Pot-Grown Azaleas Are Best 
All our Forcing Azaleas, as offered, are pot 
grown. During the growing season each plant is 
frequently pinched and shaped up to make the fin¬ 
ished product. The spread of the plant and the 
size of the pot are in proper proportion. When 
you receive the plants they have a solid pot hall 
ready to slip into a pot and put on the bench. 
Pot-grown Azaleas, (as with all other pot-grown 
forcing stock) are easier and quicker to force and 
have larger and more brilliantly colored flowers. 
If you buy bed-grown stock the ball is so big that 
you have to tear off two-thirds of the roots to get 
them into a pot. This takes a lot of time, plus 
express on the soil and roots you tear off. Unless 
you do this potting mighty early in the Fall, the 
plant cannot make new roots in the pot and when 
you force them you get small, wrinkled, washed- 
out flowers. 
Buy pot-grown Azaleas and avoid all unneces¬ 
sary work, express charges and uncertainty. 
Our Winter Storage and Forcing Layout 
All our Azaleas for forcing or to be sold for 
forcing during the winter months and for Easter 
are wintered in sunny, well ventilated sash houses 
at a night temperature of 38-40 degrees, the temper¬ 
ature being maintained by electrically controlled 
thermostats. 
Stocks of certain varieties intended for Mother’s 
Day are wintered in deep cold pits protected by 
sash and straw mats. 
It costs real money to winter forcing stock in 
this way, but it is the only way to insure perfect 
plants with all the late-maturing top buds unblasted. 
You cannot be sure of perfect buds if you buy your 
forcing Azaleas from a grower who does not house 
his saleable stock during the winter. He may sell 
cheaper but three years out of four the late-matur¬ 
ing buds will be blasted. 
Packing and Shipping 
When we receive your order the plants are 
knocked out of the pots and each plant is wrapped 
separately in paper; and the plants are then packed 
in corrugated, fibre-board boxes of light weight but 
very strong construction. These boxes weigh only 
20% as much as a wooden box of equal size, and, 
inasmuch as there are no nails and wooden cleats 
to fight, you can unpack the shipment in a jiffy. 
Aside from saving in express charges and ease 
in unpacking, these fibre-board cartons are vastly 
superior to wooden boxes lined with paper when it 
comes to winter shipments during bitter weather. 
They are practically air tight and they certainly get 
the plants to you with the buds unharmed. 
We have been packing Forcing Azaleas for 
many years and guarantee to get the plants to you 
in first-class condition at the lowest possible express 
charges. These plants travel by express at the 
second-class rate. We do not recommend freight 
shipments during the winter months. 
Here are the weights of each plant si2e when 
packed: 
3 inch pot averages 10-12 ounces 
4 inch pot 1)4 to 2 pounds 
5 inch pot 2)4 to 3 pounds 
6 inch pot 3 to 3(4 pounds 
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