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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
But for fall delivery we believe that the difference in price 
is not too great to prevent the transplants being used. Of 
course, this will mean a revision of prices at which you must 
sell your raspberries; but the satisfaction of sending out 
this stock will, we believe, over-balance the advance price. 
Now, I do not wish to be mis-quoted in this matter. I 
want you to understand that if you plant a tip or sucker 
plant early in spring when the ground is cool and moist, and 
if the plant has been carefully handled and given careful 
attention after starting to grow, you will have just as good 
results in every way as if you had used a transplant. But 
if your trade is of a character that exacts strong heavy 
stock, either in fall or spring, then the transplant is what 
you must have. 
Then, too, a transplant can be kept quite dormant in the 
spring long after the tip plant has perished, and it can then 
will be transplants. There will always be a place for the 
tip plant among large commercial growers, who understand 
caring for them; and it would be folly for them to use anv- 
thing else, for they understand how to handle them,when 
to plant, and how to care for them, and their results will 
be good. But the retail trade exacting the large, showy 
stock, to be planted by a promiscuous lot of planters, who 
understand little about the nature of a plant; there is but 
one class that will answer, and the transplants fill that bill. 
MR. WEBER ACKNOWLEDGES LOVING CUP 
To the Members of the “Cup Committee” and the Eastern 
Nurserymen: 
I hereby extend to you, one and all, my sincere and 
most grateful thanks for the beautiful “pitcher” presented 
to me by your committee. 
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be planted with perfect safety; and so it again fills a place 
that cannot be filled with the other class of stock. 
Now, do not think that you can get a transplant at a 
cheap price, and do not ask it, and if you buy tip plants 
and deliver them along with your competitor, who has 
bought and paid for transplants, do not try to discount 
your bill because your plants were not as good as his, nor 
as large or showy as you imagine they should have been. 
And in buying do not hammer down the price to the tip 
basis, and expect to get transplants. You must be willing 
to pay the price. 
DEMAND FOR GOOD STOCK INCREASING 
There is a growing demand for this class of stock, and it 
is only a question of time when all raspberry plants de¬ 
livered in the fall of the year will be transplants. And 
many firms we believe will use no other grade at any time, 
owing to their size, appearance, and the general satisfaction 
they give. All raspberries planted very late in the spring 
It will ever be cherished and I assure you that the token 
is highly appreciated. 
Yours very truly, 
Nursery, Mo. F. A. Weber. 
Mr. Weber adds: “The reproductions of the loying 
cup and the pitcher are excellent as they appear in the 
National Nurseryman. I am most grateful for this 
expression of appreciation on behalf of my friends in the 
East.” 
TEXAS NURSERYMEN’S ASSOCIATION 
This active and progressive organization met at Waco 
during the middle of last month and held a highly satis¬ 
factory series of sessions. This association has held 
three meetings since July, 1909. President J. R. Mayhew 
of Waxahachie,Texas, occupied the chair on these occasions. 
A fuller report will be given next issue. 
