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WHY OUR FRIENDS 
HAVE MADE US 
AMERICA’S FOR 
The story of a small Iowa 
nursery which grew to nat¬ 
ional fame in a few years 
The Inter-State Nurseries are owned 
and operated,by three brothers: Carl 
O.j Leslie R., and David L. 0. 
Sjulin. (Sjulin is a Scandinavian 
name and is pronounced “Shoe-lin.”) 
After several years’ experience with 
other nurseries, we started our own 
small nursery here at Hamburg, 
Iowa, in 1918. For many years we 
grew nursery stock for other nur¬ 
series, becoming one of the large 
growers in the middle west. 
Finally we decided that as long as we were 
growing the stock, we should also sell it 
direct to the customer. So in the spring of 
1931 we issued our first catalog. Since then, 
in the brief period of six years, we have grown 
to be the largest Direct-to-You Nurseries in 
America, with hundreds of thousands of 
customers from the Atlantic to the Pacific 
and Canada to the Gulf. 
We have been asked many times how we have 
built up this tremendous business in such a 
short time. The answer is simple. 
Inter-State’s 
^ JuuxhMAte& 
1. We guarantee our nursery stock and seeds to be true to name; otherwise, 
we will replace free or refund the amount you paid us for it. 
2. We guarantee our nursery stock and .seeds to be first quality and to 
reach you in good, live, growing condition. Examine it carefully upon arrival, 
and, if you are not entirely satisfied, return it at once and we will replace 
it free, or refund your money. 
3. Our stock is carefully handled and full of vitality and, under ordinary 
conditions should grow for you. But if it does not, owing to the weather 
and other conditions over which we have no contrrol, we will replace it at 
half price the following season, if you notify us not later than October 1,1937. 
4. It is our earnest endeavor to satisfy our customers. We want you to be 
satisfied not only when you get our stock but also afterwards. When our 
fruits bear, when our roses bloom, when our seeds produce, etc., we want 
you to be enthusiastic about them. If you are not, and if you feel that it is 
our fault in any way, please write us. We want YOU TO BE SATISFIED. 
Signed—INTER-STATE NURSERIES. 
A yuaumtcc that meatus exactly- what it says! 
Choc, faic, and complete! 
First—Greater values, better service and a 
sincere desire and effort to please you. 
Second—We have the practical knowledge 
of actually growing good stock. 
Third—An unusually favorable location 
for growing stock. 
Fourth—Our catalog is made so you can 
select exactly what you want. Moreover 
we list only the better varieties. 
• Fifth—Just plain hard work. 
We hope you will enjoy looking through this 
book. Whatever you buy from it will be a 
truly profitable investment. The joy, the 
pride, the satisfaction that comes from having 
a beautiful home, a fine garden, cannot be 
measured in mere dollars any more than a 
Mother’s Love can be measured. 
Friends, our sincere wish for you is—A 
Home of Happiness, a Home of Health, a 
Home of Beauty. 
Good Will is the foundation of any successful 
enterprise. We owe our success to your Good 
Will; to the fact that you have found us 
worthy of your confidence and have not only 
sent us your own orders but have recom¬ 
mended us to your friends and neighbors. We 
sincerely appreciate what you have done and 
pledge our best efforts to deserve your con¬ 
tinued patronage. 
To you, who have not tried our nursery stock— 
and seeds, we can only request that you send 
us an order. You can rest assured that we will 
endeavor to so serve you that you will become 
not only a customer but a friendly, neighborly 
customer. 
