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the cost of fertilizer (mostly Oak Leafmold) which 
will keep the Holly growing on to make the in- 
vestment worth while. 
| believe my son, Tom, now has the answer to 
this problem. During the winter we have sold many 
large specimens for spring delivery and planting. 
Prices are the same as last year, but we now give 
retail customers the necessary Oak Leafmold with- 
out charging for it. However, we do not tell the 
customer until AFTER the sale is made and the re- 
sponse has been way ahead of anything we ex- 
pected. | suppose it is the psychology of the thing. 
The gift represents less than 10% of the cost 
of the purchase yet many customers seem more 
pleased than if we had halved the price of the — 
tree and then charged, as formerly, for the leafmold. 
NATURE PACK BEST METHOD 
“Nature Pack”, is a good example of the use of 
Oak Leafmold. It has unquestionably done more to 
establish Holly all over the country than anything 
else. It is very simple but most effective and en- 
tirely solves the only major trouble we have ever 
had with Holly — that of transplanting. You can 
hardly kill Holly once it gets well rooted in your 
ground. Under normal conditions, every Holly 
should live a hundred years. 
Now, back to “Nature Pack”. We make large 
wire baskets, line the sides with waterproof special 
paper, put some Oak Leafmold in the bottom, then 
place a B&B Holly in the middle, and tuck in with 
lots of Oak Leafmold. A small handful of cotton- 
seed meal and tobacco is sprinkled on top and the 
whole thing watered well. The Holly is grown sev- 
eral months — sometimes as long as two years — 
with the basket sitting on top of the ground. 
After buying, the customer plunges the whole 
package “as is” into the ground and the Holly, 
already firmly established, does not know it is 
moved. The rootlets go right through the paper 
around the sides of the basket and the wires, too, 
rust away before roots grow large enough to be 
restricted. Most folks follow our advice and dig a 
hole larger than the basket; fill in, not with soil, 
but with pure Oak Leafmold. Planted thus, a Holly 
will be happy most anywhere in the country. 
EARLE DILATUSH 
Folly Spectatiat 
ROUTE 25 ROBBINSVILLE, N. J. 
