presenting My Parents 
For several years my own likeness 
has been the subject of one of the 
pictures in my catalogue and this 
year I take pleasure in using a snap¬ 
shot of my parents, Mr. and Mrs. 
Geo. A. Mitsch. It is to them that be¬ 
longs the credit for any small meas¬ 
ure of success in the field of bulb 
groining that I may have attained. 
Without their advice and assistance 
I fear that I would have abandoned 
my business before it was well 
started. 
FOREWORD 
Contrary to my plans of issuing a complete catalogue this year, I am forced by con¬ 
ditions beyond my control to cut down on descriptions, and hence have decided to issue 
only this supplement. Our summers are comparatively mild but are almost invariably 
dry with little or no rainfall from some time in June until September. Consequently, on 
most soils, in order to get good blooms one must plant early or irrigate. With retail com¬ 
mercial growers it is quite obviously impossible to plant much of the stock early enough 
to take full advantage of the spring rains. With these conditions prevailing, nearly' all 
growers here depend on irrigation for good blooms and maximum increase. As my irriga¬ 
tion system failed to perform properly last summer, I had very few representative spikes 
and thus could not judge the flowers. Hence, my descriptions are necessarily very brief. 
I am hoping that another year I can issue my usual large catalogue again and until then 
I would refer my customers to my 1936 catalogue for more complete descriptions of vari¬ 
eties listed therein. However, please do not order from this 1936 catalogue as prices have 
changed and many varieties listed in it were not grown the past season and cannot be 
supplied now. 
Although I am rather short on No. 1 bulbs of many varieties, I have a much larger 
number of smaller sizes than usual and I believe the quality of the stock is superior to 
that of most years. Fortunately, most of my seedling bulbs were planted earlier than 
the named stock and I was able to judge some of the selected seedlings sufficiently to 
write descriptions of those being introduced this year. 
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