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now-We are mov 
A PERSONAL MESSAGE 
from W. WARREN ANDERSON 
The Rare Plant Club can NOT move to 
a new and larger headquarters until 
1955. While searching for new and 
larger acreage among the Redwood 
forest this summer, I was suddenly at- 
tacked by amoebic dysentery—a trop- 
ical disease now rapidly spreading in 
the U. S. as a result of the war in the 
Pacific. In a few weeks, I dropped 
from 180 to 135 pounds—and had to 
go to bed. I finally located a doctor 
who had handled this disease as an 
Army Medic during the war. Within 
two weeks, he had me back on my 
shaky feet and able to begin light 
work. 
As it is now too late for our moving 
this year. As my health improves, I will 
do my best to see that our move is com- 
pleted in the summer of 1955. Then we 
can soon increase our list of rare 
plants, grown from our large collection 
of imported seeds. 
_ No one regrets the delay more than I 
do. We expect to be able to fill orders 
promptly this autumn. Please send 
your order as early as possible. Our 
shipments to northern states must stop 
in late November—to southern states 
by early December. 
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. 
To Get and Grow NEW 
PLANTS—Costs Money 
Botanical gardens, universities and 
governments heve 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 
