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Cable and Telegraphic Address: 
Established 1907. “DAFFODIL, BEWDLEY.” 
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The Premier House for Daffodils, 
KIDDERMINSTER. 
® July, 1912. 
To Our Friends and Supporters. 
N sending out our List for the present Season, once again we 
have the pleasant task of thanking our numerous friends 
for their kind support. We are much gratified by the fact 
that our first customers still continue to send us their orders 
and to recommend us to their friends. 
When we commenced this business it was in the firm belief that the 
Daffodil had by no means reached the zenith of its popularity. Every 
year the circle of Daffodil enthusiasts widens, and during the past four 
years we think we may fairly claim to have created still further interest 
in the flower, and persuaded numbers of our friends to take up its culture. 
It has been our aim and object to set the Daffodil before the Public 
in the most attractive way possible, both by exhibiting the many beautiful 
new seedlings, and also by explaining how easily they may be produced 
by the simple method of hybridisation. 
The past season was one of considerable difficulty to bulb-growers 
in consequence of the extreme heat and drought experienced in April, 
with the result that the quality of the flowers seen at the Shows was con- 
siderably below the usual standard. By mid-April nearly every variety 
in our collection had come into bloom, so that by the end of the month 
we had hardly any flowers left, end were thus unable to maintain the fine 
record which we have held at the Midland Daffodil Society’s Exhibition 
in previous years. 
