The City’s Rare Nursery Devastated by Record Snow

One of the most deplorable results of the late unprecedented snow storm was the wreck it made of Mr. C. W. Lawton’s fine garden and nursery on the outskirts of this city. Mr. Lawton had about five acres planted with the rarest fruit and shrubbery which could be obtained throughout the temperate zone of Europe, Asia and America, excelling in variety and culture any other garden or nursery upon the Northern Pacific coast. Mr. Lawton, who is not addicted to exaggeration, tells us that not less than four thousand of his most valuable marketable trees have been utterly destroyed, involving a loss of not less than two thousand dollars in value. In view of the great benefits Mr. Lawton was conferring upon the country by his skill and enterprise as a practical and scientific horticulturist, his loss assumes the proportions of a public calamity, and to himself it involves serious embarrassment in business which is regretted by the entire community.