
SUTTON’S SEEDS IN WARTIME 
TO those customers of the Wayside Gardens who wish to grow the finest Flowers we recommend a 
perusal of the following pages which contain an offer of the best Seeds in the world—Sutton’s. 
For many years the Wayside Gardens Company have been Agents for the sale of our Seeds in 
America. Possibly some of their customers may think that owing to the contingencies of war, seeds 
from England cannot now be obtained but, thanks to the supremacy of the Royal Navy, such is not 
the case. The Battle of the Atlantic may be in progress, but Sutton’s Seeds are still shipped to America 
and will continue to be shipped. In the words of Mr. Winston Churchill, ‘“There are solid grounds for 
the confidence we feel.” 
It may also be thought that, owing to a depleted staff, we have been unable to keep our stocks up 
to the high standard of previous years. Never was a thought further from the truth. The pedigree 
strains of Seed that have taken over a century to raise are still grown, selected, cleaned and tested 
with the same care as before the war. 
We should like to thank those who continue to buy our Seeds year after year and to assure them and 
others who, this season, may be making their first purchase, that the Seeds offered through the Way- 
side Gardens Company are of the same high quality as supplied to our customers in the British Isles. 
We believe that the accompanying photographs will interest our friends in America. The group at 
the top of the page consists of a few of the Home Guard, A.R.P. Wardens and Special Constables, while 
that at the foot shows the Company’s Fire Brigade. Included in these groups are three of our Direc- 
tors, Major Noél Sutton, Mr. Martin Sutton and Mr. Owen Sutton; also several Departmental Managers. 
Our assurance to all Americans is that notwithstanding the Blitzkrieg, the Battle of Britain, and 
the Battle of the Atlantic, the prevailing atmosphere in our island home is one of coolness and trust, 
which may perhaps be best expressed in the words of the prophet: ‘In quietness and in confidence 
shall be your strength.”’ i 4 

