Evanston, III., July 1, 1936 
I have grown delphinium nearly thirty years and have tried about all seeds 
offered in Europe and in the United States. The best delphiniums I have grown 
from seed I am happy to announce are from your seed. Your plants have very vigorous 
flowering stock, exceptionally large individual flowers, and wonderful colors. 
Bichard Gloede 
Wawa, Pa., Sept. 15, 1936 
The resultant plants from seed sent us by you last autumn are a delight. We 
are happy to know where to turn for such quality. 
Eildemere Gardens 
Nyack, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1936 
I have now more than one hundred of your plants. They have been a perfect 
delight with many magnificant spikes of flowers. Some measured three inches across. 
Mrs. Arthur Judson 
Newton, N. J., Sept. 12, 1936 
The second blooms of some of your seedlings are larger than the June blooms. 
They are extremely beautiful; such colors and new formations! I have obtained 
some nice blooms from other growers in this country and England and thought that 
I had reached the top until I received your plants; I then found out that my other 
plants were not in the same class with yours. 
S. S. Shaw 
Ghent, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1936 
When I compare the blossoms from your seeds with other strains of delphinium, 
it is just like showing a race horse with a cart horse. 
Col. E. W. Day 
Pullman, Wash., Sept. 20, 1936 
Your seedlings are now in full bloom. They are on dry land, have had no rain 
since July, yet some of the plants are five feet tall with a maiden spike two feet 
long. The flowers are of good size and are all double but one. I am well satisfied 
with the quality and variety of Lyondels. 
A. A. Samuels on 
Eartland, Wise., Sept. 23, 1936 
Three years ago I purchased my first packet of Lyondel delphinium seeds from 
you; a year later I ordered four packets. These five packets have produced a little 
more than 500 plants. I have been culling out a few of the ordinary ones and selling 
the good ones for $10.00 per dozen. Everyone that has come to see my 350 plants in 
bloom, was just taken away. They all told me they had never seen anything so 
glorious. 
Eev. Ph. Hartwig 
Delphi, Ind., June 26, 1936 
Seedlings and seeds purchased from you do not equal my own strain; visitors 
to my garden pass yours by and give their praise to plants of my own stock. 
Smith’s Flower Garden 
La Grange, Ind., June 22, 1936 
I must tell you of two of your delphiniums blooming for the first time; both have 
flowers over 3 1-2 inches across with wonderful color and spike. The other seedlings 
are all exceptionally fine. 
Halite L. Erwin 
Eed Bank, N. J., July 6, 1936 
I have a, row of plants grown from your Connoisseurs’ Series. They are far 
and away the finest looking lot of young plants for their age that I ever grew or 
ever saw grown elsewhere. Growing alongside them in the same plot under exactly 
similar conditions are four lots of plants grown from seeds of other specialists, in¬ 
cluding some I went to England for, and some saved from a few extra good plants 
of my own. Your seeds were sown three weeks later than the rest, yet they make the 
others look like weeds. 
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J. E. Baines 
