Tk. PLANT BANDS 
Few of us appreciate the check or damaging effect 
of taking young plants from open soil and trans¬ 
planting them. Some plants in the greenhouse 
apparently are little affected, but we know from 
long experience that Asters, Mums and Peas par¬ 
ticularly, show this checking effect strikingly when 
transplanted even in a protected greenhouse. Plant¬ 
ing outdoors unless pot grown, will check them 
severely. The one objection to flat grown bedding 
plants so largely sold to home gardeners is that 
frequently half the summer is necessary to reestab¬ 
lish them after digging them up and transplanting. 
The answer is grow them in pots, but clay pots 
run into real money, are easily broken and the soil 
dries out so fast in Spring that it is necessary to 
watch them continually. 
S)n Cf*LOU^ln^ VEGETABLE PUNTS 
for early crops or for home gardeners, band-grown 
plants are of particular value. When these plants 
are put out without the heavy check that follows 
when dug from the open soil, they get into bearing 
earlier. For vegetable plants we recommend the 
larger sizes. Selling bedding or vegetable plants is 
made more attractive when offered in these bands. 
They are made in Oregon. 
Our young aster plants at West Chicago, all grown in 2 in. 
bands. Note these bands are bottomless. This we find 
an advantage for the roots that ordinarily curl in the bot¬ 
tom of a pot, are left free to take immediate hold of the 
fresh soil. In growing plants in them, we prefer to set the 
bands on the bench bottom or in flats. Plants pictured 
were grown in flats set on bench soil. Also note this: A 2 
in. plant band holds 2J^ times more soil than does a 2 in. 
pot, and uses less space. The value of the additional soil 
for the plants is an argument for growing plants in these 
bands that will at once appeal to any practical grower. 
We are exclusive selling agents 
for them East of the Roeky Moun¬ 
tains and stoek them in carload 
lots at West Chicago from where 
shipments are made. 
Collapsed Ready for Shipment 
Bundle of 250 collapsed ready for shipment. Also the avail¬ 
able sizes. Since this picture was made, we have arranged 
for a smaller size, x 2}^", that should be of particular in¬ 
terest to growers of bedding plants for home gardeners. 
OREGON SPRUCE 
contains no material damaging to plant roots. Don’t break 
as do clay pots. Inexpensive as the following list shows: 
PRICE 
Wt. per 
Bundles 
SIZES 
per 1000 
1000 
of 
IH X IH X 23 /^" deep. 
. $2.40 
18 Ihs. 
500 
2x2x3" deep. 
. 2.60 
21 lbs. 
500 
3x3x3" deep. 
. 2.85 
29 lbs. 
500 
3x3x4" deep. 
. 3.10 
38 lbs. 
250 
4x4x3" deep. 
. 3.10 
38 lbs. 
250 
Please note that we do not break bundles. 
Prices are FOB West 
Chicago—shipped Express 
Charges Collect. 
