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TO OUR CUSTOMERS AND FRIENDS 
Once again we present our catalog for the season. We hope that you 
will find it of value, both from the cultural point of view and for the 
varieties we offer. We select only those varieties which have been proven 
superior. Each year we import many varieties; some of these are the very 
newest and others not so new, but still top-rating. This year we have added 
a great many more of the early blooming varieties, both English and 
American. We are offering for sale only the very best—those selected 
by hundreds of people who saw them growing and blooming here. In this 
catalog you will find mums for every purpose—landscaping, cutting and 
for the Show bench. 
You will note that a great number of varieties have been dropped 
from our catalog. In most cases those varieties may be supplied in 4 to 
six weeks upon request. 
We wish to emphasize that we take every precaution to provide the 
healthiest plants possible. Cuttings are taken only from strong, robust 
plants; treated with fungicide and insecticide and rected in a sterilized 
soil mixture. Field plots are fumigated for control of possible soil borne 
fungi or rots. We work with our County and State Inspection Dept. and 
also with the State Pathology Dept. here in Sacramento. Plants which we 
import are brought in through permit and inspection of the U. S. Dept of 
Agriculture. These plants must also pass State Inspection before we receive 
them. We then grow them here under the most careful scrutiny before 
propagating them for sale. 
We have been forced to make a choice between lowering quality or 
raising some of the prices. We have decided on the latter and will hold to 
our policy of quality and guarantee of satisfaction. Let us say here that if 
we were interested in the making of money we would be in some other line 
of endeavor. 
Visitors are welcome at all times but especially during our Autumn 
Show from late September through November. Here you will see more than 
a thousand varieties in bloom during that period. For a beautiful and heart- 
warming sight see the garden varieties in all their glory-early October. 
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CULTURAL SUGGESTIONS 
While we hope these suggestions may be helpful to our growers, we must 
confess to some hesitancy in making them specific. The great variations in 
conditions in the wide areas to which our plants are sent must cause some 
modifications. 
For general outdoor conditions one should select varieties which will set 
buds early enough for blooming before the frost period in your locality. The 
newer Early English varieties will be a pleasant surprise to those not now 
acquainted with them. The colors are most unusual and beautiful, of solid 
substance and even without disbudding will make nice large flowers for 
cutting. Stems are long and sturdy. Staking is necessary with these as they 
become quite heavy with bloom. Starting late August they continue blooming 
through October, and here some have bloomed into late November. 
For summer bloom or for landscape use, choose the cushion varieties 
or the Lilliputs, though the latter are at their very best in November. For 
early fall you will find the American Garden varieties and the small Pompons, 
which grow from 1 to 2 feet high and suitable for bedding, borders and also 
for cutting. For masses of color they are superb, and many of these require 
no support. 
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