1 I 
A Fell) Words About Onrselres 
FIRST — OUR STOCKS 
T has now been fourteen years since the Petrie Landscape Nur¬ 
series was established. This period has been marked by constant 
effort to furnish Idaho gardens with strong healthy well-grown 
plants of varieties, that would stand up under our sometimes very variable 
climate. In doing this we have grown and discarded many sorts that 
seemed good at the time of introduction. We are continuing this policy. 
We get lots of fun from the experience and we learn a lot from which in 
the long run you, our clients and customers, reap the benefit in better 
varieties. We conduct more or less of a plant experimental laboratory and 
very few plants find their way into our listing without several years’ trial 
or whole-hearted recommendation from people in whom we have confi¬ 
dence. 
Of course we have recent introductions that are as yet almost untried 
but they are selected with care and a constant endeavor is made to stick 
to the doctrine of reasonable certainty in their behavior locally. Naturally 
it is impossible to predict what any individual plant will do after it leaves 
the nursery; all we can do is to see that it leaves us in good viable condition. 
Occasionally one slips by and we want such errors brought to our attention 
at once. Proper rectification will be made gladly. 
Rock Garden of H. C. Schuppel — designed and built by Petrie Landscape Nurseries. 
