The Story Seliud the Gardens 
It just looks like we Pelletts have a compelling in- 
terest in the study and propogation of a wide variety 
of plants. My father, the late Frank C. Pellett was 
2 born naturalist, experimenter and writer. Dad spent 
much of his life in a study of nature which he passed 
along to many readers through his extensive writing. 
He kept a wild-flower preserve of hundreds of varieties 
of plants growing under their natural environments. 
His work with plants was climaxed in an extensive 
study of honey plants wherein hundreds of plants were 
brought into trial gardens for observation of their 
value to honeybees and other uses. These plants, in- 
cluding trees, shrubs, wild plants, garden flowers and 
forage crops, come from many parts of the United 
States and abroad. 
Since I grew up with this environment, it is not sur- 
prising that my main interest is in the propogation of 
plants. And now our children in turn are showing a 
keen interest in the projects. More than fifteen years 
ago I began, first as a sideline to our nursery business, 
to distribute some of the most worthwhile and unusual 
honey plants. The live interest of our customers and 
the great variety of plants we have to choose from 
enabling us to keep adding to our offerings. We try to 
make it the best list we can of bee plants, featuring the 
desirable in the unusual. The interest in this catalogue 
is by no means confined to honey plants alone since 
the most worthwhile are those which are also valuable 
to plant for other purposes; and at the same time add 
to the livelihood of “Man’s Most Useful Insects.” 
It is highly important to us to continue your patron- 
age and we want to add many new customers to our 
list. Our experience in nursery handling is as old as 
our working life and we try to handle our stock in a 
way to get the plants, trees and seeds to you in con- 
dition to grow and kinds you will like. 
Sincerely, 
MELVIN PELLETT 
Visitors Are Always Welcome at 
Pellett Gardens 
