Personally Selected Collections of 
Choice Spring-Flowering Bulbs 
By anticipating my requirements and placing 
advance contracts I am able to offer you the 
finest Holland-grown Tulip Bulbs at prices well 
under current quotations for bulbs of this quality. 
Remember, that an American dollar is worth 
only 60<f in Holland today as compared with last 
year. Yet I have been able to overcome this 
handicap and offer even better values. 
Tulips Once Luxury 
of Kings 
The first tulip bulbs seen in Europe were 
brought from Persia in the 16th century. Their 
showing in Europe so attracted the attention of 
royalty that about 1635 A.D. the prices on new 
varieties were bid up to fabulous heights. 
A single bulb of the variety Semper Augustus 
sold for 3,300 florins ($1,500). Every bulb of¬ 
fered in my 1934 Tulip Collections will produce 
a finer flower than Semper Augustus, because 
finer tulips have been perfected through breeding and hybridizing. For a trifle, you can have 
flowers which would once have been the envy of royalty. 
. Because of the scarcity of money, tulips were often purchased through barter. There is 
an authentic record of a prosperous Dutch farmer who traded the following for a single tulip 
bulb: 
1 Load of Grain 
4 Eat Oxen 
Several Fat Pigs 
3 Bbls. Butter 
5 Bbls. Beer 
2 Hogshead of Wine 
1 Bedstead with Furnishings 
1 Silver Drinking Cup 
1000 Lbs. Cheese 
Now for less than the cost of even one "fat pig" you can purchase a gardenful of finer 
Tulips than this Dutch farmer ever saw—stately Darwins and Breeders, dainty Cottage Tulips 
and Hybrids that will produce great masses of the most brilliant color. 
For centuries Holland has been famous for fine Tulip Bulbs. My bulbs are top size, 
imported direct from Holland. Every bulb planted this fall will produce handsome flowers 
next spring. 
I have also included in these Fall Offerings, the finer Daffodils, Hardy Lilies and Day 
Lilies (Hemerocallis), Perennials, Poppies, Peonies, also a few exceptionally fine Roses, in¬ 
cluding the new Everblooming Climbers. 
CULTURAL DIRECTIONS accompany all shipments of Bulbs and Plants. 
I PREPAY THE PARCEL POST to any postoffice in the United States of America. 
‘Robert Way man 
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