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Good plants, like good seed are always the best to buy. This is true regardless of what 

 the cost may be. With poor mixed plants a paying crop of fruit is seldom produced, thus 

 you lose the cost of the plants, the time and labor of caring for them, the use of the ground 

 and also the profit that should have been rightly yours. Good plants at extremely high prices 

 are cheaper, but in this case the cost of the plants will cut into your profit considerably. 



Thus we reach the ideal for which Rayner Brothers have always striven. Good Plants at 

 a Reasonable Price. For the past ten years we have strived to give our customers the very 

 best plants we knew how to grow at a price they could well afford to pay. We feel we have 

 succeeded by the very rapid growth our business has made during this period and by the fact 

 that many of the growers who purchased plants from us the first year are still sending us 

 their orders regularly. 



In producing high quality plants there are several rules that must be rigidly followed 



True to Name: The plants must be true to name and kept so by careful handling. The 

 poorest plants are often better than mixed plants of some variety not suited to your soil or 

 climate. 



Plants: The plants must be good, with large healthy crowns and a full, well developed 

 root system with an abundance of fine fibrous roots. Such plants can be grown only on light 

 sandy loam such as we use for growing our plants. Suflicient plant food applied at the pro- 

 per time and careful cultivation are also essential in producing high quality plants. 



Cleaning: When plants are dug in the spring there are many dead leaves and runners 

 hanging to the crown and if these are not removed there will be great danger of the plants 

 heating in transit. We have received plants that were literally covered with dead leaves and 

 runners and it cost 50c to $1.00 per 1000 to get them ready for planting. Our plants are thor- 

 oughly cleaned, all dead leaves and runners removed and the roots straightened. This makes 

 planting better and easier besides saving quite a bit on transportation costs. 



Grading: In every field there are always some late runner plants that are not fully de- 

 veloped. Such plants have poorly developed root systems and are of very little value. All 

 such inferior plants should be discarded. There will be full count of strong, vigorous plants. 



Handling: Plants, if permitted to stand unprotected in the sun or wind, dry out quickly 

 and in so doing lose much of their strength and vitality. Plants must be kept moist and 

 fresh, and handled quickly to retain all of their inherent value. 



Packing: Our plants are carefully packed in light ventilated crates, small quantities 

 wrapped in waterproof paper, the roots in layers of damp spaghnum moss with the crowns 

 at the outside of the crate or package. Plants thus packed will arrive safely at their desti- 

 nation in perfect growing condition. 



Promptness adds much to the value of the plants. Plants that do not arrive until after 

 your best planting time is past are worth much less to you, even though the plants are of the 

 very best quality, than plants that arrive promptly, right when you are ready for them. In 

 Promptness we stand second to none in the berry plant business.' 



Any of these things omitted or carelessly done will detract from the true value of the 

 plants and when placing your order with us you may rest assured all the above rules will be 

 carefully followed. We know too well what the results would be, should we fail to maintain 

 the high quality of our plants. 



To gain and hold the confidence and good will of our customers and to build up a strong 

 thriving business has always been our aim. We believe the true statement of facts, the honest 

 description of varieties and by giving a "Square Deal" to every one to be the only way this 

 great ambition may be fully realized. 



The use you make of the enclosed order sheet will prove to us just what you think of the 

 policy we are following. Send your order in now, shipment will be made when you desire. 



