THE FLOWER BOOK 1 
Foreward 
On the following pages you will find listed 
the products of our Gardens. It is our aim to produce 
the best possible in flowers, plants, bulbs, roots, 
and decorativess; not enly healthy and well grow, but 
alse the best varieties. Of some of cur flowers 
there are many hundreds of varieties. Out of this 
maze we have chosen those we censider the better ones 
in an endeavor to keep our lists narrowed to a 
serviceable yet representative lot of varieties. It 
is our aim also, to seek continually new varieties and 
to provide them as soon as their worth has been detere 
minede 
‘We might mention. here several of the new. 
things we have secured during the last two or three 
yearse In Delphiniums, the new "Pacific" Als-Double 
strain was a great advance in that stately flowere 
Aguilegia listed is the finest grown of the long 
spurred strains. In Daisies there has been a definite 
achievemente-The All-Double-and the Chiffon. In 
Irises, the recent great development has brought that 
flower te the fore. Our lists comprise the outstand- 
ing varieties in that development-=-tall bearded, dwarf, 
fall blooming, and Japanese. New Gladiolus and Roses, 
‘are being registered each year with the fenerel trend 
toward betterment. Thus threugheut the list the. better 
and newer varieties are presented. 

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Descriptions in a catalog of this character 
are necessarily brief, but we invite you to visit our 
gardens to see the flowers, which is a very. good way 
to select varieties for your own garden..~The panorama 
of flowers commences with Deffedils, the earliest ones 
eften pearing through the snows of late April. Then 
Tulips and Irises, and in June, a great profusion of 
blooms. including Peonies, Day Lilies, Oriental Poppies, 
