only large sales but large profits, as perennials can so easily be 
grown from seeds into a marketable plant in such a short time 
and with so little labor that we consider our perennial frames as 
being one of the most profitable items of our business, and as an 
example of how easily and how quickly these plants can be 
handled when in pots, we cite a case that happened to us when 
one of our customers bought 56% dozen perennials at $2.50 to 
$3.50 per dozen. The writer personally made the sale. Walking 
through the aisles this lady ordered these plants comprising 
about twenty-five different varieties. It required about thirty 
minutes to make the sale of nearly 700 plants. As this was a 
hurry job, the plants were lifted out of the frames and loaded in 
three trucks and in less than two hours’ time after this lady 
arrived at our nursery three truck loads of perennials were on 
the way to her country home. Comparing this with the time it 
would have taken us to have dug these perennials with a ball of 
soil and wrapped every one of them easily proves the value of 
our Cloverset Pots in this line of plants. 
We grow our hardy perennial plants as follows: In late March 
the seeds are planted in flats in our greenhouses. Along about 
May first the plants are large enough to transplant into two-inch 
pots, and by that time our greenhouses are rapidly being emptied 
of our bedding plants, giving us plenty of room. They are taken 
care of in these pots in the greenhouse until about June first, at 
which time our big perennial season is over and our outside 
frames are pretty well cleaned out. So about June first these 
plants are taken out of the two-inch pots and planted about six 
inches apart in the frames where, with an overhead watering 
system, they are taken care of during the Summer and Fall. 
When Winter sets in they are covered with hay and lattice frames 
over which tar paper is nailed to keep them dry during the 
Winter. Just as soon in the Spring as possible, along about 
March 15, we take them up with a ball of soil and put them in 
our No. 0 or our No. 1 perennial pot and they are set close to- 
gether back in the frame from which they came, and there they 
grow throughout the Spring planting season, the rush of which is 
over about June 10. Any plants left over are then moved to 
empty frames in our large rose gardens where we have plenty 
of room for them as by that time most of our roses have been 
sold. 
These perennials weigh about 4 lbs. each in No. 0 Pot and 9 
lbs. each in No. 1 Pot, growing in our Cloverset Pots, and can 
be lifted, delivered and replanted without showing the slightest 
wilt to the foliage or blooms and without the slightest injury 
to the plant because the root system is not disturbed in any 
way. We not only give our customers better plants, but we 
give them plants that look more like they are worth the money, 
and we also give them plants that will not die due to transplant- 
ing. The purchaser can see the advantage of buying plants in 
pots and is a satisfied customer and will come back again. 
This program is being used this year on 40,000 perennials in 
80 different varieties, and we expect to sell every one of them 
during the busy season next Spring and Summer. Use Cloverset 
Pots and make bigger profits. 
USE CLOVERSET POTS TO MODERNIZE YOUR 
NURSERY BUSINESS 
No left-overs to throw away at the end of the planting season. 
Cheap enough to be given away with the plant. 
Help you get a better price, therefore, a better profit. 
Help you go through the dull Summer season with a profit. 
Bring your business up to date. 
GROWING SHRUBS AND VINES IN 
CLOVERSET POTS 
Cloverset Pots are especially adapted to growing shrubs. Not 
only can we sell these shrubs in full foliage and in full bloom 
during the blooming season, but having foliage on them they look 
much larger than they do as dormant plants. They again, as by 
our system all of our plants are growing on top of the ground, 
the plants look much larger than they really are. 
We buy two to three foot shrubs which when planted in our 
pots look one foot taller. We start them off in these pots and we 
can sell them any time during the Spring, Summer or Fall sea- 
son, and as we keep them growing on through the Summer, we 
always have larger and heavier shrubs for our Fall sales than 
we had in the Spring, and if any of them are left over when 
Winter sets in, they are laid down flat in the frame, covered with 
hay and next Spring set up again, when, due to their being estab- 
lished from the previous Summer’s care, they are much more 
vigorous and better shrubs than they were the year before and 
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