THE BLUE BOOK OF BULBS 
But all these years such a perfect place was being made 
for me. Here a French horticulturist planned and toiled, 
and now, after he has been gone many years, the results of 
his labor are the shrubs, the grove of trees, the ponds and 
alluring nooks that make the settings for the bulbs they have 
always been waiting for. Blue Scillas carpet his woods. Blue¬ 
bells nestle about his Rhododendrons, Daffodils are springing 
in his meadows where there will soon be a golden glory of 
bloom, while gaudy Tulips show everywhere in the flower 
garden he shaped for the very purpose. 
In the near future, other gardens will be worked out, and 
I shall have more and more to keep me busily gloating and to 
talk about to the friends who may come to Mayfair. I shall 
find new ways to show off the spring flowers that mean 
Mayfair to me, so that I shall have more to write of in my 
Blue Book for the far-off friends who can know my favorites 
only as they read about them. 
Mayfair is waiting to welcome you this spring with a far 
more lavish display of bloom than the old gardens have 
ever known before. 
Visitors 
The advantages of personal study of color and habit of 
growth from the flowers themselves must always be the surest 
way to make the successful garden, and at Mayfair the oppor¬ 
tunities for such observation are unsurpassed. In my trial- 
gardens, each season, besides the samples of varieties in¬ 
cluded in The Blue Book, I grow many other standard sorts 
and novelties. During the spring of 1915 I shall have in 
flower over seven hundred varieties of Early and Late Tulips, 
and two hundred of Daffodils. The Daffodils, in a normal 
season, are in flower during the latter half of April and the 
first week in May, the Early Tulips through the last week of 
April and the first week of May, while the Late Tulips begin 
about the middle of May. Visitors to my trials are always 
welcome, and, upon request, notice will be sent of the dates 
upon which the flowers will be at their best. My trial-gardens 
are at Little Falls, New Jersey; telephone 138. 
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