This Spring We Are Saving Thrifty Buyers 
All Over America 
This is what your dollars bring in Nursery Stock 
from Jnter-State: 
1. Guaranteed quality stock at reason¬ 
able prices. 
2. Valuable gifts for ordering early (see 
page 7). 
3. Helpful planting book (worth 25c). 
4. 1 Packet Fantasy Zinnia (worth 15c). 
Thousands of Dollars 
This is what your dollars bring in Seeds 
from Inter-State: 
1. Finest guaranteed seed at reasonable 
prices. 
2. 20% extra for ordering early (see page 
60A). 
3. Complete planting instructions on 
every packet. 
4. 1 Packet Fantasy Zinnia (worth 15c). 
This spring with every order for nursery stock and seeds of $1.00 or more, we are going 
to give FREE 1 Full Size Packet of Fantasy Zinnia (see pages 52 and 53), Introduced in 
1935, it is the most fascinating new flower of many years. Beautiful colors, easy to 
grow, succeeds in every state. 
Valuable Planting Guide Free 
Also, we have printed a very helpful Planting Book. It gives you a 
world of real practical information with many illustrations. It tells 
you how to plant all the different stock we handle such as roses, 
shrubs, fruits of all kinds, trees, bulbs, etc. It tells you how to prime, 
how to water, how to cultivate, how to care for stock over winter, 
how to arrange shrubs, how many bulbs for different size beds, etc. 
You would not take dollars for it if you could not get another. The 
regular price is 25c each. But this spring we are going to give a copy 
free with every order for nursery stock of $1.00 or more. 
Read Every Page Carefully 
Go thru this catalog carefully. Every page offers you honest values. 
This year nursery stock is scarce in many kinds. We could have made 
our prices higher but we know there are millions of homes all over 
America who want to buy nursery stock and seeds and will do so 
when they can buy guaranteed stock at such reasonable prices. 
Your greatest surprise as you turn the pages of this book, will be to 
see that many items are actually priced lower than last year. Other 
items are priced the same and a few are some higher. This in spite 
of the fact that nursery stock this year is more scarce and much higher. 
Just look at our prices. Turn to the back cover. There we offer you 
what we consider to be the two finest hardy garden lilies in the world. 
Easy to grow, sure to bloom, magnificent flowers. Yet we price them 
at 16 for $2.00, 7 for $1.00, fine bulbs that will bloom this season. 
See how we have reduced strawberry prices. Compare the prices of 
our fruit trees. 
Look on page 35 where we offer you 6 Genuine Inter-State hardy 
everblooming roses for only $1.55. Roses like those which in 1933 and 
1934 took by storm millions of visitors to our official rose garden at 
Chicago’s World’s Fair. You are sure to want the wonderful seed 
offers on pages 52, 60A and 61. 
When you order nursery stock, please use 
blank on page 4B. For seeds, use blank 
on page 60B. Be sure and read pages 7 
and 60 A. We give you free, valuable gifts, 
just for ordering earlier. 
From Our Fields Direct to Your Home 
We can make these low prices ONLY BECAUSE WE GROW THE 
STOCK, growing and selling exclusively direct-to-you more fruit trees 
and general nursery stock than any nursery in America. We own over 
800 acres of Marshall Loess loam, the finest soil in Iowa. Also we have 
stock grown in New York, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, 
Kansas, Alabama, Texas, California, Oregon and Washington. We 
grow stock in large quantities and sell it directly to you. Right 
here we wish to mention that WE DO NOT HAVE ANY AGENTS. 
We sell only thru this book and over the radio. 
Guaranteed Quality 
We have tried to make this America’s Finest Nursery and Seed Book. 
We could have used cheaper paper, cheaper inks, eutting off a little 
here and a little there. But the RESULT WOULD HAVE BEEN 
A POORER BOOK. 
Likewise with our nursery stock and seeds. We could be less strict in 
our grading (each year we destroy many thousands of trees, shrubs, 
roses, etc., not up to our standard). We use new methods of propagat¬ 
ing which cost thousands of dollars to perfect. We use Mosinee 
wrapping papier, recognized as the best made. We buy a new process 
water-proof inner-liner, paying a higher price for it but it protects 
the stock much better. We even go to Florida for a new packing 
material for certain things because we have found it better. 
America’s Largest Direct-to-Vou 
Nu rseries 
Each year our business has shown an increase, even right thru the 
depression. Last year we frankly admit the orders came in greater 
volume than we had anticipated, so for a few weeks we were delayed. 
But this year we have made ample plans for handling a stfll greater 
volume promptly. 
We are planning for our new plant, the finest, most modern nursery 
and seed building in America. Special rooms with controlled tem¬ 
perature and humidity for handling nursery stock. Special rooms for 
seeds. A mammoth building with almost 750,000 cubic feet capacity. 
We are proud and grateful that it has been our privilege to help 
hundreds of thousands of homes become better places in which to live. 
Our entire staff of trained experts are here to serve you. 
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