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ZONE HARDINESS MAP 
This Zone Map shows areas where similar winter temperatures prevail. This is based on 
average annual winter temperatures but does not take into consideration the factors of 
soil conditions, rainfall and humidity. The Zone number following the names of the plants 
in this booklet gives our honest opinion about how much cold each plant will endure. 
In some instances the minimum temperatur2 endured is given instead of the Zone num- 
ber. In plant descriptions brief suggestions are made as to soil, moisture and sunlight 
preferences. 
PREPAID SHIPMENT 
On orders for bare root plants amounting to $10.00 or more we prepay shipping charges 
to any point in the United States. This does not apply to plants 
in containers or to 
plants shipped with ball of earth about the roots. 
About— 
THE FOSTER NURSERIES 
Founded in Northeast Texas in 1888 by 
John lL. Foster, father of the present 
owner, this firm has been constantly 
striving to provide the gardener and home 
owner in these United States with dis- 
tinctive and unusual trees, plants, and 
bulbs. During this sixty-year period many 
hundreds of kinds of plants have been 
tried in an experimental way. From 
Europe, Africa, South America, Mexico 
and our own desert and mountain country 
have come plants that we hoped would 
add to the beauty and charm of American 
About— 
OLD HOMES AND OLD 
CEMETERIES IN 
AMERICA 
To learn more about plants that are 
long-lived and thrive in spite of neglect, 
we have for a number of years made 
notes on the plants we found growing 
around old abandoned Southern homes 
and in some of the very old cemeteries of 
the South. In many instances the house 
had been destroyed by fire or had almost 
completely fallen down, but many of the 
Trees, Plants, and Bulbs that had been 
planted generations before were growing 
gardens. Many of these plants have and blooming profusely. Thriving without 
proved to be very fine indeed. With Roses care for “cultivationgawere- Flowering 
and a number of other plants, we have Quinces, Crape My:tles, Crinum _ Lilies, 
endeavored to find a _ root-stock that 
would be nematode resistant, resistant to 
the effects of heat and drouth, longer- 
lived, and that would thrive under ad- 
verse conditions. 
Copyright 1950 by Thomas Bell Foster 
Printed in U.S.A. 
Day Lilies, and certain varieties of Roses. 
Throughout the years these plants had 
survived through unseasonably cold win- 
ters, sweltering hot summer days, pro- 
longed wet seasons, and long periods 
without rain. 
