IN preparing this new issue of The Blue 

 Book, I have had keen pleasure in being 

 able to show my friends the first pictures 

 of the flowers at Mayfair. From them, I 

 think, it will be seen how much has been 

 accomplished in but one year. 



Yet the chief value of these pictures lies 

 not so much in this evidence of the quick 

 results in my own gardens, as in the proof of 

 the usefulness of the spring bulbs for new 

 gardens, where one waits all too impatiently 

 for the time when the garden will seem to 

 have been a garden for many years, 



The varieties added in this year's Blue 

 Book are all so fine that I am surer than ever 

 of the help The Blue Book will be to those 

 who cannot come to Mayfair to see things 

 for themselves. 



From Mayfair 

 April J, 79/7 



