Excerpt from 1900-1901 Trade List for Nurserymen, Florist and Dealers

The summer before that, 1898, we added to our equipment a large storage cellar, the third one built and used by us, and three additional greenhouses. This cellar is one of the finest and best built buildings of its kind to be found in this country and gives us in all fully 200, 000 cubic feet of cool storage place. In these cellars are packed away during the winter all of our Roses, Clematis, Peaches, and so much of our other Fruit Trees, Small Fruits, Shrubs, etc., as it may seem advisable to dig in the fall. We are thus enabled to ship this stock at any time during the winter, if desired, a matter of' no small convenience to southern customers and to florists who want Roses or other stock for early forcing.

Our three latest greenhouses completed a glass area of approximately two acres, prob ably the largest amount of glass used by any concern in this country doing strictly a nursery business, that is, excluding the florists. The additional greenhouses seemed rendered necessary by the extraordinary demand which we have found for our own root Roses, and we are now propagating fully half a million roses a year besides bud; ding one hund1 ed thousand more of kinds that will not root from cuttings.

While we grow a general assortment of Nursery Stock, our principal attention is given to choice specialties in the ornamental line, such as Fine Hardy Roses, Clematis, Flowering Shrubs, and Decorative Trees. We have correspondents in Japan and the principal countries of Europe, through whom we are continually receiving such new varieties as promise to be of especial value, and we also have from time to time new things of our own originating, all of which are thoroughly tested before being put on the market. Our propagation and planting include Hybrid Perpetual, Moss and Climb ing Roses, Clematis, Ornamental Shrubs and Trees, Evergreens, Currants, Goose berries and other Small Fruit Plants and Fruit trees.

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