim full 
of the two inch rose cuttings, which were being made by four 
men working continually at this. After twenty-one days the 
cuttings root, and then they are transplanted into small pots, 
and the house is ready for another consignment of rose cut¬ 
tings; and thus the process goes on continually, and the 
houses are always kept full. 
Jackson and Perkins buy their fruit seedlings, as well 
some of their roses, direct from the continent. One 
hundred and ninety thousand were still in the cases when 
the representative of The National Nurseryman visited 
the plant. They were frozen and were being thawed out 
gradually. On the other hand, some of the foreign material 
had already been grafted, and was stored in sand in one of the 
buildings, kept at a very cool temperature, while fifteen men 
were still engaged in trimming foreign stock. Detriche of 
Angers, France, supplies Jackson and Perkins exclusively 
and grades the stock before it is sent over. 
exhibitions 
INDIANA APPLE SHOW 
Plans are already actively under way for the second 
Indiana Apple Show to be held November 4th to 9th, 1912. 
The unqualified success of the 19 ii show—the first ever held 
—has been a decided impetus to the horticultural revival 
which has been taking place in the Hoosier state during the 
last two or three years. 
The Apple Show Commission has organized with the same 
officers as last year: E. R. Smith, Indianapolis, president; 
C. N. Lindley, president of the Indiana Horticultural Society, 
Salem, vice-president; Dr. H. E. Barnard, state food and 
drug commissioner, Indianapolis, superintendent; Hon. 
Joseph M. Cravens, Madison, treasurer; C. G. Woodbury, 
head of the Department of Horticulture, Purdue University, 
Lafayette, secretary. 
The Show Management is promising a premium list which 
will go ahead of the $3,000 in gold awarded at the 1911 show. 
Indiana fruit growers are advised to begin preparations at 
once for growing the right kind of exhibition fruit. 
Obituary 
LOWELL B. JUDSON 
Lowell Byrns Judson was born in Lansing, Michigan, 
December 31st, 1877, and died March 7th, 1911, in the 
Albany Hospital, Albany, N. Y. He attended North¬ 
western University 1896-1898; graduated from Harvard 
University in 1900; and from Michigan Agricultural College 
1902; from 1903 to 1906 was Professor of Horticulture in 
the Idaho Agricultural College; from 1906 to 19ii was 
Assistant Professor of Horticulture at the New York State 
College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y.; assistant-secretary of 
American Pomological Society, and was identified with 
other similar organizations. Professor Judson specialized 
in forcing flowering bulbs with anesthetics, and in floriculture 
in general. Since Professor Judson left Cornell he has been 
associated with his brother in managing their fruit farm at 
Kinderhook, N. Y. He took considerable interest in the 
work of the Western New York Horticultural Society, of 
which he has been a member since coming East. Two 
brothers, Paul and Wilbor, survive him. 
