One of the 
MOST COMPLETE 
STOCKS OF GOOD PLANTS 
in Southern California 
TUTTLE BROS. NURSERIES 
DEAR PRIEND: 
For many years we have been a firm believer in a statement we once made, 
“A plant is worth no more than the information that goes with it.” That is 

the principal reason we have tried to include as much detailed information 
as possible in the pages of our catalogue. However, with some factors which 
may bear heavily upon the success of your plantings, we have had to deal 
in such a general way our information (unless you have had wide experience 
with plants) is not of much help. 
The principal of these factors are weather conditions (frost, heat, humidity, 
wind) in your particular location and character and depth of your soil. And 
we assure you these conditions vary greatly within short distances. 
So, when you visit our nursery to purchase plants for your home tell the salesman where you live. 
Irom this, the salesman will know what your soil, wind and temperature conditions are. If he does not 
know your immediate neighborhood there is someone in our organization who is familiar with it. 
Tell the salesman the size of the space to be planted, whether the area in question is sun, shade or 
some of both. Give him the lay of the land, comparatively level or sharply sloping? If planting is against 
a building the salesman will need to know approximate width of planting area from building outward, 
width and height of spaces between and under windows. If the salesman asks you many questions do 
not feel he is trying to pry into your personal affairs. He only wants to help you select the plants best 
suited to your location and conditions. 
A nurseryman who had been in the game for many years, once told us, “I’ve quit trying to educate 
the public. If they want to buy cabbages, I'll sell them cabbages.” We can’t go along with either of these 
assertions. Through the years we have found that almost everyone has been sincerely grateful when we 
have suggested a certain plant they wanted to buy might not prove satisfactory in their area. “You've 
lost a sale. You won't get rich that way.’’ Could be! But we suspect these are the same folk who often 
tell us, “You have never sold us the wrong plant for any location.” This is quite satisfying to our vanity, 
of course, but all we seem able to reply is, “Don’t let that discourage you. Give us a little time. We'll 
make a mistake yet.” And we will. 
All of us at Tuttle Bros. Nurseries think we know quite a bit about the material we sell. (We grow 
85% of our plant material.) We haven't any of us, however, quite come to the stage reached by a nursery- 
man for whom we used to work. He came out into the rose field, one afternoon, smelling of strong drink. 
He swept the field with a critical and appraising eye and loudly proclaimed, “I know more about roses 
than anybody!” It always seemed to us that “anybody” took in an awful lot of territory. 
Sincerely yours, 
2 TUTTLE BROS. NURSERIES, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 

