♦ 
PLEASE READ THESE FEW LINES FIRST 
DEAR FRIENDS:—Montgomery was the poet of flowers who wrote “The Tulip’s 
petals shine in dew, all beautiful, but none alike”. And poets of all ages and all lands 
have given the best in them to singing of flowers; painters since the dawn of colors have 
striven to picture the soul penetrating beauty of these “Sweet letters of the angel tongue”. 
But all have failedJtnd all must fail. We are thrilled with their extravagance of "color, 
charmed with their delicacy of form, soothed by the subtilty of their perfume, but who can 
find words to tell their story? * 
We are so glad to be able to resume' the printing of a regular Fall Catalogue. Of 
course you know that nearly all the so called “fall planting” Bulbs for the whole world 
come from Holland, and though Holland was a neutral country during the war she had to 
meet many an emergency. Most of her Bulb fields, for one thing, were used to grow 
wheat. But by this fall she is able once more to ship nearly all sorts of Bulbs to America, 
and we are, therefore, able to give our friends an opportunity to gratify their longing for 
the loveliest of all flowers, hardy, “Dutch” Bulbs for garden planting, and Hyacinths 
and Narcissus particularly for the house, 
But we are no longer confining ourselves to the usual Lapark sizes of Bulbs, but this 
® year, for the first time, are including a full assortment of the 
EXTRA LARGE, GIANT FLOWERING “DEITCH” BULBS 
First-Size, Faney Stock, 
These are the varieties and size Bulbs florists select for forcing in their greenhouses 
and that are used so largely for house planting in glass dishes and pots. They are orown 
for tis in Holland by the most dependable growers, who have notified us that the crop for 
this season is promising unusually well and will be shipped early from Holland and should 
reach us m time for mailing to our customers in September. There will be no submarines 
this year thank goodness to delay the good “Bulb” ships, as they are called. 
The reason we are cataloguing these large, forcing size Bulbs is because so many of 
our customers are asking for them. Heretofore we have listed only the “bedding” sizes 
and you have ordered these from us, but have been disappointed you could not have 
• your entire order filled at Lapark, where you received so much fairer prices. Now you 
have the opportunity, and, as we have ordered heavily, we are counting on your orders 
and feei sure we shall receive them. 
Those who grow Bulbs become so enthusiastic about them that they never fail to add 
to their stock every fall. But really only those who have been the happy possessors of 
these giant Bulbs know fully how marvellously beautiful Bulbs can be, how exquisite in 
color, luxurious in growth, and to what a size the blooms can attain. 
And we urge our friends who love Tulips, Hyacinths and Narcissus particularly to 
plant as many as they can find room for, not only setting them out this fall in the garden 
to herald the early* spring witn a gorgeous display of color, but for dish and pot blooming 
in the house or conservatory, carrying through the winter a breath of summer and helping 
to make Christmas more merry and Easter a greater joy. ’ 6 
While these are the same named varieties and size bulbs the cut-flower florists force 
and make such display of at holiday time, and that the owners of the finest estates in 
America personally select when over in Holland for the decoration* of their gardens and 
homes, and that are catalogued by the seedsmen and bulb sellers of this country frequently 
at decidedly stiff prices, we have consistently followed our custom of adding only a fair 
reasonable profit to what it costs us to purchase and bring the Bulbs to this country, and 
