THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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SOME NOTES ON PROMINENT NEW ENGLAND NURSERIES 
THE BLUE HILLS NURSERIES 
The Blue Hills Nurseries, owned by Messrs. W. W. 
Hunt & Company, are located two miles from the center of 
the city of Hartford, Connecticut, while the salesroom and 
city offices of the firm are at 24 State street, in the very center 
of the city. The nursery grounds comprise ten acres planted 
solid with ornamental and shade trees, shrubs, evergreens, 
and herbaceous plants. Two good packing houses, an office 
and a fire-proof cellar complete the equipment on these 
grounds. The firm carries on a general nursery and land¬ 
scape gardening business, and have 
been in the work for over twenty 
vears. 
THE NEW ENGLAND NURSERIES 
COMPANY 
The New England Nurseries at 
Bedford, which were formerly oper¬ 
ated by the Shady Hill Nursery Com¬ 
pany, contain approximately 180 acres 
of land all under cultivation. A gen¬ 
eral variety of ornamental stock is 
grown, and special attention is given 
to a most complete collection of her¬ 
baceous perennials. President, Theo. 
J. Smith; treasurer, John E. Gilcreast; 
manager, John Kirkegaard. 
The property is located 15 miles 
from Boston on the Boston & Maine, 
Southern Division, and can be reached 
by train from the North Station or 
by electric cars from Arlington 
Heights. 
HEADQUARTERS FOR NATIVE PLANTS 
Harlan P. Kelsey’s New Nursery at Boxford, Mass. 
Mr. Kelsey’s predeliction for native plants is well known. 
His extensive nurseries in North Carolina together with the 
Salem adjunct have been described at length in this journal. 
We are now informed that Mr. Kelsey is moving from 
his relatively cramped quarters at Salem to Boxford where 
he has acquired land enough to accommodate his largely 
increased plantings of broad leaved evergreens, mainly 
rhododendrons, azaleas, kalmias and other fine native 
material. 
This acquisition will allow Mr. Kelsey to handle his rapid¬ 
ly extending business in broad leaved evergreens in a much 
more efficient manner than formerly. It is gratifying to note 
that the interest in native material is increasing each year 
owing to the persisting efforts of men like Kelsey, Manning 
and others. 
NURSERY BUSINESS BOOMING 
C. R. Burr & Company Have Large Force Hustling Out Shipments of 
Fruit and Ornamental Stock 
One Manchester, Connecticut, firm which apparently 
isn’t affected by the threatened business depression is C. R. 
Burr & Co., the Oakland Street fruit and ornamental stock 
growers. At the present time they have a large force busy 
at the big concrete storehouse, bundling, packing and tagging 
for shipment thousands of young trees and shrubs. The 
company has been working on wholesale orders for about a 
month and is now busy getting out retail orders, goods that 
the nursery agents have been selling in all parts of the 
country. All this stock has been in cold storage during the 
winter months to protect it from both frost and dryness. 
The roots have to be kept moist so that the plant will hold its 
sap and be in a healthy condition 
when shipped. The atmosphere of 
the big concrete stockhouse is about 
the same as an unheated cellar under 
ordinary conditions, noticeably cooler 
than outer air. 
The stockhouse contains hundreds 
of thousands of shrubs and young 
trees, both ornamental and fruit. 
Most of this has been sold and all will 
have to be packed and shipped within 
the next four or five weeks. Mr. Burr 
says the present weather is ideal for 
shipping stock and he is making the 
most of the opportunity. Practically 
all of the seedlings or young stock 
is imported from France. The com¬ 
pany received 150,000 apple seedlings 
during the past winter and these 
will be planted during the coming 
spring and summer. There has been 
a heavy demand for both apple and 
peach stock. Mr. Burr says he 
could have sold 200,000 more apple trees if he had had 
them. 
Two years ago last fall the company built its first concrete 
stockhouse. It was a big building, but business soon de¬ 
manded another and last year a much larger building was 
erected. Now both buildings are well filled with nursery 
stock and the men have scarcely room to work in preparing 
stock for shipment. Mr. Burr says it will not be long before 
another stockhouse will be demanded by the growth of the 
business. They are now planning to erect a pennanent office 
building on Oakland Street. 
C. R. Burr started out with the R. G. Chase Company 
in 1898 and was with them about a year and a half. Then 
he jobbed in trees until 1903, when he started in a small 
nursery at Manchester, Connecticut. He has now about 
three hundred acres under cultivation, and specializes in 
berben;'y seedlings more particularly, following along with 
privet, peaches, apples and a general line of stock. It may 
be said, doubtless, that they grow more of the general line 
than any other nursery east of the Hudson River. They 
ship all over the New England States, and also do___ajlarge 
business as far west as Indiana, through their traveling sales¬ 
men. 
Mr. W. W. Hunt of The Blue Hills Nurseries. 
