before witnessed at Lapark, with just enough white, orange and red here and there to 
intensify the mass of gold. Many of the varieties 1 had never before seen in bloom, and 
some of them were fully five inches across and such a revelation of grace and beauty, and 
in flower so long a time, that I shall have no garden at all if I cannot find room in it for a 
full share of every member of the Narcissus-Daffodil-Jonquil family. Specimens of the 
larger flowering, double sorts resemble Pseonies, save in color; while the fairy-like foliage 
and delicate bloom of the smaller flowering varieties made most delightful cut-flowers. The 
blooms of Narcissus are always larger and finer the second year after planting. 
Then alpng came the TULIPS, one after another according to variety, and, due to the 
fact that we had planted of these also some of each sort, we had flowers right along until 
t ic end of May, emphasizing the desirability of dividing ones order so as to have part of 
each class, Early and Late Blooming Tulips, Darwins, Rembrandts, Breeders, Cottage and 
MORE THAN A MILLION TULIPS OF,ALL COLORS 
Parrots, Singles and Doubles, thus extending the season of bloom from Hyacinth and 
Narcissus time until the lovely Paeonies and Iris unfold their beauties. 
You are all so familiar with Tulips that I need hardly try to describe them to you 
their bold colors, happy adaptability to practically all soils and climates, and their depend¬ 
ability to bloom. How can one get along without Tulips, filling as they do a niche in the 
plan of having something always in bloom, a period that no other flower occupies! The 
old, standard varieties seem to improve with passing year's, as this season the foliage was 
larger, the stems taller and the flowers bigger and fuller. The newer sorts which we have 
been adding to our catalogue of late bear out all we have said of them, and we have tested 
out the desirability of the still newer varieties we are listing this Autumn for the first time. 
1. am particularly pleased with the Double-Flowering Tulips. They are perfectly splendid 
giand specimens often measuring from four to four and a half inches across and resembling 
Paeomes m form. There is quite a run on the Black Tulip, known as Noire the deepest 
darkest maroon, almost a velvety black, and a fine contrast among the lighter brighter 
colors. ’ 
The PAPER WHITES and the ROMAN HYACINTHS delighted us earlier in the 
Snv rrD g n™nMrc 1St , raaS cheerier, and we are looking forward to enjoying the 
diARDY GARDEN LILIES when their turn comes, for we planted a row of all and thev 
are growing nicely, here and there the buds already appearing. 
Planting, at Lapark, specimens of every named Bulb imported also served as a check 
on our Holland growers, enabling us to know whether or not they are shipping us Bulbs 
ti ue to label in both name and color. Of all we catalogued we found only two errors this 
year, one Tulip showed a slightly lighter shade of pink than our catalogue called for and 
one was blush instead of yellow, but this, we are very sure, was because the label was 
tramped out and when set up again was turned wrong side to, as the yellow did appear 
where the blush was supposed to be. 
Of the quality of the Bulbs we had no fault to*find, as better stock was never received 
from Holland. If we had not been sufficiently convinced of this by our own plantings and 
