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Show Growing Tree Stock to Order Best Plan Nurseryman Knows in Advance Ad-vance What Is Wanted. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) One of the new ide.is in fruit growing grow-ing is that of having nursery stock grown according to specification. It is true that orehardists now specify the particular varieties they want, but other than that they know very 1 little about the stock they plant. Closer co-operation between fruit growers and nurserymen would make i it possible for the growers to get stock from high-producing strains and at the same time would allow the nurseryman nur-seryman to know In advance what j stock will be wanted. j Such an arrangement would be highly advantageous to the nurseryman nursery-man since a large amount of nursery stock Is annually consigned to the trash pile for :Ue simple reason that it Is impossible to predict the demand for all types of stock. If growers placed their orders far enough in advance ad-vance so the nurseryman could grow the desired stock for delivery two or three years later It would guarantee sale of the lot and Justify special attention at-tention to it. This suggestion comes from Dr. L. C. Corbett of the United States Department De-partment of Agriculture. Doctor Corbett Cor-bett says that such a plan would be beneficial to the grower because it would eliminate much of the guessing now prevalent In the nursery business. busi-ness. With the knowledge that all of his stock Is sold if it meets specifications, specifica-tions, the nurseryman could devote more time to producing a high quality product. |