AN IDEAL AND A REPUTATION THAT 
I N 1874 a young market gardener named 
Charles H. Perkins developed an over¬ 
whelming interest in the cultivation of 
Roses. He persuaded his partner and father- 
in-law, Albert E. Jackson, to his way of 
thinking. From that time on, the growing 
of fruits and berries gave way to the new 
business of specializing in fine Roses and 
other nursery stock. In later years, a second 
generation has grown up into the present 
company—first working with the original 
founders and then, in time, succeeding them. 
The first small nursery of 30 acres has grown 
to more than 2,500 in Newark, New York, 
with large additional growing and testing 
fields in Bridgeton, New Jersey, and Pleas¬ 
anton, California. 
From its earliest days the Company has 
concentrated on the propagation of new and 
finer Rose varieties. It won world-wide 
These are the -plants 
we sell — field-grown and 
proved. McGredy’ s 
Sunset in the foreground. 
Smiles—waiting to he 
shipped to somebody s 
garden this season. 
