FUTURE FLOWER FANS IN PART OF DISPLAY GARDENS. 
PUGET SOUND IN BACKGROUND. 
THANK YOU 
I''() our many flower friends and customers we lake this opportunity to express our thanks 
for the best season’s business we have ever had. 
The many repeat orders are especially sratifying because we know our bulbs are serving' 
as our “Good Will Ambassadors.” You have been kind with your suggestions and generous with 
your compliments, all of which promi)ts us to do our utmost in filling your orders to your com¬ 
plete satisfaction. 
This season we are sending out our catalogs early as an experiment. By the time it is re¬ 
ceived the memory of your own daffodils, tulips and other spring flowering bulbs will be fresh 
in your mind. Perhaps in looking over your garden this spring you no iced spots in the borders 
or yarden where a few bulbs i)lanted this fall will fill in and make a colorful showing; a border 
of the cheerful little crocus or some of the more formal hyacinths; nodding daffodils and the 
stately tulips in such a fine array of coloi’s, all have their places in a well planned garden. 
Our new location bordering Puget Sound has proven to us that we can grow bulbs and 
flowers of superior quality. We can plant early and frosts are of minor impoi'tance, thereby 
assuring us a long growing season with bulbs well matured and ripened by harvest time. 
I’erhaps a brief history of our business will not be out of order at th s time. Becoming' 
interested in flowers at an early age. I began to grow gladiolus and dahlias commercially at 19. 
Seven years later an offer to become superintendent of a 40-acre bulb farm was accepted. This 
broadened the scope of my operations and enabled me to grow flowers by the millions. Soon 
after accepting this position I met a young lady as keenly interested in flowers as I was. Need¬ 
less to say, a partnership was soon formed, and after five years we embarked on a small Init 
growing business of our own. While our business primarily is growing bulbs and flowers for 
sale, we have never let the commercial side dominate the deep love of flowers we have always 
experienced, and we get just as much thrill now in finding the first early crocus in bloom as we 
ever did. We are enjoying the work that we like best and hope to be doing it for a long time tO' 
come. 
In this catalog you will find many of the newer daffodils seldom found in ordinai-y lists. 
These new additions are improvements on the general run of daffodils commonly found in most 
gardens. We are discarding a number of the older sorts for better ones, which are now reason- 
aide enough in price to be grown more extensively. So much more satisfaction is derived from 
growing a flower of real style and merit with no more work involved than some mediocre flowei- 
gio\\n just bec<iuse the bulbs aie cheap. Quality is always remembered long after the price is- 
foi'gotten. 
AVe sincerely h()])e 
9 MS 
will prove to be a truly healthy, ha])py flower year for you all. 
FLOPAVISTA 
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A. N. and Maude S. Kanouse. 
Carole and Kathryn. 
