Allen's Plants Pay 



Allen's plants will pay you because they rate good in all of those factors which 

 go to make up fine planting stock. We are able to maintain this high rating because 

 we have nearly fifty years' experience in growing, selling and shipping this one 

 product. Except for Asparagus roots, we handle no other nursery product, and we 

 naturally can give more careful attention to all of the details than if a complete line 

 of nursery stock, seeds, and other stock was handled. These details are often very 

 important in getting good results. 



Fine Planting Stock 



True to Name. Mixed plants often cause great 

 disappointment and loss. A field with irregular 

 or broken rows, such as you would grow even 

 with poor plants, might be more valuable than 

 a vigorous, well-set row of some worthless 

 variety, or a variety not suited to your soil, 

 climate and marketing conditions. Utmost care 

 is necessary to see that plants are grown True to 

 Name and to keep them that way for shipping, 

 and not mixed by careless handling. 



Good Plants. This implies plants with vigor- 

 ous, healthy crowns and buds and a well devel- 

 oped root system. The right soil to produce such 

 results is necessary. Ours are grown in a sandy 

 loam soil in which plants with fine root systems 

 can be grown, and from which plants can be re- 

 moved without breaking off great numbers of 

 roots. The overhead cost on the land and taxes, 

 the fertilizer, the labor of setting and cultivat- 

 ing, and all other costs up to harvesting, are just 

 as great in a broken patch as in a patcb where 

 good plants have made possible a full stand and 

 healthy, vigorous growth. 



Promptness. Plants to be of greatest value 

 should reach you when you want them and not 

 after your best planting season has passed. 

 Prompt shipment from freshly dug plants is a 

 big help. 



Proper Handling. Improper handling can mix 

 up plants that have been kept true to name and 

 can make worthless, or decrease in value, vigor- 

 ous healthy plants, by exposure to sun and wind 

 and by improper packing, which allows them to 

 become dry, brown and devitalized. 



Details of Proper Handling 



Protection. Tlants should be kept fresh and 

 moist while digging and handling and not al- 

 lowed to become dry and withered by exposure 

 to sun and wind. 



Cleaning dead and decaying leaves and run- 

 ners helps enable the plants to reach you in 

 good condition. Furthermore, well cleaned 

 plants (samples of which you see illustrated on 

 opposite page), bunched evenly, with roots 

 straightened, make setting easier, quicker and 

 better. 



Grading. When you buy plants you expect to 

 get full count of good plants. The field of plants 

 in the picture shown below is an especially 

 vigorous one. Even here, however, not every 

 plant has been able to develop properly. In any 

 field there are always some weak plants. These 

 must be graded out rigidly. It is here that many 

 plant growers fall down badly. It is usually in 

 grading and cleaning the plants that a plant 

 grower consciously or unconsciously decides 

 whether his standards will be high or low. Of 

 course some varieties like Blakemore, Pearl, and 

 Senator Dunlap have small plants that on the 

 average will not be as large as Big Joe, Chesa- 

 peake and Fairfax. 



Packing. Plants properly packed have the 

 roots between layers of moist spagnum moss and 

 the tops to the outside of the crate, with bunches 

 firm enough to prevent shaking around, but not 

 tight enough to cause heating. Plants should be 

 packed to reach you in good growing condition 

 — fresh and moist — but not rotten nor dried up. 



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