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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 temperature 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— | About— 
THE FOSTER NURSERIES OLD HOMES AND OLD 
Founded in Northeast Texas in 1888 by CEMETERIES IN 
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John lL. Foster, father of the present 
owner, this firm has been constantly AMERICA 
striving to provide the gardener and home 
owner in these United States with dis- To learn more about plants that are 
tinctive and unusual trees, plants, and long-lived and thrive in spite of neglect, 
Wwe have for a number of years made 
bulbs. During this sixty-year period many notes on the plants we found growing 
hundreds of kinds of plants have been around old abandoned Southern homes 
tried in an experimental way. From and in some of the very old cemeteries of 
IXurope, Africa, South America, Mexico the South. In many instances the house 
and our own desert and mountain country had been destroyed by fire or had almost 
completely fallen down, but many of the 
have come plants that we hoped would 
: Trees, Plants, and Bulbs that had been 
add to the beauty and charm of American 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 or cultivation were Flowering 
and a number of other plants, we have Quinces, Crape Myrtles, Crinum _ Lilies, 
endeavored to find a _root-stock that Day Lilies, and ceitain varieties of Roses. 
would be nematode resistant, resistant to eee ae Oe CENTS eee pens had 
the effects of heat and drouth, longer- survived pe one unsessonably cold: wits 
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lived, and that would thrive under ad- longed wet seasons, and long periods 
verse conditions. without rain. 
Copyright 1950 by Thomas Bell Foster 
Printed in U.S.A. 
