iTE'S 
AMERICA’S LARGEST 
DIRECT-TO-YOU NURSERIES 
The Inter-State Nurseries are owned and operated by three brothers: Carl O. (Billy), Leslie R. 
and David L. O. Sjulin (this is a Scandinavian name and is pronounced “Shoe-lin”). VVe were 
practically born and raised in the nursery business. After years of 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 nurseries, 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 
seven 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. 
This tremendous business has been built by 
1st—Your Good Will, secured by giving Greater Values, Better Service and a sincere 
desire and effort to please you. 
2nd—An unusually favorable location for growing good stock plus our practical knowl¬ 
edge and efficient organization. 
3rd—Our catalog which is made so you can select exactly what you want. Moreover we 
list only the better varieties. 
4th—Just plain hard work. 
Good Will is the foundation of any succesful 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 b\it have recommended us to your friends and neighbors. We sincerely appreciate what 
you have done and pledge our best efforts to deserve your continued 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. 
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 can a Mother’s love. 
Friends^ our sincere wish For you is—A Home of Happiness, A Home of Health, 
A Home of Beauty. 
