—GREETINGS— 
THANK YOU for your fine orders of the past season. 
We trust you will be with us again this year. 
We have added quite a few new introductions to our 
list this year and we hope you will try some of them. 
We added another eighty acres of land to the nursery 
the past year to try to take care of our more expansive 
propagation of some of these new things and hope we 
can get a good supply of all of them before long. 
It is a great deal of pleasure to receive the many letters 
we do from people all over the country, writing about 
some of the results of trials they have given some of my 
father's introductions and some of my own. I am only 
sorry that sometimes in the rush of spring and summer 
seasons and fall digging, or because I must be away on 
plant exploration or business trips, that I can't always 
answer these letters as quickly or as fully as I would like 
to do. But your letters are nevertheless very welcome and 
very helpful in determining the course of our plans and 
our work. 
One thing I hope you will notice in going over our catalog 
this year, and that is that practically all of the plants or 
seeds offered are either an introduction of dad's or mine. 
Dr. N. E. Hansen, my father, whose picture appears above 
with my son, Paul, and I, is in no business way connected 
with my nursery, but is with the Horticulture Department of 
South Dakota State College, here in Brookings. Naturally, 
he is a great inspiration to me in my work, and it is with a 
great deal of pride that I read the many letters we receive 
from folks all over the country telling of their successes with 
the many plants that dad has originated and introduced dur¬ 
ing the past forty years and more of work. 
Dr. N. E. Hansen has many more new plants coming on 
that have required many years of painstaking research and 
effort to bring along toward successful introduction. His many 
great introductions thus far, such as Cossack Alfalfa, the Waneta, 
Sapa, Opata and Hanska Plums, the Anoka Apple, the Dolgo 
Crab, and on down the list, have been in the aggregate worth 
millions of dollars in profits and pleasure to the people of the 
Northwest. Every possible aid in the way of land, money and 
workers should now be given to Dr. N. E. Hansen, as never be¬ 
fore, so that he can go on and complete the many experiments 
he has under way, for when he is gone no one will be able to 
rightfully complete the work and experiments he has started. 
The cost to the nation and the cost to our state is very small 
compared to the great benefits the people have received and 
will continue to receive from Dr. N. E. Hansen's untiring efforts. 
Paul Robert Hansen CARL A. HANSEN. 
Carl Andreas Hansen 
Niels Ebbesen Hansen 
TERMS 
Sacks or Packing FREE. 
Payments by cash, money order, or check. If by check, please add 5 cents extra 
for float charges. 
All shipments of Seeds or Plants will be sent collect for the delivery charges 
unless otherwise stated, by what we consider the best and cheapest way. Small 
shipments of plants may be sent by mail collect for the postage, plus handling 
fees, or if you add 10% to your remittance we will send them prepaid. If seed or 
plant shipments are to be sent to a prepaid station, be sure to include the shipping 
charges. 
South Dakota customers please add the 3% Sales Tax. 
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