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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
can grow or procure. Much of the perennial list is of his own 
growing and is a specialty with him. This class of hardy 
plants, containing many old-fashioned favorites, is very 
much used in landscape work, and is well adapted for early 
fall planting. 
Every winter the large window of the Park Avenue 
Nurseries, at Christmas time and thereafter, displays a good 
variety of cut flowers. The importance of proper arrange¬ 
ment of these is recognized, and, from the nature of Mr. 
Bemis’s education and experience, are sure to be in good 
taste. 
The Exhibit made by the Park Avenue Nurseries. 
BAY STATE NURSERIES 
NORTH ABINGTON, MASS. 
The spring of 1894 marks the beginning of the Bay 
State Nurseries located at North Abington, Massachusetts. 
About one acre of plants was then set out. From that 
time, there has been an ever increasing acreage of planting, 
until at the present time one hundred fifty acres are under 
cultivation. 
During the first years of the business, the product of the 
Nurseries was confined to Ornamental Shrubs and Shade 
The cuts in this article show in the one case, the per¬ 
manent planting, which was made last year, at the New 
England Fair, and in the other, the office and grounds on 
Park Avenue. 
The illustration of the permanent planting show's a part 
of the landscape treatment wffiich Mr. Addison L. Bemis 
made at the New England Fair, about one of the portable 
houses exhibited by E. F. Hodgson, Dover, Mass. This 
exhibit, comprising a colony of five houses, of various sizes 
and uses, wdth landscape setting about the three 
principal structures, was unquestionably the feature of the 
fair. 
The home grounds show the ability of the proprietor to 
improve unfavorable conditions by judicious planting and 
landscape effects. 
Trees. About four years later a beginning was made on 
Evergreens and at the present time, the Evergreens alone 
run into large numbers. Rhododendrons have long been 
a striking feature of this nursery, their number running 
into the thousands and including our native and all better 
varieties of the hybrids. 
Four years ago more property w r as bought and devoted 
entirely to the propagation of herbaceous plants, until that 
department alone now has ten acres planted exclusively 
to perennials. The packing sheds and storage houses are 
of the most modern construction and so arranged as to 
facilitate the handling of the stock without exposure to 
the sun and wind. 
North Abington, one of the most beautifully kept 
towns in New England, is located eighteen miles south of 
Boston, half way from Boston to Plymouth. 
