
REPORT TO OUR CUSTOMERS 
The enthusiastic demand for perennials, since we started 24 years ago, so 
exceeded our supplies last year that many of you were disappointed entirely, or 
had to wait varying periods of time. We wish to express our appreciation of 
your patience and good will. 
This year we have many more varieties to offer and larger quantities of 
almost everything. Two things beyond our control may cause some shortages 
even on our listed plants. These are last year’s drought which hampered us in 
proper care of some of our stock plants and this winter’s severe freeze. 
We were ready, after last winter, for temperatures more often 22° - 32° 
than over 32°, but we did not expect temperatures such as those listed: — 
Dec. 22 — 20° Jan. 10 — 13° 
Dec. 23 — 18° Janette 91/,° 
Dec. 24 — 18 ini ise 
Jan. 4 — 16° 13 16° 
Jan. 5 — 14° Jan. ii 
Some seedlings and just rooted cuttings suffer from such temperatures and 
we are not sure yet of the damage done. But these temperatures also make for 
sturdy, tough, well-rooted plants which should survive winter temperatures in 
most parts of California except the Sierras (and some even there). We have 
tried to note all plants that are tender with us. 
If it weren’t for the wonderful loyalty, interest, and intelligent codperation 
of the two men who work with us, it would have been impossible to produce 
nearly as much as we have. Mr. Byron Farrington and Mr. Pancho Directo 
have taken so great a personal interest in the nursery that they are as much a 
part of it as we are. We want you to know and appreciate them as we do. 
As a new and very young nursery it has been indescribably helpful and 
kind of various experts to give us free publicity. We wish to thank particularly: 
Mrs. Elsa Uppman Knoll — Garden Editor of Sunset Magazine. 
Miss Louise Weick — Garden Editor of the San Francisco News. 
Mr. Albert Wilson — KPO gardening expert on his program “How 
Does Your Garden Grow?” 
Mr. Caroll Hurd — Farm Editor of the San Jose Sunday Mercury- 
News. 
Mr. James Kerr — of Kerr - Langen Seed Co., San Mateo. 
In their columns, on the radio, in classes, and in lectures they have greatly 
increased interest in perennials in general and our nursery in particular as a 
source for them. 
We wish to thank also the landscape architects and nurserymen who have 
sent us customers, ordered plants from us for their customers, and recommended 
use of perennials in the gardens they design and plant. 
Margaret Ward Truax 
Margaret Stebbins 

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