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AYaSA NaRSERIES 
ESTABLISHED 
HAVE A NATIONAL. REPUTATION 
FOR THE PRODUCTION OF 
UPERIOR 
TOCK^ 
WE CANNOT LOWER OUR 
Standard of Grading: 
AND THE CHARACTER OF OUR STOCK 
BECAUSE PRICES ARE RULING LOW. 
TREES, as well as men, have constitutions. Some men are strong, healthy and 
vigorous and capable of doing what they would otherwise not be, if they had not a> 
vigorous constitution to begin life's work. 
WHILE it is not possible for all men to start life with the blessing of a healthy 
constitution, it is quite possible to so start all trees and plants if the simple require- 
ments of the plant or tree are carefully sought out. 
AFTER MANY YEARS of practical work and most careful observation we are 
absolutely certain that the chief cause of so mzxiy short-lived, sickly and unfruilful 
trees is improper plant food in the early life of the tree. 
LONG SINCE we have discarded the use of commercial and other fertilizers in 
starting our trees and plants, as having a most disastrous effect on the long life, 
hardihood and fruitfulness of trees. The direct result is to produce soft wood in the 
early life of a plant, which the rigor of an ordinary winter will affect and so reduce 
the vitality of the tree, leaving it with a weakened constitution at an early age, from 
which it never fully recovers. 
A TREE of weak constitution fi-om any cause whatever, is much more subject 
to attack from insect pests than a ti-ee constitutionally hardy. 
THERE IS NOTHING that will so shock a ti-ee as to stimulate it to an unnatu- 
ral, forced growth up to the time of transplanting and then remove it to a soil, the 
fertility of which is much weaker, causing the tree or plant to^ractically stand still 
a year or more ; by which it receives a shock, from which it is/difficult to i-ecover. 
AFTER TRANSPLANTING to the orchard where the' tree is to remain, we 
advise fertilizers of such a character as the soil and tree may require, and applied at 
such times as not to produce growth late in the season, as the wood should be well 
ripened and hardened before going into winter. 
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