SHINER CACTUS NURSERY 
PICTURED HERE IS ONE-HALF OF THE SEEDLING GREENHOUSE OF THE SHINER CACTUS NURSERY AT 2202 MARKET 
STREET, LAREDO, TEXAS 
Expensive imported seeds are planted here each Spring in red wood flats of especially prepared soil, with tweezers, to insure 
careful rows and correct naming. 
The world’s rarest species from the West'Indies, Mexico, Central America, all the countries of South America and Africa are 
in this way made available to collectors of rare plants. 
Mexico is joining the United States in a plant conservation movement and very soon will forbid all export of plants of her cactus 
species. Seedlings of Mexican species will therefore become increasingly valuable through the years. 
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Collectors are learning 
that seedlings are more suc¬ 
cessful in meeting the hous¬ 
ing and space requirements 
of the average home sunny 
window garden or small con¬ 
servatory. They transplant 
more succesfully, grow bet¬ 
ter, make up collections of 
rarer species, and give great¬ 
er pleasure than the average 
collection of United States 
desert species. 
Use of seedlings also fur¬ 
thers the conservation of nat¬ 
ural plant life for which there 
is need all over the country. 
Many cactus species will soon 
be extinct through the rav¬ 
ages of collectors for the 10 
cent stores, who leave plant 
death and landscape destruc¬ 
tion behind them as they go 
about their work. 
Cactus and succulent seed¬ 
lings may be shipped when 
they are between one and 
two years old. They are 
priced at an average of 10 
cents per year of growth. If 
you have ever raised seed¬ 
lings and have figured cost 
of seed, percentage of ger¬ 
mination and the cost and 
care necessary to get them 
through their infancy you 
realize this price is most 
reasonable. 
This nursery packs its 
seedlings for shipment in a 
nest of their own moist seed¬ 
ling soil and wrapped in wax¬ 
ed paper, to reach their des¬ 
tination fresh and in best of 
condition for quick re-rooting. 
Full directions for planting 
and care accompany all ship¬ 
ments. 
