2 Ferndale Nursery—Askov, Minn. 1946 
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GREETINGS 
To you, our many customers and friends. Some of you have 
been buying from us for many years, which means that our 
plants must be satisfactory. We endeavor to ship out only good 
stock and if we are out of the best we will not ship you the 
next best unless we write for your approval. In the busy season 
we probably will not get to write to you about such matters 
and will refund your money on stock not available or up to 
standard. 
We thank you all for your patronage in the years gone by 
and are ready to serve you again to the best of our ability. 
The help situation has been downright bad for several years 
and now it looks better for spring. Our supply of many plants we 
used to offer has suffered and many varieties are completely out. 
We just have not got them. We have done very little seeding 
and transplanting of Evergreens for four or five years and con- 
sequently have little to offer. The Wild Flowers and Hardy Ferns 
are still the best in supply. Nature did not go to war, she Kept 
right on with her business of growing these plants and we were 
able to get some help so we could get them dug and stored in 
the basement so we can offer you a good supply of such plants. 
Hardy Perennials are also in fair supply, not so many varieties 
and large numbers but what we have is first class. 
We are listing some varieties of evergreen and other plants 
in our retail catalog which we will not list at wholesale because 
our supply is too limited for wholesale. We may have other plants 
which we used to have which are not listed and if you want 
any plants not listed we invite you to write us and tell what 
you want and if we have it or can get we will give you a 
price, etc. 
We thank you ail for business in the past and hope that we 
can count you in again this year, We promise you we will do our 
best to build up our stock this coming year so we can give 
you a more complete list to choose from. Perennials do not take 
so long to propagate, two years from seed and divisions on most 
varieties. Evergreens take a long time, two years from seed be- 
fore they are ready to transplant the first time and then another 
two or three years before the second transplanting and then 
another three years and more before they are finally ready for 
Balled & Burlapped stage and then some of them will be very 
small, from twelve to eighteen inches for most varieties, making 
a total of nearly ten years before we can list them as B & B. 
The Hardy Ferns and Wild Flowers we get ‘Ready Made’ 
but at that there is a lot of work to find a suitable place to 
dig them, and get a permit from the land owner or State if tax 
delinquent and then drive up to 65 miles back and forth each 
day -when digging and perhaps get caught in a rain storm, or 
have flat tire or motor trouble on the way. Some of the Ferns 
and wild flowers we have to carry on our back over half a mile 
through a swamp to where we can get at them with the truck 
and must wear rubber boots. It is interesting work to locate 
these wild plants, some grow on sandy soil, others on gravel, 
some in swamps, hillsides, along rivers and streams, heavy woods 
and other kinds of soil and conditions. We must get the descrip- 
tion of the land checking with neighbors, if any, within reason- 
able distance and then find out who owns the land from the County 
Auditor and then write back and forth to come to an agreement 
on price and then when time comes to dig we get our spades, 
knives and axes ready, sacks to carry them in, rubber boots, 
raincoats, dinner buckets, drinking water, compass and what not, 
and off we go. 
PRICES 
We believe you will find our prices in line with other nurseries 
offering similar plants. There will be many shortages again 
this year. We have not raised our prices from 1945 and in some 
cases we have lowered the price. 
GUARANTEE 
We guarantee all stock furnished by us to be first class, 
free from injurious insects and diseases and true to name. We 
do not guarantee plants to grow after planting. There are so 
many causes for failure over which we have no control that we 
can assume no responsibility after stock is delivered to transpor- 
tation companies, 
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