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ET’S, for comparison sake, reduce it to terms | the selecting of the stock Wayside offers you. 
of sports—a tennis tournament, for in- It’s a process of elimination, until we have the 
stance. best parent stock that can be produced. Best 
in growth habit, and greatest in both quality 
and quantity of bloom. 
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This goes on until only two are left in the finals. | No plants are sold you that have not first won 
One wins. The championship is his or hers. their championship and become what we call 
Practically the same procedure takes place in pedigreed. Blooded stock, so to speak. 
Looks CNot Enough 
Like everything else, you can’t get out of a plant what isn’t 
in it, any more than you can get a quart out of a pint bottle. 

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You can put two plants side by side. 
One is Wayside’s. The other from another source. 
They may look pretty much alike. 
The Wayside one will quickly start growing when planted in 
your garden, give you abundant blooms of perfect form and 
beauty, and keep on doing it as long as it lives. 
The other will probably also start and bloom but the blooms 
will be scant and inferior in size and appearance. And you 
just can’t do anything about it by feeding or coddling simply 
because the blood is not there. It’s not in its blood to be any- 
thing but a second or third rater. 
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Another important superior point about Wayside plants is 
their being field-grown in the open for at least a year. The 
climate where our nursery is located affords a wide range of 
heat and cold, wet and dry periods so that plants acclimatized 
at Mentor on Lake Erie have the stamina and survival char- 
actistics which enable them to thrive anywhere in northern, 
central and eastern United States. 
When they come to you they have proven they can stand the 
gaff, so to speak. 
Furthermore, in our nursery are a wide variety of soils. Each 
plant is grown in the one that best meets its requirements. 
Which further adds to their quality. 
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