Whether your home is now planted or newly built, we invite you to investigate our service. Your own 
back yard may become a beautiful, livable compliment to your home by wise selection and planting of a 
few shrubs or flower:ng plants. New home owners will appreciate our easy payment plan effected through 
our budget plan. 
This Planting Guide will help you get the results you desire—you'll note it is more than just the 
ordinary nursery catalog—for it tells you where and what to plant to get the best effect and to assure the 
most favorable conditions for your Monrovia fruit and shade trees, ornamentals and roses. 
You'll want to keep the 1942 Monrovia Planting Guide handy throughout the year. Refer to it when 
questions arise—and when you wish to add something to your garden. Your gardening neighbors will 
appreciate your ability to help them out, too, as a result of your knowledge gained from the Monrovia 
Planting Guide. Of course, if they may wish to borrow it—better tell them to send for a copy for their own 
use—because sometimes even good neighbors forget to return things. 
HE, Kboudale 
Fruit Trees of Special Interest to the Home Gardener 
FUYAMA PERSIMMON 
A beautiful orange-scarlet Persimmon. Of large size and conical 
shape, it is good to eat at all stages of ripening after it has turned 
color. Non-astringent. If your persimmon trees have failed to fruit 
at some seasons, we suggest this tree as a substitute. It does not 
require other persimmons to cross-pollinate it to set a crop. 
HENRY’S SELECT AVOCADO 
Plant Patent 234 
It is our pleasure and good fortune to offer this wonderful hardy 
avocado to our customers. As a home garden or orchard tree it is 
unsurpassed in flavor and appearance. Henry’s Select is a pear- 
Priced at $1.00 each bare root. shaped fruit, with a leathery purple skin, stiff enough to allow 
eating from the half shell. The average weight of 8 to 14 ounces is 
GOLDBECK PERFECTION APRICOT 
A marvelous apricot—should be in every garden, for the luscious 
just the right size for home use. It has an oil content of 18 per cent 
or more at maturity which makes for excellent keeping quality. Free 
fruit of this small tree cannot be surpassed in flavor, color and ripen- of fibre. A thrifty HARDY tree producing consistently each year if 
ing quality. Delicious, rich golden yellow fruits are uniformly large, allowed 5 to 6 months rest after the fruit is all picked. Ripens about 
averaging 2 inches long. Excellent for preserving or eating fresh. Otisber 
Priced at $3.50 each, balled. 
Bears consistently every year. Hardy. 
Priced at $1.00, 2-year-old trees bare root. 
A Shade Garden Can be a Delightful Place 
For more enjoyment of your garden we suggest planning an area where shade will abound, where you 
and your friends can sit in comfort out-of-doors. Shade may be had in a number of ways—hby trees, or 
covered arbors, by lath or if possible by utilizing part of the house for shade. The area, if small and likely 
to get much hard use by walking or placement of furniture, may be more satisfactory if paved, either with 
flagstones or other types of paving. 
Shade has always been a problem, and probably has scared more home owners because they could 
not grow enough plants in the shade for color. There are many plants useful in shady places, but the most 
important part of successful shade gardening is proper attention to the soil. Be sure drainage is perfect. 
Water should not stand on the soil. Lighten heavy soils by addition of peat or sand. Dig it deep and mix 
well. We grow a number of plants useful for shade gardens. You will find most of them fully described in 
this Planting Guide. Should you need further assistance please feel free to consult our landscape depart- 
ment. 
