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SINCE 1887 Marshalls have Served and 
Pleased Customers Throughout the Middle West 
ITH a record of fif ty-three years continuous service and growth, Marshalls 
Nurseries today are Nebraska’s oldest and largest nursery institution. 
Naturally we are proud and jealous of the reputation all these years of 
satisfactory service have built up. More than ever, then, today do we recog¬ 
nize that: 
The confidence of our customers in us and our pro¬ 
ducts means- iiioiv to us than do immediate profits. 
Ours is more than a local reputation, too. We have served patrons all over tliis 
central west. We can rightfiill)'^ point with pride to hundreds of homes, parks, ceme¬ 
teries, school and public grounds, and farms and orchards, made more beautiful, 
more fruitful and attractive with “Hetter Built” trees, plants and shrubs supplied 
from Marshalls Nurseries. 
Marshalls Hardy and Adapted Stock 
R esults in growth and bloom and fruitfulness—that’s what you want when 
you buy nursery stock. For this you need stock that you know is adapted tf) 
the soil in your section of the country, as well as stock that has been scientif¬ 
ically and correctly started and tended up to the time it is shipped to you. 
Marshalls stock is that kind, offering a complete line of everything best suited for 
the climate and soils in the central west, trees and plants grown in our own nurs¬ 
eries, according to Marshalls standards. Before any variety is added to our stocks, 
it is given rigid growing tests in our trial grounds. We also cooperate with the 
various experiment stations. 
T'bn.s our stocks contain only the proven hardiest, best-grow ing specimens, and 
those that are especially hardy are indicated in this book by an asterisk (,*). 
"BEHER BUILT" TREES 
In fact, we can say we build trees. No labor or expense is spared in the cult i- 
vation, scientific pruning, spraying and conditioning of trees in our nurseries.Every 
operation is done at the proper season and in the right way to produce the best trees 
and shrubs that it is possible to grow. 
lUTTTER BUILT TREES GROWN WITH PLENTY OF SPACE 
Above all, space must be given. Thick planting of trees and plants has the same 
effect on them that occurs to radishes and other seed vegetables when seed is sown 
too thickly. Growth of tops upward is the only result, while properly spaced plants 
will allow for side growth also. 
TESTED SUPERIOR STRAINS 
Numerous items offered by Marshalls are superior strains with outstanding character¬ 
istics. 
Trees and plants infrequently develop “bud sports”, which vary somewhat from the 
variety in one or more characteristic. When such variance is an improvement, like the better 
color of solid Red Delicious and Red Duchess, or has some other desirable quality, such in¬ 
dividual tree or plant is used for grafting wood for the propagation of the variety. 
Marshalls entire organization is constantly on the look-out for these better strains, and 
when found are carefully checked and put into propagation. After fifty years, most of the 
important standard sorts in Marshalls stocks have been improved and are definitely superior 
to ordinary trees and plants of same varieties. 
