INTRODUCTION 
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We are taking great pleasure in sending you our third 
descriptive catalog. We hope you will find it useful. 
We soon found a definite want in our first book—an 
index. This was corrected in our second book. You will 
find an index of genera at the end of this one also. 
We have arranged the list by families because we find 
that thus we can more easily give space to general cul- 
tural directions of groups. Our remarks have been based 
on questions we have been asked and information we have 
been given as visitors have walked through the garden. 
Our collection of small shrubs and sub-shrubs which are 
so important a feature in the rock garden landscape is 
our pride. 
We have discovered that a great many gardeners have 
patience; they can wait for a good thing to grow. We 
therefore offer some fine shrubby material suitable for 
background plantings for the rock garden and for the 
shrubby border in small sizes, seedlings and rooted ecut- 
tines that have been transplanted one or more times. 
Our prices have not gone up; in some eases they have 
been reduced. Change, either up or down, is, for the most 
part, merely an indication of size. 
Native North American plants have been indicated 
by an *, 
We are very happy to have visitors or a good talk by 
letter. We are glad to advise, always taking into consid- 
eration that being human we have our own notions and 
convictions as well as tastes. 
If you can not find what you want in this catalog we 
shall be glad to try to get it for you. 
This little book is issued biennially. Should you inad- 
vertently lose or destroy your copy we shall be glad to 
send you another. 

