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Taking time out to plant bare-root liners, or liners 
“out of pots” during your busy selling season is going 
to make a big difference in your net profit for the 
year. If you lose a day or two during the best of your 
selling season, it can mean as much as 5% or 10% 
loss of sales. That’s going to make a lot of difference 
in the amount of money you make for the year. 
Now suppose that our truck pulls in with your banded 
liners. Show our driver where you want the plants 
set, and go about your business. They may be put in 
a greenhouse, coldframe, slathouse, or under a tree; 
just so they can be reached with a hose or otherwise 
watered occasionally. Actually you can almost for- 
get about them until you have ample time, and find 
it convenient to plant them. The plants have been in 
these flats for months, and a few weeks more won’t 
make any difference to the plants. An occasional 
watering is all they will need; and you will be amazed 
at how long these banded plants will stay moist. 
That gives you an opportunity to get all of the busi- 
ness you can; and then do your own planting, after 
you have finished for everyone else. You don’t have 
to take time out at the peak of your income period to 
get some ground ready to plant. And your banded 
liners will not be the least unhappy about it at all. 
They will have kept right on growing, and will only 
be that much nicer than when they arrived. 
So you see, you not only save on the cost of the liners, 
but you actually make more money out of your own 
business by using our banded liners instead of stock 
from outside beds or “out of pots”’. 
This idea alone appeals to us so much that we often 
wonder why every nurseryman who grows any liners 
whatsoever, doesn’t band every plant he grows. (We 
sell plantbands, too.) 
You never knew you had so many thumbs 
‘till you try to compete with high school 
girls setting up plantbands. 
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