AVe constantly test our stock that 
neither you nor we may take chances.— 
Reeently we weighed a thousand plants 
grown by others, and a thousand of our 
own of the same species, grade, and 
height.— Ours weighed five times as much 
as the others.— Many times we have com¬ 
pared our two-year seedlings with three- 
year transplants from others, to find ours 
stockier and larger. — W e find, further, 
that many of our one-year seedlings are 
better than two-year seedlings from other 
nurseries. 
AVe not only have the soil, but we have 
the “know-how,”—the seientifie knowl¬ 
edge and practiee for producing little-tree 
efficiency. 
AA^e carry nothing in storage, never dig 
])lants in blocks or sections.—AA^hen your 
order is to be shipped, we take the plants 
from the ground, count, inspect, and grade 
them under cover, properly pack them, 
and deliver them to the depots — every 
one right out of the ground — fresh. 
Fresh, FRESH! 
AA^hat a difference from European stock! 
— dug in the fall, stored like cord-wood 
all winter, from ten days to four weeks 
on the water, several days or a week 
or more on the wharf, then shipped to 
you, some alive, some half dead, some 
all dead, and all inevitably diminished in 
vitality. — It ean’t be otherwise, with 
thousands of miles of travel, hit-or-miss 
storage, many handlings, eertain delays 
with accompanying injury, resulting in 
growth stunted for at least one year, 
always with a fearful tree mortality, 
and probably infected with pests and 
disease. 
AA^e sell success as well as trees,— 
mutual suceess, three-sided success, yours, 
your customer’s, and ours. 
Your reputation and ours are our assets, 
and the combination stands for more 
money for both of us, and satisfied cus¬ 
tomers. 
AA^ill you not ally yourself and your 
influence with this new movement toward 
strictly honest and highly scientific pro¬ 
duction, the increase and improvement of 
strictly American-grown plants ? 
Ilecause we plant and grow more forest 
trees than anybody else in America, we 
(|uote you lower prices than you could 
obtain elsewhere for quality anywhere near 
approaching ours. — Theoretically you 
may get a thousand trees from Holland, 
France, or Germany for a little less first 
cost, but nature does not permit them to 
be profitable to you or your customer. 
AYe allow liberal eount and running- 
over measure.— In a bundle of a hundred 
we place from five to ten extra plants, 
which means from five to ten thousand 
additional in every hundred thousand.— 
Our smaller plants are tied by raffia in 
bundles of a hundred, which cannot in¬ 
jure the stems, and larger plants are 
packed twenty-five or fifty, aceording to 
size, and tied by willow withes specially 
grown by us, guaranteeing no injury to 
the bark of little trees. 
In a word, on American soil we pro- 
duee Ameriean plants for American use. — 
Our stock is grown in our fields, waiting 
for your order.— It’s not stored to save 
expense and time. — Your order is filled 
from the field, that you may receive tree 
health, vigor, and long life. 
AYe give you what you want, when you 
want it. 
Yours for more, better, and 
lasting business, 
AMERICAN FORESTRY 
COMPANY, 
Theodore F. Borst, 
Forest Engineer. 
“The Nursery for Nurserymen.” 
