Start a 
HOME NURSERY 
To indicate how really small a home nursery can be, and still 
be useful, we offer sketch and notes. Do not wait until you 
need trees—large ones and in a hurry—but look over your 
grounds and plant now what you need 3, 5 or even 10 years 
hence. 
1. Save money and labor 
2. Save disappointments 
3. Save delays 

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4. Increase your enjoyment 
5. Rare interesting varieties 
6. Culture not difficult 
Sketch of a 
minimum 
size 
Home 
Nursery 






The plan shows a corner of a lot using a 9 by 12 foot area for a nursery — 
no more space than used by a small specimen tree. The shrubbery masks the 
area. Exposure is planned as if north were at the top—but any exposure 
would do, locating the Lath-screen in shady spot. 
Lath Screen sketched above is very 
important for young plants the first 
summer. Simply built of ordinary lath 
and a few nails. Screen is rested on 
the posts. 
Heel-in Area. Even a tiny spot kept 
free for this purpose, enables one to 
temporarily plant a shipment of plants 
the day received. They can safely 
remain for weeks if need be before 
permanent planting. Water well. 
NURSERY MANAGEMENT 
All figures given are absolute minimum spacing 
A—Seedlings or Rooted Cuttings 
Must be shaded first two years. 
Planted 9” x 9’, lath-house holds 
432. After two years, must be trans- 
planted into next grade. 
B—Once Transplanted Grade 
Grown as above, or bought. (Our 
Q yr. and 3 yr. Azaleas, e.g.) Space 
about 4”’ x 4’’ (108 in the lath-house 
pictured). Shaded first year, but the 
second year shade omitted except in 
drought. In 2 years, now twice trans- 
plants (‘XX’’), usable as hedge 
plants, for bedding, etc. 
C—Twice Transplanted Grade 
Can be moved into open, spaced 
8"’ x 8” (nursery pictured holds 162) 
and left two years. They are ‘‘shap- 
ed’; straggly branches lopped off 
with sharp knife. Cultivate, fertilize, 
water, no shade needed. After 2 
years, they are XXX (three times trans- 
planted), bushy and shapely. Such 
plants in this Guide would no longer 
be marked ye, as they are not now 
“small unformed young plants.”’ 
D—Specimens 
Every garden needs some larger, 
well formed plants. Such specimens 
are grown Q or more years spaced 
ae x 18” (nursery pictured holds 
2). 


Tsuga compacta — 
Large Plant 8 
years after 
planting smal! 
one. 
EVERGREEN SHRUBS 
Abelia (Each) 
Abelia Grandiflora (Everblooming). 
‘12'to. 1 Seins(pob sana $1.25 
Buxus (Box) 
Koreana (Dwarf, hardy). 
LOtOnl Otis are neee ete 9.95 
Holly 
Ilex Crenata (Japanese). 
Stour Coots ts san 1.00 
—Convexa (like boxwood). 
Sston Onna (pol) aaa ae 1.00 
Leucothoe 
Leucothoe catesbaei (White, April). 
toi comet LORRY Sere vee co Bios 1.90 
iSetOml Cela see ere kee PES 
Pieris 
Pieris japonica (White, April, gor- 
geous). 
SatomiOsiine AN OR ieee 
Pieris floribunda (White, May). 
TS! toe Galina ee eee eee 
1225 
5.00 
Sarcococca 
Sarcococca Hookeriana Pumilis. Ev- 
ergreen dwarf ground-cover shrub. 
Thrives in dense shade in poorest of 
soils. 
S<in. POt Le ede ae ee 
(10 for $7.50). 
Stransvaesia 
Undulata. (Flat, spreading. Winey 
leaves and red berries all winter). 
19° to 1S ine ee eee Sr50 
Viburnum 
—Rhytidophyllum (Showy ever- 
green). 
8 to7!O ing eee eLS 
18 to Q4rin eee 
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