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Plant Them When You Want To 
Of all of the reasons there are for using our banded 
liners, this, we think, is one of the most important. 
Suppose it’s a nice day. You have a dozen customers 
on the place. You’re busy! You have some of the 
boys out on jobs you should be checking on soon. 
Others are getting some more stock dug for other 
orders, and you really should check them to see that 
they will have the stock out for tomorrow morning. 
That’s exactly when the Expressman will pull in with 
a large box of bare-root liners. Weather forecast 
says “Rain tomorrow”! You have to make up your 
mind whether to let the liners sit in the box for a 
couple of days, or call the selling and deliveries to a 
halt, and plant the liners. 
It won’t do the liners any good to sit around in the 
box a couple of days. They really should be unpacked 
and planted at once. Heeling them in temporarily 
isn’t such a hot idea, because if the weather stays 
nice they are going to start to grow, and then the 
transplanting shock will be much greater. So you 
leave them in the box! But sometime within the next 
couple of days, you are just going to be forced to take 
some of the boys off the landscape and digging crews 
and get the stuff into the ground. That means the 
planting won’t be done like you would like to have it 
done: it has to be done in too much of a hurry. 
Or, suppose the stuff is “out of pots”. You have your 
choice of putting some of the help on repotting and 
plunging it, or planting it to the field or beds. But 
it has to be done at once, so again the whole place is 
upset. sine tact the stockciss: outlol pots, cIt. will 
need even more promptness in unpacking than bare- 
root liners, because soil will have sifted out some, 
and all of the plants in the bottom of the box will be 
covered with soil. They need to get out of there, but 
quick. 
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