T HE pleasant task of preparing a new Blue 
Book becomes even more delightful this 
year because it has been written in my new 
office looking out over the new gardens at Mayfair. 
The inspiration of owning an ideal business home 
has quickened my enthusiasm for the things that 
grow there and the pages that tell about them. 
Garden, meadow, waterside and woodland 
provide ever changing settings for the pictures I 
may make, and I know that in other Blue Books 
I shall hereafter give my friends, who cannot 
come to Mayfair to see my flowers, the benefit 
of the wider knowledge I shall gain through larger 
opportunity. 
But for this present volume I have been 
fortunate in finding a number of new flowers, 
some of them new seedlings, others new in that 
they have never been offered here before, but old 
in that Holland has been hoarding them for many 
years. I am glad to have the privilege of paying 
these the honor they should have had long ago. 
From Mayfair 
April 20, igi 6 
