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Catalog Preview 
We list herein a few of the many improved modern 
fruit and flower varieties which will crowd the pages 
of our 1942 General Catalog. 
Por 92 years the Armstrong Nurseries has been constantly search- 
ing out and developing improved fruits and ornamental plants. 
Last year we tested over 650 varieties of ornamental plants alone. 
Naturally, we have found some outstanding new kinds, some of 
which have made old standbys as antique as the horse and buggy. 
They usually require less attention than ordinary kinds, and yet 
give better results. 
How to Get Our Big 1942 General Catalog. Each year the demand 
for our big General 78-page Catalog is so great that we are not 
able to fill all requests. In spite of the fact that our supply will be 
limited, we are very anxious that you get a copy if you will be 
making additions to your garden this year. The enclosed post card 
dropped into a mail box now will automatically bring you a copy 
in December as soon as it is off the press. Please verify the type- 
written address on the front of the post card. 

Camellia Colonel Firey (much reduced in size) 
Hundreds of Rare Plants Free 
The Armstrong Nurseries. is going to give away hundreds of rare plants to 
our customers (no one else is eligible) who participate in our mail comment 
survey. The winners will select their own prizes from the largest collection of 
rare fruit and ornamental plant varieties in the West. When you check in 
your answers to the few simple questions indicated on the enclosed post card, 
pencil a few comments on the bottom and drop the post card into the mail 
box, you have entered the contest and ordered your free copy of our 1942 
big General Catalog. The prizes will be awarded on the basis of sincerity. 
frankness, simplicity and helpfulness. First Prize, $50.00 in plants; Second 
Prize, $35.00 in plants; Third Prize, $25.00 in plants; and 30 $5.00 plant prizes. 
A $5.00 prize of plant material is a very substantial prize at Armstrong 
Nurseries, where $5.00 buys many plants which often last a lifetime, giving 
constant pleasure and becoming more valuable as the years pass. 
How Are We Doing? 
“The Customer is Right.’’ Mr. J. S. Armstrong has consistently 
believed this for 52 years, during which period the Armstrong 
Nurseries has grown to be the biggest organization of its kind in 
the West—so big now that Mr. J. S. Armstrong and Mr. John A. 
Armstrong find it hard to personally talk to very many of you, our 
customers. They have decided on this mail arrangement as a good 
method of asking you for your opinion. What have you especially 
liked about the kind of plants and the kind of service we have 
been giving you, and what have you disliked or found unsatis- 
factory? They feel that you will welcome an opportunity to speak 
your mind frankly by writing a few plainly phrased sentences on 
Look What $5.00 Can Buy at Armstrongs (4 examples) 
(1) Armstrong Big Ten Rose Collec- 
tion, including 10 of the finest roses 
in the world, 2 husky Grape Vines, 
say one fruiting as early as June and 
the other as late as December. 
(2) One Pink - Fleshed Lemon, gold 
marked foliage, pink juiced lemons 
all year, one Calamondin, bearing 
many lime-flavored miniature tanger- 
ines, one Pineapple Guava, silver 
and red flowers and fragrant deli- 
cious fruit, one Prince Takamatsu 
Hibiscus, gigantic scarlet flowers, one 
Mystery Gardenia, Armstrong's large, 
symmetrically flowered strain. 
(3) One Jumbu Persimmon, non-puck- 
ery giant fruit, 1 Edranol Avocado 
which produces big, green, buttery 
fleshed fruit, 1 Natal Plum, fragrant 
flowers, glossy foliage, excellent fruit, 
1 Golden Blush Peach, a yellow 
peach which bears every year in 
our climate. 
(4) One Camellia, let us say the rare 
deep red Prof. C. S. Sargent, 1 giant- 
flowered Azalea Rutherfordiana, full 
of flower buds, 1 Burford Holly with 
berries on it, the new kind which has 
non-stickery, glossy foliage, stands 
the sun and always has berries. 
the enclosed self-addressed post card. 
Mr. J. S. and Mr. John A. Armstrong are going to express their 
thanks for the helpful comments they expect to receive by dis- 
tributing valuable merchandise prizes. Read details at left. 




Rutherfordiana Azalea 
variety L. J. Bobbink 
Evergreen foliaged 
new Azalea hybrid. 
Hybrid Azaleas 
The new hybrid Rutherfordiana Azaleas 
take after their one parent, the Rhododen- 
dron, to the extent that their blooms are 
very large and their foliage evergreen, 
but unlike Rhododendrons in Southern 
California, they like the climate and every 
year produce a tremendous showing of 
blooms. Most of the varieties are quite 
double and no matter which of the many 
vivid, clear colors—fragrant whites, pinks, 
oranges, scarlets, lavenders and reds you 
select, you will be amazed at the show 
they will make on your north or east 
exposure during the late winter and spring. 
Some varieties bloom lightly a good por- 
tion of the year. You get all of the advan- 
tages of a Rhododendron and an Azalea 
rolled into one plant when you buy a 
Rutherfordiana Azalea and none of the 
faults. 6-inch pots, $1.75 each. 
Indian Azaleas 
Those who have visited the Carolinas in 
the spring always remember being en- 
tranced by the famous azalea gardens. 
The star performers there are Indian Aza- 
leas, with their spectacular double or 
semi-double blooms, 3 and 4 inches across. 
They like California just as well, and you 
are certain to be enthusiastic about the 
carefully selected, brilliant colored vari- 
eties which make up the Armstrong collec- 
tion. They are spreading and evergreen. 
6-inch pots, $1.75 each. 
Armstrong Camellias 
We are delighted that now you home 
planters have found that our most admired 
winter flowering shrub, the Camellia, is 
easy to grow. Mr. J. S. Armstrong person- 
ally supervises the growing of the Arm- 
strong collection, which people from all 
over the world come to see. It includes an 
entrancing variety of bloom shades and 
shapes. Visitors are unanimous in declar- 
ing that we have better grown, sturdier 
plants and that they are priced far below 
what others ask. 
Colonel Firey, with its rich crimson, sym- 
metrically petalled blooms, sometimes 6 
inches across, is a variety which everyone 
likes and connoisseurs place among the 
five finest varieties. See illustration above. 
$2.75 each and up. 
Fragrant Camellias. Yes, the brilliant scar- 
let blooms of Emperor of Russia, and the 
gigantic, informal, rose-pink flowers of 
Kumasaka, both have a characteristic 
pleasant fragrance. 
Professor C. S. Sargent. More than 200 
petals make up the large, bright scarlet, 
high-centered flowers. This is our deepest 
red and is very free blooming. $2.25 up. 
Marchioness of Exeter. Imagine about 6 to 
8 beautiful clear pink carnations all rolled 
together into one huge Camellia flower 
and you know what Marchioness of Exeter 
looks like. $2.25 up. 
ARMSTRONG NURSERIES. Ontario, Calif. 

