Your garden can bring you the greatest and most enduring pleasure and the greatest re¬ 
turn for the thought, effort, time and money you invest in it, only with pedigreed stock. 
"Breeding" in plants, just os in animals, is the only way to assure pure, true strains and 
prize specimens. 
Wayside hardy plants are reproduced only from pedigreed and selected stock set aside 
for reproducing purposes exclusively. Cuttings or divisions taken from these selected stock 
plants are grown into saleable specimens. This insures that all of the superior qualities of 
the parent stock will be retained in the new plants, a scientific principle that assures you 
the enviable color and profusion you want in your garden—as thousands of our customers 
have learned to their pleasure. 
Perfect Blooms From Careful Breeding 
In planning and planting a garden you look forward to an abundance of flowers. In 
buying plants or bulbs or seeds you are investing not only money but time in expectation of 
this abundance of bloom true to type. You buy in faith in the honesty of the firm using 
the names, pictures, descriptions which you depended on to guide your selection. 
There is only one known way for a grower of hardy plants to deliver without fail what his 
catalog promises—and this is the Wayside method of reproducing only from pedigreed, ac¬ 
climatized selected parent plants of known quality. This involves destroying all weaklings. 
Insuring Full Vitality for Vigorous Growth 
All Wayside Gardens plants are grown in open nursery fields for one year or more, at Men¬ 
tor, Ohio. Within the 200 or more acres of Wayside Gardens are seven distinct types of soil. 
This unique condition makes it possible to raise the greatest variety of plants. The climate 
also affords wide range of heat and cold, wet and dry periods so that plants acclimatized 
at Mentor on Lake Erie have the stamina and survival characteristics which enable them 
to thrive anywhere in northern, central and easterp United States. 
