LEESLEY BROTHERS :: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 
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PLANTING SEASON 
T HE best time to plant nursery stock is after the leaves have dropped in the Fall until it freezes up or after it 
thaws out in the Spring until the leaves begin to bud out. The hardier flowering plants, trees and shrubs 
do better if set in the Fall, while most of the other planting is more successful if done in the Spring. Ever¬ 
greens may be set much later in the Spring than the deciduous plants. It is best to send in your orders before the 
planting season, before stock is diminished or varieties sold out. Better a long ways ahead than a minute too late. 
Plant birches, honey locust, tamarix and red bud in the Spring. 
INSPECTION 
Our nursery is inspected annually by a State inspector who certifies that it is free from all scale or other 
insects, and fungus diseases. 
A copy of this certificate of inspection is sent with every shipment from our nursery. 
OFFICE OF THE ILLINOIS STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 
Urbana. Illinois 
This is to C ERTIFY that the growing nursery stock and premises of Leesley Bros., situated at Chicago, III., have been inspected 
by.. a duly appointed inspector of this office, according to the provisions of an act to prevent 
the introduction and spread in Illinois of the San Jose scale and other dangerous insects and contagious diseases of fruits, in force July 
1, 1907, and that said nursery and premises are apparently free from the San Jose scale and other dangerous insects and dangerous plant 
diseases. 
This certificate applies only to the condition of this nursery for the year ending. 
S. A. FORBES, State Entomologist. 
