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HKKEN'DEEX .t CO's AUTUMN BULES. 
some of the more costly bulbs. In this as in every other business, supply and 
demand govern the price. A plant newly introduced from a foreign country 
sells at a high price because it is scarce. Tlie first Lilium Auratum bulbs 
brouglit to this countrj', but five years since, brought $40 each ; better ones 
now sell for sixty cents, and they will be still cheaper as the supply increases. 
There are many producers and dealers anxious to try kkw things, hoping 
to get something better than is before the public. Our advice to those who 
plant merely for their own pleasure is, let others experiment — purchase, you, 
tliat which is tried. 
In the accompanying lists care has been taken to include only those varieties 
which it is believed will prove entirely satisfactory to the grower, and no pains 
will be spared to have all in good order, well conditioned and true to name. 
M e advise our friends to make most of their selections from our verv com- 
plete lists of N.\MHD VAIUETIKS, Ordering the mixed kinds for bed and border 
planting. 
T hough they cost a little more, they are far more elegant and desirable 
having been selected for tlieir beauty of bloom, size, strength, and quality, 
of bulb : as the description assures us just what flower to expect from each 
they should invariably be selected for house culture. 
Purchasers who are unacquainted with the merits of the different varieties 
may feel assured of a judicious and satisfactory selection by entrusting it en- 
tirely to us. 
We sliall commence sending out Bulbs about the middle of September and 
fill all orders in rotation as receiced during the months of October and No- 
vember, and later, if the season is sucli as to allow their being planted before 
the ground freezes. 
Orders that arrice too late, will be returned with the money. 
e trust that our earnest efforts and constant endeavors for advancement in 
this very interesting department of floriculture, will secure to us a liberal 
share of the patronage of the flower-loving, and bulb-buying pulilic... 
