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You Can't 
“Beat the Band” 
No, Sir, you just can’t beat the plantband program 
for high grade, low cost, quick growing liners. 
JUST THINK— 
@ They cost less! You save money! 
@ They grow! You make money! 
(See page 6.) 
@ They’re easy to plant (with or without 
a planter). You save time! (See page 
fe) 
@ They can be planted at your conyen- 
ience: —— next week or next month! 
A lot fewer pains in the neck! (See 
page 17.) 
Sounds like a good deal, doesn’t it? It’s just as good 
as it sounds. 
Take prices, for instance. Maybe that’s an outmoded 
subject in these days of “‘a deepfreezer in every jack- 
pot, and a couple of mink coats for every chicken.” 
Nevertheless we suspect that most nurserymen, like 
we, still labor over cost sheets and other mundane 
things like expenses and profits. We believe, too, 
that every nurseryman is just as much interested in 
costs and prices as we are. 
These banded liners are priced at these low prices 
simply because costs of production are lower than 
“from pots,” or “from beds.” We’ve tried them all. 
Some year's ago, having convinced ourselves that a 
first-class job could be done with plantbands, we 
proceeded to “gear the whole place” to the efficient 
production of banded plants. There’s still plenty of 
room for improvement, but maybe the quotation of a 
comment by a visiting nurseryman a few weeks ago 
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