HOSE sturdy pioneers who settled our shores 
brought with them, among their few treasured 
possessions, the beginnings of our Colonial Gardens 
—seeds and roots of plants that had been dear to 
them in England. Their simple gardens furnished 
a harvest of food and flowers, of condiments and 
remedial agents, but their love of gardening yielded a greater 
reward—qualities of mind and spirit which gave them strength 
and courage to overcome the countless obstacles that lay in 
their path before they emerged victorious—a free and inde- 
pendent nation. That love of working with plants is our precious 
heritage. Today, more than ever, we need the refining influence 
of this tradition; we need the physical and mental relaxation 
which comes from tending a garden; above all we need a place 
for quiet meditation away from strife. In short we need the peace 
and the good will which comes from cherishing green things 
growing. The question is not can we afford the time for a 
garden, but rather can we afford to be without one? 

If our orders and correspondence reveal anything they give 
a definite clue to an ever-increasing interest on the part of garden- 
ers in the better and newer plants. Just as houses are being 
modernized, so gardens are being improved by discarding some 
of the mediocrities and replacing them with specimens of real 
character, beauty and fragrance. It is our pleasure to help you 
create or renovate your gardens, and your hearty response in 
turn encourages us to continue the search for the best that is 
being produced today. 
In this issue we are listing only a moiety of the stock grown 
here in order to give more detailed descriptions of those plants 
which we would want to have sold to us. If you want a plant 
which is not listed, in all probability it is growing in the nursery; 
if not, we can nearly always get it, so tell us of your desires and 
we will do our utmost to satisfy them. 
We are happy, yes, humbly proud, to play a part in the 
restoration of some of New England’s charming old-fashioned 
gardens, and to help in the designing of new gardens suggestive 
of that old-time charm. We like to plan herbaceous borders, 
terraces, pools, and all the varied types of intimate gardens that 
reflect good taste and we enjoy growing plants of proved merit. 
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