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THE SIOUX GARDENS 
T. E. Barber & Sons 
Grand Forks, N. Dak., U. S. A. 
The 1939 growing season surely brought out the good ones 
and cut down those not suitable for all kinds of weather 
conditions, with a severe drought the last half of July, August 
and September and with the worst infestation of grasshoppers 
during the spring and summer, the varieties that survived 
are worth having. Constant spreading of poison and over 
head irrigation pulled us through. However, if any blooms 
from our 1939 crop come out with skull and cross bones on 
them don’t be surprised as it will just be a hangover from 
the hopper poison. Next year will try and get some of j. D’s. 
poems to scatter around the patch if the hoppers come back. 
Think they will work better than poison. 
We are economizing on our list this year and expect to ; 
pass on the savings in our cash discount and extras sent gratis. 
We hope to continue with our Illustrated sheet next season 
but that will depend greatly on the response you make with 
orders this season, as we do not issue a fall special to raise 
money to finance printing and mailing of the later catalogue. 
A good growing season and many wins at the shows, and r 
may our bulbs also give you much enjoyment in your gardens , 
at home. ' 
Thanks for orders in the past and may we continue to i 
serve you this season. 
At the Minnesota show some beautiful seedlings were 
shown. Outstanding was the collection shown by Arthur; li 
Koernor of Newport, Minnesota, consisting entirely of minia- ! 
ture, many appeared to be entirely double and were arranged j 
very attractively into floral designs. He reports the demand ! 
for this type of bloom is very heavy from the florists in the 
Twin Cities. 
A spike of Lord Selkirk took honors at the Minnesota show 
in the Court of Honor class over a very mediocre entry of 
some twelve blooms. Minnesota does not award a grand 
champion picked at large from all the winners at the show 
as mony other societies do. 
At the Winnipeg show, which was bigger and better than 
ever, many good seedlings were shown but none made the high 
score that was made in '31 and ’38. 
Aladdin scored the top honors this year at Winnipeg and ^ 
was a beautiful spike. One spike of R. B. was shown that was 
late for the show. The second day It showed much better and 
in the A. O. C. I perdict a fine future for this one from 
Vancouver. 
We can recommend the Bennett originations very highly. 
Roses of Picardy, Killarney, Corinne, Glacier, Mavoureen, 
Sentinel, Lake Louise, and Victoria are all tall husky growers 
that do well under all conditions. Prince Rupert and Ramona 
have not quite the stretch as these others but are very good. 
Discounts 
Due to the loss of so much stock and everything we had 
decided to eliminate all discounts in stock this year but as 
the catalogues come in with their attractive coupons and 
discounts (some even promise up to 60 p6rcent additional 
stock on the large orders) we have decided to fall into line 
