INTRODUCTION 
We are taking great pleasure in sending you our fourth 
descriptive catalog. We hope you will find it useful. We 
have arranged the list by families because thus we can 
more easily give space to general cultural directions of 
groups. Our remarks have been based on questions that 
have been asked and information we have been given as 
visitors have walked through our garden and on our read- 
ing of books that are appended toward the end of this 
catalog. 
We have discovered that a great many gardeners have 
patience; they can wait for a good thing to grow. We 
therefore usually have some fine shrubby material suitable 
for the rock garden and for background plantings in 
small sizes, seedlings and rooted cuttings that have been 
transplanted one or more times. These we offer in flats of 
48 plants at the rate of $5.00 a flat. If you are interested 
please inquire. 
In our cramped quarters growing space is a burning 
question. Partly for that reason and partly because there 
are many people who wish rare things in small sizes we 
are prepared to hustle our plants into the world as soon 
as possible. 
Change in price, either up or down, is for the most 
part, merely an indication of size. Plants from our newly 
imported stock is of necessity expensive. We have only 
very few of some of these rare things. 
Native North American plants have been indicated 
by an *, 
You will find an index at the end of this book. 
We shall not again for several years issue another 
catalog—should you inadvertently lose or destroy your 
copy we shall be glad to send you another. And we shall 
keep you in touch with our new things by a small annual 
news-letter. 
We are happy to have visitors or a good talk by letter. 
We are glad to advise, always taking into consideration 
that being human we have our own notions and convic- 
tions as well as tastes. 

