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The Davey Bulletin | November/December 2016
An employee of the Davey Nursery selects a
tree to be dug and shipped for a customer.
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A GROWING LEGACY AT THE DAVEY NURSERY
In 1964, the Davey Nursery was just
one of many "new twigs appearing
on the Davey Tree" as then-president
of the Davey Company Alexander
M. Smith explained to employees in
The Bulletin.
The concept of a company nursery
started to germinate in 1962. The
company chose a farm in Wooster,
Ohio, where Davey planted about
1,000 trees in 1964 to start the
operation on about 160 total acres.
The Davey Nursery eventually
expanded to more than 300 acres, and
in 1984 and 1985 plantings from the
nursery were used in developing the
landscaping for Davey's new corporate
headquarters in Kent.
Today, 52 years after its founding,
the Davey Nursery has an inventory
of more than 90,000 with nearly 100
distinct varieties of shade and
ornamental trees.
An aerial shot of the Davey Nursery in the
1980s shows the grand scope of the operation.
Workers at the Davey Nursery prepare freshly
dug trees for delivery in the 1970s.
