
ROSEDALE SOIL 
Not the least factor in the success of Rosedale has 
been its perfect nursery soil. Did it ever occur to you 
that the most important requisite for good trees is good 
soil; soil in which they find just the ingredients that 
make them grow clean and thrifty ? Rosedale soil seems 
to have been made on purpose for a nursery. At a 
bend in the Saw Mill River, where the valley is eon- 
siderably widened, this old river bottom has been 
greatly enriched not only by the sediment brought 
down the stream at flood tide, but by the washing down 
of the good soil and leaf mould from the surrounding 
hills. We have thus a gravelly loam, superimposed on 
a clay sub-soil. This not only tends to grow masses of 
fibrous roots but also to form a solid ball of earth for 
handling of evergreens. Owing to this soil, naturally 
rich in tree ingredients, the trees do not have to be 
forced by intensive fertilizing, which tends to make 
hothouse growth. 
Shown on this page are typical views of the nursery 
taken during the Summer showing clean cultivation 
and widely spaced rows—a regular Rosedale practice. 
1. Typical 10 ft. Hemlock in the nursery. 
2. Mentor Barberry—note uniform growth with- 
out trimming. 
Taxus hicksi and some Dwarf Apples of bearing 
age. 
4. Ilex crenata along nursery drive. 
5. Taxus browni—an ideal foundation plant. 
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