

The late George G. Stumpp 
1873 to 1932 
Officers of the Stumpp & Walter Co. Left to 
right: Alex. E. Sehlmeyer, Assistant Secretary; 
Thomas F. Kearney, Secretary and Assistant 
Treasurer; George O. Stumpp, President; Willard 
L, Isaacs, Vice-President and Treasurer; William A. 
Snerling, Vice-President. 

Stumpp & 
Above, 
Walter Co.’s first 
store, 50 Barclay St., 
New York; 
1897. 
Right .Second store, 
0-32 Barclay Street, 
w York; opened 
3. The present 
ling heads page 3. 
opened 


STORY 
OF THE 
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1897-1947 
N 1897 the late George Stumpp and the late Julian 
H. Walter began business as the Stumpp & Walter 
Company. A short time later, William A. Sperling 
and Thomas F. Kearney joined them. The founders 
were in business some months before publishing their 
first catalogue; so this is our 49th spring Garden An- 
nual, our 50th year in business. 
We aim to supply all the items needed for the garden, 
and for the gracious living that goes with it; also for 
the truck-garden, lawn, farm and golf course. We are 
not landscape architects, contractors, engineers, con- 
structors or gardeners; instead, we solicit the patronage 
of these groups. We offer seeds, bulbs, plants, fer- 
tilizers, insecticides, fungicides, implements and garden 
gadgets, all of High Quality, to careful growers. 
The High Quality idea immediately met with favor 
with discriminating cultivators, and from the outset 
the story of our Company is one of gradual expansion. 
From a small store at 50 Barclay Street, New York, 
to a larger one at 30-32 Barclay Street, to our present 
nine-floor building, erected by us, at 132 Church 
Street, to the opening of branches in White Plains, 
N. Y., Stamford, Conn., Hempstead, L. I., Englewood 
and Newark, N. J. We have a sales office at our peren- 
nial nursery and trial gardens at Farmingdale, L. I.; 
we grow bulbs on our Mile-front Farm at Islip; we 
manufacture plant-foods, insecticides and fungicides 
at our factory in Jersey City. 
Because we maintain strictly the tradition of our 
Founders to make High Quality our first consideration, 
we believe this expansion will continue. We have a 
number of customers who commenced trading with 
us fifty years ago, and are still doing so; many who have 
given us continuous patronage. for forty, thirty and 
twenty years. We ask respectfully that this support be 
continued. And to all the Amateur and Professional 
Gardeners and Farmers who have not yet dealt with us, 
we ask that you favor us with a trial order for 1947. 
suger 
President 

The late Julian H. Walter 
1870 to 1935 



Employees serving customers of the Stumpp & 
Walter Co. for 25 years and over. Left to right, 
front row: Carl Weiss, William Strong, Harry 
Sweeney (forty years’ service), Edwin Nicholas. 
Middle row: Leslie Sharker, William Stein, Sue 
Leonard, Mildred Kowander, Emma Behrens, 
Joseph Hahn. Back_row: John Melady, Emil 
Reiff, Leon Ezzell, Frederick Woerner, Joseph 
Werniment, Robert Vaughan-Catt. 

Above. The 
gins. 
day be- 
The flag is raised 
atop our nine-floor build- 
ing. 
Left. 
New York store, 132 
Church Street. 
Interior of our 
