HELLO EVERYBODY 
This is Sunset Gardens annual broadcast, 
calling' attention to our specialty of many years, 
Hardy Sedums and Rock Garden Perennials 
The season of 19 34 was a year long to be re¬ 
membered and we, like everybody else in the 
drouth area had our ups and downs. Up as to 
temperatures and downs as to crop production. 
But we have our compensations and when down 
in the mouth we always remember Jonah, he 
came out all right. The experiences of the year 
are in effect a post graduate course in the Uni¬ 
versity of hard knocks, for we learned more 
about drouth resistance in perennial plants than 
we ever found in the books and owing to the 
manner of our learning, we’re not apt soon to 
forget. 
This years catalog contains quite a lot of new 
things. Also a few items have been droped out, 
mainly because anybody can grow them from 
seed or get them from a near neighbor—and 
not from a lack of merit. Every flower that is 
beautiful has merit, but we prefer to grow the 
less common kinds; varieties not usually found 
in everybodies garden. 
If you’ve never grown the hardy sedums in 
your rock garden, or border you’ve been missing 
a lot of gardfen joy and we entreat you to at least 
give them a try out before another year is gone. 
If there is a hot, dry spot somewhere in full 
Sun where things just don’t seem to be able to 
get through the Summer, plant it to Ozark Tal- 
inums. They are the one flower in all our big 
collection that never skipped a beat, during all 
the dryest, hottest days of three months drouth. 
Every afternoon found them smiling up into the 
blazing hot Sun, a mass of deep rose pink blos¬ 
soms, all through July and August and on clear 
up into late October. Order a bed of them. You’ll 
always be glad we brought them to your attention. 
Then Here is Dianthus Alwoodi, one of the 
very finest of the dianthus tribe. And did they 
quit because it was hot? They most certainly did 
not. Note the starred varieties in the catalog. 
A star preceeding the name indicates a drouth 
resistant plant. 
