Making cuttings of 
CARYOPTERIS, Heavenly Blue 
PROPAGATING PEDIGREED PLANTS 
IS A METICULOUS SCIENCE 
AT WAYSIDE GARDENS 
So many of our customers have expressed an interest - : 
in Wayside Gardens’ ability to offer such a long list of 
outstanding garden subjects, that we are devoting the 
next several pages to a pictorial presentation of some 
of the innumerable steps necessary to produce the 
more than 3500 items offered in our spring and fall 
catalog. * 
The illustrations that follow 
cover but a few of the pains- 
taking steps in the 2 to 5 
year process necessary to 
produce a plant or shrub to 
meet Wayside’s high stand- 
ards of quality. Obvious 
operations such as watering, 
spraying, digging, fertilizing, 
winter protecting and trac- 
tor plowed fields have pur- 
posely been omitted. 
FIRST: 
CUTTINGS ARE MADE FROM 
THE MOST CAREFULLY 
SELECTED PLANTS 
Since stamina, bloom, color and branching 
habit are inherited from the parent plant; 
cuttings must originate from sturdy, pedi- 
greed, root-strength plants with rigorously 
controlled parentage. This young lady is 
carefully preparing cuttings of Wayside’s 
lovely ‘Veronica, Baccarole.”’ 
