Valdesian Nurseries Cordially Invite 
You to Visit Their Nurseries 
T30STIC is situated in Rutherford County, 
at the junction of the Seaboard and Caro ■ 
lina, and the Clinchfield and Ohio Rail¬ 
ways. Trains reach here every day over the 
Seaboard. We are two and one-half miles 
from Forest City, which is on the Southern 
Railway, and are within one mile of the 
State Highway from Wilmington to Asheville. 
We will be glad to welcome our friends either 
in Bostic, or in Forest City. 
We began business in 1904 in a very humble 
way, on a few acres of land, mostly rented. 
We now own eight acres of land in Bostic, 
and three plantations a few miles out. 
We want regular customers, and are scrup¬ 
ulously honest with every-one, taking care to 
fill even the smallest orders just as carefully as the larger ones. Our policy is to grow 
specimen evergreens, that one may beautify his grounds now, without having to wait years 
for seedlings to develop. We have thousands of plants growing in our nurseries that it 
took years to develop. 
We have no agents, our stock being mainly sold thru catalog. We are indeed grateful to our 
many customers and friends for so many favors which they have shown us. Through all 
these years a kind Providence seems to have guided us, and every year we find new cus¬ 
tomers, many of them perhaps in distant States, whom we have never before known, but 
after filling their order, we usually get orders from their neighbors. 
Any banker or business house in any city can tell you that we are reliable, and that you 
will be safe in placing your order with us. 
If you wish to improve your surroundings, beautify your premises at the smallest possible 
cost, write us about it. We can send our man to look over the proposed improvement, make 
you an estimate on the stock, supply it and send men to plant it out; or, you can take your 
measurements, map out a general plan, send it to our office and nurseries, and we will go 
over it, make out a planting list and planting plan, and quote on same. 
In sending our man to see the grounds, to lay out and make plans, we only charge rail¬ 
road fare and expenses while away from the nursery, provided the stock is bought from us, 
but if this work is not done and planting stock is not supplied by us, besides railroad fare 
and expenses, we charge a reasonable price for our Gardener’s services which can be agreed 
upon beforehand, if desired. 
Discounts to Ministers and Churches 
We have made it a custom for a number of years to allow a discount to ministers for 
their home or parsonage planting, as we also do for church planting. Quite a number have, 
during the past season, ordered for these plantings, and they have been highly pleased. 
We have had various orders from parties seeing these plantings, who wished to beautify 
their own homes. Besides the benefit we get in this way from parties seeing our plantings 
and ordering themselves, we feel that it is good for us to give to these causes, so far as 
we are able and we will be pleased to hear from ministers and churches, regardless of de¬ 
nominations, who wish to beautify their surroundings—and the time has come when they are 
desirous of having pretty all-year surroundings. 
We also allow a reduction in the prices of stock for use in the improvement and beautify¬ 
ing of cemetery grounds. We have thousands of plants especially suited for such plantings, 
and we will be glad to hear from any one wishing to make .these improvements. We be¬ 
lieve it is our duty, and one that we owe to those gone before us, to improve these grounds, 
that with a small expenditure we can change these silent “Cities of the Dead” from bare, 
lonesome places into all-year beauty. 
