Carlisle Plants are selected as carefully as you would select them from your own seed beds. 
TOMATO PLANTS 
PRODUCE VEGETABLES TWO WEEKS EARLIER 
with Carlisle Field-Grown Plants! 
Carlisle field-grown plants will produce crops from two to three weeks earlier than 
home-grown or hot-bed plants. Being grown slowly during the late Southern winter 
and early spring, these field-grown plants develop a strong root system which enables 
them to withstand low temperatures. Frost-proof cabbage and onion plants frequently 
undergo a temperature as low as 20 degrees. E. K. Kliason of Hot Springs, S. Dak., 
wrote, “The plants .1 received from you were at one time under snow three inches 
deep. It looks as though I have lost very few plants after such severe treatment.” 
Because Carlisle plants have developed such strong root system and have been sub¬ 
jected to such low temperatures, they can be set in the open field from fifteen to 
twenty days earlier than home-grown or hot-bed plants, thus producing a crop two 
to three weeks earlier. H. Schiefelbein of Berlin, Wisconsin, wrote, “The plants I 
received from you had a well-developed root system. If Northern growers knew 
what Southern grown plants would do for them, you would not be able to supply 
the demand.” The strong root system which is found in field-grown plants cannot 
be found in fast-grown, tender plants. Carlisle frost-proof plants extend their roots 
immediately after being set. They begin to grow with the first warm -sunshine. “I 
am still quite sure that northern truck growers and gardeners do not fully appreciate 
the worth of good Southern-grown plants.” wrote J. H. Beattie, Associate Horticul¬ 
turist, United States Department of Agriculture in Washington. 
Carlisle plants not only produce a crop earlier, but produce a good crop. Schwebbs 
Brothers of Hortonville, Wisconsin, wrote, “One of our growers made about twelve 
tons of cabbage to the acre.” The Georgia State Entomologist reported six New 
Jersey growers were nominated this year to the Ten-Ton Club, which bestows mem¬ 
bership on planters who raise ten tons of tomatoes per acre. Five of the six used 
certified Georgia tomato plants for their yields. The Entomologist said similar records 
were being made by Georgia plants in other states. 
Seventeen years ago we started with twenty acres of plants, now we have a thousand 
acres. There is nothing so significant when judging a business as the customers it 
holds. Without excessive advertising, without ballyhoo, Carlisle has moved up to 
first place in plant growing. This constant expansion proves that so many customers 
are so well pleased with the profits from Carlisle plants that they come back, year 
after year. For many years we have supplied more than 100,000 customers. 
In order to give our customers the best possible service, 
every shipment receives individual attention. Small 
orders receive the same care as the large ones. 
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