Bulb Department 



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This department divides itself naturally into two divi- 

 sions, ist. — Summer Flowering Bulbs. 2d. — Spring 

 Flowering Bulbs. The first division comprises such 

 important articles as Begonias, Caladiums, Gloxinias, Gladiolus, Ismenes, 

 Montbretias, Tigridias, Tuberoses and a host of others of less importance. 

 Most of these have been wonderfully improved since this business was 

 founded seventy years ago. The present state to which, for example, 

 ias, Gloxinias and Gladiolus have been brought under the 

 skillful hands of the hybridizers being simply marvelous. This, 

 as a matter of course, has augmented the sales until now thou- 

 sands are sold annually where dozens were sold half a century 

 ago, and hundreds a score of years back. Large quantities 

 of these are grown at our own Nurseries, while others are 

 specially grown for us by experts. 



f 7f 7f / in Store during 

 the Fall Bulb Season 



View in Cellar of Store where 

 many Bulbs are kept 



Great as have been the strides in 

 the development and distribution of the 

 Summer Flowering Bulbs, it is nothing 

 to be compared to the now enormous 

 proportions to which the business in 

 Spring Flowering Bulbs has attained. 

 This class, which numbers among its 

 members such popular subjects as Hya- 

 cinths, Tulips, Narcissus or Daffodils, 

 Crocus, Jonquils, Lily of the Valley, 

 " f ; 1 : .'•■'^''iij^ Iris, Snowdrops, etc., are for the most 

 " ■" <^f'^ * ' ^ part grown in Holland, France, Eng- 

 l.md and Ireland. The ease with which 

 the majority of these can be grown, 

 cither indoors or out, 'even by the 

 1 iL-ginner, their brilliancy of coloring, 

 and their time of flowering endear them 

 to the masses, and their culture is 

 becoming more popular each season. 

 Our sales of this class of stock have 

 increased over 300 per cent, in the last 

 ten years, over six million Bulbs having 

 been sent out in the Autumn of 1907, enough Bulbs, if set 

 six inches apart in a single line to extend a distance of 

 over fi\ e hundred and sixty-eight miles, or from Philadel- 

 phia to be>ond Columbus, Ohio, or almost from Boston 

 to Richmond, Va. This large and ever increasing growth 

 in this class of Bulbs could not be maintained if we did 

 not strive to send out good stock. Our supplies 

 are drawn from the the best sources, many of them from growers wl 

 have been sending us Bulbs for almost half a century, and careful 

 tests are made annually of many new varieties, which 

 offered if they prove to be worth the high price which nov- 

 elties in Bulbs usually command. 





Out Tulips plantici m 

 the famous Sunken 

 Gardens, Fail iiiouizt 

 Park, Philadelphia, 

 Spting of I go J 



A field of Tulips at one of 

 our growers in Holland 



Catalogues 



years 



From the little two-page list issued in 1838 with an 

 edition of a few hundred, our Catalogues have reflected ^ _ 

 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the growth of the business through the passing 

 until now this Garden Book of 248 pages, containing what is 



undoubtedly the most complete offering of Horticultural needs under 

 one cover, together with the Mid-Summer List issued in June, the 

 Bulb or Autumn Catalogue issued in September and various smaller 

 lists sent to Florists and Market Gardeners reach a total of nearly 

 300,000 copies requiring over 150,000 pounds of paper to print 

 them and an outlay of more than ten thousand dollars to mail 

 them to our customers in all parts of the world. 



We aim to make these books more than mere price lists 

 by giving accurate, unexaggerated descriptions, the height 

 of growth, time of flowering, and, in many 

 cases, cultural hints the result of our years Bulb Storage Floor 

 of experience. in our Warehouse 



