The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-28
PLEASANT HOURS
Spent at the Pennington Nurseries
Something About Them and Their
Proprietor-huge Straw.
berries.


hospitality Of Mr.. Nj. Bustcrlield an
his excellent family at his beau'lit
nurseries and fruit experiment static
las. Friday evening, This is one G
the institutions of which Farmingto
has reason to be proud, and although
has boon only II little more than thce
yeats since the fruit experiment station
was started, 1t and the nurseries whicl
Mr.. Bullerlied has built up here com
pare favorably with the best and old
est established nurseries Of the coun
try. This success is due to the lonl
experience and rare judgement of MIR
Buiteriield, who is not only one Of thu
best nurserymen in the West, bu
loves every tree and plant in his nov
extensive nurseries and is as cnthusias
tic as a boy in watching their growth
Nothing delights him more than to g
over the several divisions with Wis,
itor and tell of the virtues OF the va.
tIDuS tilltllCs Vi iiult.
Besides fruits, he has an acre oil
two devoted to the propagation Of
flowers, and here may be found rows
and rows of the rarcst, most popular
and beautiful Towering plants. This
department is the especial delight OF
Mrs. Buttcrlicld, who is an cnthusas-
tic admircr of flowers and knows all
about them. just at this time the
peonies and ileur. de-li1 are particularly
attractive and the roses are coming in
rapidly. Last Friday morning Mr.,
Buttcriield gathered and sent to st
Louis on special order two hundred
pGonirs, and one could hardly miss
them from the long row from which
they had been pluckcd.
MIR. Buttcriicld showed Us over his
acres Of strawberries, and while this
has been bad season for fruits of all
kinds, to our unuccuglOmcd eye there
appeared TO he an abundance Of this
luscious berry in the beds OF some of
he harder varieties Especially is
tins true OF the Clyde, While the
crop is not as full MS 1t would have
been in good fruit year, the vines
were comparatively full, although MIR.
Butterlield told us that there was only
about one-liith or one-fourth of crop.
In very short time we had gathered
a couple Of boxes of the largest ones,
which averaged five inches in circum-
ference. Ibis rivals the famous
Southeast Missouri Strawberries of
which S. Mex. +. gave US such Il
glowing account few years ago,
Mr. Buttcrlield is enlnrging his
nurseries all the time, and last fall
and this spring added forty acres more.
1t is n beautiful aud suggestive sight to
to sec the long rows of thousands and
thousands of young trees, and one
wonders what he will do with them
all; but there is a demand for them,
and his orders come from all parts Of
the State and it taxes him to fill them
in the planting season.
lie tells us that in starting the eX-
pertinent station, owing to the limited
amount Of ground at his disposal then,
he planted only such varieties as his
experience of 3j years dictated and
his Judgment told him would do well
here; but this embraced hundreds OF
varieties. He has already ceased pro-
pnpagating about one. half of the va
retics'of strawberries he commenced
with, and now has II or 10 which he
says have proved themselves profit
able here. lie has also discarded
some varieties of raspbcrries and
blackbcrries as unworthy of further
trial
Following are some Of the fruits
and the number of varieties of each
which he has Apples, 90; peaches,
80; crab apples, 10; ounces, 4 !;
plums, "a; pears, 81; cherries, | /;
apricols, 10; grapes, 20; g0oscbcr-
rics, 3; currants 6 black raspberrics,
6; red raspberrics, 6; blackbcrrics,
II; strawberries, %.
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