FOREWORD 
This year we greet you from our new location in Findlay. Here 
we are better equipped to handle your orders and are blessed with a 
finer soil. Bulbs this year are very nice and we had a fine percentage 
of large ones, better than before. Bulbs are cleaner too. With our 
new buildings and equipment we expect to be able to care and market 
our bulbs better and be able to give better service on shipments. 
Our prices may be at some variance in a few cases with other 
growers but we make the statement that we shall meet those prices of 
any reputable grower offering quality stock. I think that gauging 
prices for the catalogue each year is about the most tedious work of 
all. 
Hope you had a fine season this year and that bulbs you purchased 
from us performed as they should. In case they didn’t, don’t forget to 
remind us of the fact. We are satisfied only when you are satisfied, 
please remember that. With the addition of the Scheer seedlings to 
cur plantings we are cutting down on many varieties but you will find 
this list quite up to date. Few descriptions are given this year as we 
are chiefly interested in giving full attention to our offerings, believing 
them to be far better than most of those now on the market and well 
v/orthy of your investment. 
We here extend our best wishes for your continued good luck 
this coming year of 1938 and assure you of our desire to be of service 
to you whenever possible. Should any question regarding growing, 
ihrips, variety qualifications, etc., bother you just drop us a line. We 
will be glad to take the time for a complete answer as far as we arc- 
able. 
With every good wish, 
H. J. 
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THE SCHEER INTRODUCTIONS. 
The response from the customers of last year who invested in 
Chief Red Bird and Beltane the Strong have been most heartening. 
We felt that they were superior to others in their class and now we 
know it. Chief Red Bird especially is proving to one of the most 
earliest fine pure reds the country has seen and a big demand for it 
is sure to come this year. 
The seedlings this year have been pronounced by those who have 
seen them as outstanding. We were unable to have many on display 
at the various shows due to extreme weather conditions a week before 
the shows started, but fortunately many viewed them in the fieMs and 
one examamination proved our words of last year — “There Are No 
Better”, to be entirely correct. 
You hybridists will be glad to know of Dr. Scheer’s methods in 
his careful crossing. I am sure a letter to him at 910 York St., 
Sheboygan, Wisconsin, will be appreciated by him. This year Dr. 
Scheer made dozens more of carefully planned crosses and tended care¬ 
fully the seedlings of last year. We shall make selections each year 
from now on from the vast number we receive from him to sort and 
finally disseminate. You can do no better than to get started NOW 
with the Scheer varieties. 
OUR ANNUAL CATALOGUE 
We have decided beginning with this year to send catalogues each 
year to only those who have purchased stock from us within the P^st 
two years or who request a copy. Therefore v/e suggest you 
a copy or to be sure of getting the book each year it would be better 
to send us an order of some size each year. We shall^ appreciate t is 
a lot as it lets us know you are still interested in g.ads. 
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