Archive image from page 15 of Descriptive catalogue of Iona vines. Descriptive catalogue of Iona vines with wholesale and retail price-lists for 1864, describing and exhibiting the relative importance of all our valuable native vines descriptivecatal1864cwgr Year: 1864 12 THE QUALITY OF PLANTS AS AFFECTED BY AGE, ETC. public, it was necessary that something as to the quality of the plants should be taken, with no better proof of my statements as to their value than could be shown in my own grounds. Now I have not only the testimony of all of the best cultivators in my favor, but also that of
Archive image from page 15 of Descriptive catalogue of Iona vines. Descriptive catalogue of Iona vines with wholesale and retail price-lists for 1864, describing and exhibiting the relative importance of all our valuable native vines descriptivecatal1864cwgr Year: 1864 12 THE QUALITY OF PLANTS AS AFFECTED BY AGE, ETC. public, it was necessary that something as to the quality of the plants should be taken, with no better proof of my statements as to their value than could be shown in my own grounds. Now I have not only the testimony of all of the best cultivators in my favor, but also that of hundreds of thousands of vines, all testifying to the same truth. There arc two kinds of No. 1, first those intended for Extras, and come short of it, and those grown specially for that designation. It should be borne in mind that the numbers of one person's cata- logue have reference to his own vines, and not the least regard to those of any other. Purchasers will seek in vain to find elsewhere vines that have been produced with the care, attention, and cost of my No. 1, and my No. 3 challenge comparison with the best No. 1 of any other catalogue. Plate No. 9. Pla produce, is the best. Propagating houses are not used because they pro- duce plants more cheaply, for they do not, but because they make bet- ter plants than can be made except by layering, when it is properly performed. Mr. Barry truly stated that one plant from a single eye, well produced by the aid of a house, is worth more than six grown wholly in the open ground without such aid. I would not state that because plants are grown in houses they must be good, for the most worthless plants in countless thousands have been thus produced, and will continue to be while cheapness is accepted irrespective of quality. This matter has been fully discussed by Mr. Mead in an excellent lecture on the subject, which he has prepared in answer to the wants of this particular time, when it is c f great importance that the condi
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