“EVERY BULB A GEM” 
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SEEDLING NO. 31C232/3 
A RECORD INCREASE IN BULBLETS 
There may be better records recorded but thus far, I have seen none to approach the number of 
bulblets produced by the bulb shown in the photographs above. This was one of my selected 
seedlings segregated in 1933 and grown separately with its increase in 1934. At harvest time last fall, 
I noticed it was so well supplied with bulblets that I decided to count what did not fall off and 
get mixed with the bulblet stock at digging time. It was a great surprise to find the number of 
bulblets to be 3024 in addition to the two large bulbs produced from the one bulb planted. The one 
photograph shows the bulbs before cleaning and the other shows them after cleaning and removing 
the bulblets. While I am not introducing any new varieties this year, I am going to offer bulblets 
from this one bulb at $1.00 each. The flower was a very attractive shade of pink with a cream 
throat with about seven florets open of a fine spike. It is from a cross of Picardy x Serenade. 
Whether it will ever be introduced and named is questionable although I believe it is better than 
the majority of varieties now on the market. At present it bears the number 31C232/3. 
While it is unlikely that these bulblets will in many cases give an increase of more than 50 or 
100 new bulblets, if that many, I am offering a prize of the entire stock of a selected seedling to 
the one who grows the most bulblets from one bulblet purchased this year. You may get as many 
bulblets as you like, so long as the supply lasts, but the increase is to be counted from just one in 
entering this contest. I shall send out as nearly even sized bulblets as is possible. These bulblets 
are not guaranteed to grow but in case of failure, I shall be glad to replace them another year. The 
numbers of bulblets as given in entries to the contest will be accepted as given except in case 
extremely large numbers are sent in which case such contestants may be asked to count the 
bulblets and make an affidavit before a notary to the effect that this number of bulblets was 
produced from the one bulblet of this seedling planted. The prize will consist of a seedling of my 
selection having bloomed for two or more years and which I consider to have real merit and value 
at $15.00 at the least. This judgment will be based on the flower’s performance in my own garden. 
