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Dear Friend: 
It is with pride that we send you this 1950 Catalogue, our most comprehensive listing of Camellias and 
Azaleas. In it you will find the newest, the most popular, the finest and the rarest camellias. We are fortunate 
in having long specialized in these beautiful aristocrats of the garden, for we have thereby acquired as par- 
ent stock only the prized strains of the camellias that have proven their superiority in form, color and depend- 
ability of bloom. 
Spend a little time studying the listed varieties. Note the wide range of flower sizes from the 1 % inch Sasan- 
quas to the spectacular 8 and 9 inch flowers of the Reticulata. Colors of white, ivory, flesh, bright pink, crimson, 
deep red or any of these colors with varying degrees of white or pink variegations. Notice the many petal 
forms, petal textures, the five petal singles, the hundred petaled formals, the length of time you have blooms 
in the garden. Every plant may flourish for from 100 to 300 years, thrilling with its beauty not only you, but 
the generations to come. 
If you are experienced with camellias, you no doubt already are familiar with the quality of our plants. But 
if you have made no recent additions to your collection, may we strongly urge that you consider the very 
great merits of the introductions of the past few years. As with all other plants, improvements are always 
possible. With the tremendous prestige the camellias have gained in recent years, it is no wonder that im- 
provements have been many. All progressive growers are on the lookcut for the earlier blooming plant, 
the sweet-scented flower, the better corsage flower, the more spectacular show type beauties, a hardier 
and younger bloomer, or a vivid new sport of some old favoriate variety. 
Our collection of camellias is now well in excess of 850 varieties, the best of which are herein listed. This 
represents one of the largest listings of any grower on the West Coast, if not the United States. It repre- 
sents the culmination of the combined efforts of all the camellia growers with their years of research and 
hybridizing. 
To all of our many old customers, we say ‘Thank you”’ for your patronage. To our new friends we give 
assurance that we intend to give you the service that will keep you permanently on our growing customer 
rolls. 
EDWARD BARINESEN sare nee Lad os ee ie eee > > vy Owner 
DAVID COOK : : oe ee te ee sd ek . . Manager, Valley Garden Supply Co., Retail 
WILLIAM WOODROOF , : : i , : ; , Manager, California Camellia Gardens, Wholesale 
