“lhc War Got em--- 
Perennial Plants Discontinued 
Because of the wartime labor shortage we have found it neces- 
sary to discontinue our general line of perennial plants. With- 
out adequate help it became impossible to grow all the plants in 
our nursery as well as we like. 
Rather than send out plants which we believed would not be 
thoroughly satisfactory to our customers we have curtailed our 
business and are confining ourselves to bearded iris alone. Of 
these our planting is somewhat larger than ever, but with no oth- 
er plants to care for we believe it will be possible to give more 
attention to growing irises, and to keep up to date on our ship- 
ping schedule. 
To those of our customers who are especially interested in 
some of our other specialties, such as chrysanthemums, we can 
say only that this move was forced upon us by wartime condi- 
tions. Our planting was larger than we could handle, and 
something had to go. Since nearly half the nursery was devot- 
ed to iris at that time, the choice of that flower for continuance is 
obvious. 
We hope that those of our customers who have not devoted 
some space to modern varieties of iris will give them a trial. The 
color range available today is remarkably wide, and surely a 
flower which demands so little in the way of attention 1s ideally 
adapted to wartime gardens. 
Please see our special offer of an introductory collection on another 
page of this price list. 
