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The National Nurseryman. 
FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOCK. 
Copyrighted 1903 by The National Nurseryman Publishing Co., Incorporated. 
Yol. XIII. ROCHESTER, N. Y., JANUARY, 1905. No. 1. 
SKETCHES OF NURSERY REGIONS 
I. 
NEWARK, IN WAYNE CO., NEW YORK—AN IMPORTANT NURSERY CENTER. 
Wayne county has long been famous as an apple producing 
region. It is tempered in great part by the equalizing in¬ 
fluence of Lake Ontario which washes its northern boundary. 
Its soil is largely a fertile glacial deposit found in the curious 
drumlins oblong hills very 
abundant in the northern 
part.— with excellent nat¬ 
ural drainage in most cases. 
In certain sections, not dis¬ 
tant from the lake, the soil 
is light or sandy, furnishing 
splendid opportunities for 
peach growing which are 
now being vigorously de¬ 
veloped. 
One of the small special 
crops of Wayne county is 
peppermint oil which has 
been produced for a num¬ 
ber of years with varying 
success. But the main crop is apples. 
So great is the apple product of this county that not un- 
frequently has it been larger than that of the entire yield of 
of some the New Eng¬ 
land or of the middle 
western states. The 
evaporated apple product 
exceeds that of any state 
in the Union and only 
California, Oregon and 
North Carolina manufac¬ 
ture more evaporated 
fruit products than 
Wayne Co., N. Y. This 
extensive acreage and 
large yield are primarily 
due to the early estab¬ 
lishment of nurseries in 
that section. A nursery 
which had a striking in¬ 
fluence on the planting 
of orchards was that established by T. G. Neomans & 
Sons, at Walworth, about the middle of the last century. 
Mr. T. G. Yeomans became interested in apple growing, and 
beginning in 1846 he propagated apples and other fruit_trees 
continuously for more than forty years. The first important 
orchard of the county composed of apples of forty-five vari¬ 
eties was planted by him about the middle of the century. The 
area occupied by his nursery stock varied from 100 to 150 acres 
in extent. In 1855 Mr. Yeo¬ 
mans planted 135 acres of 
Baldwins. The influence of 
these men on the planting 
of the western part of the 
county at a time when 
orchardists depended almost 
exclusively on home-grown 
stock, was most profound. 
To-day the most import¬ 
ant nursery firms are locat¬ 
ed and growing their stock 
in the vicinity of Newark. 
At present there are five 
influential firms situated in 
that section. These are 
Messrs. Jackson & Perkins Co., wholesalers, Emmons & Co., 
William C. Moore & Co., and Knight & Bostwick, retailers, 
and C. W. Stuart & Co., wholesalers and retailers. 
The Progressive Firm of 
C. W. Stuart <£ Co. 
It was about the year 
1852 that two men, 
Messrs. Wright & White 
organized and operated 
a nursery in the town of 
Newark. The nursery 
ground of this firm oc¬ 
cupied substantially the 
site of the present home 
of Mr. C. W. Stuart the 
senior member of the 
firm. Mr. White died in 
1864 and was succeeded 
by William Brown Smith 
who, by the way,—was 
one of the family of the 
former noted Syracuse nurserymen—Smith, of Smith, Powell 
& Lamb. Mr. White was succeeded by C. W. Stuart who, 
purchased Mr. Smith’s interest a little later, and for years there¬ 
after assumed full control and conducted the business alone, 
