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Better Built TREES oni PLANTS : 
1. FULL HEI@HT. hee 
2 WELL DEVEL OPED and DISTRIBUTED 
LIMB STRUCTURE 
3. TRUNKS of GOOD CALIPER 
4. BALANCED and COMPLETE ROOT SYSTEM 
Pruning, pinching back, spraying and other operations essential to the 
growth of the best formed stock is done only by experts and at exactly 
the right time. Marshall's trees are not only nursed, but "built" into 
real individuals. They are worth more. 
BETTER BUILT TOPS 
By early and proper pruning, a better balanced top is established in 
young Marshall trees. Note this illustration of a typical example...... 
the spaced limb distribution on the main trunk (crowded limbs result in 
Weak structure), and how the long, straight leader provided for fine 
future development for this tree. 
Selected Strains 
Trees and plants frequently develop “bud sports,” which differ somewhat from 
the variety. When such difference is an improvement, like the better color of 
solid Red Delicious, or with some other better quality, wood from such indi- 
vidual tree or limb is used for the propagation of the variety. 
Marshalls entire organization is constantly on the iook-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 va- 
rieties. Our stock is constantly being improved by this practice. 
Grafting fully perpetuates the same characteristics and qualities of the original |. %% ss teen 
tree. Bag rE ov 
New Super- Hardy ik: ead 
Hybrids 
New varieties originated by in- 






_ Photograph of parcel post 3-4 
ft. apple tree and Marshalls speci- 
gnen grade (5-6 feet). The small 
dividuals such as Prof. Hansen of 
the South Dakota Experiment Sta- 
tion and especially by the Minne- 
Sota Fruit Breeding Farm, Iowa 
State College and the New York ex- 
Deriment Station which have been 
carrying on selection and hybridi- 
zation for about thirty years,have 
been tested out in our trial or- 

tree weighs 6 ounces and the Mar-. 
shalls specimen tree 40 aunces. 
Notice that Marshalls specimen 
tree is six and two-thirds times 
the size of the small tree. The 
value is proportionate. It takes 
more than height to indicate the 
value. The home planter wants a 
strong tree with head formed. 

Vanhoutte Spirea, both plants 3-4 feet 
high. The light one is a parcel post grade 
that was grown in a thick row and did not 
have room for side development. The heavy 
one was grown by Marshalls in a wide open 
row. The parcel post plant weighs 4 ounces. 
Marshalls specimen 32 ounces. 
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Chards and worthy ones added to 
our list for propagation. These hybridizers have combined harai- 
1 ness and quality by scientific breeding and have released a num- 
ber of new superior varieties, literally a New-Race of apples, 
better adapted to the rigorous climate of the North and West. 
| Marshalls have these new fruits, that will thrive and produce in 
the northwest where the older eastern varieties failed. 
BETTER, HARDIER ROOTS 
Marshall's trees are two counts to the good right from the 
CS tarteades first, roots from hardy northern strains, and second, 
the right kind of soil, and constant care and cultivation. These 
factors account for the unusually fine root structure for which 
Marshall's trees are noted. 

Look for these all-important qualities in the trees you select, 
remembering that it pays to plant the best. Good limb distri- 
‘bution and a fully developed root system are two "musts" for 
every tree worth planting. 
