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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
ficult to suggest an improvement. The best proof of the 
quality of the system is the satisfaction of the customer, 
and this is freely offered to the shipping department of 
the Andorra Nurseries. The storage and packing shed is now 
an important part of the equipment of the modern 
nursery firm. The packing sheds have a capacity which 
enables the firm to handle four or five car¬ 
loads of stock a day in addition to the local 
trade, which in the vicinity of the wealthy 
residential portion of a city like Philadelphia 
is large and constantly increasing. This 
company represents an important ideal in 
the nursery business, namely to choose your 
line and then labor to produce the best 
that favorable conditions of soil and climate 
coupled with scrupulous attention to details 
can accomplish. 
A SUMMARY . 
Andorra’s specialties in trees and shrubs 
includes the growing of those suitable for , 
ornamental planting, and they are culti¬ 
vated principally in the large sizes, most of 
the call being for material running from 
to 6 or 8 feet. 
Andorra makes a specialty of handling 
this kind of stock for the retail trade. It . 
is all grown in wide rows, as individual specimen stock, 
and no material is dug except on orders, and then each plant 
is taken out as an individual, the stock being sufficiently far 
apart to admit of convenient and safe digging. 
In herbaceous stock, Andorra carries a full line of all ma¬ 
terial, suitable for formal and old fashioned gardens, with 
special lines as Peonies, Phlox and Chrysanthemums, 
The effort is to cater to the high class retail trade; the man 
to be reached is the one who has a place of two or more acres, 
CONFERENCE WITH STATE NURSERY INSPECTORS. 
INSPECTORS OPPOSE STATE LICENSES FOR OUT OF STATE NURS¬ 
ERYMEN-FAVOR A UNIFORM TAG. 
The editorial office of the National Nurseryman was 
favored with a call from Capt. Watrous on his return from 
Washington where he attended the joint committee confer¬ 
An acre of Peony and Iris Beds at Andorra. 
and who appreciates a good tree. Andorra Nurseries have 
never been accused of selling at low prices, and they are 
building a very satisfactory trade on the recommendations of 
satisfied customers. 
General view of cutting beds, showing shrubby box and various types of coniferous evergreens. 
ence of nurserymen and State inspectors. The Captain was 
sanguine regarding the beneficial results of the conference 
and spoke as follows on the probable outcome of the dis¬ 
cussion : 
“A committee of the Nurserymen’s Association met with 
the Association of State Nursery Inspectors in Washington, 
November 14th and 15th. The object of this meeting was 
to try to devise some means of securing greater uniformity in 
the regulations relating to nursery inspection in the different 
states and to remove, if possible, some of 
the vexations incident to the shipping of 
nursery stock from one state into another, 
particulary relating to licenses and special 
tags. The Committee had the most cordial 
reception, and their meeting throughout was 
most enjoyable. The Entomologists showed 
themselves ready to meet us, not only half 
way, but to come as far as they possibly 
could, consistent with their ideas of duty; 
and the Nurserymen assured them that they 
would not, if they could, take down any 
safeguard thrown about the orchards and 
vineyards of any state in protecting them 
against scale or other injurious diseases or 
infestations.” 
“The chief things accomplished by this 
meeting were that the Association of In¬ 
spectors placed themselves fairly on record 
as opposed to requiring a license by any state for local 
or out-of-state nurserymen. This action was not difficult, 
because only a few states had any such requirements. The 
waver of this on the part of a few would bring complete har- 
