LARGE LOTS. 
Special prices on large lots of any sort. 
TERMS. 
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Five month credit with 5 per cent discount for Cash and interest at 
the rate of seven per cent per annum on deferred payments. 
THE BEST SPECIES. 
During the last fourteen years I have been growing the bulbs of the 
Western United States in large numbers and have had nearly all of the 
known species in my garden and often many forms of the same thing- 
In my tests I have grown each sort in many soils and exposures and 
have had an excellent opportunity, both through my own experiments 
and from the reports received from the Eastern United States and 
Europe, to judge of the comparative merits of the different varieties. 
Research is developing wonderful variations in all of these plants, and 
with so many beautiful colors to choose from, the time has come, it 
seems to me, to begin the elimination of weak or poor forms, and the 
selection and dissemination of only the best ones. From a gardener's 
standpoint the plants which with beauty have the best qualities as 
growers, are the ones to be retained. To this end I mark in my list 
the best species in each section without any consideration of price. I 
do not mean by this list that the other species have no merits, but my 
recommendation is that in ordering, the trade take this preferred list 
first. And of this preferred list my choice would follow the numerical 
orcler. I shall in the future as in the past spare no pains to secure not 
only new species, but will also grow lots of old species from many 
localities for experimental tests, that I may be able to find which have 
the greatest vitality and best growing qualities. It was in my garden 
that the vigor of Calochortus Vesta was discovered, a species which 
compared to the next best is in vigor three to one, and is one of the 
most beautiful as well. All of my recommendations are based on 
actual wide experience through a term of years. 
