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LISTING FEWER DAHLIAS AND 
GLADIDLUS THIS SEASON 
For several years we have issued separate spring- and fall bulletins. 
These separate bulletins will be discontinued and beginning- with this 
number our catalog- will carry a complete list of. all bulbs for both spring 
and fall planting, as well as a line of standard perennials. In combining 
these descriptive lists of nearly 200 varieties it became necessary to cut 
somewhere so we decreased the number of dahlias and gladiolus, yet there, 
is sufficient range in color and size to suit the fancy of the average flower 
grower. 
TIME-TRIED VARIETIES 
OUR SLOGAN: KEEP CLOSE TO THE TIME-TRIED VARIETIES 
UNLESS YOU HAVE AMPLE MEANS WITH WHICH TO EXPERIMENT. 
Please do not forget that any worthwhile variety will continue in commerce 
until it becomes low priced. Remember too that all propagators make every 
attempt to cash in on their own introductions. 
If you have been growing any variety that must be coddled, throw it 
away. There are many other which are sturdy. You can’t go wrong on such 
glads as Minuet, Mrs. Leon Douglas, Picardy, Pelegrina, Betty Nuthall, 
Albatross or Giant Nymph, nor on such time-tried dahlias as Jersey’s 
Beauty, Jean Kerr, Frances Larrocco, LaToreador, Mrs. I. DeVerWarner 
or Judge Marean. Of course there are many other dependable ones but these 
are among the best for our local soil and climatic conditions. Tulips, iris 
and peonies are not so tempermental. 
FERTILIZERS 
For general use fertilizers may be be divided into two classes; com¬ 
mercial and natural. Commercial fertilizers might be termed high-powered 
because of their concentrate form and should be used very sparingly and 
with some knowledge of their composition. They give an artifical stimulus 
to plant growth but are soon washed out in the soil. Natural fertilizers 
such as ground bone, crushed lime rock, manures and leaf mold act more 
slowly on plant development but retain their value as soil builders over a 
long period. The two later also add the much needed humus to soil. 
Natural fertilizers may be used with little danger to plant life. How¬ 
ever green manure should never be used in close proximity to bulbs or 
small plants. 
If your soil is acidy, use lime or bone meal or both. If, on the other 
hand the soil contains too much lime or gypsum, use manure or leaf mold 
to balance it. 
