Mount Desert Nurseries CATALOGUE The Mount Desert Nurseries [1926] Bar Harbor, Maine CLARENCE E. Dow, Manager Note: First three pages OF LOWER MAIN STREET TELEPHONE 16 1926 Mount Desert Nurseries sixty-pages of Catalogue. of products. The Mount Desert Nurseries Trees - Shrubs - Vines Hardy Herbaceous Perennials Bedding Plants Roses Offices & Greenhouses Lower Main Street, Bar Harbor, Maine Telephone 16 The Mount Desert Nurseries The Mount Desert Nurseries were founded in 1896, 1896 the direct outcome of the first pleasure garden on Mount Desert Island, that of Oldfarm. The Oldfarm garden in turn was the outcome of earlier gardens in Massachusetts which went back in long succession to Colonial times. The Nurseries had in these a dis- tinguished ancestry. When the Mount Desert Nurseries were started, conditions at Bar Harbor and elsewhere on Mount Desert Island were far different from the present. The simple fishermen's huts and farmhouses, collected around each sheltering harbor when the sea was the only highway, had grown, as the stream of visitors increased, into big hotels; while summer residences, simple or costly, were springing up on every available site along the shore. Flowers were in demand to make the bare hotel rooms beautiful and gardens around the new summer homes were everywhere in the making. It was a transitory condition but it was based upon a real and permanent an human need and (opportunity for gardening, which trial and experience had shown to be extraordinary. 2. The time was one of great activity along horti- cultural lines. The flower shows of the Boston Horticultural Society were famous, the Arnold Arboretum, making trial of woody plants and spending great sums on expeditions for the collection of new species and varieties, was at the .zenith of its fame and books by the score came from the press, telling of the plants in cultivation and their wild congeners. Most inspiring of all, the weekly publication, Garden and Forest, edited by leaders. in American horticulture, was telling constantly of others' experience with plants, their experiments and obser- vations. As yet the automobile had not come along to take men far afield in summer and they were content to stay at home and cultivate their gardens. It was the end of a great period, the beginning of another not yet come into its own. But whatever changes come, the need to make beautiful the homes of men is fundamental and abiding. [G.B.DoRR] Note: A second version is in the Memoirs March 7,- No 1 My own interest in public reservations had an ancestry differ from that of President Eliot and his son, for it had its root far back in old Salem and Medford gardens and the England from which they came, whose tradition has come down to us for generations, the early colonists holding here the memory of them as they di d of the names of the places whence they came. I loved the beauty and fragrance of flowers, the flowers which once stretched in a broad belt around the world in the northern hemisphere, whose traces one finds today in strangely separated ies territory of Siberia and northern China, England and northern Europe and our own eastern states from New England to the Hudson. I loved to think of them in the early days of the flowering plants when t hey came in as a new oreation in an ancient and more their barren world, sending forth from-their color standards and their fragrance as the spring came round to attract the insects that fertilized them and then when winter came again drawing to their lives beneath the protecting soil that nourished them and the winter snow. It is a great history and full of charm and the garden that by family truditions take me baok to generation after generati on fromthose that I hav known myself Leave-- need no costly architectural setting nor expert care. English cottagers grew them by the wayside in old coaching days and they brought beauty into the bareness of their lives. Sropt. Original of interest in public reservations - 2 2. Such thoughts I had in mind when I started the Mt. Desert Nurseries on the land of the old farm grant myfather had purchased among the early summer residents on the Mt played in Desert Island shore wheromy mother, who had rxtxnit such gardens as a child, made herself the first pleasure garden on the Island, wonderfully not discovered by the humming birds that winter in the south when it bloomed that summer. Mt. Desert grew a wonderful place for gardens of that time, where the hardy p rennial plants we loved so we ll, as all folks do who o an plant themselves as did our grandmothers an d great- grandmothers back to colonial times, and I wished dreams not realizing the difficulties that such encaunter, taxarxack of s preading the beauty that touched our springs, into the lives of men when they lived among them over the whole coast from the Penobsoot north to the St. John. But I had seen, too, alike abroad and in American 1. the wreckage of great natural landscape by the hotel builder and the private owner and when President Eliot brought out his plan for the protection and saving of our Mount Desert landscape, it made a strong appeal. The time fitted well,for it lay between two periods, of the private owner grown suddenly to wealth and thut of the multitudo set into movement by the new mechanical age. 3 3. But for the Government's help and the rapid development at the time/ of our national parks out west, nothing on the scale required could have been a chieved. Many factors came together and entered into the creation of this first eastern National Park and first of all national parks in America to be created out of private funds , Aarrtx development a part. It is a development that the national government may we ll take hold of in the future, affecting as it does deeply and intimately the lives of mon who need to see their world more widely and the possibilities it holds for them, their home life around, But tht time is not ripe for it on the greater scale which will bring the beauty and the interest of nature widely into the lives of men. flora of Mount Desert Island, maine. A PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE PLANTS GROWING ON MOUNT DESERT AND THE ADJACENT ISLANDS. BY EDWARD L. RAND AND JOHN H. REDFIELD. AND AN OUTLINE OF THE GEOLOGY OF MOUNT assert Pp. 43-71. with a Geological Introduction Br WILLIAM MORRIS DAVIS, AND A NEW MAP OF MOUNT DESERT ISLAND. CAMBRIDGE: JOHN WILSON AND SON. University Press. 1894. THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. Among Browers and Dealers. W. T. Hood of the well known firm of W. T. Hood & Co., Old Dominion Nurseries, Richmond, Va., is going out of business on account of his age. He offers to sell his interest. Benjamin Chase, Derry, N. H., comes to the front as usual The firm has a full stock for fall trade of 1898 and spring of with a varied assortment of tree labels. 1899. The Osage Nurseries have started an experiment station on C. W. Murphy, for some time senior manager of the Cana- the farm of J. A. Kelley at Dell Rapids, S. D. dian business at St. Thomas, Ont., under the name of Maple On May 14 employees of Dreer's Nurseries, Philadelphia, Grove Nurseries, is now located at Lawrence, Kan., where unfurled a large flag with appropriate exercises. he is the manager of the Western Nursery Co. He would W. H. Ragan, Green Castle, Indiana, is chairman of the like growers' price lists. American Pomological Society's catalogue revision committee, August Rhotert, of New York city, representing Louis J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., want lowest cash prices Leroy's Nurseries, Angers, France, and M. Koster & Sons, quoted on carload of guaranteed natural peach seed from the Boskoop, Holland, was in Rochester last month on his way South. westward. At the Omaha convention he will be joined by his Horticultural Commissioner J. E. Baker, Tacoma, reports salesman, J. McHutchinson. that there are 35 licensed nurserymen in the state of Wash- T. V. Munson, Denison, Tex., has been elected correspond- ington. ing member of the National Society of Agriculture of France. In 1889 Mr. Munson was accorded the decoration of the C. J. Hartel, who has been in charge of the Oak Grove Legion of Honor for his success in supplying grafting stock Nurseries, at Alhambra, Cal., has resigned and gone to San with which to restore worn out vineyards in France. Francisco. An inspection fee has been imposed by the Horticultural Bismarck apple, Hale plum, snowball, altheas and dogwood Board of British Columbia, on all nursery stock; on consign- of his own growing are offered by Hiram T. Jones, Elizabeth, ments of 100 trees the fee is $2.50; 100 to 250 trees, $3.50 ; New Jersey. 250 to 500 trees, $4.50. If found infected, a charge of 5° per W. D. Beattie, Atlanta, Ga., has leading varieties of peach cent. is added for disinfection. On fruit the minimum fee is trees well matured to tips, with good roots, carefully graded, $1.00 on any sum up to $33.00, and 3 per cent. on any sum at low prices. over $33 oo in value. Some of the members of the American Association are J. Blaauw and P. M. Koster, Boskoop, Holland, sailed for home last month after a visit to florists and nurserymen of the wondering who will tell the after dinner stories at the conven- United States. tion, in the absence of Herman Berkhan of New York, whose custom it has been to visit the Bowery to procure the latest H. S. Anderson, representing Hiram T. Jones, Union bon mots just before starting for the convention. The arrival County Nurseries, Elizabeth, N. J., called on Rochester of his fifth daughter, three weeks old on May 26th, is said to nurserymen, last month. be the cause of Mr. Berkhan's detention in New York. He J G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., give their full budded will be on hand next year. list of peach, over 1,000,000 trees, on outside cover of this The Mt. Desert Nurseries, Bar Harbor, Me., which have issue. They also offer buds. been for the past three years conducted as a private enterprise The new post office of the Alabama Nursery Co. is Chase, by George B Dorr, of Boston, with William Miller as manager, near Huntsville, Madison County, Ala. E. A. Chase is presi- have been incorporated by Mr. Dorr with a capital stock of dent, H. S. Chase treasurer, H. B. Chase secretary. $50,000, of which $300 has been paid in. The officers of this new corporation are George B. Dorr, of Bar Harbor, Andre L. Causse of New York, the well-known importer, president ; M. G. Dorr, treasurer. The certificate of incor- who is usually seen at the conventions of the American Asso- poration was approved May 4, 1898. ciation, finds it impossible to be at Omaha this year. Stephen Hoyt's Sons, New Canaan, Conn., are pushing a NO SCALE IN AMERICAN FRUIT. new Burbank plum, the October Purple, said to be the wizard's best production. It is described in another column. The German government admits in official correspondence The sixteenth annual meeting of the American Seed Trade that no San Jose scale has been found among the American Association will be held at Old Point Comfort, Va., June fruit refuse examined. It was on the allegation that the scale 14-16. J. B. Rice, Cambridge, N. Y., is president. did exist that the German government some time ago issued its prohibitory orders against American fruit and fruit ref- A general assortment of fruit tree stocks at low prices is use, &c. offered by C. C. Abel & Co., Box 920 New York city, repre- sentatives of P. Sebire & Sons, Ussy, Calvados, France. TOO VALUABLE TO GIVE UP. Fruit, forest and ornamental stock, French grown, is handled LAKE VIEW NURSERY Co., SHERIDAN, N. Y., May Enclosed in large quantities by August Rhotert, 56 Barclay Street, New please find $1.00 to pay for subscription to NATIONAL NURBERYMAN for one year. It is too valuable to give up." York, sole agent for Louis Leroy's Nurseries, Angers, France. FULL FILE OF THE JOURNAL. The Nurserymen's Mutual Protective Association and the ALBERT BROWNELL, ALBANY, ORE., May Find enclosed American Nurserymen's Protective Association will hold meet- money order for $1.00 for subscription to NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. ings at the Millard hotel, in Omaha, on Wednesday evening, Can not afford to be without it. Have all the numbers from first issue June 8, at 8 o'clock. on file in our office." Digitized by Google Original from CORNELL UNIVERSITY Hancock COUNTY RECORDS VERIFIED THROUGH Tuesday, Mar 31, 2009. LAST Page 1 of 2 Showing 1- 28 of 28 Search Results (0.156 seconds) Searched for the name 'mount desert nurseries' in ALL DOCUMENT TYPES type documents from '1/1/1895' to '4/1/1945' STATUS U = UNVERIFIED DOCUMENT D = DELETED A = ADDED 1 FullName Doc Book Document [row] Status PartyType CrossPartyName RecordDate Book Page Instrument Town Type Type Date MOUNT 1 A From DESERT LORD, EDGAR I 6/6/1898 Survey PLAN 1898/05/02 2 46 1753000060 1898 NURSERIES MOUNT 2 DESERT MOUNT DESERT From 7/27/1908 Miscellaneous OR 451 356 NURSERIES NURSERIES 1908 MOUNT DESERT MOUNT DESERT 3 To 7/27/1908 Miscellaneous OR 451 356 NURSERIES NURSERIES MOUNT 4 DESERT STATE STREET TRUST To 7/27/1908 Miscellaneous OR 451 358 COMPANY TRUSTEE " NURSERIES MOUNT DESERT MOUNT DESERT 5 From 7/27/1908 Miscellaneous OR 451 360 NURSERIES fl NURSERIES MOUNT DESERT MOUNT DESERT 6 To 7/27/1908 Miscellaneous OR 451 360 NURSERIES 11 NURSERIES MOUNT 7 D From DESERT HILL, EWCE 9/25/1922 Survey PLAN 1922/00/00 3 80 1753000139 SULLIVAN 1922 NURSERIES MOUNT BAR HARBOR WATER BAR 8 From DESERT 9/27/1921 Deed OR 562 316 COMPANY HARBOR NURSERIES 192, MOUNT To DESERT STATE STREET TRUST 9 COMPANY TRUSTEE 3/10/1922 Discharge OR 566 281 NURSERIES 192: MOUNT 10 To DESERT STATE STREET TRUST COMPANY TRUSTEE 7/31/1915 Discharge OR 516 289 NURSERIES 191 MOUNT 11 DESERT STATE STREET TRUST From COMPANY 7/31/1915 Mortgage OR 516 290 NURSERIES 1915 MOUNT 12 DESERT BAR From MARKOE, MATILDA C 10/30/1908 Miscellaneous OR 454 537 HARBOR NURSERIES 189 MOUNT 13 To DESERT DORR, GEORGE B 10/30/1908 BAR Miscellaneous OR 454 537 HARBOR 189 NURSERIES MOUNT DESERT MOUNT 14 A From HILL, W G 9/25/1922 Survey PLAN 1924/01/19 3 80 1753000139 DESERT NURSERIES 192 MOUNT BAR HARBOR BANKING & BAR 15 From DESERT TRUST CO 1/7/1939 Mortgage OR 1939-01-04 666 210 1939001466 HARBOR 195 NURSERIES MOUNT DESERT BAR HARBOR BANKING & 16 To TRUST CO 4/1/1940 Discharge OR 1940-03-30 524 273 1940011936 NURSERIES 1940 (THE) MOUNT DESERT BAR HARBOR BANKING & 17 To TRUST CO 4/1/1940 Discharge OR 1940-03-30 524 274 1940011937 NURSERIES 194c (THE) MOUNT DESERT BAR 18 From DORE, GEORGE B 4/1/1940 Deed OR 1940-03-30 672 100 1940011938 NURSERIES HARBOR 194c (THE) MOUNT Hancock COUNTY RECORDS VERIFIED THROUGH Tuesday, Mar 31, 2009. LAST Page 2 of 2 DESERT From NURSERIES BAR HARBOR BANKING & BAR 19 TRUST CO 4/1/1940 Mortgage OR 1940-03-30 672 103 1940001538 HARBOR 1940 (THE) MOUNT DESERT 20 From DORE, GEORGE B 4/1/1940 Deed OR 1940-04-01 672 104 1940011939 NURSERIES - (940 (THE) MOUNT DESERT BAR HARBOR BANKING & BAR 21 From 10/20/1944 Miscellaneous OR 1944-09-29 698 479 1944001655 NURSERIES TRUST CO HARBOR 194 (THE) MOUNT BAR HARBOR BANKING 22 To DESERT AND TRUST COMPANY 4/1/1940 Discharge OR 524 273 NURSERIES 196 MOUNT 23 DESERT BAR HARBOR BANKING To 4/1/1940 Discharge OR 524 274 AND TRUST COMPANY NURSERIES 194 MOUNT BAR 24 To DESERT DORR, GEORGE B 1/22/1924 Deed OR 585 5 HARBOR - 192 NURSERIES MOUNT BAR HARBOR BANKING BAR 25 From DESERT 1/22/1924 Mortgage OR 585 6 AND TRUST COMPANY HARBOR 11 NURSERIES MOUNT DESERT BAR HARBOR BANKING & 26 From 5/12/1934 Assignment OR 644 291 1934 TRUST COMPANY NURSERIES MOUNT BAR 27 To DESERT DORR, GEORGE B 12/15/1932 Deed OR 640 107 - HARBOR 1932 NURSERIES MOUNT MOUNT 28 To DESERT SWAN, ERNEST E 4/25/1932 Mortgage OR 638 32 DESERT ,93 NURSERIES 1 ) handsome Mr. Roberts has constructed a fine a porch connected with a veranda which by Mi. George Wescott. and the plumo- stable on the rear portion of his lot. It is architects Colonial in design and in keeping.with extends the entire length of the servants ing. of whir there is considerable. is in the house. It is two stories in height and quarters. the hands of Messrs. Leighton Paren- milled plans re accepted 28583 feet in size. In the western portion In making the additions 1111 new him. port. which is .l guarantee ork of con. is a carriage room SXXO and in the neys had to be built. and one of these has will be up date. old weather been utilized in what was originally a new range all it center four stalls and a box stall all SUI:- boarded in logia. but had more recently been enelos- is being supplied Version plied with the latest approved fittings. in nce then the the extreme eastern portion and separate ed with glass. in this room it large fire Reynolds who have number ctorily. and from the stable proper are two time rooms place has been constructed with appro the new houses which have suitable for coachman and butler. on the priate tiling and a handsome mantel. this season with similiar appliances The 1 occupancy courtesy of second story are three finished rooms and (11) the second floor the rearranging of painting is in il hands of 11. boste he RECORD a oath room. All the inside finishings of the older portion of the house has resuit- than whom there is nose better. III the ed in creating is large bed room and work will the completed before to examine the stable is of hard pine. a brief de- dressing room, out of what was formerly opens, The Poplars," Mr. Robert's New ded for Mr. House on High Street. ine looking The Mount Desert Nurseries. the corner of High and Mount De .l in design. streets Mr. 1.. t. Roberts has erected ack from the WM. MILLER, Manager, second house which has been named .S d frontage street and a he Poplars. 11 IS a three story build- enorch 8815 me 53x78 feet in izewith an English base- ance is had ment. It is built of wood and rough stucco Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Herbaceous a large hall work with rough timber trimmings. is open fire- An overhanging second story onnamented and Bedding Plants. with projecting gables. with dormer win- is a drawing dows in the roof complete the general es Planting of every kind planned and aloove win- terior description carried out. treet and the The house from High stient where This window is situated it porch and terrace The Nurseries are open to visitors. has a seat The ornamentation is old longlish Colonial col design. Through a doorway constitute veri capitals in heavy quartered The Office and Creenhouses are upon the Schooner ve. hall feet ending in French our now which pia Head road and have telephone connection. to the den feet. NOT them an open fire main hall. rioors "right indow facing twing room WANTED - COTTAGES TO RENT. of the leadi window in We have some Desirable Cottages To Rent. lace will sell room CLARK & MERCHANT. J.E. Clark Bldg, Ba: Harbor, Me Real Estate Brokers CHAS. C. BURRILL & SON, General Insurance Agents, Unworth and Bar Haber doors York 18- or Hartford of York Boston Imperial or London, ise Ins. of lew York. Manover Fire Ins to os with out windo Palatino Hanchester Eng Reading Co. of Rending Pa of the room hall Hampshire Fire y 11. Rochester Ins connection and droom is ornance WM. ROCERS, Manager- Bar Harbor Branch. ments M Doors at FIRST NATTIONAI BANK. spiece as cult in another herito There two bath None IAI ARCHITECT one and LIVE VIOLATIO on a picturesque sisters, as well as a large cir- er and philanthropi lends to mourn his death. shore. a penniless boy in anagers of the Pionéer, Wa- Thomas Lawson of Boston is build- build a $25,000 me d Riverside woolen mills of ing a villa at Babson's Point, Somes- the Bucksport Eas e announce that on Jan. 1 the ville, for his sister, Miss Lawson, who nary, where her 1 of wages in effect in '94 will student in 1864-65, red to the employes. This has lived in quaint óld Somesville chitect was there a increase of about ten per many seasons. measurements. er present rates and will af- EMPLOYMENT FOR MANY. The Hon. Frank reen 500 and 600 wage earners, big addition to his whom are permanent residents Meanwhile George B. Dorr, also of several new cottage ilies. This announcement will Boston, who has spent $100,000 on his next season. fully received by the people of famous Mt. Desert nurseries on the EXPERIEN( e generally and will be a Schooner Head road, gives employment Ancient Lamotn P gratification to the employes, to 200 or 300 men all winter at his always had the interest of Herne's "Shore Acr yers at heart and have no quarries and in his artistic extensions quite a boom since age the advance as soon as the of paths. Mr. Dorr pursues horticul- last week by Admi is of the market would admit ture as a hobby and has developed one had selected Lamo action. of the finest nurseries of hardy growths man's bay coaling and plants in New England. His latest which will be begu CKSPORT NEWS. enterprise is the building of a modern road is talked of fr cinder walk from the village to Schoo- nect with the Mai ner Head. eight miles away. Two clubhouses are going up-the coaling station, Ad School Program Completed- Kebo club house and the Pot and Ket- will assure the com F6vcr Reported in East tle, the latter at Grantley Beach, Hull's lantic squadron t eksport-Notes of Interest. Cove. season. Kebo, which is arising from the The rumor is re ashes of the famous old clubhouse the expense of m: ecial to Whig and Courler.) burned last season. will be greatly route of eight ml changed. The new house, which will man's bay, and es Bangor Daily Whig and Courcer. 12/11/1899 as in BHR 5/8/01 BAR HARBOR MAINE WEDNESDAY EVENING. MAY 8, 1901. The Tank tbose Hunt. ACRES OF PLANTS. pond lilies. In the winter is drained and arranged for a hothouse. At the pres- EDWAI Insurance ent time it is entirely filled with geraniums. The Mount Desert Nurseries has Nearly The greenhouses are kept at an even tem- 30 Acres Under Cultivation. perature, a hot water heating system Cottages fc being in use in cold weather. Of the various Bar Harbor industries OFFICE Repairs which are worthy of extended mention The other buildings consist of a well that carried on by the Mt. Desert nurser- arranged office and a cold storage building. The former is 24X34 feet and the latter is ANNUAL CATALOGUE, U ies is by no means the least. These are HUNT. 64x40. situated at the lower end of Main street about one-half a mile from the business In the cold storage building are placed New Edition Showing Many section of the village. the choice tub trees and the hydrangeas is Just Out-Enrollment and many varieties of bulbs. -The tem- Students 382. George B. Dorr of Boston, has for many years been an annual visitor here and has perature here is kept at from St to 36 de- The new edition of the annual grees. always taken a deep interest in the resort eKoven. earnestly advocating all steps that would In the upper story of the cold storage of the university of Maine W building are kept the tools and supplies, just appeared, contains 112 pa of Years make to the advantage of the place and and here are situated a row of lockers for among other illustrations. half its residents I rentleman of opened the employes. Everything is done on a the new drill hall and gymnasium tastes, culture and wealth, he has always system and a good one at the Mt. Desert the new observator and a com been a liberal supporter of all worthy pro- nurseriés and the utmost care is taken in of the university campus. The ccts and it was owing largely to this pro- the details. For instance every tool that faculty and other officers include gressive spirit and desire to aid the town is taken out by the day men is recorded ent 56 names: the enrollment of that the Mt. Desert nurseries came into and waste and loss in this direction is for the current year is 3S2 an being. Mr. Dorr has for years been 2 thus checked. over last year. The students ai elphia. lover of nature and horticulture has been Mr. William Miller the superintendent, as follows: Thirteen graduates an especial passion with him, so that for is a man 01 wide experience and large iors' 64 juniors, SI sophomores, score of years the grounds at Old Farm knowledge of irorticulture. obtained both men specials 22 in the shot the beautiful and spacious Bar Harbor home of Mrs. Charles H. Dorr, has been by-praetice-and-study He was bornyi in agriculture, and 37 in the scho Scotland where his father is still engaged In addition to the re-arrange one of the most attractive of the show in the nursery business He came to this the general matter. the chief new places of the village country 15 years ago, and was employed 1886 catalogue are: A parti In 1806 Mr. Dorr commenced horticul- at the estate of Robert Treat Paine at standing committees of the facui ture on a large scale and now the nurser- Waltham, Mass. He came to Bar Har scription of the new buildings, a les cover nearly 30 acres which are cul- bor as private gardner for Mr. Dorr tion stating the regulations CO: tivated with the utmost care and success. and the first and second degrees and charming drive through the nurser- for the immense business that new courses in the various depar ies as winding roads are laid out on every been developed. The statement of the courses in hand passing by bed after bed of flowers all the horticulture at the Dorr biology, law and electrical engine and beautiful shrubbery and trees. In place is done in the nurseries. The CS- entirely remodeled to correspond the season the thousands of flowering some 300 acres and 50 to changes recently introduced in plants with their masses of color. shaded 75 acres are kept in fine condition for the departments, and important new ties by their green foliage. make a scene of private grounds. appear in the pharmacy course. living beauty difficult to surpass. the nurseries have a branch at North- courses are noted also in the depar is very difficult for one who has not east Harbor which is in charge of George of Greek, English and chemistry. visited the nurseries to comprehend the Northeast Harbor there Announcement is made that by immense scale on which the business is are about three acres of nurserv land' and ating with the American School conducted Plants are. shipped all over an excellent business is enjoyed by the sical Studies in Rome the universi the country, recent orders including ship- branch. to its graduates free tuition in that ments to Washington, California and The first degrees now conferred Oregon. These shipments are for the MISS MARY SHANNON'S WILL. A., B. Ph., B. S., Ph. C., and LL. most part plants that are native to this degrees of B. C. Li. and B. M. E. section. although many specialties are en- $123,000 Given to Charity-Bar Harbor been dropped. Master's degrees gaged in. No small feature of the busi- Among the Places Remembered. conferred only upon examination ness is the shipment of trees, as ash, birch presentation of a thesis involving and maple. Over 60 large cases of these Nearly one-fifth of the estate valued at investigation. after one year's have been shipped this spring. "A special- $600,000 left by Miss Mary Shannon of residence or two in absence. T of all-hardy Nowton-At fessional of and in addition a large quantity of bed- queathed to charitable and educational E. will be conferred as heretofore ding plants are sold. institutions in assachusetts and states presentation of a satisfactory the At the present time there are over 20,- in the south says the Boston Globe. The proofs of professional work exto 000 geraniums of starce of growth. and will has just been filed at the office of the over at least three years. seemingly of all possible hues and va- registrar of probate for Middlesex at East rieties, at the nurseries, 5000 hellotropes Cambridine and is dated March 27. 1800, and 2 porportionate amount of all the After making provisions for the greater HIGH SCHOOL NOTES. principal bedding plants suitable part of her fortune to individuals Miss climate. Shannon sets forth the bequests which Under the heading Ste: The Mt. Desert naiseries are public in nature Ten thousand doi- the Bangor Commercial becomes these have been shipped this spring. A special left by Miss Mary Shainon of two all-hardly plants shrubs Newton of and in addition a large quantity of bed- queathed to charitable and educational E. will be conferred as ding plants are sold. institutions in Massachusetts and states presentation of a satisfac At the present time there are over in the south says the Boston Globe. The proofs of professional atterns 000 geraniums of all stages of growth, and will has just been filed at the office of the at Last three years. seemingly of all possible hues and Vi- registrar of probate for Middlesex at East rieties, at the nurseries, 5000 heliotropes Cambridge, and is dated March 27, 1800. and a porportionate amount of all the After making provisions for the greater HIGH SCHOOL principal bedding plants suitable to this part of her fortune to individuals, Miss climate. Shannon sets forth the bequests which Under the heading The Mt. Desert narseries are as large are public in nature Ten thousand dol. Danger as any in Eastern New England. and lars is begneathed to the Newton city the following article: among the most northerly in the United hospital for a permanent bed fund to be son superintendent of States. When one considers the climate known as the Mary Shannon fund; the a very busy man these das in this section of Maine and the long, income of this fnn is to be used for frec has his hands full attend cold winters, it seems remarkable that an beds in the children's ward, so far as prac- school superintendents enterprise of this-sort can be-so success- ticable and desirable, and any balance of Tuesday he was at Pr fully carried on. The weather in the win- the income is to be used for the general Wednesday he will speak ter is of course very severe for the plants purposes of the hospital. He has also many engag and owing to the short season there are The will gives $10,000 to the Rebecca to attend commencemer some kinds of trees, slirubs and plants Pomroy Newton home for orphan girls tions, His dates thus far that do not get ripened sufficiently to for a permanent fund. to be known as the Castine normal school, Ju stand the winter. This curtails operations Oliver N., Mary C, and Mary Shannon 7: Bar Harbor, 10: Far in some lines, as for instance hybrid roses, fund, the income from which shall be ex- school. 12 and Gorham which are not grown at the Mt. Desert pended to promote the interests of the and 194 Kents Hill, 12: nurseries but are largely imported. home. The will bequeaths to the field. 17: Rumford Falls The climate, however, is not without its Newton home for aged people. The free He has from Time to te: advantage in the floral line. Stock that library of Newton receives $5000. the be present at graduation HOLMOMETER which will grow all right at Bar Harbor will Newton fireman's relief association $5000. sible to attend to them struments. This latest stand almost any climate. Thus the Mt. and the Newton police relief fund and plicants are the ones wh action in the eye. Hav- Desert nurseries offer a great advantage Newton associated charities $3000 each. able replies." It was only in Vienna. and having as they can furnish plants that have been The sum of $10,000 is bequeathed to the of Boston University, I Iso to Fit Glasses. grown and tested in this climate and thus New Endland hospital for women and the purchasers are not investing in a lot- children at Boston Highlands, and like The Mou SON. tery. sum to the Massachusetts homeopathic The nurseries are certainly a hospital. Wellesley college is benefited to Bar Haabor in many ways and in the to the extent of $15,000 to be expended on course of the year occasion the expendi- free scholarships. The will provides for ture of a large amount of money in this a bequest of $10,000 to the Hampton nor- Special Low Price section and also furnish a livelihood for mal school of Hampton. V2. and $5000 boo Rod many families. During the busy season each to the Tuskegee normal school, for ENGLISH anywhere from 60 to 125 hands are em- free scholarships; the Kittrell normal in. ployed at the nurseries and even during dustrial school for negroes, to be invested the winter steady work is afforded to nine by the trustées of the school: Atlanta uni- ork Handle. men. The employes earn on an average versity for its endowment fund, and Mal- Direct Importation of some 545 a month so it will be seen that lalieu seminary for the poor whites of the 1.00 the pay roll- of the institution is no small south at Kinsey, Ala. The frec library at Last year the dem item during the summer months. Bar Harbor, Me. receives 81000 and the have increased the latte Among the most pleasing sights fur- town receives an area of and described in filled. These roses ar Stable Gooda nished visitors at Bar Harbor during the the will to be added to Glen Mary park they are not only hard nds. season are the window decorations at the previously given to Bar Harbor by Miss lower budded they are store of the Mt. Desert nurseries in the Shannon. lessens their liability to village. Here may always be seen a very reach 0 the following corporations their own wood without Provisions choice and attractive array of plants and bequea sums of $2000: The Mas- flowers, while the store itself presents the sachusetts society for the prevention of 35c each. nd Retail. appearance of a veritable floral bower. cruelty to children. the Massachusetts In one of the windows at the store there society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, the Women's educational and Mrs. has for seasons been a display of pond lilies, including not only the usual white industrial union, the New England moral and yellor also the purple and pink reform society, the Moral Education as- Geo. J. Loring IRBOR, ME. Zanzibar varieties. The letter are not sociation, the New England woman suf- AGENT, painted colored by hand as many spec- frage association and the American purity Cottage Street. tators believe, but are raised annually alliance association of New York city. PRICES REASONAB from seed. The executors are Francis Murdock, Lilies of all kinds are a great specialty, Francis A. Dewson and Edward H. Ma- and varieties have at one time been on son, all of Newton. Additional executors exhibition at the store, a record that it who are to establish trusts, are Hon Wil- would be difficult to equal anywhere: liam P. Ellison, Frank A. Day, Winfield the grip There'are many hotbeds about the nur- is Slocum and William T. Bacon of series. while the greenhouses are large Newton and Frank M. Forbush of Natick and spacious. The largest is 125x26 feet, to serve alternately in the order named. CEOF of drugs third art by BI aimer.-Mr. MacDon hing tribute to her Open 8:45 a. m., 1:15 p. TD. by ereryone set purity and service Close 2:30 P, m,; 8:30 p. m. titus bibo Bower, pio r the services the The 2:30 p. m. mail is direct from nature. A brg of it d by the immediate New York. species, one low ETON, ken to Seal Harbor, the famous Abbe Halory here interment was THE MT. DESERT NURSERIES the old Jesult explas er family in the Jor- The Nurseries announce a change should be seen now, in regard to their sale of Flowers the great held of poon ery. odel life and charac- and Decorative Plants by which this long journey will be in inselfish and of the will be carried on at the Nurseries' The new MADRKOT of ideals, while devoted Gardens upon Lower Main street, ert Nurseries, the succe she found time to do 8 instead of in a Village store as here. liam Miller 18 A. E I such orders as the tofore. The Nurseries trust in this Englishman, who has h dt he Relief Corps, way to be able to reduce materially training in one or the I terary club and the the cost of the season's flowers to estates. Mr. Thatcher well as doing much the purchaser; to send them out in one of the leading gard rizations, irrespective in their freshest possible condition British Empire. The I In respect to her uninjured by needless transportation, has had an exceptional M. C. A. and Y. W. exposure or delay; and to make in horticulture both her ed during the hours their exhibition of them, and of the Atlantic and lior it plants, more extensive- more in- years has been connect teresting. Arnold Arboretum of ( IONAL CHURCH A new entrance to the-Nursery ton. Gardens immediately opposite the Athletic Field Dere 3. Meyer Preasites junction of the Otter Creek and Mr. George B. Dorr, yer. D. D., of London Schooner Head Roads, has been for everything that is fo t the Congregational apenedfor-this-purpose-to-which a ment of Bar Harbor re norning at 10: 15. The shady foot-path from the Village al'so year round and summer lly invited to attend leads; there trained and competent doing a great real to ma 1 to hear Dr. Meyer florists will be in constant atten- and fine thea thletic fie n as a preacher and dance, as at the Nurseries' store in Main street. rid wide, and whose previous seasons, while orders giv Just where the brook and rare felicity of en by telephone at he Nurseries' of street a great deal of t him a place foremost fice 16-2, or sent by mail, will re- hag been done. A larg zious leaders of our celve prompt attention, delivery be- fine-whitea shes have b 10g made usual by the Nurseries, creating a path with ar while orders for decorative work one either side, from SPRING WATER of every kind will be carried out by Northwards to Livingsto K to your own health skillful men. This tree is one of t ring Water 18 your The new entrance to the Nurser- New England and M, c. see that a liber jes 18 directly oposite the junction of a specimen that is I kept on hand at your of the roads leading to Otter Creek through the butt, 24 fee properly cooled LIF-3 on the right, and the Schooner Head ference. The white as 1 your thirst it any road on the left. Part oli the the valuable timber t ar of unpleasant roo spruce hedge has been cut away and West of this group. of a Kebo Spring Water two heavy. atone posts from Mr skirting the brook, is a and pure wal Dorr's quarry will be set to, mark group of yellow birches here and in best the entrance Upon driving through of very thriving young omen. It 1a of truly directly at the right, will be seen been planted nearby. r. healthful in every a photograph exhibition gallery, the Foot of School stree the and conveniently about forty-elight feet long. R. H. ing across the athletic fie o the Mt. Spring 111. Moon is the contracter, carrying it will be seen that Mr. out Architect Fred Savage's plans, planted three rows of t Park. and Lymburner be Hodgkins are the East side of School str SE REEL REVARDS In this new buffding a double-Mall across the COMPETE IT BAB w.1) be on exhibition for the public these trees have sever [ARBOR as marnificent collection of photo- growth this will be one graphs that, without a doubt, is charming sections of the C Journal. 4alque in this country, Mr. Dorr On Ledgelawn avenue has an unrivalled collection of pho- been planted on the Fie I running Hographs of the Wild National Parks number of white spruce repartment the West and a great. many pho- make a beautiful green 4, at Bar keraphs of flowers. The gallery both for the people who it F ideally located and from its win- and for the ^beautifying ( selecing as down the visitors will have a view itself. he Fire the planted grounds of the nur- Near the brook there a in their freshest possible condition uninjured by needless transportation, has had an exceptional exposure or delay; and to make in horticulture both have and their exhibition of them, and of the Atlantic and for the last three plants, more extensive and more in- years has been connectri the teresting. Arnold Arboretum of Greater Bos. A now entrance to the Nursery ton. Gardens, immediately opposite the Athletic Field Developments junction of the Otter Creek and Mr. George B. Dorr, always Blutt Schooner Head Roads, has been for everything that is for the better- opened this purpose to which a mont of Bar Harbor residents born ,Hair allow shady foot-path from the Village al'so year round and summer, has leads; there trained and competent doing a great real to make beautifill 11 H florists' will be in constant atten- and fine thea thletic field on lower call on Saturday dance, as at the Nurseries' store in Main street. caused by previous seasons, while orders givy Just where the brook crosses the has en by telephone at he Nurseries' of- street a- great deal of tree planting box fice, 16-2, or sent by mail, will re- hag been done. A large number of attention, delivery be- fine whitea shes have been set out ing made as-usual by the Nurseries, creating a path with arow of trees Mr. Elson In Hudghit while orders for decorative work one either side, from the brook was in of every kind will be carried out by Northwards to Livingstone Road. on Greeney skillful men. This tree is one of the finest in The new entrance to the Nurser- New England and Dorr knows Some men riles ies. is directly oposite the junction of a specimen that is eight feet could have out of brbt of the roads leading to Otter Creek through the butt, 24 feet in circum- the summer months T on the right, and the Schooner Head ference. The white ash is one of Schaffner & Marx goods road on the left. Part oli the the valuable timber trees. Just Nason & Son is selling spruce hedge has been cut away and West of this group. of ashes, and relief. two heavy-stone_posts from Mr. skirting the brook, is a pine grove Dorr's quarry will be set to, mark group of yellow birches has also Allan W. Milliken was cha the entrance, Upon driving through of very thriving young trees. A his class at the commencen directly at the right, will be seen been planted nearby. Standing at ercises at Kent's Hill semir a photograph exhibition gallery, the Foot of School street and look- about forty-eight feet long R. H. ing across the athletic field Northerly Miss Alice Lord, a for Moon is the contracter, carrying it will be seen that Mr. Dorr has Harbor girl. who has been out Architect Ired Savage's plans, planted three rows of trees on the in East Corinth academ and Lymburner & Hodgkins are the East side of School street making winter was visiting relatives electricians, In this new building -double Mall across the Field. When Thursday and Friday. She will be on exhibition for the public these trees have several years' urday lior Southwest Harbor. a magnificent collection of photo- growth-this will be one of the most graphs that, without a doubt, is charming sections of the Field. J. H. Sawyer and Perley unique in this country, Mr. Dorr On -Ledgelawn avenue there has of Bar Harbor, Isaac T. Mc has an unrivalled collection of pho- been planted on the Field a large George E. Turner of Northe Hographs of the Wild National Parks number of white spruce which will :bor were among those initia of the -West and a great many pho- make a beautiful green background the mysteries of Mystic S tokgraphs of flowers. The gallery both for the people who dwell there ing. Harrison Wakefield, Jan 1g ideally located and from its win- and for the ^beautifying of the Field Dr. Hinch, William Pierce dows the visitors will have a view itself. E. Marcyes also attended th the planted grounds of the nur- Near the brook there a notable lit- meeting in Bangor. series, immediately North of it, the tle grove of arbor. vitae containing distant Gouldsboro range of hills, some very fine large trees, A large Miss Margaret Koch, forme with a stretch of blue water between number of willows not native, of secretary of C. E. for Maine in the far away distance, room Asia originally and rapid and sturdy the Bethel Bible school, will have one half width petitions growers are also here. Mass began her duties as pa set from the wall, liour in number, All in air the Athletic Field takes thesummer--months on each section with its own window, on new aspects of attractiveness and morning, June 16. giving double wall space for the in time be a park hanging of photograjhs, and in each of exceptional value under the expert Addie Bowden, the little TITLIO stall-like alrove there will be management of landscape gardeners of old daughter of Mr. and Mr a table on which books and pictures wide experience and sound taste. Bowden, 9 Albert Meadow i also include the wild flowers of New *Bar Harbor hospital for England as well as garden plants, LAST WEEK'S PRIMARIES three weeks. and all will be ready for the public Monday. June 17 to visit by the first of July. The result of the Republican vote Shirley McFarland who H A shady walk connects this build- at the primaries at Bar Harbor, Mon- employed this winter in a ing with the other buildings and day was Burleigh, 193; Heath 50; market Hartford, Conn., greenhouses of the nurseries, pass- Powers 17, in the senatorial contest. on the Morse Friday for a $ ing by the planted and taking For governor, Haines received 210; cation. the visitor to the great nursery plots Boothby, 36; Shaw 16: that cover 80 many acres. Callahan had 225 for state auditor. The work of grading the To the left of this building and to In the senatorial contest, Hannibal of the intermediate school the North of it, that is just to the Hamlin had 246. on High street is nearing left of the entrance, is latticed over- The vote for state senators was, tion, and the grounds will head screen forty feet long, to be Chatto, 72; Hagerthy, 80; Patten 232; improved. The front is bein COTABON this Savage to above the sidewalk that t 1914 Report of the Massachusetts Society REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON GARDENS 229 ated upon elevated ground it commands an extensive view of the surrounding landscape from the Blue Hills of Milton to Mount Wachusett on the west. There are some twenty-five acres included in the estate mostly devoted to ornamental tree planting, especially evergreens. There are also vegetable and small fruit gardens, a goodly sized orchard of a hundred trees, greenhouse for fruit and flower growing, and a large area of forest growth of oak, pine, and chestnut. Mr. Craig has also an acre or so of alfalfa as an experiment which promises successful results, and his ability as a farmer is shown from the fact that last year on three-fourths of an acre he harvested 270 bushels of potatoes of the highest quality. The members of the committee were greatly pleased with the estate of Mr. Craig, combining as he does the ornamental and the practical in rural life. VISIT TO MOUNT DESERT ISLAND, MAINE. August 3, the committee, on invitation of Mr. George B. Dorr of Boston and Bar Harbor, visited the extensive plant of the Mount Desert Nurseries as well as several other notable estates in Bar Harbor, Maine. Mr. Dorr has a wonderful collection, acres in extent, of hardy herbaceous flowering plants, as well as of trees and shrubs, and the masses of brilliant flowers form a striking contrast as one looks up to the background of the rugged mountain sides close at hand. The climate of Mount Desert Island is very favorable to the growth of flowering plants by reason of the absence of the long period of heat and drouth generally encountered in more southern sections of New England and many species thrive there that can- not be so successfully grown in eastern Massachusetts. The colors of the flowers also, as is usual in gardens near the sea, are deeper and more brilliant and never had the committee seen finer phloxes, spiraeas, incarvilleas, aconitums, sweet peas, and penstemons than Mr. Dorr grows there. The next place visited was the estate of Mrs. John S. Kennedy of which William T. Burton is the superintendent. This place of some twenty-five acres, almost entirely under ornamental cultiva- Digitized by Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 230 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY tion, occupies a rocky point with the sea on the one hand and a view of the naked, scarred summit of Newport Mountain on the other. There were acres of velvety lawns interspersed with a great variety of trees and shrubs, many of which were the original occu- pants of the grounds. The most interesting feature of the estate was an elaborate Italian garden with its accessories of statuary, fountains, and masses of flowers. Another estate visited was that of Henry Lane Eno with its beautiful mansion commanding a most attractive view across the wide expanse of Frenchman's Bay to the range of Gouldsboro mountains in the distance. Here was noted a fine example of fruit culture, grown en espalier against a high stone wall and thickly studded with handsome looking peaches and other fruits. The next headland to the east of Mr. Eno's was occupied by the picturesque estate of Dr. Robert Abbe, mostly preserving the original wildness of nature, but having as a special feature an inter- esting Japanese garden guarded by the effigy of a Japanese deity, whose dignified and solemn countenance evoked from the visitors more or less respectful salaams. The last estate which time allowed for a brief inspection was that of George S. Bowdoin which also commanded a broad outlook over Frenchman's Bay. Here was especially noted a fine collection of flowering plants in the perfection of bloom. Many other estates, doubtless of equal interest and beauty, could have been seen if time permitted, but the few herewith men- tioned will serve as illustrative of the horticultural interest that exists among the summer residents of Mount Desert Island. B. HAMMOND TRACY'S GLADIOLUS FARM AT WENHAM. On August 11, the committee visited the gladiolus farm of B. Hammond Tracy at Wenham. Many improvements and a con- siderable extension of the plantings have been made since the visit of the committee a year ago. There are now 26 acres under culti- vation devoted exclusively to the gladiolus and notwithstanding the unusually dry season the plants were in excellent condition showing the result of intelligent culture and knowledge of the requirements of this flower. Large tracts were devoted to the propagation of two varieties, Digitized by Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BHHS MOUNT DESERT NURSERIES BAR HARBOR Page 1 of 1 The Mount Desert Nurseries. WM. MILLER, Manager. Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Herbaceous and Bedding-Plante, Planting of every kind plar.ned and carried out. The Nurseries are open to visitors. The Office and Creenhouses are upon the Schooner Head road and have telephone connection. Bartlasher Record 21 March 1900 http://research.mdihistory.org/BarHarborbusinesses/MountDesertNurseriesimages/Mount. 2/16/2013 Price list of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbaceous plants, 1909 : Mount Desert Nurseries : F Page 1 of 5 THE MT. DESERT NURSERIES 9/14/15 BAR HARBOR catalo MAINE Other fenders. my in as pay Price list of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbaceous plants, 1909 by Mount Desert Nurseries; Miller, Wm; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection Published 1909 Topics Nursery stock Maine Bar Harbor Catalogs, Plants, Ornamental Catalogs, Trees Seedlings Catalogs, Shrubs Catalogs, Fruit Catalogs, Flowers Seeds Catalogs SHOW MORE Volume 1909 Publisher Bar Harbor, Me. : Mount Desert Nurseries Pages 52 https://archive.org/details/CAT31290095 9/19/2015 6/17/2015 ABIGAIL, the Library Catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society Massachusetts Historical Society ABIGAIL Founded 1791 the Library Catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society Search Headings Titles History Help ABIGAIL Home Database Name: Massachusetts Historical Society Search Request: Keyword Anywhere = Dorr George Bucknam Search Results: Displaying 3 of 100003 entries Previous Next Bibliographic Holdings Table of Contents MARC View [Catalog] Relevance: Format: Book Call number(s): Box-L n.d. Place Request Creator: Mount Desert Nurseries (Bar Harbor, Me.) Title: [Catalog] Publisher: [Maine? : s.n., 19--] Description: [12] leaves plates : all ill. ; 22 x 27 cm. Scope: Illustrations of plants offered by Mount Desert Nurseries, established in 1896 by George B. Dorr. as well as illustrations of buildings on the property. Subject(s): Dorr, George B. (George Bucknam), 1853-1944 --Homes and haunts Pictorial works. Plants, Ornamental -Pictorial works. Bar Harbor (Me.) -Pictorial works. Previous Next Record Options http://balthazaar.masshist.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=3&ti=1,3&Search%5FArg=Dorr%20George%20Bucknam&Search%5FCode=FT%2A&CNT=10&PID... 1/2 NOTE Outline of events in 1972 Desert Island. The Mount Desert Nurseries close their downtown storefront and offer expanded gardening and horticultural services from their upgraded facilities at the lower Main Street intersection with Schooner Head Road. A new entrance to the nursery gardens is flanked by heavy stone posts secured from Dorr's quarry. Architect Fred Savage received a commission from Dorr to design a forty-eight foot long gallery where Dorr's "unrivaled collection of photographs of the Wild National Parks of the West and a great many photographs of flowers" will be exhibited. (Bar Harbor Times. June 26, 1912) A new nursery manager with Arnold Arboretum experience is hired to oversee the 200-foot long greenhouse and its complex of nursery structures. While Dorr planted at this time groves of ashes, pine, birches, willows and arbor vita to improve the attractiveness of the athletic field over the next five years his nursery business would peak. Between 1912 and 1917, Mount Desert Nurseries would repeatedly be awarded horticultural medals for an array of plant products. Among the Dorr artifacts in the Sawtelle Research Center at Acadia National Park are Massachusetts Horticultural Society gold medals for exceptional displays of irises, peonies, astilbe, acontitum, eremuriae, and herbaceous flowers. (Medals were also received from the North Shore Horticultural Society and the Society of American Florists). medals 1 b in dionta 105 53568 north Shore Hont veltule Society, Marches WT Awarded to Mout Disnet Nusew for collect of Handy Permission Aug 6,192. 14 53567 Sourt of American Housts. 2"draw 2-303 International Human Show. New You April 193 Awards to Mount oncet Susseria Bar Hanbor, ME. 53563 Mass Hort Soc. Awards to it Desent Nurser to Driply Eremuriag likes June 14 93 [foxtain Meadow Farm Walple, NH Dept Iat. Snuel. Plusto of letter for ri it. Desent Nurseve Board Fannyllason AR to W. C.Endocatt She overs $15,000. in Nursery bords Delever to Ingersolle Boreditale I'll Penonotic St. Boston, an. agent for Mr. 6BD ; to when I ownershop 8/28/1920. Leave Contract from 7/1/1924 from wild garden of beaken for Pash Office Bldg, Yearly rental 11, 120/ye g.GBD to a. Commen Anther S. Dockham copper pluminism fa, pleatograph. F Sun sellats Spring C. stoch Calificate (4/20). 8/1/1917 Papples $500 on 8/1/1927. of bands 60 MOUNT DESERT NURSERIES Bounded northeast and southeast by land of Goo. B.Dorr west by Schooner Hand Road, 12.5 acres $ 21,875.00 office building and cottage thoroon 1,500.00 Greenhouse 3,500.00 New stable 100.00 Cold storage bldg. & picture gallery 1,200.00 New greenhouse 600.00 New toolhouse 100.00 Groonhouse with steel frame 1,000.00 old small greenhouse 200.00 two smnll dwellings near above greanhouse 150.00 Two buildings and amail stable near greenhouse 200.00 Gardeners cottage 400.00 Six outbuild inge near gardener's house 300.00 Lot bounded east by Schooner Hend Road, south by land of Geo. 3. Dorr, southwest by Otter Creek rodd. 13.8 a. 2,760.00 $ 33 ,985.00 Seal Harbon urchive. B. 2.f.13 NURSERIES AND GREENHOUSES, OCEAN DRIVE THE MOUNT DESERT NURSERIES BAR HARBOR - MAINE SOLD TO Mr's. Beatrix Farrand, Town. MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO Seal Harbor, Maine. THE MT. DESERT NURSERIES Seal Harbor Green. 192 Sept. 29 To 10 Acer rubrum 4/5' 15 00 20 n spicata 5/6 40 00 5 ucrous rubra 5/7' 12 50 67 50 Less 20,5 13 50 54.00 DAID Trucking 5 00 59 00 OCT 6 - 1923 Mt. Desertic Nurseries, Per Natural History Division Mr Dom Geology, N.P.a 18 ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Vol. XXXI, Pp. 121-186 Editor, HERBERT F. SCHWARZ THE SCENERY OF MT. DESERT ISLAND: ITS ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT BY ERWIN J. RAISZ MAILIN CADEMY the stead THE SCIENCES is RBS x (ADD, NEW YORK PUBLISHED BY THE ACADEMY September 18, 1929 ES Dedicated to GEORGE B. DORR, lover of Nature, and creator of Acadia National Park. LOGY ings at 8:15 Museum of 136 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES KAISZ, M1. DESIGN ft.) as at sea level. We have to assume the dikes extended a long way plane in the Jurassic period or at least by early Cretaceous time. This upwards. They may even have reached the surface, forming lava flows. is not the New England peneplane but an older level, which appears now The presence of abundant trap material in the highest mountains mid- only along the Fall Line and supposedly on the top of certain mountain way between the extensive trap sheets of the Bay of Fundy and of the ranges (3). Connecticut Valley is significant. Possibly we find here some support The lowlands of Mount Desert Island are à part of the New England for the theory of a former continuity of the trap flows over much of peneplane, often called the "New England Upland" because inland New England. from the coast it rises high enough to give a plateau-like upland. If The dikes represent the last important rock-building process on the there was an earlier peneplane than the New England, traces of it Island. By analogy with similar occurrences they can tentatively be might be found on the Mount Desert mountains. Did the granitic mass assigned to the Triassic period. of Mount Desert Island resist at this earlier time the general peneplana- There was a still later effect: a filling of the cracks with green epidote tion, and stand out as a monadnock; or was it worn down to the same vein material. With this closes the constructive period of the region. level as the surrounding country? In the latter case, are traces of the Smaller disturbances occurred in later times, and the diabase dikes are older peneplane preserved? These are open questions. often displaced. But the later earth movements of importance were of a There are some indications in favor of the view that traces of the older regional (epeirogenic) nature. Jura-Cretaceous peneplane are preserved. Looking over the flat tops of THE GREAT DENUDATION the mountain ranges we find that they show a certain accordance of elevation. (Sargent Mt. 1344', Pemetic Mt. 1262', Cadillac Mt. 1532', THE EROSION Flying Squadron (Dry) Mt. 1268', etc.) Furthermore, the biggest mass Erosion naturally occurred whenever the region rose out of the sea, of mountains in the center (Sargent Group) has not the highest elevation, and perhaps was at the maximum at times when the mountains were as we might expect to be the case if erosion had been the only process at highest; but it was not always the dominating process. When the con- work on homogeneous material in one cycle. Although the flat tops of the structive process ceased, erosion became the dominating process, and single ridges might be explained by planation of the over-riding ice has remained SO up to the present time, except during occasional periods sheet, the accordance of elevations together with the evidence of the Sar- of regional uplift. gent Group indicate that there was an old peneplane surface not far above We have to assume that at the close of the Constructive Period there the top of the present granitic mountains. Perhaps this level was the existed above the present mountain tops several thousand feet of granite, ancient Jura-Cretaceous peneplane. a great mass of older rocks, as well as later dikes and possibly flows of Near the end of the Mesozoic the Atlantic coast was uplifted and a new trap. cycle of erosion was initiated. The rain and rivers slowly wore down the mountains, until the less spectacular but untiring erosive processes had destroyed much of the work accomplished by the mountain-making processes. "Gutta cavat lapidem, consumitur annulus usu." The lava flows, if there were any, are swept away; gone are all the old rocks above the granite; and ero- sion has bitten deep into the granite itself. The same prolonged erosion at first deepened valleys, then broadened them, and after passing through the young, mature and old stages of the river erosion cycle, produced a low undulating plain near sea level-a peneplane. THE JURA-CRETACEOUS PENEPLANE There are many indications in the eastern United States that the FIG. 8.-The New England peneplane with Mt. Desert range rising as a monadnock mountains of the Appalachian Revolution were worn down to a pene- above it. There may have been an earlier peneplane at the height of the mountain tops. A YEAR THE BAR HARBOR FLOWER SHOPS TELL EASTER HENRY VAN DYKE IS From STORY IN BEAUTIFUL BLOOMS DEAD IN PRINCETON The Sea Mt. Desert Nurseries and Malvern Noted Preacher Writer and Dipi Flower Shops Make Main Street mat, Always Referred to Mt Day Party Place for Loitering as Well Desert as, the Most Beautiful as Shopping Isle in the World e of Unique Committees Named by Miss Lou- r Parish Easter flowers at the uptown shops Grief came to the Island of Mount ise Leland--Mr C. E. Marcyea of the Mount Desert Nurseries and Desert with the news of the death of Has Charge of Card Playing S the Malvern Nurseries are, and have Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Seal Har- long been, a community asset and this bor and Princeton, N. J. And it was For the May Day Party of 1933, year is no exception, for, on Saturday Seal Harbor that Dr. Van Dyke was Bar Harbor's Red Cross Chapter is 101r and a section evening scarcely a person but who through the years since he built his planning a program for patrons of this loitered before the gorgeously lovely cottage always liked to call "home," popular annual benefit which should W a responsive window of the Malvern shop, where on what he called "The Most Beau- ensure a record-breaking attendance. adding elements John Walls has achieved an effect tiful Isle in the World." The party takes place this year at the ticipation which similar to the interior of a cathedral, Dr. Van Dyke was for a great Casino instead of at the Masonic Hall. gious impressive- The greater part of the display is many years, up to his retirement two This takes the memory back into the 3 will render the Easter lilies. Noticeably there are years ago, president of the Maine days when the May Day Party of the fewer varieties used in effecting a of Palestrina's SeaCoast Missionary Society and was Red Cross crowded the Casino to ca- treat which will superb ensemble. The lities, in all at the time of his death its Honorary pacity, afternoon and evening. It is their beauty, panoplied by the waxen for the ringing President. expected that redoubled efforts on the white of blossoms and the beautiful it will proclaim Possessed of high honors as preach- part of committees and patrols will re- dark green of leaf, seem somehow, er, writer and diplomat, Dr. Van Dyke sult in a success appropriate to the marshalled in ranks which recall the was possessed, too, of the simple place of honor in that long list of suc- t and yet loveli- words of the age-old hymn: kindliness which made him beloved. cesses of this type. gram will be a n at the Tomb, "In the beauty of the lilies." An Associated Press despatch of Miss Louise Leland, chairman of the eligious) painting Marvellous effect has been achieved April 10 says: nursing committee of the Red Cross, igh natural set- too in a huge vase holding a sheaf of Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former am- is chairman of the general committee ntain top. callas, their ivory and gold perfection bassador to The Netherlands, died for the Party for May Day. Mrs. ments and peo- set off by the deep rose of giant blos- today at his Princeton home. C. Eugene Marcyes is chairman of the singing of the somed snapdragons. Henry Van Dyke was born in committee and has a cap- hymn "Low in Simple and pale and pretty, and Germantown, Pa., Nov. 10, 1852, the able and large committee which she is after which the sweet as their name, the yellow and the son of Rev. Henry Jackson and announcing shortly. white primroses in pots are gathered Nertietta (Ashmead). He graduated The chairman of the cooked food preparation for actone side, a lovery contrast. Color from the Polytechnic Institute, Brook- committee is Mrs. William E. Patter- imposed of Hon. is given by the graceful company lyn, N. Y., in 1869; Princeton in 1873 son. The chairman of the candy r Harbor; and which marches as a harbinger of spring and received his A. M. degree in 1876; committee is Mrs. Everett Lymburner Smith of the the tulips and these are seen in the Princeton Theological seminary in and the chairman of the flower com- Parish. ,Every deep rose variety. 1877 (D.D.); Princeton, 1884; Har- mittee is Mrs. Kenneth McLean. Miss minister of the The Mt. Desert Nurseries windows vard, 1894; Yale, 1896; L.L.D., Grace M. Oakes is in charge, as for ed to share in are equally lovely. Horace L. Dow Union, 1898; Pennsylvania, 1900; the past 12 years, of publicity. have signified and the Nurseries staff have done a Geneva, Switzerland, 1909; D. C.L., g so: In addi- remarkably artistic piece of work in Oxford, 1917. erature at Princeton from 1900 to ion have been these windows. They show a very Dr. Van Dyke was ordained to the 1923 for four years being United organizations of great variety of plants and flowers so Presbyterian ministry in 1879 and States minister to The Netherlands present either that one stops half a dozen times and was pastor of the United Congre: and Luxemburg. y. The Boy still sees some particularly lovely gational church at Newport for three He served as president of the Na- ides and color bloom before unnoted. tional Institute of Arts and Letters years and then for many years of Harbor High Geraniums are there in a perfect and was a member of the American the Brick Presbyterian church, New ish the instru- galaxy of stars. There is a superb York. Academy of Arts and Letters and double one of rose and white. The He was professor of English lit- an honorary fellow of the Royal So- will take part begonias are shown exquisitely There ciety of Literature. ice are Ralph are some lovely specimens of double the beauty and grace of the tulips and Among his published. works were J. LaPoint, in tulips in a tint of yellow: The Easter daffodils. The Reality of Religion, The Story t L. Whittaker lilies are shown in this window, too, Mr. Dow has shown rare artistic of the Psalms, The Poetry of Ten- rector of St. sturdy, beautifully shaped plants, in a taste in being able in small space to nyson, Sermons of Young Men, Lit- lev. Perry L. state of bud and blossom destined to group so many lovely flowers with no tle Rivers, The Other Wise Man, arbor, director be a joy for many days. The color effect of crowding. It is like wander- Fisherman's Luck, Fighting for Peace, arbor-Tremont of the sun, the gold so loved by many ing in thought through a beautiful The Golden Key and many other a page 10) in blossoms of any kind, is caught in spring garden. books of prose and verse. THE WILD GARDENS OF ACADIA PRECURSOR OF ACADIA NATIONAL PARK HARDY SPIRAEAS IN A NATURAL SETTING THE TALLER SPECIES IS A NATIVE OF KAMTCHATKA THE MOUNT DESERT NURSERIES BAR HARBOR, MAINE AUGUST 15, 1935 REEF POINT GARDENS LIBRARY 2 T' HE FOUNDING of the Mount Desert Nurseries at Bar plants as Harbor in 1896 on lands of one of Mount Desert Island's gardening earliest farms was the first step taken by Mr. Dorr in the sequence Publ that led through various stages to the establishment twenty years later time to tir of the Country's first eastern and only seacoast National Park, the Nurseries, present Acadia National Park. The wonderful adaptation of the coastal regions of eastern Maine to the vigorous growth and brilliant flowering of the hardy perennial plants of the famous early English and Colonial gardens and their successors, plants gathered through centuries for their beauty's sake from all the North Temperate regions of the world, led Mr. Dorr, before thought of the National Park arose, to attempt the establishment of what he termed, after the English fashion, "Wild Gardens"--garden of naturalization for the exhibit and experimental growing of these and other hardy garden plants---in a beautiful valley near Bar Harbor with the sheltering background of the Mount Desert hills. He failed to obtain the funds and backing necessary to this project and the plan ultimately gave way before the larger scheme of the National Park, successfully carried through. But the vigor and beauty of these plants as they bloomed and flourished in this uniquely favorable region remained in his mind and is leading now to the establishment, on a lesser scale, of such an exhibit in connection with the Mount Desert Nurseries, from which the thought first sprang, in areas set apart for the purpose; and all who are interested in hardy gardening, here or elsewhere, are invited to come to observe the es at Bar plants as the work proceeds and learn of the material for beautiful :t Island's gardening and landscape planting in this region. sequence Publications on the progress of the work will be made from years later time to time and may be obtained on request to the Mount Desert Park, the Nurseries, at Bar Harbor. of eastern the hardy al gardens for their world, led tempt the on, "Wild perimental beautiful d of the ry to this scheme of vigor and S uniquely low to the ROSY LOOSESTRIFE AND THE NATIVE CAT TAIL SELF PLANTED IN A BROOKSIDE GARDEN ction with sprang, in d in hardy bserve the $4,000.00 Bar Harbor, Maine, March 30, 1940. ON DEMAND after date The Mount Desert Nurseries promises to pay to George B. Dorr, or order, the sum of Four thousand and no/100 Dollars, at any Bank or Banking House in Maine. Value received with interest at six percent. For value received it is hereby agreed that the Signers and Endorsers of this Note either on the front or back waive Demand, Notice and Protest, and guarantee Payment of same when due. THE MOUNT DESERT NURSERIES BY Claure E Dow Treasurer. April 1, 1940. Mr. Dorr turns the Nurseries over to Mr. Dow, and in return Mr. Dorr is released from any mortgage the bank holds against the Nurseries; the Nurseries give Mr. Dorr a note, on domand, for $4,000, a one-fifth share of the stock, and the following lands: (1) The Upland Lot next The Way, including Dorr Pond Valley; (2) Land across Schooner Head Road, between that and Otter Creck Road, in its southern portion, bordering the Park land on the south, this land being 500 feet in length; (3) The Compass Harbor property. The Bank already holds the following mortgages on Mr. Dorr's property: $12,000 on oldfarm $5,000 on Compass Harbor Cottage $3,200 on remaining property The Bank at first agreed to make one mortgage of this, totaling $20,200. Now the Bank has taken over all Mr. Dorr's property, and will take care of the taxes, insurance and upkeep of said property, hire the necessary cleaning done and the necessary care of the grounds, etc. at Oldrarm and Compass Harbor Cottage. Mr. Dorr will be allowed to live in Storm Beach Cottage, but the Bank will also take care of the taxes and insurance on that. In order to carry the entire transaction through it is necessary for Mr. Dorr to turn over to the Bank the re- maining Water Company stock in his name, and also to assign any rights Mr. Dorr has in the Massachusetts Life Insurance policy to then. The Nurseries owe Mr. Dorr a note of approximately $19,000 and on their books he is credited with about $9,000 more; Mr. Dorr discharges in a claim all sume the Nurseries owe him, except the $4,000 note, and also transfers all but 100 shares of his stock to the Nurseries, which will be issued in the name of Clarance Dow. Mr. Dorr will remain President of the Nurseries. Mr. Dow will remove, from lands turned over to Mr. Dorr, the following bedded stock: (1) A collection of Aconites, except for a few which will be left for show purposes; (2) Poonies, except for few left for show purposes; (3) Phlox. Except for the above mentioned plants, no stock shall be removed by the Nurseries from Mr. Dorr's land without permission to do so. Instrument Imposing Restrictions Dated April 1, 1940 Recorded April 1, 1940 The Mount Desert Nurseries To George B. Dorr By Clarence E. Dow, Treasurer Does impose upon all the land now owned by it, the following restrictions, to wit: (1) That no building of any kind shall ever be erected upon a certain lot of land owned by it, described as follows: Beginning at a stone bound on the east side of the Otter Creek Road, said stone bound being approx- imately 250 feet south from the intersection of the center lines of the Otter Creek Road and the Schooner Head Road; thence in a northeasterly direction by said Otter Creek Road to the intersection of the eastern side of the Otter Creek Road with the western side of said Schooner Head Road; thence in a general southerly direction by said Schooner Head Road to a stone bound set in the ground; thence north 63° 30 minutes west 54 feet more or less to the place of beginning. Zi 2. That no part of the Grantor's land for a depth of 50 feet bordering on any town or private way shall be used for the purpose of commercial advertising, other than advertising purposes of said grantor, its successors and assigns. To make certain that I had left no power of commit- ment with the Mount Desert Nurseries for its engagements and expenses, I called in Mr. Clarence E. Dow, their Manager, today and asked him the question directly, lest some such power, previously given, might have remained with the Nurseries. And since I cannot in these days read or write I called in, as secretary, Mrs. Phyllis Sylvia, conversant with my affairs, to make record of our talk and act, in case of need, as witness. No commitment since the arrangement we arrived at has been made by the Nurseries, of which I still remain President and share-holder, Mr. Dow stated in answer to my question, nor has any power been left with the Nurseries as a corporation to commit me to expenditure of any kind. May 1st, 1942. Signed: Witnessed by: Phyllis Sylvia $4,000.00 Bar Harbor, Maine, March 30, 1940. ON DEMAND after date The Mount Desert Nurseries promises to pay to George B. Dorr, or order, the sum of Four thousand and no/100 Dollars, at any Bank or Banking House in Maine. Value received with interest at six percent. For value received it is hereby agreed that the Signers and Endorsers of this Note either on the front or back waive Demand, Notice and Protest, and guarantee Payment of same when due. THE MOUNT DESERT NURSERIES BY Treasurer. Woodlawn Merceum. A-61 Note: July 26, 1941 letter extracted. To Asoc. Director A.E. Demaray from G.B Dore. Mr. Demaray. Page 6. Turney The former Nursery Erounds I have described as opposite to Oldfarm, where the upland gardens of the early settler farm spread about the farmer's home in a situation of singular beauty for the view it of- library fered, I would like to have become, to preserve its memory and the origin of the Oldfarm name, the site of some simple building housing books on gardening and landscape art, whose principles and the examples and of plant material shown shall help to make our whole Acadian coast, destined as it is to be a great resort and place of refreshment always through the summer heats, beautiful through right landscape development and the planting of trees and shrubs and hardy her- baceous plants that once established will remain and take away the bareness left by early settlers in their struggle to survive. MEMORANDUM for the File: This memorandum has reference to a meeting which I had with Mr. Rockefeller in his office in New York on Monday, January 6, 1941 to which Mr. Dorr's letter of December 13, 1940 and Mr. Rockefeller's letters of December 18, 1940 and January 8, 1941 referred. My discussion with Mr.Rockefeller was based on sketches which I had with me which showed the Oldfarm property and the property with i41 ownership data from the park office in Bar Harbor through the valley of Crowell Harbor Brook to the Great Meadow. The conference was arranged by Mr. Dorr and authority for my travel at government expense was given by the Director. On Mr. Dorr's behalf I presented to Mr. Rockefeller the thoughts which were in Mr. Dorr's mind relative to the ultimate acquisition of these properties by the government for addition to the park. Mr. Dorr was particularly anxious that the government should acquire what re- mained of the Oldfarm estate, exclusive of that portion which was owned by the Mount Desert Nurseries. The portion of the Oldfarm 68- tate south and west of the Schooner Head Road had previously gone into government ownership. He felt that to get the remainder of the Oldfarm estate into park ownership would be a final achievement of his years of effort to create the park. He felt that the passing of the property into park ownership would accomplish two purposes: (1) His sentimental attachment to his summer home which had grown with the years since his father purchased the property in the middle 1870's and built the two houses on it at the decades close would be perpetuated; (2) the property would ultimately serve a particular purpose for the park by furnishing ld Fam in Storm Beach Cottage, the first and smaller of the two, a park superintendent's residence, and that Oldfarm House would become a guest house for government officials, particularly the President and Cabinet members. The land at the corner of Main Street and Park Road in the village with the building thereon he felt should be continued in its present use as park headquarters, adjoining as it did the land earlier given to the government for the utility site and upon which had been erected the park's automotive repair shop and storage building. The other land extending from Park Road southward through the valley of Cromwell Harbor Brook to the beginning of the park's Long Field Road he felt should be acquired by the park for development as the principle highway approach to the park from the village of Bar Harbor. B. Hadley January 13, 1945 the S.H. National Park Dorr env. Extract from B.J. Hadley's letter of Feb. 25, 1949 to Mr R Jr. re Brewer Ice Co. preperty - filed in that env. - S.E.Property The second matter is with respect to land formerly owned by Mr Dorr mt. subsequently owned by the Mount Desert Nurseries and presently owned Disest by Mr E.B. Greenlaw, Jn. doing business under the name of the Mount Desert Nursery. The land in question, about five acres, is the easterly part of the Nursery land lying between the pond and park land, and directly in front of the house in which I live, which is the cettage Mr Dorr, lived in from about 1930 to 1941. The last three years of his life he lived in Old Farm House. Mr Greenlaw bought the Surseries from C.E.Dow about three years ago. [1946] The fire of October, 1947, completely destroyed all the greenhouses and other buildings, together with much of the growing stock in the plansto ground. Mr Greenlaw strüggled along last year as best he could, but is now closing out the business and offer the nursery land for sale in half-acre house lots. He has altogether about twenty acres. The more desirable lots which have frontage on Schooner Head and Otter Greek roads are for sale at $350 each, the back land lots having no frontage on a public road are for sale at $250 a lot. These pieces into establish a raté of $700 and $500 an acre in their respective situations. Upon learning of Mr Greenlaw's plan to subdivide the Nursery land I wrote to Regional Director Allen to ask him if the five acres immediately adjacent to park property sould be purchased with funds presently available to the Park Service for land purchase. 4ME ANP He referred my query to Washington and the replay was to the effect that the legislation by which the park was created provided for land acquisition by donation only. Purchases with government funds required could only be made by authority of special legislation. Sich legislation was enacted at the time Mr. Dorr sold his Old Farm property to the government in 1941. Souther I enclose a plan of the Nursery and adjoining land. The Nusery ownership is outlined in red; the five acres I have mentioned is shaded in green. I dislike intensely to see those five acres sold off into small lots because, from the knowledge which 1 have of the three prospective purchasers I am certain that the area would become a sort of shanty-tewn. From Mr R 's reply - Mar. 3. Regarding the second tract of which you speak, being part of Mr Dorr's nursery, while I should gregtly regret, with you, to see this area sold to hin off in small lots, the matter is a Bar urbor problem in which I do not feel that I can properly concern myself. n al Over $1 million donated to children's literacy, libraries and education! BIBLIO com ALSO RECOMMENDED MORE BY THIS AUTHOR MORE BOTANY no Image. B $425.00 ADD This particular copy may no longer be TO available. See below for comparable or CART similar copies. PARADISI IN SOLE- PARADISUS HARDY PLANT TERRESTRIS DESCRIPTIONS Mount Desert Faithfully Reprinted from the Edition of Nurseries 1629 by George B. Dorr John Parkinson Book condition: Very Published : 1904 Good + Edition : Reprint Book Description Bookseller: Andre Strong Bookseller Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1913. Pamphlet. Very Good +. 35 pages. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4 in. A few photographic illustrations. Bl... 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Donate Now Spring of 1904 : wholesale catalogue / By: Mount Desert Nurseries. - Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. Publication info: Bar Harbor, Me. :Mt. Desert Nurseries,1904 Contributed by: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library BHL Collections: Seed & Nursery Catalogs View Book Featured Content Notable Women in Natural Price list of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbaceous plants, 1909 / History By: Mount Desert Nurseries. - Miller, Wm. - Henry - G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. Publication info: Bar Harbor, Me. :Mount Desert Nurseries, 1909. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=mount+desert+nurseries#/titles 1/3 3/29/2016 Search Results - Biodiversity Heritage Library Contributed by: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library BHL Collections: Seed & Nursery Catalogs View Book Trees, shrubs, vines, fruits and herbaceous plants for northern planting. 1915 / By: Mount Desert Nurseries. - Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. Publication info: Bar Harbor, Me. :Mt. Desert Nurseries,1915. BHL Contributed by: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library BHL Collections: Seed & Nursery Catalogs View Book Explore Trees, shrubs, vines, fruits and herbaceous plants for northern planting / By: Mount Desert Nurseries. - Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. 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Attached is an excel list and description of the medals awarded to the MD Nursery. I also have some scans of glass plate negatives showing nursery plants up close and in rows, as well as 2 images showing Clarence Dow (the manager after Miller) admiring some roses. All of the images are pretty big as they were scanned at hi resolution from nitrate negatives or glass plate negatives. They will not send via email, so I have included a contact sheet of them. I also included in the contact sheet some scans of glass plates that are titled "Mrs. Farrand's garden" just for kicks for you-- We also have all of the "Sieur de Monts Publications", a few of which reference the Wild Gardens of Acadia. We have one of the Hardy Plant Descriptions" publications form 1913. This would be something you would need to see in person. All best, Marie Marie C. Yarborough Curator Cultural Resources & Interpretation Liaison William Otis Sawtelle Collections & Research Center Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine Accession # Catalog # Description ACAD-00298 ACAD 53558 Silver Medalion. The front shows raised classic figures of two women; the figure sitting is holding a bouquet of flowers, the one standing is holding a bunch of grapes. The seated woman has her left bosom undraped. The back is inscribed in cursive: Awarded to Mt. Desert Nurseries For Display of Aconitum Aug. 8, 1914. The inscription is surrounded by a wreath of Flowers on the right side and grape vines on the left. At the bottom of the wreath are a USA shield and a coat of honor, crossed. ACAD-00298 ACAD 53559 Silver Medalion. The front shows raised classic figures of two women; the seated figure is holding a bouquet of flowers, the one standing is holding a bunch of grapes. The seated woman has her left bosom undraped. The back is inscribed in cursive: Awarded to Mt. Desert Nurseries For Collection of Astilbes June, 1917 The inscription is surrounded by a wreath of flowers on the right side and grape vines on the left. There is a USA shield and a coat of arms crossed at the bottom. Surrounding that in raised printing: MASSSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ACAD-00298 ACAD 53560 Silver Medalion. The front shows raised classic figures of two women; the figure seated is holding a bouquet of flowers; the figure standing is holding a bunch of grapes. The seated woman has her left bosom undraped. The back is inscribed in cursive: Awarded to Mt. Desert Nurseries For Collection of Peonies and Other Flowers June 27, 1914. The inscription is surrounded by a wreath of flowers on the right side and grape vines on the left. There is a USA shield and a coat of arms crossed at the bottom. Surrounding that in raised printing: MASSSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ACAD-00298 ACAD 53561 Silver Medalion. The front shows raised classic figures of two women; the seated figure is holding a bouquet of flowers, the woman standing is holding a bunch of grapes. The seated woman has her left bosom undraped. The back is inscribed in cursive: Awarded to Mt. Desert Nurseries For Display of Eremuri and Herbaceous Flowers June 20, 1914. The inscription is surrounded by a wreath of flowers on the right side and grape vines on the left. There is a USA shield and a coat of arms crossed at the bottom. Surrounding that in raised printing: MASSSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ACAD-00298 ACAD 53562 Copper Medalion. The front shows raised classic figures of two women; the figure seated is holding a bouquet of flowers, the standing woman is holding a bunch of grapes. The seated woman has her left bosom undraped. The back is inscribed in cursive: Awarded to Mt. Desert Nurseries For Display of German Frises & Herbaceous Plants June 22, 1912 The inscription is surrounded by a wreath of flowers on the right side and grape vines on the left. There is a USA shield and a coat of arms crossed at the bottom. Surrounding that in raised printing: MASSSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ACAD-00298 ACAD 53563 Gold Colored Medalion. The front shows raised classic figures of two women, the one seated is holding a bouquet of flowers, the one standing is holding a bunch of grapes. The seated woman has her left bosom undraped. The back is inscribed in cursive: Awarded to Mt. Desert Nurseries For Display of Eremuries June 14, 1913. The inscription is surrounded by a wreath of flowers on the right side and grape vines on the left. There is a USA shield and a coat of arms crossed at the bottom. Surrounding that in raised printing: ACAD-00298 ACAD 53567 Silver medal presented by the Society of American Florists to Mount Desert Nurseries, Bar Harbor, Me. Occasion was the International Flower Show in New York in April 1913 Obverse has relief of woman in flowing drapery with flowers flowing from her raised hand. Reverse has floral border with writing in the center ACAD-00298 ACAD 53568 Silver medal presented by the North Shore Horticultural Society to Mount Desert Nurseries for hardy perennials. Date was August of 1912. On the obverse, there is a flower in the center with the name of the organization around the edge. On the reverse is information about the award flanked by leaves and flowers. Material Location Cataloger Status Date SILVER HQ/R12/U1/DR3 Hatfield, Charles & Susan 2008 SILVER HQ/R12/U1/DR3 Hatfield, Charles & Susan 2008 SILVER HQ/R12/U1/DR3 Hatfield, Charles & Susan 2008 SILVER HQ/R12/U1/DR3 Hatfield, Charles & Susan 2008 COPPER HQ/R12/U1/DR3 Hatfield, Charles & Susan 2008 METAL HQ/R12/U1/DR3 Hatfield, Charles & Susan 2015 Silver HQ/R12/U1/DR3HQ/CAB15/D Hatfield, Charles & Susan 2015 Silver HQ/R12/U1/DR3HQ/CAB15/D Hatfield, Charles & Susan 2015 ACAD 2971 Box 30 envelope 8 "Phlox at nurseries" ACAD 2971 Box 30 envelope 10 ACAD 2971 Box 31 envelope 19 "Sweet William-nurseries" ACAD 2971 Box 32 envelope 15 "Juniper-nurseries rock garden" ACAD 29539 Box 27 envelope 008 "Mr. Dorr-young apple trees at nursery" Chebacco XVII (2016): 20-44. An Island Landscape Gardening Culture: A Scottish Nurseryman Comes to Bar Harbor William Miller was an early nurseryman who relocated to The Legacy of Nurserymen from 1880 to 1920 Mount Desert Island at the outset of the horticultural boom in the By Betsy Hewlett Northeast. His birth into a farming community near Firth of Clyde on the southwest coast of Scotland in 1863 meant Miller was well- When the Mount Desert Nurseries were started [in 1896] versed in rough terrain and often cruel and hard seasonal changes conditions at Bar Harbor and elsewhere on Mount Desert similar to those of Mount Desert Island. Island were far different from the present. The simple In his late teens, Miller's first stop after leaving the family fishermen's huts and farmhouses, collected around each farm and plant nursery in Ayr, Ayrshire County, Scotland, was the sheltering harbor when the sea was the only highway, had city of Edinburgh. The public gardens were hiring, and the new grown as the stream of visitors increased into big hotels; horizon looked promising. His family were nurserymen, growers while summer residences, simple or costly, were springing and propagators of plants for the elaborate landscape design projects up on every available site along the shore, flowers were common throughout the British Isles and elsewhere in Europe. As in demand to make the bare hotel rooms beautiful and populations were shifting to the industrialized urban areas, Miller gardens around the new summer homes were everywhere in saw opportunity in Edinburgh. the making. It was a transitory condition, but it was based A requisite stop in any late-nineteenth-century European garden upon a real and permanent human need and opportunity study tour was the Royal Botanic Garden of Scotland, located in for gardening, which trial and experience had shown to central Edinburgh.3 While carrying out his duties as a gardener in be extraordinary. The time was one of great activity along the Edinburgh public gardens, Miller encountered touring scholars. horticultural lines. Many of these encounters were with Americans studying and visiting -George Bucknam Dorr, ca. 1942 the grand gardens of Europe. The Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh contained one of the As the eastern Mount Desert Island shoreline transformed from foremost scientific and educational garden collections. Founded in fishing villages and shipping gateways into a horticultural showplace 1670, this esteemed institution amassed one of the finest herbarium of lavish cottages with gardens and manicured landscapes, economic and living collections in the world by the late nineteenth century.4 opportunities for local residents moved away from fishing, shipping, Gardeners associated with the public gardens of Edinburgh were and farming to gardening, landscape construction, and property prized and in demand, especially for those American industrialists maintenance. Over a forty-year period from 1880 to 1920, there was and scholars eager to replicate the beauties of European gardens in il major shift from traditional island land and sea occupations to new their home estates, summer playgrounds, and nearby public spaces. ones that relied on the summer cottagers for their creation and their Miller was aware of opportunities in Boston and the Northeast in one. The contemporary legacy of this lifestyle change is a robust for experienced gardeners, particularly those versed in nursery garden and landscape history built upon the aesthetics of place production by virtue of their Scottish training. It was not long established in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. after arriving in Edinburgh that Miller sailed to the United States, arriving in Boston in January 1886 aboard the ship Prussian. He this article was written with the encouragement of several friends, family, and immediately obtained garden construction work at Stonehurst, the fellow history travelers, including Judith S. Goldstein, Tim Garrity, Earle G. newly constructed Robert Trent Paine country estate set on 109 acres Shettleworth Jr., M.J. Mclsaac, Anna Ryan, Ronald J. Epp, Deb Dyer, Patrick Chasse, Deb DeForest, Scott Koniecko, Raymond Strout, Jack Russell, Betsy Rawley, in Waltham, Massachusetts. This lush, rural retreat was one of many and Acadia Senior College members Mary Holway, Anne Funderburk, Roz Rea, design masterpieces of the famed Boston landscape firm of Frederick and Bill Horner. 3/29/2016 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - Re: Thank you! From : Iago Hale Tue, Mar 29, 2016 03:38 PM Subject : Re: Thank you! 4 attachments To : Tim Garrity , Betsy Hewlett , Ronald Epp Thanks very much, Tim! Betsy and Ron, very briefly what we are trying to do is to trace the historical dissemination of Actinidia arguta vines in the eastern US. Our understanding is that Dorr's Mount Desert Nurseries was a pioneer in offering this species in its catalogs, and we would like a finer resolution understanding of when he started offering the vines and how that offering evolved over the decades (e.g. in terms of recommended usage, named varieties, etc.). We were able to track down one catalog from 1920 (scans attached), which we found at the Andersen Horticultural Library at the University of Minnesota, but no more. Do you know if a collection of the nursery's catalogs exists somewhere (1890's onwards) or know of someone who may be able to help us? I am a plant breeder working with A. arguta here at UNH. We currently have a grant to collect historically disseminated A. arguta germplasm for the purpose of propagating them and getting them into a USDA repository before they disappear -- many lines have already been lost and the threat of extirpation is growing. Thank you very much for your help. I appreciate your time and consideration of this request, Iago Iago Lowe Hale University of New Hampshire Asst. Prof. of Specialty Crop Improvement Dept. of Biological Sciences Rudman Hall, Room 385 46 College Road Durham, NH 03824 (603) 862-4653 www.halelab.org Lab: Rudman Hall, Room 355 From: Tim Garrity Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 3:21 PM To: lago Hale , Betsy Hewlett , Ronald Epp Subject: Re: Thank you! Dear Betsy and Ron -- By way of this email, I'd like to put Iago Hale in touch with you. Iago is a researcher at University of New Hampshire who is interested in Mount Desert Nursery. I'll let him explain his particular research topic. Betsy, I'm going to take the liberty of sharing your forthcoming Chebacco article with him. I think your text and references will be helpful to him. Thanks very much to you both. Tim On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Hale, Iago wrote: Hi Tim, thanks very much for speaking with me just now. Both Betsy and Ron sound like perfect contacts for the information we are seeking, so I appreciate your passing along their contact information. https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=361907&tz=America/New_York&xim=1 1/2 3/29/2016 XFINITY Connect Very best, Iago Iago Lowe Hale University of New Hampshire Asst. Prof. of Specialty Crop Improvement Dept. of Biological Sciences Rudman Hall, Room 385 46 College Road Durham, NH 03824 (603) 862-4653 www.halelab.org Lab: Rudman Hall, Room 355 Tim Garrity Executive Director Mount Desert Island Historical Society PO Box 653 Mount Desert ME 04660 207.276.9323 www.mdihistory.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mdihistory Unknown 7 KB DSC_0362.JPG 2 MB DSC_0363,JPG MB DSC_0364.JPG 2 MB https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=361907&z=America/New_York&xim= 2/2 3/29/2016 - (3216x2136) Mount Desert Nurseries BAR HARBOR MAINE https://web.mail.comcast.net/service/home/~/?auth=co&loc=en_US&id=361907&part=4 1/1 book MOUNT DESERT NURSERIES VINES and CLIMBERS ACTINIDIA arguta. 2-3 ft., $ .50 ea., $4.00 per 10. AKEBIA quinata. 3-4 it., $ .50 ea., $4.00 per 10. AMPELOPSIS quinquefolia. Virginia Creeper. 2-3 ft., $ .25 ea., $2.00 per 10. 3-4 ft., $ .50 ea., $4.00 per 10. quinquefolia var. Engelmanni. 2-3 ft., $ .35 ea., $3.00 per 10. 3-4 ft., $ .50 ea., $4.00 per 10. Veitchi. Boston Ivy. Heavy, $ .35 ea., $3.00 per 10. ARISTOLOCHIA macrophylla. Dutchman's Pipe, Strong plants, $ .75 ea., $6.00 per 10. Heavy plants, 1.00 ea., 7.50 per 10. CELASTRUS scandens. Bitter Sweet. Wax Work. 2-3 ft., $ .25 ea., $2.00 per 10. 3-4 ft., $ .50 ea., $4.00 per 10. CLEMATIS paniculata. Japanese White Clematis. Strong, $ .35 ea., $3.00 per 10. Extra large, .50 ea., 4.00 per 10. virginiana. Native White Clematis. Strong, $ .25 ea., $2.00 per 10. Extra large, .35 ea., 3.00 per 10. Large flowering hybrids: Jackmani. Purple. Henryi. White. Price: $ .75 ea., $5.00 per 10. LONICERA Belgica. Dutch Honeysuckle. Monthly Fragrant Honeysuckle. Strong, $ .75 ea., $6.00 per 10. flava. Yellow flowering Honeysuckle, Strong, $ .75 ea., $6.00 per 10. sempervirens. Trumpet Honeysuckle. Strong, $ .75 ea., $6.00 per 10. VITIS coignetiae. Crimson Glory Vine. 2-3 ft.,$ . 55 ea., $3.00 per 10. page forty-five 3/29/2016 - (3216x2136) ACTINIDIA ARGUTA HEDGE, EIGHT FEET HIGH Grown for wind protection in the Nurseries' gardens. This Japanese eine grows more vigorously than any native one in Maine and is free as yet from insect enemies THE MOUNT DESERT NURSERIES, BAR MARBOR, HAIR 3 https://web.mail.comcast.net/service/home/~/?auth=co&oc=en_US&id=361907&part=2 1/1 1/28/2019 Rock Gardens Come Into Focus - The Ellsworth American The Ellsworth American (Printed from url=https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/living/arts-a-living/rock-gardens- come-into-focus/) Rock Gardens Come Into Focus July 21, 2011 by Fenceviewer Staff on Arts & living P SOUTHWEST HARBOR - The Clark Point Gallery, in collaboration with the Old York Road Historical Society in Jenkintown, Penn., has organized "Richard Rothe in Mount Desert, Maine: The Development of the American Rock Garden," an exhibition of 16 photographs made by the internationally known horticulturalist Richard Herman Rothe between 1906 and 1912 when he managed Mount Desert Nurseries in Northeast Harbor. The exhibit will run until Thursday, Sept. I, with an opening reception on Thursday, July 21, at 5 p.m. at the gallery on Clark Point Road. Seeking better professional opportunities, Mr. Rothe moved to Maine with his wife and two daughters in 1906. The scenic landscape surrounding Mount Desert inspired him to develop what he later called the "American rock garden" - an artistic arrangement of boulders, rocks or stones, set amid an assortment of native plants characteristic of mountainous regions. Mr. Rothe later wrote that Mount Desert Island was "the most interesting and instructive of Nature's own rock gardens in this country." Born in Prussia, Mr. Rothe began his career as an assistant gardener at Schloss Belvedere, near Weimar. He immigrated to the United States in 1893 and settled in Southeast Montgomery County, an area where some of Philadelphia's wealthiest businessmen were building lavish country residences. Mr. Rothe worked as a gardener and florist photographer and used his own photographs as illustrations. Some noteworthy images in the exhibition show dramatic coastal views of Mr. Rothe's favorite areas: Seal Harbor, James Ford Rhodes's summer residence "Ravenscleft," Greening Island, and Sutton Island. Others represent floral displays and activities at the nursery, as well as gardens Mr. Rothe designed for wealthy summer residents such as John S. Melcher in Northeast Harbor and Mrs. Henry Inman in Southwest Harbor. Some photographs show Mr. Rothe's family and their friends pursuing recreational activities such as ice boating, hunting, camping and canoeing, and provide an intimate view of life in Mount Desert during the early years of the 19th century. The Clark Point Gallery is offering for sale high quality prints of Mr. Rothe's photographs, in limited editions of 50 each. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. through Labor Day. For additional information call 244-0920, e-mail info@clarkpointgallery.com, or visit clarkpointgallery.com. For more arts & entertainment news, pick up a copy of the Mount Desert Islander. Bio Latest Posts Fenceviewer Staff 1/28/2019 Xfinity Connect Re Mount Desert Nurseries images Printout Subject: Re: Mount Desert Nurseries images Ron & Scott-- The photographer was Richard Roche, born in Prussia 1863 and died in Philadelphia 1947. He was a horticulturist, landscape gardener, and amateur photographer. From 1906-1912 he worked at Mount Desert Nurseries and lived in Northeast Harbor. While on MDI he was fascinated by its rock formations and began creating rock gardens; later he was known as the developer of the American rock garden. In 2011 there was an exhibit of Rothe's MDI photos at the Clark Point Gallery in Southwest Harbor. Accompanying that was a portfolio of prints and a biographical brochure. One of those portfolios and several copies of the brochure were donated to BFS. The original photos are owned by the Old York Road Historical Society in York, PA. The portfolio prints are in color; the images I sent you are B&W scans I made to use in the Garland Farm library's online catalog. They are in high enough resolution for printing. If you want to use the first image in your article for the BFS newsletter, we would need to get permission from both the gallery in SWH and the Old York Road HS. I don't think we'd have any trouble getting those permissions. Let me know if you want me to pursue that. --Wendy On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 11:42:01 -0500 (EST), RONALD EPP wrote: Hi, I have not seen either of these images. It is wonderful that you have them in the archives! I very much like the first image with the prominent signage. It is far preferable to anything 1/28/2019 Xfinity Connect Re Mount Desert Nurseries images Printout Wendy Knickerbocker 1/28/2019 8:33 AM Re: Mount Desert Nurseries images To RONALD EPP Copy Scott Koniecko Ron- I mis-typed Richard Rothe's name in the first paragraph of my e-mail; at least I got it right in the second paragraph. I apologize! It's my fault for not proofreading the e-mail before I sent it. Anyway Naturally the scope and content of your article for the BFS newsletter will be decided by you & Scott. For me, it's hard to see, on the surface and considering the years of Rothe's time on MDI, how he fits into a brief examination of the relationship between Farrand and Dorr. Yes, the source of my info is the exhibition brochure for the Rothe exhibit. I will happily copy it for you, but unfortunately I can't do that soon. I live in Castine, an hour's drive or more from Garland Farm. At this time of year, there's usually no one at Garland Farm. Nikolai, the BFS general coordinator, is there only one afternoon a week and only for a few hours. He isn't used to rummaging around in the archves, and I don't think I can adequately describe to him where the brochure is. My schedule (and winter driving between here & there) won't allow me an opportunity to go over to Garland Farm for several weeks. But I will copy the brochure when I am next at Garland Farm. Meanwhile, there was an article in the Ellsworth American about the exhibit that sums up the information in the brochure. It places Mount Desert Nurseries in Northeast Harbor, but that's an easily understood error, right? And the "catalog" is the brochure. Page 1 of 4 From: "Maureen Fournier" Subject: Re: Mr. Dorr: Pt. 2 Sent date: 06/21/2011 06:44:11 PM To: Dear Ron: I hope this email finds you and Elizabeth further along on your move than last we spoke and that all is going as well as could be! I wanted to let you know that I finally connected with Miss Anna Ryan at 17 Ash St. I called her a couple of times last week with no answer and just got off the phone with her 5 minutes ago. She did verify that her father, James Ryan, was a grower for Mr. Dorr for 43 years at the Mt. Desert Nurseries (not his chauffeur), and did read for him occasionally in GBD's later years when Mrs. Sylvia was unavailable. Mr. Ryan was self-taught, never went to school, but managed to learn all the Latin names for the flora and fauna and was most well-respected in Bar Harbor for his knowledge of plants, plus landscaping with all the cottages. When I asked Miss Ryan about her memories of Mr. Dorr, her response was, "I can tell you this and it's absolutely TRUE. He did swim every day in the ocean at Compass Harbor!!!" And she quoted Mr. Dorr as saying to her father, "you oughta try it some day, Jim, it's very invigorating!" But she says, her father never did. Here are some other parts of the conversation, and I'm trying to read my scribble and recreate for you some of the things she said before I forget The nurseries were located at the site of what's now the Compass Harbor Condos. The potting shed and office where her father worked were at the horse trough (now a planter at the Schooner Head Rd. corner), exactly 1 mile from her house on Ash St. where she was raised since she was 2. She was born in the house across the street. She believed Mr. Dorr sold the nurseries to a Mr. Greenlaw (sp?) and that they burned in the fire, but they were going through hard times financially. Her father spoke of the beautiful ash trees he grew near the ballfield, and also she spoke of the wonderful apple trees (macintosh!) that were on the OldFarm property. She and her friend, Alice McKeisick (whose family also worked for Mr. Dorr), would sometimes go down to Compass Harbor beach - they used to call it "Alice's Beach." There is a CPA in BH whose name is Mr. McKeisick and it is his grandfather that also worked for GBD at the nurseries, SO perhaps he is one we could contact as well. Miss Ryan talked a lot about the 1947 fire and her memories of it sweeping towards their house. Miraculously it came close to them but their house was left standing and they were only evacuated one night. She spoke vividly about her memories of the fire, describing names and homes destroyed, etc. She was 26 at the time and remembers quite a lot of that. She never did, that she can remember, actually meet Mr. Dorr but remembers seeing him. And unfortunately she has no photographs or letters left of Mr. Dorr in her possession - she mentionned she gave all she had to the MDHS. Ugh. Do you recall seeing anything of hers there? I spent about 30 minutes on the phone with her, had a most pleasant conversation, and she is willing to answer any more questions we might have ("if I can"). It turns out we both go to the same church in BH so I will try to introduce myself in person to her one of these weekends. She was friendly and offered to help more if she could. I'm sorry I didn't have specific questions, but maybe if you did, I could pass them along to her? I don't think that would be a problem at all. So, I think I have written you the gist of the conversation. If I have forgotten something, I will let you know. Maureen fournier https://webmail.myfairpoint.net/mail/message.php?index=10010&mailbox=bWJveA%3D 6/21/2011 Page 1 of 6 Bar Harbor Town Hall Research: Epp From To "wo Donald Lenahan" P Date Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:53:32 -0500 Dear Don, Thanks for updating me on your plans. I think the documents should be held by the registrar of deeds. The information I have is from Dorr's memoirs. 1. In 1896 Mr. Dorr opened the Mt. Desert Nurseries on land that he owned at the corner of Schooner Head Road and what today is called Oldfarm Rd. The land may have been in his mother's name, Mary Gray Ward Dorr. There may have been construction permits from a year or two earlier. If there is a property listing by name, please check the year 1912 as well. At this time there was a major expansion of the nursery and there might be permit requests that are still extant. Dorr employed a new nursery manager by the name of A.E. Thatcher--indexing may be under his name or his precedecessor William Miller. There was also a downtown sales shop on Main Street which closed at this time but I have no knowledge of its specific location. Finally, Dorr ran into financial problems in the late 1930's and efforts were made to sell the nurseries which were owned by 1949 by E.B. Greenlaw, having bougvht them from C.E. Dow in 1945-46. The fire of '47 destroyed much of the property. If you could copy any documentation relative to the nurseries--on the items below--it would be much appreciated. I'll reimburse you, of course. 2. In 1868 Charles Hazen Dorr--along with Thornton K. Lothrop--purchased the Oldfarm property which Henry Higgens had acquired a century earlier. It had previously been owned by John Cousins. Dorr purchased the eastern portion of the Higgens lot, the western portion being sold to the Mahan family. Please check the records for 1872-73 when C.H. Dorr purchased this western property from Mrs. Mahan. Finally, in 1875, Dorr acquired Lothrop's share of the original purchase. Good luck tracing this! 3. In January 1893 Dorr's father, Charles H. Dorr, died. Is there any indication in the property--on taxation- records that his wife, Mary, inherited the property rather than her son, George? I think an inquiry here will turn up nothing. However, in October 1901, Mary Dorr died and the Oldfarm estate on lower Main Street passed to her son. Is this documented, perhaps with a copy of the probate document? Finally, does the Town Hall contain taxation and voter registration records from the early twentieth century? Dorr never speaks of his political affiliation but I strongly suspect that he was a registered Republican who might have switched affiliations with the coming of the New Deal. This detective work will be quite a challenge. You may wish to do some before you leave and the remainder on return. Let me know how things progress. All the Best, Ron Quoting Donald Lenahan : Ron --- Good to hear from you and thanks for the article. It's great you do this to remind us all of the history of ANP. I'll be heading south for a month the end of next week. So, if you want me to help you at Town Hall, you'll need to get the info to me quickly. Otherwise, it'll have to wait until mid March. Regards, Don https://webmail.myfairpoint.net/hwebmail/mail/message.php?index=33 2/11/2009 4ath Trust 9/24/13 THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. V,6-7(1898.99) 65 Among Growers and Dealers. W. T. Hood of the well known firm of W. T. Hood & Co., Old Dominion Nurseries, Richmond, Va., is going out of business on account of his age. He offers to sell his interest. Benjamin Chase, Derry, N. H., comes to the front as usual The firm has a full stock for fall trade of 1898 and spring of with a varied assortment of tree labels. 1899. The Osage Nurseries have started an experiment station on C. W. Murphy, for some time senior manager of the Cana- the farm of J. A. Kelley at Dell Rapids, S. D. dian business at St. Thomas, Ont., under the name of Maple On May 14 employees of Dreer's Nurseries, Philadelphia, Grove Nurseries, is now located at Lawrence, Kan., where unfurled a large fiag with appropriate exercises. he is the manager of the Western Nursery Co. He would W. H. Ragan, Green Castle, Indiana, is chairman of the like growers' price lists. American Pomological Society's catalogue revision committee. August Rhotert, of New York city, representing Louis J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., want lowest cash prices Leroy's Nurseries, Angers, France, and M. Koster & Sons, quoted on carload of guaranteed natural peach seed from the Boskoop, Holland, was in Rochester last month on his way South. westward. At the Omaha convention he will be joined by his Horticultural Commissioner J. E. Baker, Tacoma, reports salesman, J. McHutchinson. that there are 35 licensed nurserymen in the state of Wash- T. V. Munson, Denison, Tex., has been elected correspond- ington. ing member of the National Society of Agriculture of France. In 1889 Mr. Munson was accorded the decoration of the C. J. Hartel, who has been in charge of the Oak Grove Legion of Honor for his success in supplying grafting stock Nurseries, at Alhambra, Cal., has resigned and gone to San with which to restore worn out vineyards in France. Francisco. An inspection fee has been imposed by the Horticultural Bismarck apple, Hale plum, snowball, altheas and dogwood Board of British Columbia, on all nursery stock; on consign- of his own growing are offered by Hiram T. Jones, Elizabeth, ments of 100 trees the fee is $2.50; 100 to 250 trees, $3.50 New Jersey. 250 to 500 trees, $450. If found infected, a charge of 5° per W. D. Beattie, Atlanta, Ga., has leading varieties of peach cent. is added for disinfection. On fruit the minimum fee is trees well matured to tips, with good roots, carefully graded, $1.00 on any sum up to $33.00, and 3 per cent. on any sum at low prices. over $33 oo in value. J. Blaauw and P. M. Koster, Boskoop, Holland, sailed for Some of the members of the American Association are home last month after a visit to florists and nurserymen of the wondering who will tell the after dinner stories at the conven- United States. tion, in the absence of Herman Berkhan of New York, whose custom it has been to visit the Bowery to procure the latest H. S. Anderson, representing Hiram T. Jones, Union bon mots just before starting for the convention. The arrival County Nurseries, Elizabeth, N. J., called on Rochester of his fifth daughter, three weeks old on May 26th, is said to nurserymen, last month. be the cause of Mr. Berkhan's detention in New York. He J G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., give their full budded will be on hand next year. list of peach, over 1,000,000 trees, on outside cover of this The Mt. Desert Nurseries, Bar Harbor, Me., which have issue. They also offer buds. been for the past three years conducted as a private enterprise The new post office of the Alabama Nursery Co. is Chase, by George B Dorr, of Boston, with William Miller as manager, near Huntsville, Madison County, Ala. E. A. Chase is presi- have been incorporated by Mr. Dorr with a capital stock of dent, H. Chase treasurer, H. B. Chase secretary. $50,000, of which $300 has been paid in. The officers of this new corporation are George B. Dorr, of Bar Harbor, Andre L. Causse of New York, the well-known importer, president ; M. G. Dorr, treasurer. The certificate of incor- who is usually seen at the conventions of the American Asso- poration was approved May 4, 1898. ciation, finds it impossible to be at Omaha this year. Stephen Hoyt's Sons, New Canaan, Conn., are pushing a NO SCALE IN AMERICAN FRUIT. new Burbank plum, the October Purple, said to be the wizard's best production. It is described in another column. The German government admits in official correspondence The sixteenth annual meeting of the American Seed Trade that no San Jose scale has been found among the American Association will be held at Old Point Comfort, Va., June fruit refuse examined. It was on the allegation that the scale 14-16. J. B. Rice, Cambridge, N. Y., is president. did exist that the German government some time ago. issued A general assortment of fruit tree stocks at low prices is its prohibitory orders against American fruit and fruit ref- use, &c. offered by C. C. Abel & Co., Box 920 New York city, repre- sentatives of P. Sebire & Sons, Ussy, Calvados, France. TOO VALUABLE TO GIVE UP. Fruit, forest and ornamental stock, French grown, is handled LAKE VIEW NURSERY Co., SHERIDAN, N. Y., May 23. Enclosed in large quantities by August Rhotert, 56 Barclay Street, New please find $1.00 to pay for subscription to NATIONAL NURBERTMAN for one year. It is too valuable to give up." York, sole agent for Louis Leroy's Nurseries, Angers, France. FULL FILE OF THE JOURNAL. The Nurserymen's Mutual Protective Association and the ALBERT BROWNELL, ALBANY, ORE., May 18. Find enclosed P. American Nurserymen's Protective Association will hold meet- money order for $1.00 for subscription to NATIONAL NURSERYMAN, ings at the Millard hotel, in Omaha, on Wednesday evening, Can not afford to be without it. Have all the numbers from first issue June 8, at 8 o'clock. on file in our office." Digitized by Google Original from CORNELL UNIVERSITY