Our friends of the rarer Roses and 
other items available only here, will 
not, we are sure, take it amiss that 
we ask them also to purchase of us 
the more ordinary items. It is as 
we thus sell a general assortment 
that prices for the unusual Roses, 
for example, can be kept much more 
reasonable than if they had to carry 
the burden of maintaining in small 
quantities, but many varieties, so 
great a collection. 
HE most important collection of garden 
material in eastern America is described 
and moderately priced in the following 
pages. The average catalogue of these days offers 
largely the plants and trees that can be most easily 
grown. There can be no criticism of that method, 
to be sure, for it is the ready road to profit. 
We have, we feel, a responsibility to the gardens 
America which we have done so much to furnish 
and maintain during the last great garden genera¬ 
tion. It is ours to select and obtain all that is best 
and newest for the whole garden, and to have these 
selections ready on these pages and in the great 
nurseries of which much is expected. 
Roses have always been with us more than busi¬ 
ness. It is our love for them that has caused us to 
maintain here by far the largest collection in 
America. Here are all the new Roses that are worth 
while, and also here, and here alone, are the “old 
Roses” that are again being cherished for their 
worth, their loveliness. 
Rare perennials are in this great and most accessi¬ 
ble nursery, and many out-of-the-ordinarv trees and 
shrubs as well. But ten easy miles from New York’s 
center, and just as convenient bv good roads from 
the north, the south, and the west, we have always 
much to see. In our vast indoor nurseries under 
glass are grown many exotic treasures for your 
winter pleasure, and we have long specialized in 
home plants that will endure human living 
conditions. 
We, therefore, welcome visits from our friends, 
summer or winter. There is always something to 
see, and often to carry away with you in your car. 
So visit our 600 -acre nurseries, our great green¬ 
houses, for garden delight! 
