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pots in coldframes or beds, using either sand, peat, or 
soil around the pots to keep them frcm drying too 
quickly. 
You Can’t Beat The Band (Continued) 
Many firms have learned that the cost of paper 
shipping pots, and the labor involved in “knocking 
out” the plants, cost as much as new pots. So today, 
they supply the clay pots with the plants. That can 
be something of an advantage to the purchaser. 
If the plants come “knocked out” and in paper pots, 
they must either be promptly repotted (and then 
likely plunged), or they must be “lined” to the field 
at once. 
If the plants are still in the clay pots when they are 
delivered, they may be held for a few days, if watered 
often. Better, they should be promptly “plunged” to 
keep them in good shope. 
In any event, plants in pots, or “from pots”, as a 
whole, do not require the immediate action needed by 
“bed liners”. Therefcre, they are far more conven- 
ient to handle. ’Only trouble is there are too many 
things to be done all along the line. So they cost too 
much. 
Now, let’s take a quick look at these banded liners 
which we are cffering. The whole program is devised 
for your CONVENIENCE. 
The rooted cuttings are potted directly from the 
benches to the bands which were previously set up in 
flats. The flats of banded plants are then set into 
greenhouses or coldframes, to grow on until they are 
well established. 
When cur truck arrives at your place, the banded 
plants are in the flats in which they grew. The flats 
go with the plants. You can have them placed, right 
from our truck, so that you can water them when 
needed, and go about your more pressing jobs. They 
need no attention cther than occasional watering. 
That’s mighty convenient. 
Then, you can plant them when you want to. If we 
held them here for another week, month, or even a 
year, we would water them; but that’s all we would 
do to them, except possibly, a weeding or two. 
Some of our customers are planting these banded 
plants with planters, and they tell us it works beauti- 
fully. Most, however, plant them by hand. The bands 
can be left on most things. The rule is probably to 
take the bands off surface-rooting plants like 
‘Azaleas, Rhododendrons, Pieris, etc., but leave them 
cn other things. And that’s convenient. 
Just Icck at the many CONVENIENCES these 
banded plants offer you. No “pushing” to get them 
planted when you can least afford the time. No 
“plunging”. No heavy pots to worry with; no 
“iknecking cut” in the field; no pots to gather; no 
transplanting ‘check”. 
OUR LINERS IN BANDS ARE THE ULTIMATE 
IN CONVENIENCE FOR YOU. 
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