136 COMMON SENSE GARDENS 



If you should send an order to a nurseryman 

 located at some distance from your home, the 

 chances are that all the stock that you receive will 

 not come up to your expectations. The nursery- 

 man, being only human, will average up the lot so 

 that about fifty per cent of the trees and shrubs 

 will be pretty poor; the rest, fair to medium. 

 Your order will probably have been filled at a low 

 price, but in the end you would have found it 

 cheaper to patronize your own nursery. It does 

 not pay to buy job lots of shrubs and trees, for 

 there is a great demand for good stuff and you 

 may rest assured that there was something queer 

 about your " bargain." 



The home nurseryman will generally be ready 

 to replace trees that fail, unless they die through 

 gross carelessness on your part or the part of your 

 gardener, and he will always take an interest in 

 your place, giving you much advice from time to 

 time, which he will not be likely to do if you ignore 

 the home industry and patronize outside firms. 

 When the nursery is near by, transplantation can 

 be more safely effected, as it is possible to wait 

 for the right kind of weather. This is worth 



