worth a fair price based on its own merits. It will bring it, too, if not 
weighted down with the burden of what had better be ploughed in. Con¬ 
sequently my own policy continues to be outright elimination of any 
variety of daffodil or iris whatever, regardless of cost or stocks on hand, 
the moment I become convinced that I do not truly want it myself and 
that space is too precious to be squandered on it further. When my beds 
are being reorganized a great heap of things at fire-sale prices is often 
available to such visitors as happen to find something there to interest 
them, but please do not look for such items in the catalogue. Every fore¬ 
seeable discard has already been made when it goes to press. 
In course of checking over old invoices I notice what appears to me 
a quite undue preponderance of sales of those varieties which happen to 
look well when exhibited or which are most generally in flower during 
the brief period when most of our flower-shows are held. The flower- 
show devotees practically never order such outstanding daffodils as 
Golden City and Mortlake because these have finished their tale before 
the day of the first show, or such superb irises as Mohican, Jean Cayeux, 
Pride of Redlands, or Jubilant because with us these are prone to flower 
in May. From the viewpoint of the fancier interested primarily in ex¬ 
hibition this is quite all right, for at least he gets what he wants provid¬ 
ing only that his own garden season is reasonably synchronous with that 
of the exhibiting nurseryman; but from the standpoint of planning a fine 
garden with a protracted period of bloom it is quite all wrong. Further¬ 
more in selecting his plants the purchaser too often neglects a due con¬ 
sideration of his real purpose in growing them. A flower may be at once 
inexpressibly breath-taking as a specimen on the show-table and a dis¬ 
tinctly poor contributor to the beauty of the garden landscape; or it may 
seem entirely commonplace in the flower show, yet of precious loveliness 
in the bright sunlight of the open garden. It is a noble plant which passes 
both tests with the same flying colors. Perhaps by illustration I may 
presume to mention a few specific plants out of this catalogue which I 
can particularly recommend to consideration for C, cut-flower arrange¬ 
ments; E, exhibition; and G, garden decoration. Experience has indicat¬ 
ed all of the following subjects to be genuinely outstanding for the purposes 
indicated: 
DAFFODILS: 
Bokhara C E G 
Border Queen E G 
Damson C E G 
Fortune E G 
Golden City C E G 
Jecunda C E (for color) 
Jean Hood C E G 
Market Merry C E G 
Mary Blewitt C E G 
Maunganui C E G 
Mortlake C E G 
Mrs. R. O. Backhouse C E 
Nillumbik E G 
Scarlet Queen E G 
Songster C G 
Telopea C E G 
W. F. Gates C E G 
Zoe C E G 
IRISES, (Bearded): 
Blue Deep C E G Mohave C E 
Brocade C E Mohican E G 
Cheerio C E Moongold C G 
Florence Barriquand C E Olympic C E 
Jubilant C E G Pride of Redlands E G 
Samoset C E G (for color) 
Sebago E G 
Shoshone C E G 
Welcome E G 
Witch of Salem C E 
(Crested): 
Fairyland C Nada C E 
Wattii C G 
(Beardless): 
Alice Eastwood C E G 
December Joy C G 
(Miscellaneous): 
Stolonifera C E 
Douglasiana C G 
Graminea C 
Golden State C E G 
Sagamore C E 
William Mohr E 
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