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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
The Arlington Review-Herald recently published a pic¬ 
torial sketch of the different aspects of this nursery firm, 
from which we cull some of the following facts: 
The firm has been in business there for twenty-one years. 
Its growth has been steady and constant. The year 1908 
marked the largest business in the history of the company. 
Shipments of stock are made all over the country, some even 
invading the heart of the nursery district of western New 
York. Among other lines the Marshalls have specialized 
in hardy apples. One of the varieties they have been push¬ 
ing is the Windsor Chief, an apple of Wisconsin origin, and 
one which seems to be specially adapted to mid-west condi¬ 
tions. The Marshall Brothers are heavy growers of root 
grafted stock. This year saw deliveries made at more than 
250 towns in Nebraska, as many more towns outside the 
state, in addition to several large shipments in wholesale 
quantities despatched 
to distant points. 
These express ship¬ 
ments are also supple¬ 
mented by an exten¬ 
sive mail order busi¬ 
ness which covers the 
country at large. 
One of the special 
aims and a consistent 
ideal of the company 
is to fill orders accur¬ 
ately as to variety and 
quantity; their pride 
is to so fill the order 
that no kicks follow 
delivery. 
It is estimated 
that during the pres¬ 
ent season of 1909, 
more than sixty cars 
of stock will go out 
of the Arlington nurseries, about nine-tenths of this going 
by freight and the balance by express. A summary of the 
stock in nursery at the close of last season was as follows: 
Apples, 300,000; cherries, 100,000; plums, 60,000; 
peaches, 20,000; pears, 10,000; grapes, 100,000; goose¬ 
berries 25,000; currants, 25,000; strawberries, 500,000; 
raspberries and blackberries, 55,000; roses and other shrubs 
20,000; forest trees and seedlings, 1,000,000; ornamentals, 
200,000. 
As orchardists the members of this firm have a stake in 
fruit growing, for their bearing apple and other tree fruits 
now approximates eighty-five acres. 
While these men have been active and industrious in 
promoting the enterprise with which they are immediately 
and directly connected, they have not by any means over¬ 
looked other duties and responsibilities in the world of 
affairs around. For a number of years Mr. G. A. Marshall 
has been a leading spirit in the work of the State Horticul¬ 
tural Society of Nebraska. For fifteen years he was a 
director, and for five years was chief executive. We find 
then in this firm of nurserymen, which during the year, 1909 
served between thirteen and fourteen-thousand customers 
residing in almost every state in the Union, one of the 
younger representatives of nursery ideals characterized by 
energy, industry and progressiveness. In the newer lands 
of the Middle West men of this quality, and firms possessing 
these ideals, with interests broader than those which serve 
self, are needed to place fruit growing on a sound and stable 
foundation. 
The Arlington Nurseries have a prominent place in the 
fruit growing interests of the west at the present time and 
are appealed to by fruit growers of the present, as well as 
those having prospective views on the subject, for advice 
and for stock by means of which to establish homes and 
fruit centers here and there,throughout the rapidly develop¬ 
ing western section of the Prairie States. 
WESTERN MEN 
COMING. 
April 2 2d, 1909 
Editor National 
Nurseryman 
Sir:— 
Mr. A.J. Brown of 
Geneva, Neb., is now 
the President of the 
Western Association 
of Nurserymen and 
can give you the 
information wanted 
from the official 
source. Everything 
points I think to the 
best meeting we have 
had in years, in the 
way of attendance. 
The Western Nur¬ 
serymen have had a 
make the trip east, 
principal Nursery center of 
E. P. Bernardin. 
ALTHEA CRESTED BEAUTY. 
This recently introduced Althea is, in color the exact 
counterpart of the well known and popular Crimson Eye 
Hibiscus but the crimson rays extend farther into the pure 
white. It is extremely floriferous and the single blooms 
are the largest of any of the Althea family and the faded 
flowers do not disfigure the plants as they do in the dark 
colored sorts. In common with other Altheas, it produces 
its flowers on the new wood so that the closer it is sheared in 
spring the larger and more numerous they are and as it 
blooms from early summer till cold weather comes it is an 
ideal hedge plant. 
March 23d, 1908. Wm. F. Bassett. 
“Our doubts are traitors, 
And makes us lose the good we oft might win 
.By fearing to attempt.” 
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General view of Arlington Nursersies, Marshall Bros. 
good spring season and all should 
where they can inspect the 
the U. S. 
Parsons, Kas. 
