2 Kaylor Nurseries, Lakewood, Wash. 
25 Years 
50 Years 
Fis) Years 
Recently a very good friend said to this 
writer: “You are a queer combination; 
a political radical, a religious iconoclast, 
a liberal in your treatment of your cus- 
tomers, and a conservative in your ad- 
vertising. Why don’t you ballyhoo about 
the top quality you put into the bulbs 
and plants grown on this hill land?” 
Well, folks, this catalog marks our 
twenty-sixth year in the nursery bus- 
iness. It’s our Silver Anniversary num- 
ber—and still conservative in contents 
and appearance. We know the best ad- 
vertising is what one friend tells an- 
other. 
How did we get that way? Several 
years before the nursery was started the 
“head man” had to give up newspaper 
work—the doctor said: “Get onto a piece 
of land or get under a piece.” Not good 
news for a fifty-year-old man who had 
put in about twenty-five years learning 
something about newspaper editing, es- 
pecially for a man with children to put 
through school. 
Someone once said “When you think 
you are too old to do a thing, go do it.” 
Long years ago Grandmother told me I 
would make a good nurseryman—I had 
made some current cuttings take root— 
so what more natural for a man accus- 
tomed to work with his hands as well 
as his head than to start growing bulbs 
and plants. 
At times it has been hard sledding 
from the small start made twenty-five 
years ago, but we have never regretted 
it. Mother nature is a great old girl to be 
in love with but she is rather demand- 
ing—one must not be afraid to work and 
get the good soil on one’s hands. She is 
not much interested in the money end 
of the thing, but she has a way of bring- 
ing one mighty fine friends. Garden fans 
are pretty fine folks and we have al- 
ways tried our best to be “fine folks” 
ourselves. 
Both the owners of this nursery are 
now in their seventies and “going 
strong.” You are only as old as you think 
you are and we feel young enough to be 
interested in your garden needs and 
plans. Let’s hope you will keep coming 
and that we may stick around to serve 
you for several years more. 
FLOYD C. KAYLOR 
MERTIE L. KAYLOR 
