HILLS evei2QR€€N BOOK 
C Four hundred and fifty (450) acres of evergreens is not an 
everyday sight. It is the largest tract of land in the world devoted 
exclusively to raising evergreens—and on this tract there are more 
than fifty million evergreen trees. 
Quantity Without Quality Will Not Build a Success 
I C I have told you something of the immense acreage we employ, 
II now let me tell you something of the QUALITY of the Hill 
Evergreen. 
I C Hill Evergreens are grown right! There are different QUALI¬ 
TIES of Evergreens, just as there are different grades of calicoes, 
silk, etc. To produce Evergreens that will measure up to the 
standard of Hill quality requires the most pains-taking care and 
attention. 
C The HILL Evergreen is watched, cared for—NURSED, I 
might say—from the very minute it peeps through the soil until 
it is carefully packed and made ready for shipment. Trained 
experts constantly watch and guard its growth. 
C When the seeds germinate and the seedling pushes its way 
I through the ground, it is protected from the hot rays of the sun 
by placing light wooden slats across the top of the 
beds. These slats are adjusted from day to day as 
demanded by climatic conditions, so that just the 
proper amount of air and sunlight will reach the seed¬ 
lings. No weeds are allowed in the seed beds, so that 
every particle of nourishment in the soil goes into the 
growing trees. 
C After two years of constant care and watchfulness the seedlings 
are transplanted into rows about two feet apart. Here they are 
under constant cultivation with hand and horse cultivators for 
another two years. 
C At the end of the first year they are “root pruned.” This process 
consists of cutting off the roots of the little trees a certain distance 
beneath the surface of the soil. Wherever one of the roots is cut 
the tree produces a mass of fibrous feeding roots which enables it 
to take up nourishment much more rapidly from the soil. 
C At the end of another year the tree is taken 
up and transplanted. 
This process of root pruning one year and 
transplanting another year continues as long 
as the trees remain in our nursery. 
Transplautingr 
Seedlings 
Strong 
and 
Healthy 
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