The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

PROGRESS EIINT1Cnda~ttsa Wednes-,day, March 13, 1974 Brookdale - Kingsway fourth Lorgest WVholescle Nursery in Canodo, PAGE TWENT;yoNF Brookdale K<ingsway Ltd. re!puted f() be Canada's tourth largesf hieaenursery, has a !total empIoymeýnt of a p proximateýly 24em- oyesVt a peak of around 5% 5 during fhe growig easo The nurse-ry is located ws ot Duke StreeubfwenHighl way 401 and the Baseline, cul fivaing about 200 acres ofi ,ndc aH it(the imediate Bowmaviilearea. With týheir cultural netho.ds 'fodaýy, the tirmyreports that they grau as much aterial on that aIcre( agé as hey woud have grown On five tMes Hta ceage oniy 10 years ago. Brookdale Kingsway Nurs eries have ni the past intro duced several new varieiesoet plant maferial ta the 'rade, and Wthin the nexf 3-4 years shahl be introducing af leasf two new. varieties of plant mae iaicludinig a dwvarf Spira and an em r fee reitnt f0 Dutch -EUm Disease Th- f1rm basifs origins ba&c n h aiy 90sBrode Nursrie wassfatedby the ilatM.ryn191.Krngs- way ursrieswastor-Med in 91 Th laterwaspur-chased byMr. Jujry1in19. Mr Nman J cttcm Geýýncral a i nager ot tenur seie frtpei Jury f amnýily., ndrhis capabe dircton thie nursery vas e-xpDandced and ifs influence cas feat siii Parts of the world. Mr. Scott evnulypurchased Ow'ner ship of fhe nursery tram the Jury amily. nl99hesoldhis interes. In the Sumnmer of 1970, Brookdaleý Kingsw,,ay Ltd. pur- chsdcontrol of Nationa-l GadnSupp)ly of Canlada Ltd. whlesaledistriutinfim Of shei linc goods for the reail garden centre trade. NainlGarden Supply dsrbtsminoly in On-tario, butJ hassomelited distrib)u ficoast'to coast in Ca na da. The Cwr acts as agents for manvprodcts anufcitured in Europe and hN'orh America. Empoyrng three fUH 1 tie saemn tfirrn, s-,theý larges whntsale istlributor- to te reailgarden cenire, raein Oniario andcii s eorted to rank second in site of &irs ot ifs ype in Canada. If supplies everyting fromn rakes shovels, ferfilizer, pruning secateurs,, gardeni hoseý and hundreds of other items, If operates sfrictly on a hoeaebasis, and supplies ils 1600 ditferenf producfs to the,, refail1 gairden cent1res, municipalitfies and large in n Septe-mber of 1970 wnr ship o h nieoeain aspurchased as a proâ invesfImenf by Mr. Gordon C. Gray ot ITo-ronto, Mr. Gray iý Prsie t 0f. ELe P a r, RealEsffe.Contrary to ail rumos, AE. LePage Real Eiahs rno interesf wvhatso- ever in the operations here in Bow.,manvýille. Although MVr. Grys vitally interested i :whaf is going on in fhe varlous companies here, he takes no active day to-day participa- tion. This is left fo Knox Henry, who as a Director of fhe companies, acts as Geni- eral Manager. lncluded as a' division of CdrDee ars.Th[s LON0 cMi operafion is situaed in the Kendial H1ilisaeatrom rby tf0 as tar-eas, a Aberdeen Angus operrains nI tionof dciduus sid res also supplred fothe frade. The- sc ond largesft grower ot shade tnes in Canada. The Platm baferiameownhere mn Bowmanvieies pped fa customer sstated righnt acrossCanada. Brookdale Kingsway Ltd. is The bulk of Mha rade is done n Ontarlo and Quebec. The tbrm wUthn thecorpor- d1tctailivi, Brooýckd ale Ký ngs, ,ývasy (W ý, trn, Lt1d bas a Brifih Colmbrain theetl pro ies heshade te hp tht reslDped ba' ck ýýto With he ecepto 0fChin ese m edgrngrr!atrialthe tirmrdos flot rsstromn- sengbuýt rather purchase seedlngs fromurfmascwh o specraiz ne dlinM&g pro ductro(n Thes,-e seedlýings are-, Ppntedin our treds in rows, and harvested Un or thee Brookdale Kingsway Ltd. states t h hpetlly by nx Spig75 pe r en 1oail is landwil be undler irrigatlion. Due to the intense cliai<~ if is imperative that af ai,, fuies an adequate supply of wafer be available. THE LONGEST ESTABUISHED REALTY FIRM IN BOWMANVILLE Our QuaIity Shade Tes iwrn hus ri Trees, Hd gRssa n ma r ui for ihe WhoýlesaleMakt Co0 1kl es e c -, 'r ~ ' - . . .- OUR SERVICE SPEAKS FOR iISELF PETER KOWAL JR.'i MSE.KOWAL, Sec'y Insrane Limited 52 KNG S. P NHON THE ~'FRIENDLY PLOP~ ~ i s i t i j s - BilI~V5. J - GORD - BEECH