The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-09-09


roots, and such thorough development Of
stock as to insure the removal of their trees
to almost any distance with the least pos
sible risk of loss in transplanting. Besides
the main nurseries on the Brook Turnpike
farm, they have twenty acres on the Her.
mitage road, near the Fair Grounds twelve
acres near town on the Brooke road thirty |
acres further out on the same road, and
twenty acres near the home place. All of
these nurseries are in the highest state of
cultivation, the greatest care being taken to
give their trees the entire benefit of the
ground. You will look in vain for weed
or the appearance of baked soil in any of
their nurseries.
While they raise fruit trees for every
variety of soil and climate in tie United
States, they give special attention to the
wants of the people of Virginia, and grow
such varieties as are best suited to this and
adjoining States, especially Maryland and
North Carolina. While they make it their
aim to secure the best new varieties, they re-
commend none which have not been tho
roughly tested; and one of their objects in
growing fruit for the market is to thoroughly
test each new variety as it is offered to the
public. In their specimen orchards they
have tested over three hundred and sixty
varieties Of apples, nearly as many of pears,
and over two hundred varieties of peaches.
All the leading varieties Of fruit in fact have
come under their notice, and they are not
only able to judge Of their respective merits,
| but Of their success in different soils and
situations, as well as their propagation in the
different sections for which they are grown
for marketing. Giving special attention to
all these considerations; selecting none but
the best stock, and packing it in the best
manner by experienced hands, they can
insure not only the safe and rapid transit OF
trees to all parts of the State and country,
with the least risk in transplanting such
varieties as may be selected for the different
sections.
Northern and western nurserymen who
have visited Messrs. Davis & Co.'S. nurseries
frankly confess that they can secure no
such growth Of stock in their sections.
The two-year old trees here are equal in
strength, size and vigor to the best three
year old stock grown in the north and west.
And this gives thrty-three and third per
cent. advantage to Virginia nurseries over
their more northern and western competi-
tors. As proof of this, Messrs. Davis &
Co. shipped last year to one order from a
nurseryman, in western New York, twenty
five thousand trees, and filled another and
similar order for nine thousand trees to q
nurseryman in Osborne, Ohio, the trees to
be resod By them IN Meirrespectice markets
This is triumph of which no other sector
of the country can boast. 1t is confes
sion that the Richmond Nurseries are sur
passed by none in the United States, and il
reflects great credit upon Messrs. Davis 4
Co., that they should have brought theil
trees to such standard of excellence as t.
have commanded this mark of distinction
from the most energetic competitors in
their business.
We find it impossible to say the one-hal
we had designed of these superb nurseries
of Richmond. We shall speak Of those o
Captain John M. Allan tomorrow. Blu
! we desire to say to our readers, and espe
cially to the thousands who take our week..
edition in different parts of the State, tina
4 there are no better nurseries in the world
i and none where larger and better variet
!. Of fruit can be obtained, soHh an absotd
b ertainty Of getting aohat yon bargain for
b than the Richmond Nurseries" near thi
! city. Send nowhere out of the State for
S solitary tree. you hear or read Of an.
9 new and favorite variety, send to Frankli
: Davis & Co., nurserymen, Richmond. The.
0 will be sure to have it in advance Of you
a reading, and if it is worth anything the.
+, will let you know it. Persons living in tn
S tide-water region should supply themselve
: with the best early varieties Of fruit, with
g view to the earliest and most profitabl
shipment; while those in the Vale.
and to the west should mostly orde
y the later or winter varieties.
y The descriptive Catalogue " of Messrs
! Davis & Co., will give you all the hint
d that will be needed on the subject o
r transplantng and general culture. AS Al
d example of what may be done in raisin
: apples in Virginia, we will mention the fac
!, that from fifty-three trees sold by Mr.. Davi
If at Staunton during the war, and occupyin
I; less than one acre of ground as trans
= planted, the owner sold four hundred dol
r lars worth Of fruit last year, and has a still
}. more promising crop this year. This is bu
n one instance that may be named in hun
+ dred, where the purchasers Of trees hav
II followed directions implicitly in transplant
e ing for orchards.
= From the present orders received b,
n Messrs. Davis & Co., their sales this fal
will not reach less than one hundred thou
II sand dollars. They employ from fifty f
h sixty travelling agents, and about one hun
t bred regular nursery hands, sometime
1t increasing the number to two and tire
: hundred. Large sales are necessary t.