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MAPLE ROAD GARDEN 
SASS BROTHERS 
RFD 1BENSONSTA. OMAHA, 4, NEBR. 
PHONE: GLENDALE 6903 
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FOREWORD 
The second generation of Sass Brothers this year assumes 
the mantle of their predecessors to continue the work carried 
on over the better part of half a century by them and which 
has placed them in the front rank of American plant breed- 
ers. The name of Sass has become a household word where- 
ver fine gardens are grown. 
We, the five sons of Jacob Sass, who died Dee. 10, 1945, 
at the age of 73, constitute this second generation. We in- 
herit, share and share alike, our fathers 720 acre farm hold- 
ings and his Maple Road Gardens, his plant breeding acreage. 
We shall earry on both the farming and plant breeding enter- 
prises as a partnership under the firm name of Sass Brothers 
and retaining the title of Maple Road Gardens. 
Our father and his elder brother, Hans Peter Sass, the 
first generation, came to the United States from Germany 
with their parents in 1884, settling on a farm near Omaha, 
Neb., where the family has been located ever since. Hans 
P. Sass, who for many years operated a farm and his Mid- 
west Gardens at Washington, Neb., from which he introduced 
many fine irises, peonies, hemerocallis, and oriental poppies, is 
now 77 years old and has retired, giving up his farm and 
gardens and moving to Bennington, Neb. We shall have the 
benefit of his advice on breeding lines based on his years of 
experience and his life long study of iris genetics. 
The names of Hans P. and Jacob Sass have been for so 
long associated in the horticultural world that there has been 
a general impression that they were a partnership and one 
organization. This has never been the case as Jacob’s Maple 
Road and Hans’ Midwest Gardens were entirely separate and. 
distinct businesses, their one joint activity being in the 
annual price list issued by Maple Road Gardens, but also 
including Midwest Garden productions. 
