The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-12
naCHMOND NURSERIES,.


Few men in the state are doing more for
the material prosperity of Virginia than
MEsSRs. FRANKLIN DAVIS & CoMPA-
NY, the proprietors Of the 4" Richmond
Nurseries," They have been engaged in
their present business for several years,
aud by their enterprise and energy have
established the largest nursery in the
South, if not one comparing favorably in
every respect with the largest and best in
the North. Their business has increased
largely beyond their expectations since
the war, and they are now called upon to
fill orders by the hundreds of thousands
where they formerly filled them by
tens of thousands only. Their sales this
year will hardly fall below one hundred
and thirty thousand dollars worth in stock,
shipped to nearly all parts of the Atlantic
and Middle states. from Massachusetts to
Texas, as well as to the extreme West and
Southwest, which is an evidence of the
high appreciation in which their fruit-trees
and vines are held by the public generally.
Their nurseries are situated on the Brook
Turnpike, about q mile and half from the
city, and contain in all some four hun
bred acres of land-two hundred in
nurseries, one hundred in orchards,
and one hundred in small vines. We
have had occasion to visit these Nurseries
frequently. and TO examine their catalogue
of varieties, and are satisfied that for the
best and most popular fruits, as well as
those specially adapted to soil and climate,
there are none better, if indeed there are
any as good, in the United States. Indeed
their different varieties of fruit are espe
cially selected with reference to soil
and climate, and when the selection of
varieties is left to them, purchasers may
rely upon getting such trees, and such
only, as will flourish and give the best salts
faction in the localities where they are to
be grown. Persons residing at distance,
therefore, may make their purchases by
order, and be as well and satisfactorily
served, as to variety, quality and price, as
If they incurred the expense of visit to
Richmond to make their own selections.
The high reputation Of Messrs. Davis
and Company as nurserymen, and the abil-
ity and integrity they bring to the conduct
of their business, are such as to render
it absolutely certain that purchasers will
get the precise varieties Of fruit trees and
vines ordered by them, and that the same
will be shipped in manner to secure their
safe and rapid transit to any part of the
country. Their experiments in fruit cul
ture in Richmond and vicinity have been
in the highest degree satisfactory and sue
cessful. They have demonstrated by |
their experimental OUTLAWS that there
IS no state in the Union that
outranks Virginia in the advantages of
soil and climate for fruit raising, whether
we consider those of the Valley, the re-
gion east of the Blue Ridge, or the more
immediate Underwater sections Of the state
There can hardly be mistake made in pur-
chasing and transplanting trees, if the hints
given in the descriptive catalogue of this
company are fully followed. They know
the varieties best suited to the several
localities of the state, and unless YOU de-
sire some special fancy fruit, it is better,
as we have already suggested as to the differ
ent states, that the selection should be left
to them,