Of Girst Importance G, You | 
To you, it is of utmost importance that whatever plants, Roses or shrubs you | 
put in your garden are pedigreed stock. Furthermore, you want to be sure of } 
having the most perfect blooms for the entire life of the plant. That is the only | 
way of your making sure ofboth. What follows tells you. 
“Sound Reason Back of Wayside’s Pedigreed Plants 
PERFECT BLOOMS FROM CAREFUL BREEDING 
“Breeding” or ‘‘growing’’ pedigreed plants is much the same as breeding 
pedigreed dogs or cattle. For stock breeding purposes, registered and prize 
animals are selected. So with Wayside’s plants. At our nursery especially selected ' 
stock plants are set aside for reproducing purposes exclusively. Cuttings or 
divisions taken from these selected stock plants are grown into salable speci- 
mens, they retain throughout their life the superior qualities of the parent from 
which they originally were cut. Therefore, this method of reproduction is fol- 
lowed at Wayside Gardens, wherever possible. 
Cuttings and seeds taken indiscriminately without any thought of ‘‘blood’”’ 
or “‘parentage’’ irrevocably produce indifferent plants. These plants, no matter 
how big or how old, can give no better flowers than their Parents, usually 
worse, and they never improve in quality because it was not there to start with. 
You are really purchasing an abundance of flowers. To have that you can’t 
avoid beginning with pedigreed quality plants such as Wayside is known to 
furnish. Bear in mind that if you purchase roots-dormant plants from various 
or unreliable sources, they look about the same even though they may differ 
in size. Only when planted in your garden and when they have started to bloom, 
can you tell a thing about their inherent stamina, the purity of strain or 
quality of flowers. It is then too late to change. All Wayside plants are pedi- 
greed. We know, and thousands of critical gardeners know, they will perform, 
giving you lasting satisfaction and greater beauty, year after year. 
It is our careful way of doing things that has made Wayside Gardens known 
as one of the most critical, as well as one of the most popular, nurseries in this 
continent. 
BLOOMING AGE 
No plants are sent out until we are sure they are going to produce 
the flowers they should in the shortest possible time after planting. 
Some plants are dug from the field, while others are supplied in pots, 
whichever may be best. A rigid system of inspection is constantly 
maintained. Any plant, no matter how valuable, is destroyed if there 
is the least doubt about its health. The last page in this catalog tells 
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aga WHAT OTHER GROWERS THINK 
? Our careful methods of reproduction are so well known in the trade 
“ (5% ‘that other growers come to Wayside Gardens for their “stock plants’, 
offering to pay us a premium. 
WHAT YOU BUY AND WHAT YOU GET 
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Guaranteed Superior Quality 
Wayside Gardens 
MENTOR, OHIO 
