Bandtips at Random 
These Cypress Plantbands are designed pri- 
marily for use in greenhouse flats. After all, 
if you can move plants in larger units you 
reduce costs. So you will get the most out of 
them if you will set the bands up in flats, 
plant your plants in them, and thereafter 
“handle them by the flatful’. 
These Cypress Plantbands are not stapled. 
For things such as Azaleas, Rhododendrons, 
and some other types of plants which root 
close to the surface, it is best to remove the 
bands when planting either to field beds or 
rows. ‘To remove stapled bands is a very 
slow process. To remove these new cypress 
bands it takes only a “twist of the wrist”. 
Here is a “quickie” way to take them off. Set 
them in the row (band and all); grasp the 
band on both sides (see photo below) and 
with an outward movement remove it and 
drop it into a basket or other container, to 
eliminate the necessity of gathering later. 
If you are shifting to larger bands or pots, 
plants from bands, remove plant, band and 
all, from the flat, set it on the bench, and re- 
move the band as shown in the photo; then 
repot. You’ll find that much quicker than 
peeling off the band. 
We found it economical to make up flats of 
special sizes. Flats 1214” x 1814” (inside 
measurements) will hold 54 - 2x2x2l4 
bands; or the same size will hold 24 - 3x3x3, 
or 24 - 3x3x4. Flats 1234 x 20144 (inside 
measurements) will hold 40 - 216x21lx3 
bands; they will also hold 15°52s34x4Gr 
77 - 134x1384x214 bands. This latter size 
(134,) will be loose in the flat; but a short 
piece of lath dropped into the flat takes up 
You'll like the results 
you get from these Cy- 
press Plantbands. One 
user writes that just 
for the sake of com- 
parison he potted up 
some bedding plants in 
each: cypress’ bands, 
cottonwood bands, and 
clay pots, using the 
same soil mixture in 
all three. After three 
weeks those plants in 
cypress bands’ were 
considerably larger and 
stronger than either 
those in clay pots or 
cottonwood bands. 
They come off with a—» 
“twist of the wrist’’. 


