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Our Nursery Department 
Remember 
It's Not 
A Home 
Until 
It's Planted 
The Next 
19 Pages 
Are Full 
of Items 
for Home 
Beautification 
A Little Planning, A Little Planting and Your Home Grounds Become a “Thing of Beauty.” 
Bulbs 
Shrubs 
Roots 
What This Department Offers You 
The things you will wish to plant for a lasting effect in your garden are the bulbs, shrubs, roots, vines, roses 
and small fruits offered on the following pages. Because all of this stock is of a different nature from seeds, we 
have to handle it in an entirely separate department. That is also the reason they require different packing and 
weather conditions to insure delivery to you in first class shape. Gladiolus, dahlias and cannas must be kept dry 
and cannot be allowed to freeze, even while in mail and express cars. On the other hand, shrubs, vines, roses, 
roots and small fruits must be packed with damp moss about their tender roots. 
Roses 
Plants 
Vines 
Summer Flowering Bulbs 
Among the bulbous and tuberous rooted flowering 
plants are some of the most satisfactory for garden 
display and cut flower material throughout the sum¬ 
mer. The Dahlias, Gladiolus, Tuberous Begonias, 
Cannas, and other bulb rooted plants all give a mar¬ 
velous display with their many bright flowers from 
mid-summer until frost and with almost certain suc¬ 
cess for they are all very easily grown. While not hardy 
they may be taken up in the fall, stored in the cool 
basement and planted again the next spring. Only the 
finest and most satisfactory varieties are offered here. 
Hardy Perennial Plants 
This class is most useful and desirable in every garden 
and supplies more material for our gardens than any 
other class of hardy plants. From this class we get 
material for the hardy border, for the perennial garden, 
for the rock garden and for many situations in our per¬ 
manent ornamental plantings. They, while hardy 
enough to survive the cold of winter, die to the ground 
and each year send up new top growth increasing in size 
and vigor. Their adaptability to almost any situation 
and their interesting forms and habits in rockeries and 
borders make them most attractive and interesting. 
Hardy Shrubs and Vines 
The hardy flowering shrubs are the plants of greatest 
permanence and perhaps greatest value in adding 
permanent beauty and harmony to the home grounds. 
Their great value lies in their ability to give so much of 
beauty and attractiveness with so little attention. 
Variety should be a feature in every planting of hardy 
shrubs; this will not only avoid monotony but will 
increase the beauty and attractiveness of the entire 
planting. Each shrub with its particular season of 
bloom, its different color, its individual form of growth 
will add its part in making the entire planting an at¬ 
tractive and interesting feature of the garden through 
each month of the season. The hardy vines have an 
important use in the planting of the home grounds and 
their attractive foliage and bloom are not only beautiful 
but also useful for shade or screen. 
Roses 
Of the many classes of roses, the Hybrid Perpetual, the 
Hybrid Tea and the Climbing Roses are in greatest 
demand. We offer you only top grade, hardy, field 
grown plants. You can not buy better roses, anywhere. 
The price you pay determines what you get in roses. 
You can raise your eyebrows at cheap rose offers. 
Where to Find Plants 
Page 
Begonias. 
.52-64 
Cannas . 
.52-65 
Dahlias . 
.60-61 
Gladiolus . 
.62-63 
Misc. Bulbs . 
. 65 
Hardy Perennial Plants. 
67-68-69-70-71 
Hardy Ferns . 
. 64 
Hardy Lilies. 
.62-66 
Hardy Chrysanthemums 
.60-61 
Iris. 
. 65 
Peonies. 
. 66 
Hardy Phlox . 
. 66 
Hardy Shrubs . 
72-73-74-75-83 
Hardy Vines. 
75 
Roses. 
. 33-76-77 
Berries. 
. 77 
A Nursery Before 1876 
Long before Mr. Templin and his father and brothers 
started to sell seeds by mail, to American Gardeners in 
1876, they operated a beautiful, complete nursery here 
in Ohio, the real nursery center of America. 
Naturally, this branch of our business, therefore, is far 
from being a side line with us. In the days prior to 1915 
we used to import car loads from European growers as 
well as growing great quantities of our own nursery 
stock. Since 1915, when imports were prohibited, we 
enlarged our own growing to take care of the demand. 
On our own property at Medina and at Painesville, 
expert growers who have spent their lives at this 
delicate work, are at your service. 
New Facilities 
To further improve our service to the hundreds of 
thousands of customers in all parts of America, we shall 
ship direct to you from our Painesville Nursery, all 
Perennial Plants, Iris and Peonies, Hardy Phlox,Hardy 
Shrubs, Hardy Vines, Roses and Small Fruits, instead 
of bringing these plants into Cleveland as in the past. 
This will remove one handlingandgettheplants to you 
freshly dug. All Seeds, Begonia, Gladiolus, Canna, 
Dahlia and miscellaneous Summer Flowering Bulbs 
will be shipped from Cleveland as in the past. We 
know you will appreciate this improved service. 
The Rock Garden 
Many interesting little plants from all corners of the 
earth have been made available to ua by the demand 
created by the rock gardens. Plants that seem more 
nearly fitted to this type of gardening than to any we 
had previously undertaken. What a delight it is to 
become acquainted with these wonderful little peren¬ 
nial plants that have for years been awaiting our de¬ 
mand in the mountains and valleys of remote countries. 
Among the first to recognize the charm of these plants 
in the rock gardens, Mr. and Mrs. Bradley, seeing them 
during their visits to European gardens as they began 
to be used there, at once felt that the American gar¬ 
deners should be able to obtain them to add their charm 
and interest to the gardens of America. Since that time 
their influence has been great in helping to bring you 
these new and delightful garden subjects. You need not 
forego the pleasure of these plants and a rock garden 
because of limited space. Did you know that a charming 
little rockery may be built with a dozen rocks and as 
few as ten plants? 
DORMANT NOT DEAD. Practically every item in 
this section of this catalog is in a dormant state. It is 
due to their ability to “sleep” over each winter that 
they are of really permanent worth to you. They loose 
their foliage in winter just as the trees do. Some of them 
like gladiolus, dahlias and cannas, must be taken in¬ 
doors in the winter and stored in a cool place. Others 
like vines, roses, shrubs and small fruits may be left 
outdoors. 
GIVE THEM TIME. Remember after planting, that 
all plants will not begin to show signs of development in 
the same length of time. This word of caution is added 
because now and then, people will write in to advise 
us that some of their plants have not begun to leaf out 
and they are afraid that they are not alive. After waiting 
sufficiently long, they find the leaves begin to take shape 
and that their conclusion was made too hastily. So, 
be sure to give your newly planted stock plenty of 
time. 
CULTURAL INSTRUCTIONS. Every order filled in 
our Nursery Department will have packed with the 
goods, a pamphlet which tells you how to keep the 
plants until the ground is ready, how to prepare the soil 
and all necessary information to aid you in the right 
start. 
Floyd Bradley*s 
Own Garden "How" Book 
This 48 page book has been prepared for the use of 
our customers who wish more information than can 
be crowded into a seed and nursery catalog. 
The subjects it covers are of every day interest to 
you, whether you have a vegetable, flower or fruit 
garden—a rock garden or pool—a landscaping job 
of beautifying all or part of your home grounds. 
You May Have A Copy, Free 
If your order amounts to $2.00 or more, and you 
request us to do so, we will send you a copy of this 
book. Free. If your order is for less than $2.00, add 
25c for your copy. Or, if you wish a copy before 
you send us your order, just send us 25c and ask 
for Floyd Bradley’s Own Garden “How” Book. 
A Bronze Medal Free For 
Your Garden Club 
Any Garden Club or Horticultural Society in the United States 
may obtain one of these Floyd Bradley Horticultural Achievement 
Medals in Bronze, free of all charge. The Club to award it as a 
prize at Flower Show, Garden Contest or similar meeting. 
All that is necessary is for the Club at a regular meeting to pass a 
resolution, authorizing an officer to apply to us for one. Tell the 
officer to send us a copy of the resolution, preferably on Club letter 
head, giving date of show and to indicate class of exhibit for which 
it is to be a prize. It is not necessary for the Club or any member 
to be a customer of ours. We do this solely to encourage the work of 
Garden Clubs, which we consider the greatest single factor in the 
growing love of finer gardens by the American people. This offer 
is for Clubs only and not for individuals. It is not for sale and can 
be obtained only as outlined above. 
