Watch Your Plants Grow 
RA-PID-GRO 

Use The Miracle Plant Food 
& Contains Vitamin B! and B2 Plus 11 Other Plant 
Food Elements. 
Makes A Complete, Quickly Available, Easily Pre- 
pared Plant Food By Merely Adding Water. 
This wonderful Plant Food is also called “The Plant Blood Donor because it is 
immediately taken in by the plant feeders and sustains life and develops growth. 
Read the Facts Below — We Know You Will DECIDE TO USE RA-PID-GRO 
What Is RA-PID-GRO? 
Ra-pid-gro is a complete concentrated plant food formula. 
Easily made into an immediate effective liquid fertilizer by 
simply adding water. It will speed up growth of plants now 
in place and will assure more successful transplanting of 
new plants. 
How Is It Used? 
Ra-pid-gro is so easily prepared for use. Just add water at 
the rate of 1 pound of Ra-pid-gro to 22 gallons of water. 
Allow to dissolve and it’s ready tor use. Apply around each 
plant according to directions on the bag. For use on small 
numbers of plants mix at the rate of a teaspoonful to a quart 
of water. Also very valuable for use when transplanting. 
Dip plants in solution for three or four minutes. 
What Will lt Do? 
Ra-pid-gro will work almost unbelievable miracles in pro- 
moting rapid and healthy growth on all types of plants. Use 
it on lawns, around shade trees, evergreens, shrubs, roses, 
perennials, vegetables and house plants. Many times plants 
which have been given up for dead will respond to applica- 
tions of Ra-pid-gro. All the vital plant food elements are 
present in this remarkable discovery and since it is applied 
in liquid form, are readily available to the roots of the plant. 
Stop Expensive and Tragic Transplanting Losses 
By usng a large tub or pail and mixing Ra-pid-gro with 
water at the rate of 22 gallons of water to one pound, you 
have a solution in which to dip the roots of the plants before 
setting out. If this is done, you will practically eliminate 
transplanting losses. Trees, shrubs, roses, evergreens, and 
similar plants should be set in the solution 3 to 4 minutes. 
Berry plants one minute. Vegetable and house plants just 
dip and remove. Grass and vegetable seeds should be 
sprinkled with Ra-pid-gro before sowing. Use the solution 
for watering after setting out plants or sowing seed. 
How Much Will | Need? 
To estimate your season’s requirements of Ra-pid-gro 
figure at the rate of 1 pound of Ra-pid-gro for each 100 
pounds of other fertilizer you have been using. Or the manu- 
facturer recommends the following: For a lot 40x60 ft., 
with 15 shrubs, 20 ft. of hedge, 3 fruit trees, 2 evergreens, 
12 roses, and 800 sq. ft. of lawn, 5 lbs of Ra-pid-gro for a 
season’s feeding. A lot 40x 100 ft., with 25 shrubs, 3 shade 
trees, 4 fruit trees, perennial bed, a few grapes and rasp- 
berries, 10 evergreens, a small vegetable garden, and 1500 
sq. ft. of lawn, requires 10 lbs. per season. A lot 75 x 150 ft., 
with 48 roses, 40 shrubs, 4 shade trees, perennials, 6 ever- 
greens, hedge, vegetable garden, strawberry and raspberry 
patch, grapes, 10 fruit trees, and 4000 sq. ft. of lawn will 
require only 20 lbs. of Ra-pid-gro per season. 
Make This Test 
Get 1 pound of Ra-pid-gro and mix as specified and apply 
to a small staked-off section of your lawn; or to a tew 
selected rose bushes, berry plants, perennials, etc. At the end 
of 30 days you will be surprised at the difference between 
~ those fertilized with Ra-pid-gro and those left unfertilized. 
You'll be a booster for this remarkable and easy way to 
secure almost phenomenal results from your plants. 
How Does Its Cost Compare With Other Fertilizers? 
Ra-pid-gro is less expensive than other fertilizers. In the 
larger quantities it makes your fertilizer cost about Yc per 
pound, as against a cost of about 3c per pound for average 
fertilizers. Remember, 1 lb. of Ra-pid-gro makes 176 lbs. of 
rich and complete plant food. 
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1. Q. 
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When should I place my order? 
Just as quickly as possible after 
receiving our catalog, Order will 
then be booked and stock reserved 
for shipment on any date you might 
specify, or at proper planting time. 
By the Average Person 
Buying Nursery Stock 
5. Q. 
trench with earth, firmly packing 
the soil around the roots and water 
well. If unable to heel in outdoors, 
open bundle and place in cool base- 
ment. 
Why do the leaves on my Lemon, 
necessary both trees be the same 
variety—just 2 peach, 2 apple, ete. 
- How many strawberry plants required to 
plant an acre? 
. Setting your strawberries 18 in. apart in the 
row with the rows 4 ft. apart, it will require 
about 7,000 plants. Red raspberries set 3 ft. 
apart in the row with rows 6 ft. apart — 2,400 
plants; black raspberries, 344 ft. apart in the 
row with the rows 7 ft. apart, 1,750 plants to 
the acre. 
2.Q.May I buy other items of stock, Gardenia or Orange plants turn 10. Q. Will you tell me how to spray my trees and 
grades or small quantities than yellow? . plants and what to use? 
offered in your catalog? A. This indicates lack of plant food Pees ATF aT poke Sp Tay. Oo crea (On. ace 22) 
A. Sorry, we cannot furnish any other or too much water. Recommend you 11. @ A oe eh ee plant one 
varieties or grades. Also kindly do fertilize about once a month with KONoi'Goulmay plant-ihemiaide herder eee 
not request smaller amounts than Sacco or Vigoro. Water plant from any danger of mixing — June-bearing and Ever- 
quantities priced in catalog. Espe- bottom by placing pot in pan of oon oe alike. a, 4 
y : = capone = u - M. Is it mecessary to plant two varieties o 
cially strawberries—these are put water do not keep too moist. Straw bescles bo lndote ee 
up in bunches of 25 plants and we Wash plant occasionally with a AGN: tall Varteticn Ge Gre oder eae 
cannot break these bunches. : soapy solution made by dissolving flowering and require no other kind to insure 
3. Q. 1 am interested in a certain bargain ivory soap. _ fruit. ; 
you are offering — but I already 6. Q. How far should red raspberries be  12- Q. ee a7 age plants set this spring fruit 
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have one of the items listed. May I set from the blacks? ‘bl A. Only the Everbearing kind — June-bearing 
exchange it for another variety! A. As the blacks are more susceptible should not be permitted to bear until next year. 
A. Sorry, we cannot alter our bar- to disease than the reds, we recom- 14. Q. What causes the gummy substance on my 
gains; if you cannot use them as mend planting them at least thirty , phy a! pos ee a 
j <j . » _ 7 ire- . . . : a orer. is can be con- 
listed, kindly order your require rods from the reds. : trolled with Benadithlorabawesce o seme 
ments at regular list price. 7. Q. When is the best time to plant? as per manufacturers directions. 
4, Q. Stock has arrived but conditions are A. Just as quickly as the frost is out 15.Q. Lage Ae wrong, with my Blusberrias= 
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such I cannot plant | now — how of the ground and it can be worked a P codudad: bareiee? ave madesnorsrowe 
should I take care of it? into a mellow condition. The A. No doubt your soil lacks acidity and moisture. 
A.If conditions are such stock can be earlier, the better your chances of povenens teste ee 5pH. If not, the ad- 
heeled in outdoors, dig a trench success will be. Gall dena te rete: dig Bo nabe pene 
about 2 inches deeper than stock 8. Q. Should I plant more than one Nut have plenty of water. 
stood in nursery row (this will tree? 16. ne Pe vou nave os Sse: ; a 
be indicated by soil line), place A. Yes, all Nut trees should be planted : hy ae e Montmammoth is a 
stock in trench at an angle, fill 
in pairs to insure proper cross fer- 
more dwarf grower than most kinds, but it is a 
standard type tree and not a dwarf. 
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