SMALL FRUITS AND HOW HE GROWS THEM 
A Perfectly Equipped Packing House. 
No plant exposed. No plant neglected. Perfect discipline and training: in employes with perfect facilities gets 
plants to customers in perfect condition. 
It only requires two men to place the sluice 
boxes as they are drawn on low wheeled wagons to 
the points needed while one man regulates the flow 
of water. Thus rain or no rain, our plants are al- 
ways in prime shape. No drouth nor fungi, but 
only the ideal conditions required for rapid and 
healthy growth. 
MUI/CHING. 
After the first freeze in the fall our propagating 
beds are carefully covered with straw where they 
remain frozen and dormant until the frost comes 
DIGGING THE PI^ANTS. 
The straw is removed and old leaves and stems 
are picked off in the row because there is no danger 
of injuring the crowns in doing it then. A six-tined 
fork is inserted under the plant and it is lifted in 
such .a way that no roots are broken nor crowns 
bruised. They are instantly picked up and put in 
a wet bag, so tliey are never exposed to sun and 
wind and the bag is carefully labeled and sent im- 
mediately to the packing house where they are 
cleaned, counted, tied in bunches, labeled and the 
orders are made up. 
The entire row is taken up and all old plants 
and any with immature roots are thrown out. Only 
perfect plants are sent to customers. 
THB PACKING HOUSE. 
Our packinghouse was planned and built to give 
the very best facilities for making up orders, pack- 
ing plants and getting them to purchasers in the 
ni )st perfect condition. It is 42x130 feet and each 
variety has its own separate stall where the plants 
are counted and tied in bunches and labeled, so it 
is impossible to mix varieties. 
Tne atmospliere of the room is kept cold 
and damp by the floor being saturated with water 
so that in the short time used in counting plants 
and making up orders the roots never show the 
slightest dryness. The crates for packing are made 
of tough, light wood, after our own design so that 
leaves are expo.sed to air while the roots are imbed- 
ded in pure, damp sphagnum moss and grow while 
on their way to their destination and arrive at any 
point between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in 
perfect condition. 
Our men have become experts in packing and 
each department is under an e.xperienced foreman 
and all under an efficient superintendent of many 
years' experience, so that all orders are filled with 
the utmost precision. It is absolutely impossible 
to dig and pack plants in the open field, exposed to 
sun and wind, as is very generally done by plant 
growers, and have them reach the purchaser fresh 
and vigorous. You want every plant to grow and 
have no vacancy in the field and there will be none 
with these plants if you set them properly. 
MAKB PI,ANTS HAPPY. 
If you want to make your plants do great things 
for you, you must make them comfortable and 
happy and keep them up to the highest standard 
and if from any cause you find them declining in 
vitality, plow them under and give their place to 
new vigorous plants, capable of responding to your 
generous treatment. 
I never go to a "hoss" race or ball play because 
I had rather spend that time fussing with the 
plants. To hoe and cultivate them and study their 
individuality is not hard work because I never tire 
of it. It is genuine pleasure. 
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