Make Your Garden A Joy Forever 
Folks who build flower gardens and wish such spots to fulfil the ideal of 
“a thing of beauty and a joy forever” must obey Mother Nature’s natural law of 
compensation. To obtain benefits things of value like plants, seeds, bulbs, and 
labor must be put into the soil. However successful balayhoo and fakery may 
be in the man-made business world, they fail utterly when asked to produce 
dividends in the garden. 
We plead guilty to getting cut our catalogs as economically as possible; 1 
also to trying to keep ballayhoo out of them, the saving 'is passed on in lower 
prices. Please remember our descriptions of varieties are based on their oerfor- 
mance under Puget Sound climatic and soil conditions. We do not over fertilize 
and, so far, we have never irrigated our fields. Our stock is grown under dry 
farming methods and because of this is strong and accustomed to putting up a 
fight. Our customers find this a big factor for success. 
Every year we try out many new varieties. Every year a number of these 
are discarded because they do not measure up to the pictures and descriptions 
printed about them. We want to send out only those things we have found to 
be good and if you are not satisfied 1 when you receive the goods, send ’em back 
and get your money. That’s our only guarantee but we make it good. 
Terms of Sale—Read Before Ordering 
Unless otherwise noted we pay transportation on all orders for $1.25 or more 
to be delivered to points north and west of a line drawn from San Francisco 
through Salt Lake City to the northeastern corner of Montana. Customers 
living south and east of this line please add extra money to pay the extra 
transportation. Any surplus over such extra charges will be returned. If your 
order is for less than $1.25 add 25c to cover packing charges. 
Orders for glad bulbs of our own introduction (Kaylor, Miller or Johnson) 
will be prepaid to all parts of the U. S. and Canada. 
Washington customers MUST prepay sales tax. 
Remit by money order, draft or check. Cash and stamps sent at customer’s 
risk. If stamps must be sent, please send small denominations. 
Flower Garden Experience And Experiment 
During the years we have devoted to plant growing we have carried out 
many experiments and gained some little experienc.e It all adds up to some 
so-called information which we have set down on paper. Seme of it upsets 
some long-held ideas. Some of it may be cockeyed butt we will be glad to send 
a copy to everyone sending an order for $2.00 net from this catalog. Ask for 
it if you want it. 
Was He Satisfied? 
Last spring we received this letter from a customer in Seattle. 
“Having had stuff from you before and knowing what you have, I enclose 
five dollars. Send me any sort of mixture of a lot that is different. Juist 
imagine, Brother, that you are in my place once and you the buyer not me and 
I have confidence I shall be most agreeable surprised latter on.” 
In August this customer wTote: “In my sixty years of gardening I do not 
remember anytime I got the tremendious thrill out of 'growing things that I 
am now enjoying from those Gladiolis you sent me last spring. You certainly 
sent me prize numbers and I think you may expect orders from my friends next 
year. Certainly I would not think of going elsewhere myself and for such 
stock, your prices were most reasonable. I see some of those penny wise and 
pound foolish folks about. They bought penny bulbs and got what they paid for 
and no more. J. H. S. 
Millions of cut glad flowers are now being shipped north from Florida and 
cither southern states. The bulbs that produce these flowers will be harvested, 
cured and shipped north in time for sale next spring.. They are exhausted 
bulbs and will not have had any rest. They will be sold to northern customers 
in April and May at very low prices. Do you want them? J. H. S. did not 
and tells the story better than we can. 
