NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY 
NURSERY STOCK 
This year prices have been reduced again on numerous items where 
the supply of them would permit it. Some things are lower than they 
have been for years, and many the lowest they have ever been. 
Another year these are reasons for expecting substantially higher 
prices regardless of what may happen meanwhile to our monetary sys¬ 
tem, or to prices of other things. The programs for reforestration and 
roadside improvement have not yet consumed any stock, but will begin 
to do so this spring and will likely require all the available stock in the 
sizes used of certain items of deciduous trees, windbreak evergreens, and 
ornamental shrubs. The extreme shortage of apple stocks this year 
greatly reduces the number of apple grafts which can be made and the 
future supply of apple trees. Many nurseries with their reduced income 
the past four or five years did not keep up a balanced planting, especially 
of the slow maturing kinds, and the shortage due to this is certain to be 
felt as soon as the buying power of farmers and home owners increases. 
ADDITIONS TO THESE PRICES. Prices in this list may be in¬ 
creased sufficiently to cover any Federal or State Sales Tax which may 
be enacted after January 1st, 1934, or any increased cost of the stock or 
its distribution due to State or Federal legislation or regulation after 
that date. 
EQUIPMENT. A clay block building 100x100 feet with a large 
double walled, insulated apartment provides room for storing and pack¬ 
ing deciduous trees and shrubs with a minimum loss of vitality. 
LOCATION. The nursery is on paved Highway No. 11, which con¬ 
nects with the Lincoln Highway seventeen miles South at Cedar Rapids, 
and with No. 20 twenty-five miles North at Independence. The office 
and storage house are just South of the C. R. I. & P. station grounds, and 
across the W. C. F. & N. and C. R. I. & P. tracks from the paving. The 
fruit and nut orchards are one and one-half miles South of the nursery on 
No. 11. 
