QUALITY PLANTS 
This phrase has been bally-hoed for generations by practically everyone who has sold plants. In some cases it has been sincere; -in 
most cases, just parrot talk. 
WHAT IS A QUALITY PLANT? 
From a retail merchant’s point of view it is a plant with eye and price appeal that will produce volume sales. But, above all, it must be 
delivered to the customer without loss of vitality; otherwise it will not produce the flowers or fruit, the sole reason for which it was 
purchased. It is this last factor that determines whether there will be repeat business. 
The quality of plants, as with all living organisms, is an ever varying, invisible factor and can only be definitely established by results. 
The most we can hope to do is to conserve the God-given vitality developed in the plant while in the nursery. 
A universal fallacy is that the methods of growing plants in the nursery is the only important factor that need be considered. The 
growing is important to be sure, but it is love’s labor lost unless the plant arrives at its final destination with unimpaired vitality. 
The most difficult and least understood factor is the handling, preparation and protection of the plant’s vitality through the most 
critical period of its life cycle, the journey from nursery to garden. To overcome these difficulties so that plants might arrive at their 
journey’s end in as near nursery fresh condition as possible, we developed our Seal-Kraft Process and our further refined and improved 
Seal-Pakt Evaporation-proof tube method. These processes and packages are seemingly the last word in plant protection and truly 
supply the missing link between nursery and garden. 
Transferring plants from nursery to garden is in many respects similar to a person undergoing a major operation. Within the memory 
of people now living there was a time when a major operation was perilously close to being a death warrant. Science has developed prac- 
tices and equipment changing all this. Seal-Kraft and Seal-Pakt have likewise made it possible to distribute, in an orderly manner, plants 
via the store counter and yet have them arrive at their final destination in better condition than has usually been possible heretofore 
direct from the nursery. 
Good plants plus eternal vigilance, in the application of sound scientific principles is the only way by which the claim of Quality 
is justified. ‘‘A plant is no better than the package in which it travels.” 
AFTER FIVE DAYS RETURN TO 4 SEc. 562 P. ie & R. : 

MANCHESTER, CONN. 

THE ORIGINATORS OF 
SEAL-KRAFT 
and 
SEAL-PAKT 
THE WORLD’S BEST PLANTS 
FOR COUNTER TRADE 
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 


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