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You are welcome to visit our show gardens and nursery at any time during the growing season. You will 
always find some interesting plants in bloom, but during September and October we generally have more flowers 
blooming than at any other time. We especially hope to see you at our annual mum and hardy aster show in late 
September and early October. The purpose of our show gardens is to give you an opportunity to note how plants 
will behave under ordinary garden conditions—their habit of growth, height, foliage and bloom, as well as their 
hardiness. 
Much joy is to be had from a garden. It is very satisfying to produce a large, restful mass of harmonious color 
or an especially pleasing combination or contrast of colors. Some gardeners like to work with fragrant flowers; 
others enthuse over growing such unusual items as echinops, doronicum and Campanula garganica, while others 
find pleasure in growing difficult plants. . 
We greatly appreciate your orders, and we hope that when you receive this catalog you will make yourself 
comfortable, take a pencil and a piece of paper or the enclosed order blank, and jot down the names of those 
plants you think will help to make your garden more enjoyable. You know, all the improvements we make at 
our nursery are the result of your orders. For them we 
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WHAT WE GROW AND DO 
We specialize in growing fine plants for your garden, including a wide selection of perennials, annuals, early- 
blooming chrysanthemums and vegetable plants. We also have western-grown roses in large Cloverset pots for 
easy transferring to your garden at any time during the planting season; four varieties of climbing clematis; dry 
bulbs and potted plants of tuberous begonias; as well as a nice selection of plants for window-box and cemetery 
planting. We hope you will like our new department of potted double lilacs, flowering shrubs and evergreens 
and will be able to try some of them. 
Hardy Asters or Michaelmas daisies are one of our specialties. We like them and are growing 25 varieties in 
many colors—purple, light blue, lavender, pink, rose, yellow and white. Rudbeckia Goldsturm made a fine show 
of yellow color for a long time in our gardens last year, and it is worthy of your consideration. You will be in- 
terested in some of the new large-flowered phlox added to our list this year. Limited space permits us only to call 
your attention to some of our other interesting plants, such as lythrum, Morden Gleam; Phlox stolonifera, Blue 
Ridge; veronica, Icicle; shasta daisies, Aglaya and Border Queen; choice white Phlox subulata; colorful Oriental 
poppies; poterium; hibiscus; Alexander’s Red; and some new mums. Each year we test from fifteen to thirty 
new kinds of plants. 
Our selection of roses includes the three All-America winners for 1955 (Jiminy Cricket, Queen Elizabeth 
and Tiffany), also Garnette, Pink Garnette, Carrousel and Roundelay. 
Besides the sensational F, petunias and large-flowered, vigorous tetra snapdragons, our selection of annuals 
will include the very colorful verbena Flame and the excellent new day-blooming, dwarf White Bedder nicotiana, 
which did exceptionally well for us last summer; also the three new petunias, Apache, Sioux and Paleface. 
SALES YARD. Our sales yard is laid out with the thought of making it easy for you to select the plants you 
want in your garden. For your greater convenience we have moved our enlarged annual department nearer to our 
perennials and are arranging for more parking space. All our perennials are in paper pots and arranged on long 
tables in the order in which they occur in this catalog. This makes it easy to find the plant you want and to check 
with the catalog description if necessary while you are making your selection. 
Each box of plants has a large label and the price marked on it. You can either make your selection quickly 
or you may walk around at your leisure and enjoy selecting those varieties best suited to your garden. Why not 
try some of the newer kinds this season? It will add to your gardening pleasure. 
Our potted roses are set out in groups so that you can easily select the plants you want. Both our perennial 
and rose sections are arranged as much as possible on the self-help plan. 
We have a supply of fertilizers, insecticides, fungicides and grass seed, if you need any of these items. 
We have parking space and a circle drive with separate entrance and exit. From April 15 to June 10 we are 
open evenings and all day Sunday. If possible, we would like to be free from making sales on Saturdays and 
Sundays from June 15 to September 15. Our hired help is off on those days, and we too enjoy the opportunity 
to do some of the extra things that we all like to do on free days. 
We have a small booklet on the right way to plant nursery stock, which is free to those requesting it. 
LOCATION. It is easy to get to our nursery. We are located at 2591 Stillwater Road (near the intersection of 
U.S. 212 and Minn. 100), just one mile east of St. Paul’s eastern limits. 
To drive to the nursery from St. Paul’s business district, take East Seventh Street to East Minnehaha Avenue, 
east to East Avenue, Paved road to left (Highway 212). 
From St. Anthony Park, take Larpenteur Avenue and Wheelock Parkway to Arcade Street, south on Arcade 
to Maryland, east on Maryland to White Bear Avenue, south on White Bear Avenue to Stillwater Avenue, east 
to nursery. 
From Minneapolis take the shortest route to St. Paul and then follow same directions as for St. Paul’s business 
district given above. Another favorite route from North Minneapolis and northern parts of Ramsey County is to 
go east on State Highway 36 to State Highway 100, turn right and go to U. S. Highway 212; turn right 14 mile. 
From Wisconsin points, cross the St. Croix River at Hudson or Stillwater. If crossed at Hudson, go to Still- 
water and from there follow Highway 212 to our nursery, or follow U. S. 12 to Tanners Lake, north on Highway 100 
to Highway 212, west 14 mile. 
2 PERKINS BROS. e 2591 STILLWATER ROAD e SAINT PAUL 6, MINN. 
