FOREWORD 
These are stirring and troublous times. All of us are making sacrifices such 
as we never dreamed of, some of our loved ones on the fighting fronts are risking 
and losing their lives, all of us are having to work harder than ever in our life- 
time, making our contributions toward winning in this global struggle which 
shall determine whether we shall be free or reduced to slavery. 
But, happily, while the road ts long and the way is hard that leads to victory, 
our American way of life, not exactly as we have known it, perhaps, will be 
preserved. For, despite grave reverses there looms the growing strength of the 
Allied Nations, bolstered by the genius and resources of our great America. 
It is unthinkable that we should abandon our gardens any more than that we 
should abandon our churches. Wherever the Union Jack and the Stars and 
Stripes have gone, there also has gone the Cross of Christ. 
There will always be an England, and there will always be an America. And 
there will always be their places of worship and their gardens, and to these we 
who labor on the home front may repair for a period of meditation and the 
renewal of spiritual strength. 
In the past 45 years the Hjorts and their associates of Thomasville Nurseries 
have supplied much of the plant material for gardens in the Southeast. 
Your continued patronage Is invited, and every effort will be made to serve you 
well. 
THOMASVILLE NURSERIES, 
By Sam. C. Hjort, President Thomasville, Ga. 
November 1, 1942. 

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AZALEAS IN AN EFFECTIVE PLANTING 
