The express offices are located in this corner of the packing liouse where two coiiii>.iiiics liave their 
offices and l>iU the l>!ants <iirect lo destination. They meet tlie train at the depot. Freigllt .shipments are 
billed ont here for each train. Mail orders reach this post office in time for first mail after packing. Kight 
express and mail trains and nine freiijht trains take the plants every day. Kvery department is in perfect 
systematic order. Perfect plants, perfect digging and packing by e.vperts nnder a skilled superintendent 
with noexposnre of roots. Tliese are the plants that grow. 
A six-tined fork is inserted under the plant 
and it is lifted in such a way that no roots are 
broken or crowns bruised. They are instantly 
picked up and put in a wet ba^, so they are 
never exposed to sun and wind, and the bag is 
carefully labeled and sent immediately to the 
packing house where they are cleaned, counted, 
tied in bunches, labeled and the orders are 
made up. 
Tlie entire row is taken up and all old plants 
and any with immature roots arc thrown away. 
CARE OF PLANTS. 
A postal card will be mailed to you when the 
plants are shipped, so you shf)uld be on the 
lookout for them. Our system of packing is 
the most perfect that can be devised, and 
plants the last season were shipped to the 
most distant points without the loss of a plant, 
and if you give them the same care that we do 
here every one of them will grow. 
When you receive the jiackage, if you are 
not ready to set them out, do not leave them 
in the package, but heel them in by digging a 
small trench in some shady place, and putting 
in plants as seen in engraving. 
Heeling in Plants. 
Before openins; the package give them a 
thorough weUing before exposing the roots 
in puting them in the trench. Do not wet 
them until you are ready to take them out. 
Put the whole package into the water for a 
few minutes or pour water on it slowly until 
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