WHY You Have Most Assurance For Profit 
And Success With RAYNER’S PLANTS 
1. This is our 31st year in a nursery busi- 
ness that is based on honest, efficient, dealings 
with our customers. We make every effort to 
be sure that you will be pleased with our 
plants. 
2. We produce nursery stock of the highest 
possible quality. As a result of years of ex- 
perience, combined with use of modern meth- 
ods we are able to grow plants that are best 
in all respects. Now Dr. W. F. Jeffers, for- 
merly Professor of Plant Pathology at the 
University of Maryland, is a member of our 
firm and it is his job to see that you receive 
only top grade true-to-name nursery stock. 
3. We are one of the few nurseries that 
cooperate directly with the U. 8S. Dept. of 
Agriculture in production of virus-free straw- 
berry plants. This program necessitates such 
additional practices as dusting with Parathion, 
at 2-week intervals, during the entire growing 
season. In addition, all of our strawberry 
land is fumigated for control of nematodes 
and the planting stock is treated with hot 
water as an additional precaution. 
4. Rayner’s nursery stock is true-to-name 
and we send you only the varieties ordered. 
We ship only dormant plants — the kind that 
will start growing right away and produce 
lots of runners. 
d. Your orders are handled promptly and 
carefully packaged so that the plants will ar- 
rive in good condition at the time you want 
them. 
6. We are so certain of our ability to send 
vou high quality plants that we make the 
following liberal guarantee. 
“We guarantee you will receive top qaulity 
stock. If your plants arrive in poor econdi- 
tion, or you are not pleased with our stock, 
write us within ten days and we will replace 
plants, or refund the purchase price. After 
planting we cannot be responsible for con- 
tinued growth for, we have no control of 
weather or other growing conditions. How- 
ever, we will replace stock that dies at one 
half price if notified within three months 
after shipment arrives. Guarantee covers full 
purchase price of stock, does not imply fur- 
ther responsibility or liability.” 
7. By modern production methods we are 
able to sell our plants at reasonable prices. 
You can pay more but you can’t buy better 
plants than those sold by Rayner Bros. Ine. 
Here is a sample of the type of strawberry plant you will receive when you order from Ray- 
ner Brothers. 
Note the sturdy crewns and long, well-developed roots. 
These plants will real- 
ly grow and give you that extra vigor that makes the difference between a poor to medium ber- 
ry planting and one you will really be proud of. If given reasonable care such plants will prove 
that WHEN YOU BUY RAYNER’S PLANTS YOU BUY THE BEST. 
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“Plants referred to as “virus-free” in this catalog have been field grown by us from 
virus free foundation stock furnished by the U. S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of 
Plant Industry, Soils and Agricultural Engineering, Beltsville, Maryland. 
Our field-grown 
stock has been dusted with parathion to control aphids which transmit the virus diseases. 
It has also been grown at considerable distances from any other strawberry plants. 
Since 
viruses do not produce clear-cut symptoms in most strawberry varieties, but simply weaken 
and devitalize the plants, no guarantee can be made that these plants are 100 percent free 
of viruses. 
Because of the measures that we have used to protect these plants from yirus 
infection, we believe them to be substantially virus-free.” 
Virus-free plants are just beginning to be 
appreciated for their unusual vigor and ability 
to produce greater yields of better berries. In 
order to give you some official facts on the 
value of such stock we quote the following 
from page 31 of the March-April. 1955, issue 
of Ohio Farm and Home Research: “Yield of 
the commercial grade of Catskill was 5.317 
quarts per acre While virus-free plants of this 
variety produced 9,228 quarts a 73.6 percent 
greater yield. Yields of the commercial grade 
and virus-free plants of Premier were 4,045 
and 6,631 quarts per acre respectively. while 
for the 
4920 quarts per acre’. This work was re- 
ported by Drs. R. G. Hill, Jr. and W. A. Gould 
of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station. 
t BUY RAYNER’S PLANTS AND YOU BUY THE BEST 
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