A COMMON-SENSE TALK 
ON QUALITY 
Remember Topsy, the little pickaninny of Uncle Tom’s'Cabin? 
Topsy “jest growed.” 
But Superior Quality Nursery Stock doesn’t “jest grow.’’ 
No indeed 1 Superior Quality Nursery Stock is the result of ideal 
climate, good rich soil and exacting care combined with: 
Five Points of Superiority That Result 
in Genuine Satisfaction to You 
Pedigreed Parentage 
Shield-Type Budding Protection 
Scientific Root and Top Pruning 
Nu-Way Spacing 
Entire Root-Wrap Moisture Control 
Our now famous Five Point Program of Superiority is winning 
hosts of friends for us every season. That’s the best proof of the 
Prize Winning Quality of stock produced as a result of these five 
scientific steps in propagation. 
Pedigreed Parentage 
Why does one apple tree come into bearing a year or two earlier 
than another? PEDIGREED PARENTAGE! Why are apples on 
the good tree larger, heavier, juicier, of a fine, full bodied rich flavor 
and of excellent keeping qualities, while from the ordinary tree that 
“jest growed’’ the fruit is sparse and small and of a decidedly poor 
Qavor? PEDIGREED PARENTAGE! 
Why does a Blue Ribbon shrub or rose in the home owner’s garden 
develop into a vigorous, hardy, full sized plant bearing a profusion 
of large, strong-stemmed, brilliantly colored blooms, while the ordi¬ 
nary bush is a comparative weakling? PEDIGREED PARENT¬ 
AGE! 
Pedigreed Parentage means selecting and discarding, picking and 
choosing, till exactly the right seedling stock is obtained and then 
the union (or marriage) with it of the finest and most appropriate 
type of budding stock. 
That is Pedigreed Parentage! 
Shield Type Budding Protection | 
Scientific experiments have definitely shown that the methods of 
budding formerly employed, where this important operation was 
done in the cheapest way, resulted in nursery stock distinctly in¬ 
ferior to Pedigreed Stock. 
To meet the exacting standards of Shield Type Budding Protec¬ 
tion the cut which we make in the seedling (root stock) for the pur- i 
pose of inserting the bud (variety stock), is a Shield Type incision, j 
The operation must be done at exactly the right time, when both 
the seedling and bud variety are in proper condition for growth. The ! 
bud must be of just the proper maturity to slide in the incision with¬ 
out forcing, which might injure the bud and weaken the plant. 
SHIELD TYPE BUDDING PROTECTION is a most important 
factor in the production of Gold Medal nursery stock of genuine | 
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