The Joseph F. Martin Company 
Perennial Plants, Seeds, Bulbs, Roses 
Painesville, Ohio 
Dear Patron: 
With pleasure we are presenting to you our wholesale 
hardy perennial catalog. In this hook as usual you will find 
listed only the most suitable plants for cut flower and general 
planting purposes. You know we have always supplied first quality 
material and have grown only such varieties which in our trials 
proved of value either to the florist or to the landscape planter. 
To our new customers we wish to give the following 
explanation. We maintain our large plantings of the desirable 
hardy plants and at all times you will receive on your purchases 
properly grown material. This means that the plants we ship out 
are always in their prime when you receive them. Soon after trans¬ 
planting they will give you results. In other words our policy 
always has been and will be to give you the best values for your 
money. On this basis we ask for your continued patronage. Your 
favors will be very much appreciated and will receive our personal 
attention. 
OF ADDED INTEREST TO YOU WILL BE OUR SEED DEPARTMENT 
We have realized for many years that most of you, our 
customers, purchase seeds for either greenhouse or outdoor sowing. 
Many of you undoubtedly use both. To serve you on seeds as well as 
plants, we have established a seed department, which will offer 
you a very complete list of annual and perennial seeds of the very 
highest quality available. 
Many of our seed strains will be developed in our own 
gardens. Our'greenhouses and outdoor gardens give us the best 
opportunity in the world for trials, selections, and improvements, 
so that the strains offered you, will really be the best. 
On that basis we ask for your seed business, and will 
very much appreciate your support, as after all, the success of 
any business depends upon the good will of its customers, 
On Pages 28-30 we offer a list of seasonable seed 
items and a complete seed catalog will be mailed early in December* 
Sincerely yours, 
THE JOSEPH E. MARTIN CO. 
