REPORT TO OUR CUSTOMERS 
As we look back over this last year, we all want to thank our friends 
for their interest and helpful suggestions. We hope to continue to serve you 
to the best of our ability and to produce only good healthy plants for your 
gardens. 
We have a few additions to our personnel — notably Mr. Albin C. 
Anderson (Andy) who has taken Byron’s place — and a black Labrador 
retriever whose name is Tony and whose only interest in the nursery is 
anyone who will throw a rock, can, or stick for him to retrieve — don’t 
let him pester you. 
Still with us is Mr. Pancho Directo who, as you know, is a mainstay 
to us — and perhaps you've noticed a young man of 16 around — this is 
Malcolm Stebbins, who lives with us and goes to Palo Alto High School — 
much more interested in machinery than plants, however. 
A Special Request: After five years our mailing list is bound to be 
inaccurate. Even with our best efforts to reach everybody who is interested 
—some have changed addresses, some never received and some may not 
want to receive our catalogue. Be nice people and write, phone or tell us 
if you wish to continue to receive it. We will have a book available here at 
the nursery, too, for you to sign up. 
Last fall we started, in a small way, printing a monthly news letter— 
a sort of diary of our cultural procedure and what is in bloom. If any of 
you would like to receive this news letter—please let us know. 
Let us remind you again of our stock planting on the hill—it can 
give you more information by just looking from time to time, than hun- 
dreds of words of description. Come when you can and as often as you can. 
Our hours are from 8:30 A.M. to 12 noon and 1 to 5 P.M. daily, 
except Mondays and legal holidays. In December and January, when you 
shouldn’t be planting perennials anyway, we will be closed Sundays and 
Mondays. 
— Margaret Ward Truax 
January 1951 — Margaret Stebbins 
