Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-11-20
Patronize Home Nurseries.


the coming months readers will be
visited by agents soliciting orders for
trees and plants to be delivered for
planting in the spring. In dealing
with these agents great caution
should be exercised. Some of them
are representing "jopbers'' or "bogus
firms that do not grow the stock
they sell; but purchase surplus stock
regardless of where it was raised, or
its adap tation to this climate, and it
is seldom that you get just what you
order from any Of them. If the trees
should live on the start and survive
long enough to fruit it is seldom that
few, if any of chem, turn out to be
what you supposed you had ordered.
Another class of agents are repre-
senting honest, reliable first-class
nurseries, located far away and
where the climate and soil in which
the trees were grown is very different
from ours. From these your orders
will be conscientiously filled but the
difference in the climate where they
were grown and the dangers in
longer transportation are against
you, and especially so if the trees
have been produced where the sea-
sons of growth are longer and the
winter materially milder than ours.
Another class of agents are those
who represent "Home Nurseries"
At the present time this class of nur-
series located in this state and the
extreme northern Iowa and western
Wisconsin are producing trees and
plants than the wants of this region
require, and they are also producing
the varieties that are known to be
best adapted to this climate. These
nurseries are SO near by that it is
easy to learn their reputation for re-
liability. Our advice to all who wish
to order nursery stock is to first as
| certain where some of the nearest of
these reputable nurseries are located.
Select one that has an established re-
putation for honest dealing and good
stock, and order direct from the nur-
ssry. If anyone prefers to deal
through an agent we would advise
him to first ascertain that the agent
is representing such local nursery
and that the nursery firm accepts
Responsibility for his acts. Be very
cautious about purchasing trees
from even the most reputable nur
series located long distances away
and have no dealing whatever with
the jobber's agent even if he should
be your nearest aud best neighbor
There is great saving in the cost o.
trees when procured near by and di'
rect from the nursery, even over thu
cheaply grown southern trees witt
boxing, transportation and agents
fees added, but the jobber who deal!
in these southern grown trees has t
fat thing of it whenever he gets al
agent to work in community that il
: not we'll informed in horticulture
matters. Before orcharding will b.
success in all parts of this state the
would be fruit raisers Elust learn t.
get their trees FROM reliable, upto
date home nursery. BY doing thi
success is assured, and several hun
dred thousand dollars annually pail
to foreign jobbers will be saved a
home.
No tree plant or shrub adapted t
our climate and soil but may be pro
cured in the county of home growth
of men whose business and reputatio
depends upon their giving to custe
lners the article desired and in til
r best possible condition. If there
: anything not as represented the
I are where you can find them. Tues
J. home nurseries conducted by j. !
Mitchell and Bents & Upton are rigt
n at your doors and what is remove
J. from the nursery of either can Y
J. planted out the same day, and wit
q proper care and coed planting wi
surely grow.