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However, don't be entirely content with the trade that you have. 

 There is always room for more. And more help to your working force, 

 extend your advertisements farther and farther as your business grows. • 

 Send out circulars, catalogs and calendars to all your friends and to 

 the flower-buying people as well as others. It will help to cultivate 

 in them a love for flowers and nature's beauty. 



One florist can not do this all alone; we should all help boost and 

 advertise. 



There is plenty of i-oom for us all, and plenty of work to do ai 

 home and in our society, as individuals or as a unity. 



Nebraska is the very place to do this, with its energetic people, fertile 

 soil, pleasing climate, abundance of sunshine, great factories and railroad 

 systems, its beautiful valleys, rivers and trickling streams. 



Make Nebraska a garden of flowers. Then advertise and let the 

 world know that right here in our realms has been established or found 

 the "Lost Paradise," the "Garden of Eden." 



Chairman: I do not know of anything else we could mention in 

 the advertising line but what Mr. Henderson's paper has covered it 

 fully. If there is any part of advertising that he has not covered 

 fully that any member would like to suggest we should like to hear it. 



Our next topic is "Bulbs," by Mr. J. E. Atkinson, of Pawnee City. 



BULBS. 



J. E. ATKINSON, PAWNEE CITY. 



I do not like to begin a paper by apologizing, but I have been having 

 the worst kind of a siege of the "grippe" and ought to be home now. 

 T kept putting off writing this paper until yesterday evening, and have 

 not read it over since I wrote it, and possibly cannot read it now. 

 Further than this, it is not intended for the florist, but is intended to 

 get the ordinary housewife and homemaker to plant bulbs; there is 

 nothing in it that is new to the florist and possibly nothing new to the 

 ordinary citizen. 



Of the many plants grown for their flowers, none produce more beau- 

 tiful or more delicately fragrant blossoms, none are so easily cultivated 

 and cared for, none are so sure to succeed under widely varying or ad- 

 verse conditions, and none are so generally satisfactory in the hands 

 of the unskilled as those commonly known as bulbs. 



Broadly speaking, and for convenience of description, bulbs and 

 bulbous plants may be placed in three general classes: Summer bloom- 

 ing bulbs, hardy bulbs, and bulbs for winter blooming in the house. 

 Bulbs commonly known as summer-flowering will not stand severe freez- 

 ing, but must be taken up in the fall and stored in a f.ost-proof cellar. 

 They are as easily kept as potatoes, require no more care or labor in 

 their cultivation, and make a most gorgeous display of colors and color 



