BULLETINS OF THE ELEVENTH CENSUS. 

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Of the 4,510 nurseries in the United States fully two thirds are small 

 concerns, from 2 to 25 acres in extent, and produce a full variety of all 

 trees and plants for local demands, much of the stock sold being taken 

 direct from the nursery by the planters and local agents, so that there is 

 but little call for advertising, catalogues, or traveling salesmen. Another 

 class of nurserymen, propagating largely a general line of nursery stock 

 or making specialties of a few lines only, such as grapes or small fruits, 

 cater to a direct retail trade with customers all over the country, and 

 advertise extensively in the newspapers and mail hundreds of thousands of 

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