PHnt your name and address or write very carefully. We get many we 
cannot read. 
In case of error or misunderstanding about your order notify us at once. 
Prices. When the price of one bulb only- is given the price of a dozen is 
ten times that and the price of 100 is 7 0 times the price of one. Half dozen 
is sold at dozen rate but not less than 100 at the 100 rate. The 1000 rate is 9 
times the 100 rate. No less than 1 000 at these rates. 
EXCHANGING 
We need Sternbergias and all rare bulbs. If you have a surplus or any 
rarity write us. For many bulbs we allow the wholesale price only but full 
value for rarities. 
ALIBIS 
We men often blame our wives for our own faults. We have to maintain 
our own dignity. 
Seeking alibis seems to be a human weakness. I have been the confidant 
of both of a quarreling couple. I always advise this. Look for your own faults 
or mistakes instead of the other persons. Correcting them is likely to mend 
and sometimes to end troubles. 
The other day I received a letter saying: “Not one of my 40 Tulips grew. 
They must have been old greenhouse forced bulbs. I am in the flower business 
and I have never failed before.” 
We have had hundreds of enthusiastic reports, verbally and by letter, 
telling of complete success and highest satisfaction with the very same Tulips. 
Our dissatisfied customer asked us to explain why she failed— a thousand 
miles away. As well send a telegram to a doctor a thousand miles away to 
ask what killed the man with no particulars mentioned. 
She was less reasonable than the young Doctor who kept complete notes 
about his treatment of patients and the results. Once a patient, an Irishman 
had a fever. He craved watermelon but the young Dr. would not allow him to 
have any. One evening the Dr. told his folks that Paddy could not live until 
morning. 
So they thought as long as Paddy was going to die any way and was 
constantly begging for watermelon he might as well die happy. So they gave 
him all he could eat. 
The next morning when the Dr. called expecting to find his patient dead, 
he found him chopping wood in the back yard. 
He entered in his note book: “When an Irishman is critically ill, as a last 
resort give him all the watermelon he can eat.” 
A while later another patient, a Dutchman, became critically ill with a 
popular summer malady. After all his remedies had failed, as a last resort 
he ordered one evening, “Give him all the watermelon he can eat.” 
The next morning, he came in the back way expecting to find him there 
chopping wood. Instead he was met at the door with the information that 
the patient had died soon after eating a large melon. 
So he entered in his note book: “That which will cure an Irishman will 
kill a Dutchman.” 
This may be an old story for you, but it illustrates faulty reasoning. A 
lot of people blame good bulbs or good seeds for a garden failure. Instead of 
that, try to find what was wrong. A gopher may have eaten the bulbs. Finding 
an alibi for an error in your culture does not help you. It only keeps your high 
hat in place. 
We have been growing bulbs, plants of all kinds, all our life. We have 
studied the principles of biology, the laws which govern living things, and have 
some ability in experimentation. But we have failed often, and still fail 
sometimes. 
We seldom publish a testimonial, but here is one from a very noted source. 
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