Food Elements. 
Watch Your Plants Grow 
Use The Miracle Plant Food 
Contains Vitamin B! and B2 Plus 11 Other Plant 
RA-PID-GRO 
& 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 for 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 It 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 few 
selected rose bushes, berry plants, perennials, etc. At the end 
of 80 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 %c per 
pound, as against a cost of about 8c per pound for average 
fertilizers. Remember, 1 lb. of Ra-pid-gro makes 176 lbs. of 
rich and complete plant food. 
ALL PRICES ARE DELIVERED 
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1. Q. When should I place my order? 
A. 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, 
2.Q.May I buy other items of stock, 
grades or smaller quantities than 
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ment. 
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Gardenia or 
yellow? 
offered in your catalog? A. This indicates lack of plant food 
or too much water. Recommend you 1!- 
fertilize about once a month with 
Sacco or Vigoro. Water plant from 
bottom by placing pot in pan of 
water — do not 
Wash plant occasionally with a 
soapy solution made by dissolving 
A. Sorry, we cannot furnish any other 
varieties or grades. Also kindly do 
not request smaller amounts than 
quantities priced in catalog. Espe- 
cially strawberries—these are put 
up in bunches of 25 plants and we 
cannot break these bunches. 
3. Q. 1 am interested in a certain bargain 
you are offering — but I already 
have one of the items listed. May I 
ivory soap. 
A. Sorry, we cannot alter our bar- 
gains; if you cannot use them as 
listed, kindly order your require- 
ments at regular list price. 
such I cannot plant now — how 
should I take care of it? 
A. If conditions are such stock can be 
heeled in outdoors, dig a trench 
about 2 inches deeper than stock 
ns Most Commonly Asked 
By the Average Person 
Buying Nursery Stock 
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- 
. Why do the leaves on my Lemon, 
Orange plants turn 10. 
6. Q. How far should red raspberries be 13. 
set from the blacks? 
exchange it for another variety? A. As the blacks are more susceptible 
to disease than the reds, we recom- 14. 
mend planting them at least thirty 
rods from the reds. 
7. Q. When is the best time to plant? 
4, Q. Stock has arrived but conditions are A. Just as quickly as the frost is out 15.Q. What is wrong with 
of the ground and it can be worked 
into a mellow condition. The A. No doubt your soil lacks acidity and moisture. 
earlier, the better your chances of 
success will be. 
8. Q. Should I plant more than one Nut 
tilization. The same is true with 
fruit trees, although it will not be 
necessary both trees be the same 
variety—just 2 peach, 2 apple, etc. 
9. Q. How many strawberry plants required to 
plant an acre? : 
A. 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, 34% ft. apart in the 
row with the rows 7 ft. apart, 1,750 plants to 
the acre. 
- Will you tell me how to spray my trees and 
plants and what to use? 
. See All-Purpose Spray offered on page 51. 
Will my strawberries mix if I plant one 
variety along side of another? 
No, you may plant them side by side without 
any danger of mixing — June-bearing and Ever- 
bearing alike. 
.Is it necessary to plant two varieties of 
Strawberries to insure cross fertilization? 
. No, all varieties we are offering are perfect 
Powe and require no other kind to insure 
ruit. ; 
Will strawberry plants set this spring fruit 
this year? 
Only the Everbearing kind — June-bearing 
should not be permitted to bear until next year. 
What causes the gummy substance on my 
Peach trees? 
This is a sign of Peach borer. This can be con- 
trolled with Benedichlorobenzene crystals. Use 
as per manufacturers directions. 
my Blueberries — 
they are alive but have made no growt 
or produced berries? 
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keep too moist. 12: 
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Soil should test at least 5pH. If not, the ad- 
dition of Sulphate of Ammonia or acid peat 
will tend to create acidity. Be sure your plants 
have plenty of water. 
stood in nursery row (this will tree? 16. Q. Do you have dwarf Cherry? : 
indi : . ; a d t. The Mont moth is a 
be indicated by soil line), place A. Yes, all Nut trees should be planted = aie Pash pee than most Jandssibirt wieta 
stock in trench at an angle, fill 
in pairs to insure proper cross fer- 
standard type tree and not a dwarf. 
4 SEE PAGES 11 AND 51 FOR ROSE AND ALL-PURPOSE FRUIT SPRAY 
