THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
755 
apple tree, but in the embryo stage; and this graft is to the 
three year old tree in exactly the same relation as the tip 
or sucker is to the transplant. They are in an undeveloped 
stage; they are incubator babies, and simply need careful 
attention for their development. 
So after all is said and done, we have not depreciated 
the value of the tip or sucker plant. We believe that if the 
fruit grower has his own plants he is just as safe, even in the 
fall of the year, to plant this light grade stock as he would 
be to plant transplants. But, the point at issue with this 
body of nurserymen is this; can you afford to take the 
long chance in delivering anything but the best possible 
stock to your customers? And when you know that the 
odds are many times in favor of failure in using this light 
stock can you afford to take the chance? Had you not 
better pay the extra price and get something that will be a 
credit to you, and a plant that will give your customer full 
value for the money he has paid ? 
USE STRONG PLANTS 
A well grown transplanted raspberry should be 18 to 24 
inches high. Some varie¬ 
ties will be more or less 
branched, while others will 
be a single straight stem, 
depending largely on the 
nature of the variety. They 
will have a good root sys¬ 
tem, equal to the currant 
or gooseberry, and at this 
stage of growth will with¬ 
stand as much exposure as 
other shrubs or plants of 
this nature. 
Thus you have for your delivery a plant that will show 
up with the grape vine, currant or gooseberry bush: 
one that it is not necessary to roll up in paper to keep from 
losing, and likewise a plant that will withstand transplant¬ 
ing in the field just as well as any of the plants we have 
compared them to. 
CUT BACK TRANSPLANTS 
Let me add a word of precaution, or rather advice, at 
this point lest it be overlooked. Advise your customers 
to cut back these transplants after planting to six or eight 
inches of the ground, for as a rule the top growth is out of 
proportion to the root system; besides a raspberry cane is 
usually more or less damaged by the cold of winter; and if 
I they are cut back and each hill mulched with a fork full 
of coarse litter it is safe to say that the loss will be very 
small indeed. 
Another point in favor of the transplant is that it can be 
dug several weeks earlier in fall than it is possible to dig the 
tip plant. There is but little danger of damage in packing 
these plants as there is but slight tendency to heat if 
properly packed; while the tip requires the most 
careful attention in packing, and should have pure 
moss as a packing material especially for fall ship¬ 
ment. 
There is a growing tendency throughout the entire 
country among nurserymen to deliver just as nice and fine 
stock as they can possibly get, and to give to each customer 
full value for every dollar they receive; and the transplant 
is not something new. Many of our leading nurserymen 
have been using it for years, and will consider no other 
grade for filling their oiders. 
AVOID CHEAP PLANTS 
The day of cheap plants is practically over. Our 
people are being educated to pay a fair price for any com¬ 
modity, providing they can get the quality they buy. 
They are beginning to discriminate against cheap stock. 
They realize that a few dollars saved in the purchase price 
of plants may mean the loss of hundreds of dollars at fruit¬ 
ing season. So the nurserymen realize that a pleased 
customer is a good thing to have, and he wants his stock on 
delivery day to compare with that of his fellow nurseryman, 
and when brought to the final test of making good to the 
grower in a financial way he wants to show a good record. 
The raspberry is only one of a long list of nursery stock; 
but what is true in this 
case is true all along the 
line. And when I point 
out to you the value and 
necessity of delivering the 
best raspberries you pos¬ 
sibly can, you can apply 
it to every article that you 
sell. The day is past when 
nurserymen tie up just 
anything in rye, straw, 
moss and burlap, and ex¬ 
act a big price for it. 
Nor has there been a club held over their heads to com¬ 
pel them to do the fair thing; but good business instinct, 
keen competition, and desire to do the right thing has 
been the incentive and the cause for much improvement in 
the last ten years in our business. 
The nurserymen of today take a pride in doing right, and 
the bundles of trees and plants they send out all over this 
land go out as advertisements of their respective establish¬ 
ments. When we see our stock loaded ready for shipment 
with the different tags billing them to all parts of the 
country, it stirs within us a feeling of just pride, as we think 
of each package being a bundle of value that will go to some 
person to give him profit and pleasure from the planting of 
it. When the time comes that the trees should bear and 
the flowers bloom he will have what he paid for, and his 
home and his life made brighter by our being nurserymen. 
CHARGE REASONABLE PRICE FOR GOOD STOCK 
A transplant cannot be grown for nothing, and you must 
not expect to get it cheap. Let us figure it out. You must 
first have the tip plant to start with, which costs money. 
This must be transplanted and grown one year, dug, graded 
and tied. If you get 75 per cent of these tips to grow you 
are doing well; more often you get 60 per cent. So there is 
no more profit in a transplant at $15.00 than a tip at $8.00. 
Peaches used as fillers in the apple orchard; now being removed 
Inter-mountain region 
