-Geraniumtown is a new venture which we hope wil: of a great 
_‘epvice to all who love geraniums. We, the dackson family (Paul W,, 
‘ulah,. Evelyn Jean and now my father and mother, Mark d rape ed 
-a) comprise the human element in Gerdniumtown,: The plant elemen 
our little nursery now numbersisome'500 odd’ different varieties . 
| species and we hope to increase that to include about 2,000 Vv... 
sties and species that apparently exist at this time.:. 
Many times thé Jacksons have amassed collections of gerani ons 
in various parts of the country. All have been lost through our: 
ious moves up until the present collection. This one is rapidly 
growing in shape ‘and size, ALG re. 
We have always found it a difficult job to find places to © + 
any great number.of varieties retail. Always the nurseries have i 'i 
us that most of the varieties did not sell well enough to warra:: © 
in;; kept on hand so there were just a few standard one-availabl:. . 
Nov we hope to be in the position of supplying all available vari: - 
ies at the retail level as well as certain ones wholesale. Some ol » 
th. varieties we will keep saleable plants on hand at all times, 
otuccs will be propagated on receipt of orders. tio 2. 
Geraniumtown is being landscaped in the old style of rectang- 
ular, triangular and'circular beds. We are now getting ready to 
build a little bower in the center of our propagating, beds which we 
will try. and cover with ivy geraniums. A couple comfortable seats 
will be built in it for your convenience when visiting here. All _ 
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in all, we are attempting to make Geraniumtown a place you will want 
to visit leisurely ‘and get well acquainted with all of the many diff- 
erent varieties and species of the Geranium Family. 
Work has been coming along very well for the last couple weeks 
and if we can continue at the present rate all landscaping that we 
have planned for this year will be done sometime in April. ‘Then 
work will start on the cold frames and propagating benches for next 
year. Almost all of our plants will be grown outside with no pro- 
tection except from the frost, For frost protection we plan to use 
the usudl orchard heaters (smudge pots). Our outside grown plants 
will give our customers good hard plants that may not look quite 4s. 
weil as glass or lath house grown ones but will stand up and do well 
under almost all conditions. ' i . . ah mit Saeed & 
Oné of the main reasons for Geraniumtowns existence will be | 
a heavy breeding program. We are planning to do a rather extensive 
jobd of crossing and selfing various varieties of :geraniums this, co.- 
ing. Summer in order to get a better idea of just what their genetic 
conpodtion is. Perhaps in the next few years we can learn a littl» 
move about them. In the meantime we will be doing as much pract-« +1 
selection work as possible with the aim in mind of producing hard. o 
more Vigorous as well as more beautiful plants. -The potential o! . 
geraniums is enormous but largely unexplored. : NORE setetss 
Our. breeding work will not be done behind. closed. doors nor 
kept secret. We will try to explain what we. are doing and how /i. is 
being done to any and all of our visitors who are interested. C1 
love is for geraniums and if imparting such information can do any- 
thing to. start someone else off on a program of breeding which will 
produce additionad new and oetter plants we will. feel well satisfied. 
Many people who are in the business feel that large collect~ 
ions such as we intend to keep are most uneconomical and that busi- 
ness success, especially for a new business, is impossible under such . 
conditions. . We disagree with this premise but are going to need the 
support of a considerable number of customers before our disagreeing 
is anything but wishful thinking. That is where you come in. We. 
appreciate any orders you feel like sending and would like to have. 
you send us names and addresses of others who would be interested in 
the plants that we have. + t be in : tA 
_We. are also gradually adding a collection. of Begonias, Prim- 
ulas and Coleus to our stocki: These groups are not, far enough along 
_to list any with. this issue of the Geraniumtown News but you will . 
find notes about them from timé to time in future issues, | 
oer ininimum mail order without extra charge is for two dollars (2.00) 
uss chan that, please: include fifty cents ($.50) for packaging and 
shipping costs. Orders of less than four dollars ($4.00) please in- 
clade twenty-five cents (#.25) for each dollar, of. order for postage 
and handling cherges. Over four dollars (4.00) we pay the postage, 
Prices wre subject to change without rotice, Terms are cash with 
-voer, Please make payment by check, money order or cash, We do not 
ovis) ae Gay avitha 
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