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AZALEA GARDENS, SEEKING, FLA. 
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A stock of poor GREEN varieties can be 
worked up quickly. The reason we can offer the 
world’s very finest varieties at such a low price is 
that we’ have worked up a very large stock of good 
ones by withholding from the market each year a 
certain number of bulbs to build up our stock with 
instead of selling every available bulb just to get 
more money. In this way we have made these good 
kinds available to you at a low price. 
Our list of 29 varieties covers the entire range 
of beautiful colors that really exist in Caladiums. 
We are’ sure there are many of these you have never 
seen. Even in 29 varieties, we must admit there is 
some duplication, but not duplication in all respects, 
as for instance one variety will have slightly similar 
coloring as another, but its form is different, and 
vice-versa, so that our list comes as near to being 
without duplication as is possible. Then think what 
t a great amount of duplication there must be in 85 
ior 100 varieties, when the grower just picks up 
anything that comes along and grows it because it 
is a Caladium. 
WHERE did our Collection of fine Caladiums 
come from? Here is the answer: First, you must 
know that in Europe, Caladiums have always, it 
seems, been more popular than in America, but their 
popularity here has been gaining steadily, as our 
business shows. European hybridizers have been 
working with Caladiums for many years in order to 
supply the demand for more beautiful coloring.-.. 
Consequently their productions are really the only 
ones worth while in addition to some varieties pro¬ 
duced by fanciers in Brazil Even in large collec¬ 
tions we have imported from Europe and South 
America, We have found sometimes that only 5% 
of the total was worth putting into the trial beds 
j a second year. And many additional varieties were 
discarded the second year, as being unsuitable in 
growth and color characteristics. 
American hybridizers have either not known 
how to hybridize or they gave up too easily, not 
having enough patience to produce fine colored 
