
LANDSCAPING IS EASY WITH OUR BIG SELECTION OF STOCK 

As you will notice this is the same picture of myself and family I had in 
my catalog last season. One lady wrote to me and said I was a peculiar look- 
ing fellow. What would you think of letter like that. I can not figure out 
whether she meant to compliment me or was just laughing. Anyhow I was 
raised here in the country where I now operate. Some people often asked me 
how I found the place, but I likely found it easier than anyone that has ever come 
to see me because I was born here. Ninety years ago my father was an Irish 
paddy. He sold silk handkerchiefs, towels, cuff buttons and other things all 
over the country. In this way he found this place and when he got a few dol- 
lars he bought a small sandy land farm. He must have inherited liking fruit 
from his folks back home in Erin. Anyhow there was never a fruit tree agent 
visited our little home and went away without an order. I inherited liking to 
peddle for even after my father had gotten a nice farm and a competance ahead 
he went back to peddling. The lady in the picture says there never is anyone 
comes along with something to sell that I do not buy it. 
Oh, Well! I have never made a fortune but I have had a good time and you 
know I often think the money a man has when he joins the immortal throng repre- 
sents the fun he has missed during life. 
Some how I have never liked to be called a businessman, I am just a plain 
old farmer and that is all I will ever be. 
Thank you for reading this. 

FITZGERALD NURSERY - - STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS 
| [10 } 
