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THE OPPORTUNITY 
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N O greater opportunity* has ever faced American nur¬ 
serymen than confronts them to-day. 
It is true that it costs more to grow a tree than it 
did a few years ago; it is true that labor is not as plentiful as 
it was before an army was needed to hunt the Hun. 
But, thank God, it is also true that the American people 
have their homes undefiled; their fields of grain growing 
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under the spring sun; their fruit trees blooming with the 
promises of future crops; their cattle grazing on a thousand 
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hills. 
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The potential purchasers of the trees growing in your 
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nursery are these same prosperous American people. The 
market development plan will put every nurseryman into 
closer relationship with these people, whether dwellers in the 
small town where a score of trees fill the allotted place, or 
farmers who can give acres to fruit crops. 
Your moral and financial support is needed if American 
nurserymen are to grasp what is in reach of their hands. 
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