Of First Importance 
To You 
Is Root Strength 
To you, it is of utmost importance that your Hardy Plants 
bloom the first year. Furthermore, you want to be sure of 
having the most perfect blooms. There is only one way of 
your making sure of both. What follows tells you. 
Here's what we mean by full-rooted, 
vitality-filled pedigree plants. Pains¬ 
taking digging means all those root¬ 
lets are preserved. It's one of the 
reasons why Wayside plants start 
growing so quickly and make such 
vigorous growth the first year in 
your garden. 
Sound Reason Back of Wayside’s Pedigreed Plants 
(Perfect PSlooms 
(?rom (Bare ful PSreeding 
"Breeding" or "growing" pedigreed plants is 
much the same as breeding pedigreed dogs or 
cattle. For stock breeding purposes, reg¬ 
istered and prize animals are selected. So 
with Wayside's Hardy Plants. At our nursery 
pedigreed stock plants are set aside for repro¬ 
ducing purposes exclusively. Cuttings or 
divisions taken from these selected stock 
plants are grown into salable specimens, they 
retain throughout their life the superior qual¬ 
ities of the parent from which they originally 
were cut. Therefore, only this method of re¬ 
production is followed at Wayside Gardens. 
Cuttings and seeds taken indiscriminately 
without any thought of "blood" or "parent¬ 
age" irrevocably produce indifferent plants. 
These plants, no matter how big or how old, 
can give no better flowers than their parents, 
usually worse. 
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You are really purchasing an abundance of 
flowers. To have that you can't avoid begin¬ 
ning with "ROOT STRENGTH" quality plants 
such as Wayside is known to furnish. Bear in 
mind that if you purchase roots-dormant 
plants from various or unreliable sources, they 
look about the same even though they may 
differ in size. Only when planted in your 
garden and when they have started to bloom, 
can you tell a thing about their inherent 
stamina, the purity of strain or quality of 
flowers. It is then too late to change. All 
Wayside plants are pedigreed. We know, and 
thousands of critical gardeners know, they 
will perform, giving you lasting satisfaction 
and greater beauty, year after year. 
It is our careful way of doing things that has 
made Wayside Gardens the largest, most 
critical, as well as the most popular hardy 
plant nursery on this continent. 
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To a purchaser dormant plants and roots look 
alike. It is not possible to see that intangible 
quality which really is your definite assurance 
of a beautiful garden. 
PS Looming S?ge 
No plants are sent out until we are sure they 
are old and big enough to bloom for you the 
first year. A rigid system of inspection is 
constantly maintained. Any plant, no matter 
how valuable, is destroyed if there is the least 
doubt about its health. The last page in this 
catalogue tells you more about our methods 
of packing, shipping, etc. Read it. 
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Our scientific methods of reproduction are so 
well known in the trade that other growers 
come to Wayside Gardens for their "stock 
plants", offering to pay us a premium. 
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