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ALBANY NURSERIES, Incorporated 
RULE, SQUARE YARD METHOD. 
Multiply the distance in feet between the rows by the distance the plants 
are apart in the rows, and the product will be the number of square feet for 
each plant or hill, which, divided into the number of feet in an acre (43,560), 
will give the number of plants or trees to the acre. 
RULE, EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE METHOD. 
Divide the number required to the acre ‘‘square method” by the decimal 
.866. The result will be the number of plants required to the acre by this 
method. 
A Plain Talk About Prices • 
WHY CHEAP STOCK IS DEAR AT ANY PRICE. 
It costs more to produce a good thing than a poor one, and in buying any 
article # lhe first question should be: Not how r cheap is it, but how good it is? 
Manj people understand this well enough, and yet how few ever stop to apply 
the rule to nursery stock. Yet the fact is that in no other kind of purchase is 
the quality of the article of such vital importance as in nursery stock. If a 
man for instance buys a poor coat at a cheap price, it is true that he gets 
cheated and loses something, as the coat doesn’t wear as long nor look as 
well as a good one, but yet the loss is not great, as he gets some wear out of 
it. But note the difference. 
The price of a tree is the smallest part of its cost by the time it has come 
into bearing. 
If a man buys cheap trees to save a few r cents on each, instead of buying 
first class, warranted stock, what is the result? It is impossible for him to 
tell by the looks of the stock delivered to him whether he is getting trees true 
to name or not, and he cannot for several years. If the trees are of 
decent size the purchaser is apt to think they are all right, so he plants them 
on valuable land, takes good care of them for several years, losing the use of 
the land and putting in his time and labor. Now mark carefully the fact that 
by the time the trees come into bearing, the expense of the land, labor, etc. 
etc., has amounted to several times the original cost of the trees, and conse- 
quently if his cheap stock turns out, as it uniformly does, to be of inferior and 
worthless varieties, then it is a serious loss to him, and he has to begin all 
over again. 
Now, is it not plain to all that it is rank folly for anyone to risk this dead 
loss of trees, use of land for years, expense of cultivation, etc., to save a few 
cents on a tree, when for a trifling increase in price he can get the very best 
warranted stock? 
As a mere matter of insurance, a man cannot afford to buy anything but 
the best warranted nursery stock. 
It is a general rule which can be relied upon, that “cheap” stock is worth- 
less stock, and therefore dear at any price. If a man won’t pay for good stock, 
but buys cheap stock in order to save money, he is very sure to lose all he 
puts into it. Most of the worthless stock is worked off by strange agents who 
sell on their own account, and are not authorized by any responsible firm to 
