Comments regarding The Arboreum Company

The Arboreum Company has the best trees for sale over the internet. The root systems of the trees they sell are huge. Their communication is very slow, but be patient they deliver the very best trees. What is also unique to this special nursery is that they sell very unusual and limited quantities of rare varieties. I have ordered trees from almost every mail order(internet) nursery and Arboreum is simply the best. I received my latest 'chinese' peach and 'early crawford' from them last week. They are already sprouting leaves. The trees are very healthy. Mrs. G from Newport, RI.

Among the finest propagators of bareroot fruit tree stock I've ever found, and I've been a collector for almost ten years. Good caliper on the stems and--most important--well developed root balls with taproots and strong laterals for maximum second year growth. And yet, what puts them among the elite (like Lee Calhoun, John Bunker, Ram Fishman, Ron Joyner and Neil Collins) are the varieties in which they specialize. Check out these "gnomes," as they call themselves (old, wise men who guard the treasures of the earth) if you want a Merton Bigarreau cherry, a Pallas peach, a Jefferson plum or a Lord Napier nectarine tree without driving through a blizzard to a NAFEX scion exchange. Their unusual varieties have rounded out my rare and heirloom fruit orchard beautifully. Their only problem is marketing (which gnomes know very little about, I suppose)! I only found them through the "grapevine" last year. Hope this helps someone else find them.

This nursery has varieties that can't be bought anywhere else. They answered all my questions very thoroughly, even though I was in the market for only two trees. My trees were shipped across the country to NY state, but arrived in perfect dormant condition. They were huge, and grew very vigorously their first year. If I had room for more trees, I'd buy them from this great nursery.