2 GROW FRUITS AND VEGETABLES FOR VICTORY 


CLARK GARDNER. 
A PERSONAL 
INVITATION 
Will you join with me 
in co-operating with 
Agricultural Defense 
Plans and grow Vitamin 
Vegetables and Fruits for 
Victory and Trees, 
Shrubs and Flowers to 
build up and keep our 
morale above par and at 
the same time make our 
Free America still more 
beautiful? _ 
I feel sure that you will 
and this Victory Planting 
Book is made up with 
prices so that you can do 
this and help greatly in 
the building up Morale 
campaign. 
In spite of increased 
costs, we have effected 
savings in propagation 
and operating so that we 


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can list our Quality Per- | 
ennial Plants, Fruits, 
Trees and Shrubs and a 
choice selection of ‘‘VIT- 
AMIN VEGETABLES 
FOR VICTORY” at 
prices that will show you 
a big saving. Taking ad- | 
vantage of our savings in | 
propagation and operat- 
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ing we have crowded 
values in our specia * 
offers as broadcast ove 
Radio Stations fror | 
coast to coast. 
Perhaps you have heard f 
“Old Gardener’ introdu« 
our hardy “Blizzard Bega 
plants, as his voice came ¥ 
you from your Radio. }  ~™ 
But whether you: have | 




millions) 
of Perennial Plants. ve : 
ee, 
y 
A field containing 
heard our special Adv« Aisiog 
offers or not I want t ri extend — 
my hearty greetings ‘and best 
wishes to you as yc u read this. 
page. If you are aleady ac 
tomer of ours, I vant to: thank 
you for your con peration dur- 
ing the years ‘iat have gone a 
and I hope tk.at the Trees tnd 
Plants you have received fro 
us, have behaved themselyaain 
and brought you much pleas= 
ure and enjoyment as they 
have developed on your 
grounds. 
Should you not be oqtiain tall 
with the Gardner Nurseries at Osage, — 
Iowa, I want to explain that our 
business was started way back in 
1857, when the writers grandfather, — 
Nathaniel Clark Gardner and fam- 
ily, with all their wordly goods, left. 
Otsego county, New York, in 2D 
Ox-drawn covered wagon, and after 
months of slow traveling, 
crossed the ercat Mississippi. ms 
and found here in Northern Iowa’ 
the location of their dreams. 



