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IMPORTED BULBS AND PLANTS 



We ask the attention of our customers to the followiu<< details regarding special- 

 ties in Bulbs and Plants which Vaughan's Seed Store imports for florists. Through 

 our very complete arrangements, worked out for more than 25 years, we are able to 

 make the best possible early deliveries at just the right time when the customer wants 

 the stock for planting, and at the same time so cover our freight rates and expenses 

 by carload shipments that no foreign agents of Dutch houses or their representatives 

 can take care of all of your wants in these bulbs at as small a sum of total cost as 

 Vaughan's Seed Store can do. 



If you will read the table below and note the many sources from which these 

 bulbs are secured and the reasons why we at Chicago and New York are in position 

 to take care of the many incoming shipments at the ])roper dates, some of which vary 

 perhaps but two or three weeks, anil yet these shipping dates are of such importance 

 to the grower of the stock as well as the user of tlie.se stocks that they cannot be 

 changed or bunched together. 



FREESIAS — We get these by fast express from France and California and we often 

 deliver before July ith. 



L, HARRISII — We are headquarters for these and our select Bermuda stock is often 

 ready at New York by July 15th. 



NARCISSUS ORANDIFLORA— ROMAN HYACINTHS— These two items of French 

 bulbs come to us in two shipments, the first for growers who use one or both for 

 early November forcing. Thanksgiving sales, etc., where they often help out 

 materially in case of delaj'ed crop of Roses and Carnations. For our southern 

 customers we often make late deliveries of Nai-cissu3 when they want to hold 

 them back for October 1st planting. 



NARCISSUS SOLEIL D'OR— This early forcing Yellow Narcissus from Southern 

 France is proving very useful for holiday work. Order early; the supply hz" not 

 been sufficient to go around. 



CHINESE NARCISSUS— We receive these bulbs in carloads from Japan; the retail 

 sales begin as quick as the bulbs can be had in early September and often last 

 until New Years. There is quite a little opportunity for counter business in this 

 article. Of course these bulbs cannot be bought from Europe. 



DUTCH BULBS— Our big stock of these bulbs of Hyacinths and Tulips are mainly 

 from Dutch houses who do not send peddlers to America and they are not up to 

 the peddler's tricks, that is, give you a fine lot of bulbs one year for the sake of 

 soaking you with cull stock the second year. Our connections are good substan- 

 tial Dutch houses who make it their business to send us A-No. 1 sound bulbs 

 every season, knowing that in no other way can they depend on our business, and 

 they consider our business worth while. 



We are ready to submit our figures to you on Dutch Bulbs, and guarantee to meet the 

 delivered prices at your city of any offers that you are made by traveling Hollanders. Our records 

 show the weight per 100 bulbs of many of the leading forcing Hyacinths and Tulii>s, as we find that 

 a pretty safe and easily made test of the value of the bulbs when they come in. We invite our 

 customers to experiment on r'heir purchases and make some records on these lines and see if it is not 

 of material value in proving the merits of the stock. They will find it helpful in checking up the 

 real value of the stock. 



SPANISH IRIS— OLADIOLUS COL VILLI— Butch growers who ship these with 



Tulips and Hyacinths do so at the risk of the stock being dug too early. This also applies to the 

 Gladiolus Colvilli. Both of these items we receive in separate shipments from Holland just as soon 

 as the bulbs are matured there, and we do not allow our Dutch growers to ship either too early or 

 too late to the risk of successful growing. 



JAPANESE LILIES — We are positively headquarters on all classes of Japanese Lilies, 

 importing them in carloads and bringing the different stocks as they ripen. Formosum, Multiflorum. 

 Giganteum, and the hardy kinds, Eubrum, Album and Auratum. each in its season. In the quan- 

 tities we use both at Chicago and New York we receive the benefit of carload freight rates in every 

 case and can make deliveries without extra freight at San Francisco and Portland. Chicago and 

 New York. Our Canadian customers who buy these as well as other bulbs in quantity, can have 

 them shipped through to destination in bond, thus saving duty, providing their orders are placed 

 with us in reasonable season. 



AZALEAS — This Belgian product comes to us in carloads, and distant shipments we 

 make by express. This is adiflicult plant to handle, and some importers have given up the trade. 

 We do not guarantee the varieties which can be supplied nor just when they will flower, but we can 

 satisfy the average florist who understands Azaleas and how they ought to be handled and the risks 

 that attend their importation. More we can not do. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY — Here is another item that cannot be supplied by the 

 Hollanders. We have excellent stocks both from the Hamburg district and from Central Germany, 

 and store two grades all the year around, making weekly, fortnightly or monthly shipments of 

 these in such quantities as suit our growers, and on request are glad to express trial lots to prove 

 the forcing value of the stocks. 



SPIRAEA — The newer varieties, Gladstone and Queen Alexandra, we receive in sepa- 

 rate shipments just as soon as the clumps are ripened. We pack these in cases of 100 each to cai ry 

 them free from injury of drying out or heating, which often injures both the roots and buds. The 

 low prices at which Spiraea is sold make it impossible to import to advantage in moderate lots from 

 Dutch growers, as if the average buyer would import these separately the special charges for 

 customs duty entry and brokerage fees would amount to considerably more than the profit we 

 charge to our customers. 



GLOXINIAS-TUBEROUS BEGONIAS— These bulbs we usually receive the first 



part of December, and as they are light they usually go to our customers by express. We carry a 

 good line of both double and single sorts, in separate colors and mixed. 



COLD-STORAGE L/L/ES— Giganteum, Rubrum, Auratum and others. These we 

 carry in stock for our regular sales, and we also store them for our customers. Some large buyers 

 assume their own storage risks. Details in this regard given on application. 



TAKE /VOr/CE— No French Bulbs can be bought to better advantage than through 

 American wholesale firms. To connect with Dutch stocks in Holland there is an extra cost of 

 freight shipments to Holland from France and to America from Holland, and thereby unavoidable 

 delay. Buy your French Bulbs of American houses, preferably of Vaughan. 



FREESIA BULBS 

 Vaughan's Seed S<ore— The Giganteum Lilies bought 

 of you last fall, were more than satisfactory. 

 MOUNT GREENWOOD CEMETERY ASS'N. 



Morgan Park, III. 



ROMAN HYACINTH 



Vaughan's Seed Store— The lot of "Precocious" 

 Narcissus have proven the best we have ever had or 

 seen, both in quality and quantity of bloom. 



STATE FLORAL CO., 



North Yakima, Wash. 



NARCISSUS P. W. GRANDIFLORA PRECOCIOUS - 



This is an exclusive specialty of ours, and is as much 

 an improvement over the Grandiflora as that is over 

 the old TotuK Albus. You can flower thi.s ten days 

 earlier than any other variety. 



Vaughan's Seed Store— I take great pleasure in 

 writing you about the good results I had from 

 Formosum and Harrisii Lilies bought last fall. Best 

 ever grown in my greenhouse. Callas also fine. 

 Had an abundance of large flowers. 



CARL BUEHL, Aldrich. Ala. 



