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Unsolicited messages of appreciation from 
customers who like what we send them, and 
the way we serve them, here at Inter-State. 
From MISSOURI 
My order from you last spring gave me 
the best nursery stock I ever received. 
John Porter Garth 
Route 2, Kirksville, Mo. 
From IOWA 
1 have the nursery stock you sent me 
and in every respect is the best that I 
have ever seen. I have bought quite a 
little nursery stock in the last 18 years, 
but have never had such nice stock. I 
sure will recommend you to any of my 
friends. 
C. C. Grahl 
368 1st. St., Council Bluffs, Iowa 
From PENNSYLVANIA 
Received my nursery stock and I was 
very proud and satisfied with it all. I 
just have to let you know that by all 
means I am more than satisfied so I 
want to thank you for your up-to-date- 
stock, your honesty, and your service. 
Remember, a satisfied customer is always 
the best advertising. Take my word for 
it, I’ni one. Thank you. 
Walter Adams 
Route 1, Allentown, Pa. 
From WISCONSIN 
Unity, Wisconsin 
We have received your trees which I 
confess are the best I have ever seen. 
They are planted and should grow to 
big trees with lots of apples in no time. 
W. J. Dehn, Prop. 
Maple Grove Cheese Factory 
From WEST VIRGINIA 
We have bought from your firm since 
1934 and can truthfully say that no 
other firm has given us as much satis¬ 
faction as yours. We bought approxi¬ 
mately $20.00 of rose bushes in the last 
2 years. Last winter the temperature 
was low as 21 degrees below zero, and 
in March the Great Ohio River flood. 
My garden was under water to the depth 
of 19 ft., yet my roses were prettier and 
larger than ever before. My tulips had 
come up through six inches of mud that 
flood left and yet were beautiful. 
Mr. Clyde M. Ward 
New Cumberland, W. Va. 
From WASHINGTON 
Battle Ground, Wash. 
The fruit trees reached here in first class 
condition and were the best I’ve ever 
bought anywhere at any price. 
Mr. Ray Van Atta 
Route 2, Box 64 A 
From ILLINOIS 
I rec’d my shipment of April 22nd, they 
were in excellent condition. I have 
never seen any nicer trees. I am sure 
I will have wonderful results with them. 
I showed them to my neighbors and 
friends, they all praised them highly. 
W. L. Lindsay 
818 N. Randolph St., Champaign, III. 
From GEORGIA 
I received my shrubbery last week in 
good condition. I have ordered shrubs 
from you for three years and I have 
never lost one and they grow so fast 
and bloom the first year. I think I 
have a very pretty yard and I wish to 
thank you for it. 
Mrs. N . G. Deaton 
12 New St., Buford, Ga. 
From DISTRICT of COLUMBIA 
When I got home shortly after noon¬ 
time Saturday afternoon past I found 
a bundle of roses ordered February 13, 
1936. Beautiful plants, never saw bet¬ 
ter in my life. You are sending out 
marvelous stock. 
Carey E. Quinn 
1010 Vermont Ave., Washington, D. C. 
From COLORADO 
Having received my recent order of 
roses and were so delighted with them 
I am sending for the Gold Medal Dozen. 
Lona Axcell 
417 So. Weber St. 
Colorado Springs, Colo. 
From CALIFORNIA 
My order arrived last night in fine shape 
—the moss was still damp—I marveled 
that it could come so far and be in 
such fine shape—better than from our 
Los Angeles Nurseries less than 200 
miles away. 
Mrs. Albert Jones 
Rancho Aljo, Alpine, Calif. 
From MISSOURI 
Our fruit trees, grapes, berries, bulbs 
and perennials we got of you last year 
are starting beautifully. Of the entire 
$35.00 I have no disappointments. My 
Karl Rosenfield had one blossom 2 
months after planting last spring. The 
wisteria also had a cluster of blossoms. 
Mrs. Martin E. Clark 
17 West 79th Terrace, Kansas City, Mo. 
From INDIANA 
I wish to thank you for your quick 
delivery. Your bulbs and trees are the 
finest I ever saw. I am more than 
pleased. 
Harry McCoy 
Frankfort, Ind. 
From ILLINOIS 
I would like to take this opportunity to 
express my utmost satisfaction with the 
Blaze Rose. It bloomed beautifully last 
year and appears to be very resistant to 
disease and unfavorable weather con¬ 
ditions. 
Mr. Harold V. Griffin 
New Lennox, III. 
From ILLINOIS 
About a year ago I purchased nearly 
300 shrubs from you, and I want to take 
this opportunity to tell you that every 
one grew beautifully; but how could 
they help it? The strong roots they 
had, even the smallest sized ones, only 
needed correct planting for success that, 
which was given to them. 
I sincerely hope all of your other cus¬ 
tomers are as well pleased as myself. 
Mrs. Lewis E. Hosier 
McBride Ave., R. F. D. 1, Box 248 
East St. Louis, III. 
From ILLINOIS 
I want to tell you the roses I bought 
from you the last two years are the talk 
of the neighborhood. I hope these will 
be as beautiful. Thank you for your 
honest and dependable attentions. 
Mrs. Helen Friedel 
8111 S. Honore St., Chicago, III. 
From MINNESOTA 
The 14 bushes (rose) I received last 
spring all had excellent root systems 
and blooms abundantly. You may count 
on my continued patronage, as 1 know 
good stock when I see it. 
Mr. Theodore A. Fischer 
4945 37lh Ave. So. 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
From MICHIGAN 
This is to advise that the shipment cov¬ 
ering order recently sent to_ you was 
received in excellent condition and I 
wish to state that the rose bushes were 
the finest we received from any nur¬ 
series from whom we purchased planting 
stock this year. 
T. T. Hawksworth 
Dime Bank Bldg., Detroit, Mich. 
From KANSAS 
By the way, I want to tell you that out 
of the six peach trees we got from you, 
three years ago, four of them bore 
heavily this year and I canned 80 
quarts besides eating them by the doz¬ 
ens. We have a family of six good 
eaters so think this speaks well for 
your trees. 
Mrs. T. W. Glidewell 
Silver Lake, Kansas 
From KANSAS 
Inclosed find check for more nursery 
stock, for when we opened our trees 
our delight knew no bounds; for uni¬ 
formity, size, ruggedness, and alive- 
ness, they are the finest I have ever 
seen. Now we want twenty-five more 
and will you please rush as we have the 
others planted and would like to get 
them all growing at the same time. 
Mrs. W. J. Newton 
Lewis, Kansas (about Chinese Elms) 
From UTAH 
I have been purchasing roses from your 
concern ever since seeing your display 
at the Century of Progress in 1933, and 
have found them to be the finest obtain¬ 
able. 
Fred E. Curtis 
740 Emerson Ave. 
Salt Lake City, Utah 
From TEXAS 
I have dozens of inquiries as to where 
and from whom I buy my shrubs and 
flowers. I always recommend and refer 
each and every one to your firm. I have ; 
been so pleased with your stock. 
Mrs. Lon Rundell 
Clarendon, Texas 
From PENNSYLVANIA 
I received the fruit trees all O. K., in 1 
fine shape. I am well pleased with my 
order. The cherry trees are fine, so fine 
that I want another bunch like them. 
The wife is pleased ■with her flowers, j 
I sure thank you for the fine trees you 
sent. If I were buying $1,000.00 worth 
I’d buy from you. 
Adolph G. Brior 
Route l, Orangeville, Pa. 
From OHIO 
I want to write and tell you about my 
beautiful rose garden. I ordered two 
dozen of your Gold Medal roses and 
the whole summer my garden has been 
one mass of beautiful colors, the talk of 
all my friends. I am sending the names 
of three friends who would like to order 
for March planting. Will you please 
send them your 1937 catalog? 
Mr. Oscar P. Cox 
151.7 Wittekind Terr. 
College Hill, Cincinnati, Ohio 
From KANSAS 
/ ordered the One Dollar offer you had j 
on the air last year and was more than 
pleased with it. I never planted seeds 
before that grew like they did. I had 
a very fine garden. There are 6 in our 
family and we all like fresh vegetables. 
We had all we wanted from our garden 
from early spring until late fall and the 
parsnips are still in the garden, then I 
canned over 200 qts. of vegetables and 
all from one dollar. 
Mrs. H. A. Fischer 
Grain field, Kansas 
From Manchukuo via Hamburg, la. 
The growing of Nursery stock reads like a romance. Let 
us briefly outline the history of a pear tree. 
First the seed is gathered in the mountainous country of 
northern China and Manchukuo, where there are no rail¬ 
roads or even roads, but merely trails. 
After many months, the seed arrives in this country. Then 
it is frozen and soaked, and planted in the spring. By late 
fall, these seeds have grown into small trees about a foot 
and a half tall. They are then dug. 
These small trees are no good for fruit as they are wild, 
but the roots are extremely hardy, vigorous and healthy 
and that is all we use of them. 
The following spring they are planted. In the summer they 
are budded with the different varieties of pear trees, such 
as Patten, Bartlett, or Kieffer. These buds are put in at 
the ground line. After the small trees are budded, nothing 
more is done to them during the summer except to culti¬ 
vate them. 
Then the next spring the wild tree top is cut off just above 
the bud. The bud grows up, and in two more years we 
have the fine pear tree which you get from us. 
It has taken four years from the time of planting the seed 
until the tree is ready to send to you. In the hands of our 
experienced growers, this wild pear seed has been devel¬ 
oped into a superior, high quality pear tree. It takes three 
or four years to produce a cherry tree, three years a plum 
tree, two years a peach tree, three or four years an 
apple tree. 
