YOU CANT. BEAT 
THE BAND. 
That’s right! When you use our liners in plantbands, 
your liner dollar buys ‘“‘the most”. 
Plenty of reasons for that! But today everybody is 
selling “convenience”. So to keep up with the times, 
we too are stressing ‘‘convenience”. 
‘Was a time, not too many years ago, when every- 
body ate at the dining room table, and the “powder 
room” was next to the woodshed so you could haul 
back an armload of knots for the parlor. Now nose 
powdering is done in the house, and we share our 
beans and bread with the ants and flies out on the 
patio. 
America certainly has gone in for “convenience”. 
The breadman interrupts your breakfast; your wife 
tosses ‘your dirty shirts into a time clock; she pitches 
your next meal into a pressure cooker; and dashes 
out of the joint before you get your shoes laced. 
(Wonder where she goes, to use that much gas?) 
Indeed, America has gone in for “‘convenience”’. 
So the theme song of this issue shall be — 
“CONVENIENCE”. 
+r 
Actually, when you buy liners, there are but three 
ways they can be prepared for you. They might be 
“bed liners”. That means they have been transplanted 
by the propagator, from his rooting benches, to out- 
side beds. There the plants have grown for a year 
or two. 
“Bed liners” are probably the most inconvenient to 
handle. They “push” everybody along the line. The 
grower who furnishes them must dig them before 
they start to grow, and you must plant them immedi- 
ately when they arrive. Regardless of how busy you 
are, you must stop other work, and line them out at 
once. If you don’t you may have a lot of dead plants 
on your hands. In any case, the “transplanting shock” 
is always most serious with “bed liners’, and this 
shock increases in ratio with the size of the plants. 
Larger plants suffer more. 
Potted plants are far more convenient to handle than 
“bed liners”. When the propagator removes the 
rooted cuttings from his propagating benches, he 
pots each plant into a clay pot. He “plunges” the 
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