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supply all sizes as we may be sold short on some sizes, but we will give good value in 
these 50c assortments. We shall be very short of No. 1 size so these will run from size 
No. 2 to size No. 6. Order as many 50c lots as you wish. Any five (5) for $2.25.; any 
ten (10) for $4.00; any filfteen (15) for $5.75, No discounts apply. 
SPECIAL COLOR. MIXTURE. One large bulb each of 50 varieties, $2.50 prepaid. 
Same offer, in medium size bulbs $2.00 prepaid. Same offer, except two each, in meffium 
size. $3.25 prepaid. 
FALL DIGGING TIME PRICES 
A CO-OPERATIVE PLAN 
Fall Buyers Read, This. 
We have issued a limited fall list for many years; we would like to issue a 
larger list at that time, but early in the fall, often September or early Octo¬ 
ber, when most of such copy goes to press, we must guess at prices as general 
average price quotations and crop inventories are never very complete until 
quite late in the season'; 
We, like other growers, have made fall offers, and offered Special Dis¬ 
counts if the order was received and paid before January 1. These offers 
are satisfactory to persons who like to purchase in the early fall. Personally, I do not 
think you save very much by extra early buying. It seems to me that in many instances 
more attractive offers are made later in the season. However, it is the privilege of 
every person to purchase as they believe will give them the best general results. There 
may be other considerations beside prices alone. For a long time I have had a “hunch ” 
that if I could induce our FALL BUYERS TO CO-OPERATE WITH ME, then I would 
give them even more attractive Fall offers than we have made in the past. We have 
found that even the modest folders we issue in the fall, whejn you figure all costs includ¬ 
ing postage, etc., and the percent of actual orders resulting, will add greatly to our costs.. 
Why not use this 1937 catalog for next Fall? Here is my plan in detail: 
SAVE THIS 1937 CATALOG FOR A 1937 FALL DIGGING TIME LIST. Older any 
items listed as you do now, and mail your order any time before January 1, 1938. DO 
NOT SEND ANY MONEY. We will re-check your order and, depending on the value 
of order and items ordered, we will allow A FALL “‘COUPON” VALUE, good for its 1 
face value if and when used in paying for this order at any time before January 1, 1938. 
We will send you this COUPON and you can endorse it as you would a check, then 
send this coupon back to us with the required amount of cash at any time before Jan¬ 
uary 1, 1938. It will be up to us to make good because if our coupon allowance is not 
equal to the fall offers of other reliable growers, you have a right to cancel this order, 
and return our coupon as of no value to you. You place yourselves under no obliga¬ 
tions; the responsibility rests entirely with us. 
INFLUENCE OF HEAT WHEN APPLIED TO DORMANT BULBS. 
A few years ago when hot water was advocated as one method of thrip control, ex¬ 
perimental work was conducted by the N. Y. State Bureau of Entomology, as to the 
action of heat on plant growth. They found that bulbs immersed for comparatively 
short periods of time in hot water, somewhat above 120 degrees F., showed such unsat¬ 
isfactory growth, as a direct result of the hot water application, that the Burieau grew 
plants as an illustration of what happens when subjected even to this mederate heat. 
It is understood that different type of heat have different penetrating qualities, but it, 
seems logical that many packages of bulbs are often made unfit for planting while in 
transportation, as it would not require a very long period of time if such packages of 
bulbs came in direct contact with intensely hot steam radiators or pipes. When you 
harvest bulbs in the fall, if you haul them from the field in large bags, as many large 
operators do, be sure never to permit such fresh dug, (green bulbs) to lay any length 
of time in a pile. If you can not empty bags at once, at least keep each bag so the lair 
can contact all sides until you put the bulbs in trays or containers. 
