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Henry Boyd 
WE HAVE NO TRAVELING 
AGENTS OR ORDER TAKERS 
EMPLOYED. All persons are 
warned against placing their orders 
with any such persons who claim to 
represent us. Our effort has been 
to give accurate descriptions in our 
catalog and at prices we are quoting 
it would be impossible to employ agents unless additional profits were 
added. 
Our shipping season usually ends about May 1st, and we cannot too strongly urge 
you to get your order to us before it is too late. Southern shipments can be made at 
almost any time, and shipments going north should be made at the earliest possible date 
after frost is out of the ground. The success of your planting will be assured if our 
planting directions are closely followed. They are yours for the asking. 
We do not have all of our stock listed, due to the lack of space; therefore if you 
are interested in other items and sites that are not listed in this catalog, then we shall 
be pleased to quote you prices by letter. 
In ordering please be sure to state the sizes wanted, in order to avoid mistakes. 
Shrubs, Vines, and 
Evergreens Pleas¬ 
ingly Combined to 
Make This Fine 
House a Home 
of Endurin 
Beauty and 
Charm. 
OUR house, whether it is an ornamental palace or a humble cottage, 
remains a cold, inhospitable building if it is without a proper natural 
setting provided either by Nature or by the help of man. In primitive 
sections of the country Nature very often 
provides magnificent settings with little or 
no assistance, but modern conditions nec¬ 
essitate the recreation of such beautiful 
surroundings. 
We hope this catalog will encourage the 
planting, where necessary, of a few more 
trees, shrubs or flowers about your home 
grounds. While we admit we cannot create 
Nature, still we can imitate it and adapt 
it to our general scheme of home develop¬ 
ment. 
Our aim has always been to grow first 
class nursery stock at lowest possible prices, 
eliminating all unnecessary expenses in 
growing and marketing, selling direct to 
the planter fresh dug plants. 
Those who have known and bought 
from the “Boyds” in the past, many for a 
long term of years, of course, need no 
introduction. To those unacquainted with 
us, we are glad to give the following bit 
of information. 
Back in the year 1887, J. H. H. Boyd, the 
founder of our business and father of F. C. Boyd, 
started gathering and selling tree seeds and soon 
after began gathering native trees and shrubs and 
growing them in the nursery. There were few 
schools at that time in the Cumberland Mountains, 
and little opportunity to attend, so his education 
. was the result of his own 
- 
efforts. His intimate and 
life long association with 
trees and plants, together 
with his interest and ac- 
curate and correct know' 
ledge, made him a leader in 
the growing of nursery 
stock. He died in 1924, 
and left his work, the nurs¬ 
ery, in the hands of his 
two sons, who are trying 
to carry on the principles 
of fair dealing established 
in the beginning. 
