How MANY KINDS Of Plants 
Do YOU Now Grow? 
—by W. Warren Anderson 
If you count ALL the kinds of plants 
you are now growing—trees, shrubs, 
vines, flowers, fruits and vegetables— 
you probably have not many more 
than ONE HUNDRED different kinds. 
The plant dictionary “HORTUS SEC. 
OND” says that more than ONE MIL- 
LION plants have been described by 
botanists. 
Even if we assume that ONLY ONE 
PER CENT of the world’s MILLION and 
more plants are of value or interest to 
YOU—and suited to your climate—that 
is TEN THOUSAND PLANTS from 
which you could choose—if they were 
available. 
New plants yet UNBORN, plants that 
can be produced by HYBRIDIZING not 
yet done, would total several MIL- 
LIONS MORE! 
It is a master UNDERSTATEMENT to 
say: 
MANKIND HAS BARELY BEGUN TO 
USE THE WORLD'S PLANTS! 
The RARE PLANT CLUB 
Has An INFINITE Job! 
We are dedicated to the gigantic and 
ENDLESS task of making NEW and 
RARE plants available to you. We have 
set up sources in many parts of the 
world—we have many new plants 
growing here, many seeds yet un- 
planted. Some of our plants have never 
been in the U. S. before. Some have 
never been in cultivation anywhere— 
native WILD plants which we must 
learn how to grow. 
After we learn how to GROW each 
plant, we must grow it in quantities and 
to an age sufficient for distribution. 
And we must publish cultural informa- 
tion to help YOU grow it in your 
climate. 
We Seek A New Site 
My present property, 20 miles north of 
San Francisco, is far outgrown. During 
1954, I hope to find a suitable larger 
acreage, and complete the big job of 
moving. Then my importation of for- 
eign plants can be greatly expanded, 
more hybridizing can be done, and 
plants found valuable, grown in quan- 
tities for distribution. 
To Get and Grow NEW 
PLANTS—Costs Money 
Botanical gardens, universities and 
governments have funds to finance 
plant-hunting expeditions and research. 
We must depend solely upon the sup- 
port of Rare Plant Club Members—who 
buy the plants we produce — who 
pay an annual membership fee to 
finance the costs of printing, mailing, 
list maintenance, filing, postage, etc. 
MEMBERSHIP— 
$1.00 Per Year 
This annual membership fee pays only 
the COST of preparing and mailing the 
Spring and Autumn Bulletins which we 
publish. These Bulletins describe RARE 
PLANTS which are ready for YOU to 
purchase if you so desire. 
Our Bulletins cost MORE than the 
usual nursery catalogs. We cannot use 
the stock cuts, plants descriptions, etc. 
—because our plants are NEW—and 
we must prepare all this material our- 
selves. 
Our thanks to the MANY who have 
helped by purchasing plants, by pay- 
ing annual membership fees, by en- 
rolling their friends, by giving mem- 
berships and rare plants as gifts. We 
hope that you can some day come to 
California, and that we can soon wel- 
come you at our new and larger head- 
quarters. 
What YOU Get From 
Rare Plant Club 
MEMBERSHIP 
1. Spring and Autumn Bulletins, de- 
scribing rare plants, many of them 
available nowhere else, some of them 
never in the U.S. before. 
- 2. You get the NEW rare plants 
FIRST. For the first year or so, our new 
plants are always SCARCE. MEM- 
BERS come first—and should ORDER 
AT ONCE from Bulletins. 
3. You will STAY ON THE LIST. At 
each mailing we make, we drop hun- 
dreds of names from the list, to save 
expense. MEMBERS are SURE to get 
every mailing. 
4. Your support helps us to get, 
grow, hybridize and produce new and 
rare plants—more plants faster. 
RARE PLANT CLUB 208 McAllister Ave. KENTFIELD, CALIFORNIA 
