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THE BEAUTIFUL CONCOLOR FIR standing on our nursery © 
grounds is again featured on the cover. It is a remnant of the first plant-_ 
ing on this site in 1908 and has averaged about a foot of growth per year. 
Without special care or pruning, this shapely tree developed from a crooked 
scrubby little tree which was not saleable. 
THIS PRICE LIST also gives brief description and cultural notes 
of the main stock available for the spring of 1943. 
FOOD PRODUCING PLANTS and shelterbelt plants are the 
most important products of the nursery in these times of food and fuel. 
shortages, so are given first Ripe in the list. Food and fuel will ultimately — 
win the war. 
EQUIPMENT. A clay block building 100 x 100 feet with a 
large double-walled, insulated apartment provides room for storing and 
packing deciduous trees and shrubs with a minimum loss of vitality from 
exposure. Modern tools and machines for pane digging and handling 
stock are kept ready. 
LOCATION. The nursery is on eae! Hine No. 150, which 
connects with the Lincoln Highway seventeen miles south at Cedar Rap- 
ids, and with No. 20, twenty-five miles north, at Independence. ‘The 
office and storage house are just south of C. R. I. & P. station grounds 
and across the tracks from the Highway. ‘The fruit and nut orchards 
are one and one-half miles south of the nursery on No. 150. 
VISITORS can motor through the nursery when it is dry, on well 
maintained drives. 
BUSINESS HOURS. During the planting season, 7 to 12 A. M. 
and 1 to 6 P. M. week days. Please do not expect digging after regular 
hours or on Sundays. 

