LAUREL LEAF 
Dear Friend: 
We are especially proud and happy to present this offering of our camellias and azaleas for 1953. Many of you 
have known and traded with us for the past sixteen years at our old location—V ALLEY GARDEN SUPPLY COM- 
PANY, North Hollywood, California. Due largely to your loyalty, we have been enabled each year to increase our 
production and to widen our distribution. 
Late last year we decided to move our entire operations to our growing grounds and to limit our retail business to 
MAIL ORDERS only so that we would not remain a factor in competition with our own local wholesale customers. Our 
“CALIFORNIA CAMELLIA GARDENS” label is your assurance of excellence. 
Our retail and wholesale shipping facilities have been expanded to accommodate the greatly increased demand for 
our camellias and azaleas. Our search for the best varieties and superior strains continues as a very important phase of 
our program for improvement. We are determined to continue to offer to you, our customer, the finest quality and the 
most efficient and satisfactory service of any grower in the business. 
Please be assured that our interest in you does not cease at the conclusion of a sale. We are anxious to be able to serve 
you at any time. To our many “old” customers and friends, we say “Thank You’ for your patronage—and to all of 
vou friends, old and new, we're going to keep our hard earned reputation, ‘The Best in the West’. It is our great pleasure 
to present you with this beautiful new catalogue—we know you and your friends will spend many happy hours with it. 
Sincerely, 
Edward B. Arnesen (Owner ) David Cook (Manager ) 
