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THE DEPENDABILITY OF BULBOUS FLOWERS 
Growing - flowers from bulbs has been termed “the lazy man’s way of 
getting posies.’’ It has not only proven to be the easiest but the most de¬ 
pendable method. The past seasons of extreme drought have further dis¬ 
couraged the attempt to grow flowers from seeds, so flower growers are 
turning more and more to planting the various kinds of bulbs as a sure 
means of getting- flowers. 
Bulbous grown flowers need no coddling - , they stand on their own 
feet with ,a positive stimulus to carry them along. 
ACCLIMATED STOCK 
In no region does acclimatizing ; mean more than it does here in the 
semi-arid Northwest. The hardiness of our Dakota grown products is known 
from coast to coast. No sturdier grains or grasses are produced anywhere. 
The same is true of our flower plantings. Some imported stock may be 
larger, as for instance Illinois corn, or Holland grown tulip bulbs, but such 
planting stock lacks the sturdiness or the substance that characterizes home 
grown products. The survival of the fittest is no better illustrated than 
here. With this in mind we have made it a practice to grow all imported 
stock at least one season before offering it for sale. 
BULBS vs. BULBLETS 
Some growers still cling - to the idea that to gull the public is good 
business. They offer, for instance, an unusually large number of bulbs 
or plants for an incredibly small sum, an amount so ridiculously low that 
any common sense buyer should know better than to bite. The bulbs turn 
out to be nothing but bulblets and the plants, small, weak, hot-house seed¬ 
lings which have no resistance when planted outside. If these were honest¬ 
ly advertised nobody would buy them. 
A fictitious Holland concern using - more than twenty aliases flooded 
this country the past season with advertisements offering to send more than 
300 bulbs postpaid for only $1.00. Thousands answered the ads and sent 
their money only to have their letter returned marked “fraudulent.” There 
are a few unscrupulous dealers in this country who advertise bulblets for 
bulbs, and others who list a combination of perhaps bulbs, seeds, plants 
and shrubs at less than one fourth the cost of producing quality stock, 
and the whole caboodle is not worth carrying home. It requires time and 
effort to grow strong, sturdy, dependable stock but it has a real value and 
consequently must bring a higher price.The old adage, “The recollection 
of quality remains long after the price is forgotten” still holds good. 
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