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.AVING just returned from a visit to the bulb fields of Holland, I feel impelled to 
spread my own enthusiasm about the lovely new things which are now available 
to our customers. 
Having arrived in Holland at the time when the Hyacinths and Early Tulips 
were just in their flush bloom, and having given an intensive study to the com¬ 
parison of the meritorious old varieties and the distinctly fine novelties in Hyacinths, 
Tulips, and Daffodils, you are being afforded the opportunity of selecting from a 
list of bulbs which has had the most rigid criticism. I cannot be too urgent in 
recommending to all Californians to plant more bulbs. Holland, this past season, 
was a great patch-quilt of the most exquisite color. There is nothing which lends 
more brilliance to the garden during the Spring and Summer months than a liberal 
planting of the various bulbs — they are so easily cared for. Some of the distinctly 
new things which we are offering this season and which I especially selected in 
Holland for this season's distribution were such bewilderingly lovely things as the 
new Hyacinth, Duke of Westminster, which is a fascinating new shade in a true 
violet color; but no less entrancing than the distinct new salmon colored Hyacinth, 
Orange Boven. 
As a result of this interesting trip, we are also able to offer, for the first time, 
the distinct new race of Triumph Tulips. W el have also added some splendid 
novelties to our Darwin, Breeder and Mayflowering Tulips. Then among the early 
flowering bulbs I cannot recommend too strongly the delightful Muscari, of which 
this year we offer an unusual collection. 
There is more real beauty in your garden than anywhere else on earth. Add 
some of these new treasures to your garden this season. It will give you no end 
of pleasure and you will have a lot of fun seeing what some of the hybridists of 
the Old World have done for the plant lovers of the New World. 
We are constantly searching for new and better things all over the world, and 
spare no expense in checking the old varieties of merit and introducing the fine 
novelties which the world offers. There is not a firm in the United States that is 
more up to date than ours in offering only the fine, time-tested varieties, and the 
promising novelties, not only in bulbs, but in seeds and plants as well. We make 
every effort to furnish only the finest quality in the various grades which we offer, 
and are ever diligent in keeping our prices at fair levels so that we may continue 
to render good service and make a modest profit. 
PAUL J. HOWARD 
