
Food for Thought as Well as for Your Flowers 
Why treat your flowers in a way you would openly resent if 
done to you? You wouldn’t put up with any old food that comes 
along, so to speak. For your children, you are no end fussy about 
being sure of their having enough, and the right vitamins. You 
are particular about a balanced diet. 
Plants, anything that grows in the soil, are exactly the same in 
their food needs as humans. 
There are plenty of the “’shot-in-the-arm” kinds of ready mixed 
fertilizers, But, they are mostly only stimulants. 
What your plants need is a balanced organic food. Not just a 
stimulant. 
They need one containing in right amounts, those things that 
make plenty of strong roots; produce good, sturdy stalks, thrifty 
foliage and an abundance of good sized blooms. 
That’s exactly the kind of Plant Food we use at Wayside. 
Much of our success in growing such unfailingly fine plants is 
due to it. 
She World's Ginest Plant rood 
So declared by experts. For Bulbs, Lawns, Flower Gardens. Used exclusively at WAYSIDE 
in the production of millions of fine plants. It is whole-heartedly endorsed for our customers. 
Thousands of customers and strangers alike have 
visited WAYSIDE GARDENS. They have marvelled 
at our 600 miles of plants. They have been known 
to actually gasp for breath at the sheer beauty of 400 
acres of flowers brought to such a high degree of per- 
fection. Invariably, they ask us the same question. 
“‘To what do you attribute the superior qualities 
of your flowers?” 
And invariably our answer is the same: ‘The chief 
reason for the high quality of WAYSIDE products is 
due to the fact that we use only the very finest Plant 
Food that skill and money can produce!”’ 
We Learn from an 
We are indebted to a noted English gardener for the Exclusive 
Plant Food we use in growing millions of plants of superior quality. 
Among other things, he said: 
“A lawn should not be treated like a hayfield, but like a 
permanent garden. Therefore, | object to chemical fertilizers 
for lawns. It is not the QUANTITY of grass cut from the 
lawn each week, but the DENSITY AND LUXURIANCE OF 
THE GRASS which produces the effect of walking over a thick 
velvet carpet that counts. If you want a thick lawn in which 
there is no room for weeds, it is essential that you use a 
properly balanced ORGANIC Plant Food—one that sinks 
deeply into the soil for the grass or plant roots to go after. 
That is where the moisture is, and you will find it unnecessary 
to water so much in summer.” 
You will agree that we have entirely too much at 
stake to afford to use any other kind. In addition to 
the enormous investment represented by our nurseries, 
we have a reputation to maintain among thousands 
of the most critical floral customers in the land. We 
prize and guard very jealously such possession. . . . 
Contented only with the best we advise our customers 
to adopt the same attitude, in order that the fine 
specimens grown at WAYSIDE may be duplicated in 
your own garden. We recommend only that which 
we ourselves use. 
English Gardener 
WAYSIDE’S superior Plant Food is made from bone meal, dried 
blood, ground fish, and muriate of potash, in proportions recom- 
mended by the ‘old country’’ expert. These long-lasting ingre- 
dients, heavy with life-producing qualities, give your flowers a 
well balanced diet, containing in just the right amounts those 
things that go to make strong roots, sturdy stalks, bright green 
leaves, a profusion of foliage and an abundance of large and 
healthy blooms year in and year out. It does not stimulate, but 
nourishes any and all plants and imparts to them a youthful and 
lusty vigor. It disintegrates slowly. It is excellent to use in bulb 
plantings as well as in Rose beds, or hardy plant borders. Use it 
consistently year after year, and your garden will be among the 
most beautiful. 
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