OUR POT-GROWN AZALEAS 
For the 1936-37 season we offer 60,000 pot-grown 
Azaleas in 3, 4, 5 and 6 inch pot sizes. A slight 
change in our fertilizer mixture has produced the 
best plant we have ever offered; compact, heavy and 
well budded. The spread of the plant and size of 
pot are in proportion. 
The production of pot-grown Azaleas is a much 
more exacting task than growing these plants in 
beds, but we pot-grow for the following reasons: 
as you will note on receipt of the plants. 
Each plant has a solid pot ball ready to slip 
into a pot and put on the bench. 
Pot-grown Azaleas are easier 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 Mothers’ 
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 unblastcd. 
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-maturing 
buds will be blasted. 
Packing and Shipping 
We have standardized our packing and can 
therefore ship all orders promptly. It is very, very 
seldom that all orders are not shipped on the same 
day as received. We guarantee quick service and 
no irritating delays. 
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-hoard boxes of light weight but 
very strong construction. As an added precaution 
each box is lined with heavy waxed butcher’s water¬ 
proof paper. 
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 un¬ 
pack 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. 
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