SOUTHERN PLANTS IN SOLID CARS 



Strong, Certified Plants Ready April 27 



In 193 5 our Company sold the equivalent of 2 5 carloads of plants from Georgia and the Carolinas. For the 

 most part, our customers were enormously pleased with the results. There are two sides of the business, however, 

 which are badly in need of correction. First, we have decided completely to eliminate less-than-carload shipments. 

 The delays and the rough handling of such shipments are such as to discourage our continuing them. For the 

 most part, we were able to group our orders together so that our customers received their plants out of solid cars, 

 and from all such deliveries the results were far more satisfactory. 



The second point to which we are devoting our best energies is the question of collar rot. Regardless of our 

 best vigilance and of our adhering strictly to the rules laid down by the southern officials, collar rot developed 

 in the fields of a number of our customers. This disease is due to an organism {Macrosporium solani) which is 

 invisible to the naked eye. It is an infection which may be carried in the wind, by mist, on the clothing of the 

 workers, or by almost any other agency. The officials of the Department of Entomology of the State of Georgia 

 are making a sincere and eff^ective effort to control the disease. Our Georgia plant acreage is completely under 

 their supervision. We are following both the spirit and the letter of their instructions and their rules, which this 

 year include winter disinfection of the seed with bichloride of mercury, it being recently shown that this 

 collar rot organism can be present on the surface of the seed, even though it had been previously disinfected at 

 the time of harvest. Dr. Julian Miller has, we feel, made an important discovery in this regard and the State 

 of Georgia is to be congratulated. 



Our plants are being grown from our own seed, precisely the same stock that is off^ered in this Catalog. 

 Tomato plants will be ready April 2 7. This offer of plants is made only to customers who can either buy in car 

 lots or can take delivery at one of our New Jersey points, which include Moorestown, Woodbury, and 

 Bridgeton. Precise schedules will be announced later. Solid cars, of course, can be delivered anywhere. 



The plants will be strong, hardy, field-grown stock which is well rooted and well hardened. Our packing is 

 done with great care, with ample quantities of sphagnum moss being used. The schedule of varieties and shipping 

 dates noted below will be adhered to as strictly as the weather permits. Your inquiries and orders are respect- 

 fully solicited. 



Transportation charges allowed to northern points. 



VARIETIES: 3 Approximate shipping season ( $« c/j a aa/) 



Stokes Master Marglobe, and Rutgers \ April 27 to June 10 \ 



