
CASHMAN NURSERIES, INC., OWATONNA, MINNESOTA 
FOREWORD 
N presenting this catalog to our customer's we do so with a great 
deal of pride and satisfaction. This year will complete our 
@ || forty-eighth year in the nursery business. We started forty- 
(2a)| eight years ago without land, money, equipment, or experience, 
consequently the first few years were full of trials, discourage- 
ments, and disappointments. 
Our early experience in the propagation of nursery stock (which 
is highly technical and hazardous in the beginning of a tree or plant’s 
life) was like other beginners in the business—big losses, and poorly 
grown trees and plants was the result. Finally we mustered enough 
money so we were able to hire a man who had had some experience 
and from him we gained a little knowledge of the intricate features of 
propagating nursery stock. Better stock made friends, and more busi- 
ness, which gave us money to hire 
more expert propagators, construct 
modern buildings, and equipment, to 
purchase land and to propagate, plant, 
and grow scientifically large quantities 
of all kinds and varieties of trees, 
shrubs, and plants that can be grown 
successfully in the central northwest. 
Our chief satisfaction is not wholly 
the fact that we have weathered the 
phe Pate storm financially, but because we have 
POG. Hae CASHMAN reached the goal where we can honest- 
Founder ly say that no concern grows better 
nursery stock, no concern grades more closely—in fact, the stock we 
reject as unfit for our retail trade now, is much better in many cases 
than that produced and delivered during the first years of our exist- 
ence—and no concern spends more, and few as much, in time and 
money in packing each bundle and protecting the roots so they will 
reach the customer in prime condition. The facts are that it has taken 
us many years to reach the position where we can give 100% 
service. All the money that we have made thus far, outside of a 
living, has gone into our plant—land, equipment, buildings, and well 
grown nursery stock. It has taken the better part of a lifetime of 
persistent, painstaking, honest en- e 
deavor to reach the position that we MRS. THOS. E. CASHMAN 
have now attained. : President and Treasurer 
From now on, there will be no ques- ; 
tion about us being able to furnish the best that skill and money can, 
produce—nursery stock true to name, each tree and shrub labeled: so 
there can be no substitution—and to serve, in every case, in a manner: 
that will give a full measure of satisfaction to all who deal with us. 
For some time back, we have been able to say that no tree, shrub or 
plant has left this place that was not as near the state of perfection 
as is humanly possible to make it,.and it will be our policy to sitead- 
fastly follow that course in the future. 
Trees and plants that are perfect, or nearly so, do not happen by 
chance; they are made perfect by painstaking, intelligent methods and 
persistent work, all of which takes 
money to bring about, particularly in 
this northern region where we don’t 
get more than half the growth in a 
season that is attained in the sunny 
south. It costs more than twice as 
much to grow nursery stock in the 
~ north as it does in the south, because, 
as stated, a tree or plant doesn’t at- 
M. R. CASHMAN tain more than half the growth, but if 
Manager we are to furnish stock that will live 
out its expectancy without climatic in- 
jury, the stock must be grown in this northern region. Growing prac- 
tically all of our stock here, hiring the most scientific men that can be 
secured, grading to a point where every tree, shrub, and plant is either 
at, or near, the state of perfection, assures success to the customers 
we serve. ; 
As the greatest cost to the customer is the cost of preparing land, 
planting, and caring for the stock after it is planted, you cannot afford 
to waste time, or money, on anything but good stock that is grown in 
this northern climate, and as that class of stock costs several times oe pata OW ny re Bic 
more to produce than poorly grown stock that is handled in a slipshod, Secretary 



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