M. VAN WAVEREN SONS, INC. 
101 West 31st Street, New York City 
AN INVITATION 
Our Nuiseries are situated in Gloucester County, Virginia, along one of the tidewater arms of 
the Chesapeake Bay, on a stretch of fertile land which Indians cultivated in the dimmest past, and 
wheie white people settled in the earliest years of the Colony. Descendants of famous families live 
all around us, names that adorn Virginia’s most glorious pages. 
The soil is amazingly fertile. It responds bountifully to good growers’ efforts. Bulbs grown in 
it, bloom abundantly and the red cups acquire an extra dose of color there. 
Undei lying our fields, at a depth of four to six feet, is a very ancient sea bottom or beach. 
Millions of curiously shaped shells of barnacles, clams, oysters and giant scallops are buried there, as 
if in one vast sleep, just as they lived. Now and then one finds a tooth or a petrified vertebra of a giant 
fish, evidence of the higher life of a million years ago. Even in that remote age, small pests preyed 
on large living organisms. Two large scallop shells, resting together, completely closed as if their 
ownei were still inside, often display a tiny round hole, where a small enemy dramatically bored right 
thru that everlasting armor plate. These shell beds afford excellent drainage to our fields. 
During the Narcissus flower season we exhibit daily every variety that is in bloom, permitting in¬ 
structive comparisons between older and newer types. 
Our Nurseries can be reached very comfortably from Old Point Comfort, Richmond and Wash¬ 
ington over excellent hard surface roads. Inspiring scenery and historical landmarks abound all along 
these routes. The famous \ ork river with Yorktown and Gloucester Point on opposite banks, is only 
20 minutes away from our farms. This section of Virginia is finding favor with many wealthy people 
fiom the more Northern states. Many of the oldest mansions are repaired and renovated by new 
owners who strive to preserve at all costs the old delightful Colonial atmosphere. 
I or visitors who wish to spend a few days in our beautiful and interesting county, there is a good 
hotel at Gloucester Court House, and if one wishes to rest for a week or more near one of the many 
livers with their incomparable views, there are homes where paying guests are really made to feel "at 
home." Prices run from $20.00 to $40.00 per week. 
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