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TULIPS 
PEONIES ❖ NARCISSI 
ANNUAL CATALOG 
Autumn 1938—Spring and Summer 1939 
ORONOGO FLOWER 
GARDENS 
CARTE R V I L L E, MO. 
BENJAMIN C. AUTEN 
Terms: Cash with order. No charge for packing. 
Goods offered subject to previous sale. All prices include 
delivery by mail or express, except as noted. 
Bulbs shipped on receipt of order, plants in regular 
routine of digging and shipping. Bulbs and plants usually 
not shipped together, nor at the same time. 
No guarantee goes with my bulbs or plants, as I 
have no control of them or of their conditions after they 
leave my hands; but I take extreme pains to have them 
true to name, and it is on them I depend for future 
business. 
My own growing only. This catalogue lists my en¬ 
tire line. I do not issue a separate spring list. 
Order early and plant early, while the bulbs are 
still fresh and solid. 
Every plant and bulb in this catalogue is for out¬ 
door planting before winter, but some of the varieties 
are adapted also to indoor growing. Though outdoor 
planting can be done at any time until winter closes 
down, the ideal time is just when the summer heat and 
drouth are broken. Potting in soil for indoors should be 
done as soon as the weather is cool enough that the 
potted bulbs can have a storage temperature of 50 de¬ 
grees or lower. The starting of bulbs in water may be 
delayed another month. 
Any soil that is right for potatoes and onions is 
right for anything in this catalogue. 
N. B.—Missouri customers will please add two pe*; 
cent to the amount of the order, on account of the state \ 
