DECIDUOUS TREES—AMERICA’S BEST SELLERS 
FROM THE OLDEST AND BEST KNOWN NURSERIES. MANY WILL GROW 
FROM TWO TO FIVE FEET YEARLY. 
ANY BRIGHT BOY ABOUT TO ENTER HIGH SCHOOL WHO WILL INVEST $25 
YEARLY FOR FIVE YEARS CAN MAKE MORE MONEY SELLING CHRISTMAS 
: TREES THAN REQUIRED TO PUT HIM THROUGH COLLEGE. 
SEND STAMP FOR GOVERNMENT CHRISTMAS TREE BULLETIN SHOWING 
i HOW FARMERS AVERAGE OVER $5,000 YEARLY RAISING CHRISTMAS TREES. 
NOT A BAD PROPOSITION FOR A BUSINESS MAN TO LOOK INTO. 
Because of the high cost of labor, packing material and trees, NO ORDER CAN BE 
ACCEPTED FOR LESS THAN $2.50 AT THESE LOW PRICES. 
25 
100 
1000 
25 
100 
1000 
Trees 
Trees 
Trees 
Trees 
Trees 
Trees 
Ash, American, 12-18" . 
$1.00 $2.50 $15.00 
” Sugar, 12-24" .._. 
..1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
” Green, 12-18" . 
....1.00 
2.50 
15.00 
Mulberry, Black, 18-24". 
..2.00 
4.50 
32.50 
Bsech, American, 12-24" .. 
....1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
Russian, 18-24" .. 
..1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
Birch, Itiver, 12-18" —. 
....1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
Oak, Chestnut, 12-18" . 
..1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
” Cherry, 12-18" . 
....1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
” White, 12-18" ... 
..1.25 
3.00 
20.00 
Caragana, 12-18" . 
...1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
Persimmons, Amer. 12-18" 
1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
Chestnut* Buckeye, 12-18" 
..1.25 
2.25 
12.50 
Poplar, Balm Gilead, 18-24" 
..1.50 
3.00 
20.00 
Elm, American, 12-18". 
...1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
” Carolina, 12-18" .. 
..1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
” Chinese, 6-12" . 
_. .75 
. 1.75 
10.00 
” China Lomb., 24-36" 
..1.00 
2.00 
12.00 
” ” 12-18" . 
...1.50 
3.00 
18.00 
Lombardy, 24-36" .... 
..1.00 
2.00 
12.00 
” Cork Bark, 12-24" . 
...1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
” Silver Leaf, 18-24"_ 
..1.00 
2.00 
12.00 
Hickory, Shaghark, 12-24". 
...1.75 
3.25 
24.00 
Red Bud, 12-18" . 
..1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
dudas Tree, 12-18" . 
...1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
Sassafras, 18-24" . 
.1.50 
3.50 
25.00 
Leatherwood, 12-18" 
1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
Sourwccd, 12-24" . 
..1.00 
2.00 
12 00 
Linden, American, 12-18" 
...1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
Sweet Gum, 12-18" . 
..1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
Locust. Black, 12-18" . 
... .75 
1.25 
7.50 
Sycamore, 18-24" ._. 
.1.25 
2.50 
15.00 
” Ilonev, 6-12" ..... 
... .75 
1.50 
8.50 
Tree of Heaven, 12-18"_ 
..1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
F.lagnoHa. 12-24" . 
~.1.7(? 
3.00 
20.00 
Tulip, 12-18: . 
..1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
Maple, Hard, 12-24" .. 
...1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
Walnut, Black, 12-18"_ 
..1.25 
2.25 
12.50 
” Bed. 12-24" . 
...1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
Butternut, 12-18" . 
..1.25 
2.25 
12.50 
” Scarlet, 1.2-24" . 
...1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
Willow, Ween Wis. 12-18".. 
..1.50 
3.50 
25.00 
” Silver, 12-18" . 
...1.00 
1.75 
10.00 
Yellow Wood, 12-24" _ 
_1.50 
3.00 
20.00 
HUNDREDS OF LETTERS LIKE THE FOLLOWING ON 
FILE 
FROM ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY 
For Tree Seed, See Below 
Trees coming fine. Stamps enclosed for an¬ 
other package Colorado Blue Spruce. 
Carl Blomquist, Cadillac, Michigan. 
The 250 yQYinR trees growing lovely. Enclosed 
find check for 250 more. 
Mrs. C. Aston, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
I believe every Evergreen tree came tip. 
Mrs. J. B. Adams, Gifford, Illinois. 
Have over 3,000 trees from the seed I bought 
of you three years ago. 
David Belanger, R. 1, Crown Point, Indiana 
The 10,000 trees you furnished are doing well. 
Of the 200 I planted only six died. 
John J. Tessari, COMMUNITY 
WILD LIFE CLUB. St. Cloud, Minnesota. 
The germination from the Arbor Vitae Tree 
Seed purchased was almost perfect. Kindly 
quote on Colorado Blue and Koster Blue 
Spruce and Japanese Red Pine Seed in hi and 
1 lb. lots. 
B. G. Hemphill, PreR., 
Barberton School of Comm., Barberton, O. 
Have 8000 evergreen trees from the seed 
you sent. Give price on 50,000 Norway and the 
8 other .varieties cheeked. 
Robt. H. Lawton, Worcester, Mass. 
Have over 5000 trees, the majority over 2 
feet high, raised from your seed. 
H. J. Harder, Munster, Indiana 
Louis J. Kren, Editor, NEWS, North Jud- 
son, Indiana, notified pupils trees could be 
ordered through the NEWS office. 2700 two 
and three year old trees were ordered the 
second day. Total number ordered was 6109. 
Have several hundred 5 inch trees from 
your I. W. L. Seed Package. 
Mrs. Mary H. Huebsch, Pamona, Calif 
E. N. Brindley, Supt. Schools, Shuman, In¬ 
diana, raised enough trees to plant almost 10 
acres and has 4000 left raised from seed pur¬ 
chased 2 years ago. 
Dr. E. F. Pfeifer, New London, Wisconsin, 
n resen ted pupils in his county with 300,000 
Pine, Spruce and Arbor Vitae Tree Seed. 
TREE SEED—ANY VARIETY—BIG PACKAGE, 12 CENTS. 
10 ASSORTED PACKAGES 11.00-BIG SCOUT BAG 25 CENTS; IZAAK WALTON 
DEAGUE BAG FOR FARM, SCHOOL OR 4-H CLUB 50 CENTS OR $1.00. 
ANYONE WHO CAN RAISE CABBAGE CAN RAISE TREES. 
ANGELICA TREE—Chinese 
ARBOR VITAE—American, Pyrimidal, • 
Chinese, Golden or Korean 
ASH—Maple Leaf 
BASSWOOD—Beautiful tree 
BEECH—American or European 
BIRCH—Japanese White 
BLACK GUM 
BOXWOOD—Korean 
CAMPHOR TREE—Chinese 
DATALPA—American . . 
UEDAR—Colorado Blue, Silver, Virginia, 
Japanese, or Nikko. 
JHERRY—American Black, Japanese 
Flowering, or Weeping 
DRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA—Japanese 
CYPRESS_Japanese, Hinoka or Pyramidal 
DOGWOOD—Florida White, Grey, or 
Japanese 
ELM—Chinese, English or Scotch 
FIR_Colorado Silver, Douglas, White or 
Concolor 
GOLDEN RAIN TREE 
HEMLOCK—-Canadian 
JUDAS TREE—Chinese 
JUNIPER—American or Virginia 
L A RCH—European 
MAGNOLIA—Japanese or American 
MULBERRY—White or Russian 
OLIVE—Russian 
PEONY TREE—Japanese 
PERSIMMON—Virginia 
PINE—Austrian, Mugho, Scotch, Ponderosa, 
Japanese Black, Red, Colorado Aellow. 
Dwarf, Korean or Red Chinese. 
PRIVETT—European, Ibota or Japanese 
QUINCE—Japanese Flowering 
RED BUD 
R08E OF SHARON 
SASSAFRA8 
SPRUCE—Colorado or Silver Blue, Black 
Hill, Englemann, Japanese, Korean, Nor¬ 
way or Kos ter B luest Blue. 
'TREE OF HEAVEN 
TULI P TREE 
YEW—English, Japanese or Pyramidal. 
TREES FROM SEED 
The 37 Colorado Blue Spruce trees shown 
below in 12 inch flower pot raised in the win¬ 
ter from seed in a basement near a window 
are now over 3 feet high. 
It is just as easy to raise trees from seed 
as it is tomatoes or cabbage. 
They can be planted in a box or flower pot 
any time during the year. If planted when it 
is cold, keep them in the kitchen or basement 
if there is a furnace heat. 
Keep the ground moist but not too wet or 
they will die. 
Evergreen trees planted in the basement in 
the fall will grow from 3 to 8 inches during 
the winter. Deciduous trees will grow as much 
as 24 inches 
By following instructions sent with each 
package of seed a boy 10 years of age can 
raise trees enough for a farm as successfully 
as a grown person. 
BETZ SETS THE PACE 
8ent Out By the Indiana Division of 
Forestry, 1929 
The subject of this Bulletin is to recognize 
the valuable assistance of one of the first 
private individuals in Indiana who took off 
his coat in 1928 and went to work without 
pay on the tremendous problem of refor¬ 
estation. 
The varied career of Mr. Frank S. Betz 
will be interesting to friends of forestry. 
Mr. Betz was raised on a farm in Wis¬ 
consin and knows forest conditions in prac¬ 
tically every foreign country north of the 
Equator. He worked in a lumber mill and ran 
logs on the Chippewa river in 1879. For seven 
years beginning 1884 he sold hospital insur¬ 
ance to men working in sawmills, lumber 
yards and lumber jacks in over 300 logging 
camps in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, 
traveling through miles of wilderness. 
After accumulating a small fortune during 
the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893 and los¬ 
ing it he started the Frank S. Betz Company 
in a coal shed in 1895. The business pros¬ 
pered from the start. In a few months he was 
occupying five rented buildings. He then built 
a plant jn Chicago and in 1904 he purchased 
twelve acres of land in Hammond and built 
the first section of the Hammond plant which 
was increased every year until it became the 
largest medical equipment industry in the 
world. 
On his many trips abroad and while trav¬ 
eling through the farming districts in China, 
Japan, India, Palestine and Egypt he was 
impressed with the great social economic 
value of forests to mankind. Where there 
were no trees there was an impoverished na¬ 
tion. The condition can be traced directly to 
the destruction of their forests. 
The people live in mud huts without floors, 
doors or windows. The children follow the 
cattle day after day gathering their offal 
which is the only fuel the family have. 
Mr. Betz bought a farm five years ago 
where he raises all kinds of trees from seed. 
While experimenting he wanted trees for the 
Betz Boy Seouf- Camp 
He then took up the matter with the Ham¬ 
mond Superintendent of Schools and offered 
to furnish 500,000 pine, spruce and arbor vitae 
tree seeds for the pupils to experiment with, 
free. Mr. Caldwell, Superintendent agreed to 
this, and over 2,000.000 were planted by Lake 
County pupils, and over 8.000,000 were plants 
ed this year. 
Up to the present time tree seeds were 
planted by over 400,000 pupils. His offer to 
the Indiana Department of Conservation last 
week will mean millions of dollars added to 
the wealth of the state. This must not be 
overlooked. 
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