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Thomas Meehan & Sons, Inc. 
RETINISPORA PISIFERA 
Represents a 5 feet tree 
SPECIMEN EVERGREENS 
We have devoted considerable time and space in our nursery to the pro¬ 
duction of fir£t-class choice specimen evergreens of all sizes. 
These evergreens have been several times transplanted, some of them every 
year for the past three years. They have been carefully sheared and given 
ample room to develop, so that each evergreen, no matter how large or small it 
may be, is a perfect specimen of dense, compact and symmetrical form. 
On account of the numerous times they have been transplanted, each plant 
is dug with a ball of earth and the ball sewed in burlap, so that a customer in 
transplanting the tree can handle it with perfect safety and with every reasonable 
chance of its success. 
It costs money to produce this class of stock and it cannot be sold at 
prices to compete with evergreens that have not been handled in this way, but 
the purchaser secures the full value by having this class of stock. In compari¬ 
son it is cheaper than lower priced ordinary nursery grown evergreens. 
Wherever evergreens of this character are quoted in the catalogue, the size 
is followed by the words "with ball.' 1 
About the 15 th of April we shall have ready for distribution a special 
catalogue with full illustrations, sizes, prices and general description of these ever¬ 
greens. Copy will be sent upon application. 
