Suggestions and an Invitation 
MAYFAIR GARDENS 
It is just as true about bulbs as anything else—that the purchaser 
gets just what he pays for. There are all sorts of sizes and grades 
in the bulbs and it is not enough to consider merely a quoted 
price; the gardener should depend on the reliability of the dealer 
and judge bulbs solely by the results under proper culture. 
Any bulb, newly purchased from any dealer at any price, will 
bloom the first year. Top-size Tulip bulbs alone will produce a 
top-size flower, however, and just what is a top-size Tulip bulb 
depends largely on the variety, some sorts producing much larger 
bulbs than others. A top-size Daffodil bulb, which is generally 
known in the trade as a double-nose mother bulb, should give from 
two to five flowers the first year, the number depending wholly 
on the variety. Second-size, known as round bulbs, will seldom 
give more than one flower the first year. 
Only one grade of bulbs is offered in the lists that follow, except 
where smaller sizes are specified. We sell only the largest and 
soundest bulbs obtainable and for these we pay a price slightly 
more than that for which first-size bulbs may be obtained. 
For nearly forty years Mr. Hunt has made the Spring Bulbs his 
hobby, and he still retains a great deal of the amateur’s attitude. 
The accumulated experience of forty years is always at the disposal 
of his customers. To have seen and grown and flowered thousands 
of varieties, to have studied countless novelties, to have satisfied 
exacting gardeners over this long period is an achievement that 
gives a comforting sensation of well-doing. All this assures his 
customers that they will receive the best bulbs grown in Holland, 
that they will be told just what is good and what is inferior, and 
that his list of varieties is chosen not in a wholly commercial 
method but with the intent to offer the choicest things whether 
they be old or new. 
It is a special feature of this catalogue that the selection of varie¬ 
ties is the most comprehensive of all American lists. To offer the 
gardening public as wide a choice of Spring Bulbs as is possible 
to provide has always been a part of the service Mayfair has given, 
and the lists of varieties are complete and afford ample material 
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