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conditions and with just a little care, it isn't likely that you should 

 have to replace many plants, it is a gamble nevertheless for which 

 someone has to pay. Even if every plant lives and does well you 

 should be paid for taking the risk, and if called upon to replace, 

 do so cheerfully. You can't very well overcharge for planting a 

 good hedge, and for those who want a satisfactory hedge the money 

 is well spent. 



HANDLING CONIFERS AND OTHER TREES 



"VW^HILE you can easily handle a specimen shrub, even when of 

 " large size, things are different when it comes to large trees. 

 One has to be properly equipped to move trees when they have a 

 trunk six or more inches in diameter. It takes a regular tree wagon 

 to move them, but for all of that it doesn't hurt, if you have the 

 space, to plant each year a few small Elms, Maples — Hard, Red- 

 leaf and Gutleaf — Ashes or Lindens. They will all grow into 

 money, and the same is true with conifers. You couldn't use an 

 empty lot provided with half decent soil to better advantage than 

 by filling it with small Spruce, Pine or Arborvitae. In a few years 

 you can start selling plants, giving the remaining stock more space 

 in which to develop into large specimens. 



There are many sections of our land where much good could 

 be accomphshed by the local florist encouraging the planting of more 

 trees, especially conifers; locahties where Spruce and Pine would 

 do well and help to create a charming Winter efl'ect; where streets 

 and highways are bare and could be made beautiful with rows 

 of trees. There are many instances where a florist established in a 

 small city or town could acqiiire land on the outskirts at very 

 smaU cost. He would hardly feel the loss of the money it would 

 require to plant, as a starter, an acre or so with smaU trees and 

 conifers; yet in the course of a few years this would yield him a 

 better income than any other crop he could possibly plant. I 

 know this can't be done everywhere, as in many places nurseries 

 are already established, but this country of ours covers an awfully 

 big area and there are all kinds of opportunities for future develop- 

 ment. 



A man cannot very weU start a smaU nursery and wait for a 

 number of years for returns. He has to have an income in the 

 meantime, and in localities where there is a florist but no nursery- 

 man, that florist cannot do better than to get busy, no matter if he 

 starts on only a small lot and keeps on adding a little each year. 

 Besides aU that, I am sure that every florist who conducts a local 

 trade and does landscape work wiU find a Uttle nursery where he 

 can at any time go and dig a few shrubs, conifers, or trees a mighty 

 convenient thing to have. If he hasn't such stock on hand he is 



