Che Best Time to Plant 
The best time to transplant all plant material of definite hardiness is in the au- 
tumn. At this time of year weather and soil conditions are usually better than early 
spring. Little winter protection is required other than a light covering of hay or 
straw... Do not stop your garden operations because of the first light frost in the 
autumn. It is a help rather than a hindrance. 
PLANT HARDY PLANTS FROM SEPT. Ist TO NOV. Ist; ROSES FROM NOV. 
15th TO DEC. 15th; PEONIES, BLEEDING HEARTS, GERMAN AND JAPANESE 
IRIS FROM SEPT. Ist to FROST; ORIENTAL POPPIES FROM AUG. 15th to NOV. 
15th; DUTCH BULBS FROM OCT. Ist UNTIL GROUND IS FROZEN; MADON- 
NA LILIES FROM AUG. 15th to NOV. Ist; ALL OTHER LILIES IMMEDIATELY 
WHEN RECEIVED. 
We ship no plants or bulbs except at the season they will grow best. This may 
mean two or more shipments to you—typical of the kind of service we render you. 
Place your order now and let us assume all responsibility of shipping dates. 
To Customers in the Gulf Area, Texas, and California 
We do not recommend the practice of planting imported bulbs in the warm 
states before November 15th. The prolonged warm weather produces a top growth 
before the roots have properly developed with the result that your flowers will not 
have proper stems and normal sized blooms. This applies particularly to the fol- 
lowing states: Texas, California, New Mexico, Florida, Mississippi, and Arizona. 
Should bulbs be delivered to you before recommended planting time, store them in 
a cool place. 
QUALITY 
The enviable reputation we enjoy is known to most gardeners. It is constantly 
strived for by giving faithful service and sending faultless quality. 
Quality perhaps is the most important of the two for bulbs particularly; we can 
do more than most in that respect, because the President of our company is a 
member of the firm of Grullemans in Holland, internationally known as the finest 
growers of bulbs, whose early business years were spent with that firm, obtaining 
an intimate knowledge about bulbs, an opportunity which does not present itself 
to the average American importer who consequently is not as well informed. 
Buy your bulbs from Wayside Gardens and see the difference! 
Order Now—We Ship at Planting Time 
All orders are filled in the order of their receipt by us and are shipped at planting time. The reasons 
for this are obvious to you and it means that those who order early have a distinct advantage over 
those who wait until the last minute. Towards the end of the season many varieties are often sold out. 
Ordering now gives us sufficient advance notice of your requirements, enabling us to determine the 
kind and quantity we must have on hand. Only through such advance knowledge could we possibly 
hope to fill the number of orders which annually are sent to us from our thousands of customers. 
Best Served are Those Who Order Early 
The seasons, (as Shakespeare said of Time and Tide), wait for no man. For this reason the nurs- 
ery business is a most exacting one where Nature, in the final analysis, is the only real Master. No 
other business is so subject to the whims and moods of the seasons and to the caprice of climate as is 
a nursery serving customers in all parts of the country . . . This means that in no other business is 
such a high degree of co-operation essential as that which must exist between customer and nursery. 
Won't you please continue this same splendid co-operation by sending in your order today? 
Concerning Cultural Instructions 
The U.S.A. is a large country with widely vary- 
ing climatic conditions. 
CULTURAL BOOKLETS 
Within the states and counties the composition 
of the soil varies even more widely. 
The cultural instructions given in this catalog 
are a guide in the right direction. 
Our advice on winter protection as well as 
summer care of plants should always be adjust- 
ed to meet extreme local conditions. 
Gardening practices in Augusta, Georgia, could 
hardly be the same as those in Augusta, Maine. 
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WAYSIDE GARDENS 
For the convenience of our customers, we have pre- 
pared a booklet entitled: “Cultural Instructions for 
Hardy Perennials and Alpine Plants.” This booklet of 
some 50 pages gives explicit cultural instructions and 
advice on the care of hardy plants. We will send it to 
you along with complete cultural instructions for Roses, 
Lilies and Bulbs, upon receipt of $1.00. You will find 
them very helpful. They include planting charts and 
are full of facts, precisely, as well as concisely, given. 
