Book excerpt: Excerpt from Outpost, 1922 It was evident that the tour of the nursery had convinced our guest, as it would any other discerning visitor, that Outpost trees and shrubs are exceedingly well grown and are looked after here as they would be on a gentleman's estate. The rugged hills and wind-swept spaces and wide expanse of ground give our plants a clean bill of health and a hardihood which insures their successful growth under prevailing conditions in our Northern States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.