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Sete. 
We thank you, customers and friends, for your patronage and confidence in Merry 
Gardens. To those whom we will meet this year, we send a warm welcome and hope 
that you may find the same interest and excitement in growing our plants as we do in pro- 
pagating and raising them. We look forward to a wonderful year together, exchanging 
ideas and suggestions which can be so helpful to both. This is one of the most satisfying 
sides of our business. 
The seven years in the life of Merry Gardens have been years of steady growth and 
expansion in all directions. Today we now have extensive gardens for our perennials and 
herbs, an adequate, attractive building for our office, display and shipping needs, and a 
fine new hundred-foot greenhouse for our house plants. 
Having a background of twenty years experience in Horticulture as well as College 
and Horticulture School training, we feel equipped to meet the needs and demands of the 
rare plant collector. We are constantly adding new varieties to our already large list. 
It is our aim to grow healthy, strong plants, and raise the newest and finest strains. 
We personally fill each order with the finest plants, packing very carefully so that they will 
reach their destination in good condition, whether it be Alaska, Panama or Puerto Rico, 
and replacing when justified. 
We have an excellent selection of the most informative garden books, old and new, 
for sale, handled by Dorothy Kent, a former bookseller. Miss Kent is our consultant for 
advertising, decorating, garden designing, and also makes lovely hanging baskets for trailing 
plants. 
ky Two young children, Loretta age 10 and Wayne age 12, who came to live with us 
four"years ago do their part in the shipping room and gardens. 
#3 So from all of us to all of you, we extend a hearty welcome and hope that this year will 
bring many of you to see us in our lovely location surrounded by the Camden Hills. 
ERVIN and MARY ELLEN ROSS 
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A WINDOW IN OUR SALES ROOM 
Ivy Geranium Intensity Episcia cupreata 
Browallia speciosa major 
Primula obconica Begonia Alto-Scharffi 
Begonia Weltoniensis Rosea White Heliotrope 
Muehlembeckia complexa 
(Maidenhair Vine) 
Manettia bi-color Aichryson domesticum variegated 
(Youth and Old Age) 
