SHERMAN NURSERY COMPANY, 
CHARLES 
CITY, IOWA 
Why Thousands Insist on Sherman’s 
High Quality Trees and Shrubs 
Frequently the purchaser of nursery stock 
is not aware of the method of growing trees 
and plants. Many nurseries grow their trees 
very closely together in the nursery rows so 
that the plants become spindly and under- 
nourished. It is true the trees or plants may 
grow to be “two years old” or 2 to 3 feet, hut 
these grades are misleading. 
Note Pictures 
Our Old Customers Are Not Misled by 
the Cheap Catalog and Radio Offerings 
The small one is a 12- to 18-inch mail¬ 
order grade and the large one Sherman’s 
specimen grade. Is the small one worth 
planting? It should be grown by the nursery¬ 
man for 2 years more before being sent to 
a home planter. It is a nursery line-out grade 
and not strong enough for the home planter. 
The small plant weighs 2 ounces. Sherman’s 
specimen weighs 32 ounces. 
Photograph of mail-order 3- 
to 4-ft. apple tree and Sherman’s 
specimen grade (5 to 6 ft). The 
small tree weighs 6 ounces and 
Sherman’s specimen tree 40 
ounces. Notice that Sherman’s 
tree is 6 2/3 times the size of the 
small tree. The value is propor¬ 
tionate. It takes more than height 
to indicate the value. The home 
planter wants a strong tree with 
head formed. 
T he pictures on this page show the 
value of Sherman’s Grade of Hardy 
Northern Grown Trees and Plants as 
compared with mail-order and radio grades. 
Cheap prices mean light and inferior stock 
—as in every line of merchandise—you get 
what you pay for. Why waste time with 
cheap, inferior trees and plants? 
The Sherman Nursery Company has de¬ 
livered strictly first-class nursery stock to 
its careful buyers for over half a cen¬ 
tury and has thousands upon thousands of 
satisfied customers. 
Two samples of 12- to 18-inch Barberry hedge plants. 
The light ones are a mail-order grade from a seed-bed. 
The heavy ones are Sherman’s plants and have been trans¬ 
planted and grown with plenty of space for root and limb 
development. The average weight is 2 ounces and 7 ounces 
respectively. 
Both of these plants are 2 to 3 feet high. 
The light one is a mail-order grade that was 
grown in a thick row and did not have room 
for side development. The heavy one was 
grown in a wide open row. The mail-order 
plant weighs 4 ounces. Sherman’s specimen. 
32 ounces. 
