Newly Planted Daylilies at Our Home 
I built this house a few seasons ago and this picture was made before the house and 
grounds were finished—I wanted to get my garden started as early as possible. It’s 
a huge 11-room house with 4 baths. I wanted to build it large enough, especially so 
that we would have room for our large family and the many out-of-state visitors who 
have visited our gardens every year. We have had as many as 12,000 visitors in our 
fields on one Sunday and if you ever get a chance to visit us during the blooming 
season I promise you a treat you won’t easily forget. 
Why We Gelieve Our Daylilies 
“Tofe “Them rbll 
Here in Texas we can grow Daylilies faster and with a more vigorous root, we believe, than can 
anyone else. We’ve got about a 9-months growing season with enough hard freezes to burst unpro- 
tected water pipes and harden up the plants to stand the severest northern climates. Our many 
letters of compliments from the different sections of our country and Canada attest to that fact. 
I don’t think anyone has a right to say he has the best or knows so much of any subject until he’s 
gotten around and seen what the other fellows have and are doing. I have made it my business to 
cover the grounds of most growers and have acquired, when possible, for many years what I thought 
was the best of the other fellows’ varieties to use in our cross breeding. This, of course, has made it 
necessary for us to take in vast acres and grow many kinds for trial. In the end not many of 
the varieties ever reach our catalog. I have paid $50.00 and $100.00 and up to $250.00 for a single 
plant because it had a qualification that I thought was necessary in furthering a particular line breed. 
Several people have told me that they thought it was astonishing that I would pay such a price in 
some cases for just one plant—‘‘Don’t you have better ones?” they would ask. Well, I really think I 
had better ones, but for a particular line of color that I wanted and thought it would fit in with some 
that I already had, I made this purchase and honestly I can say, never once in my life have I been 
wrong on these points—cross breeding is not accidental in our work. I think it only fair to you, my 
customers, and believe me there are 160,000 of you on my list that have written me directly for my 
catalog, that if I expect to stay in the business and crow over the fact that I have the largest and 
best planting, I should make every effort to offer you the best. I am not capable of explaining to you 
what lengths I have gone to that I might offer you the best, and I ask you in all sincerity to please 
examine carefully this catalog and the quality of our plants at such unheard-of low prices and judge 
for yourselves what can be done by a fellow if he really wants to specialize. I appreciate your orders 
in the past and would be happy if you would inform your friends of our gardens that they too might 
have this catalog. It’s this way that most of our business is attained. Never once have we bought 
a mailing list, nor will we ever. Never once have we sold a copy of our mailing list, nor will we ever. 
It’s through you who have come to us directly or through your friends that this business was built, and 
I promise you that it’s our intention to remain the largest grower in America or do our best trying. 
6 RUSSELL GARDENS, SPRING, TEXAS 
