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We guarantee the greatest of care in filling orders, and gladly rectify 
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’ to arrive in good condition. We personally check and pack every order, 
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Be ORIENTAL POPPIES 
We have the honor to be a member of the National Oriental Poppy Committee, 
organized in 1932, for the classification and scoring of named Oriental Poppies. 
_ The original committee consisted of.the late Dr. J. H. Neeley, for many years the 
peer of American poppy hybridizers, Mr. Karl K. Lorenz and Mr. John D. Sieben- 
thaler, of Dayton, Ohio, and the writer. 
Since the recent organization of theAmerican Oriental Poppy Society, the 
committee has been termed The Research Committee of the American Oriental 
Poppy Society, and at present consists of Roy V. Ashley, Battle Creek, Michigan; 
Floyd Bass, New Augusta, Indiana; H. T. Beckmann, Van Wert, Ohio; Roy M. 
Burke, Paulding, Ohio; A. E. Curtis, Cincinnati, Ohio; Earl Jordan, Ashland, 
Ohio; L. W. Knapp, Zionsville, Indiana; Karl K. Lorenz, Dayton, Ohio; and John 
D. Siebenthaler, Dayton, Ohio. 
Membership in the American Oriental Poppy Society may be had by sending 
$2.00 to the secretary, J. Earle Smith, 541 North 7th Street, DeKalb, Illinois. 
Membership entitles one to the bulletins of the Society, including the recently 
issued “Check List of Oriental Poppies’ compiled by the Research Committee, 
- which alone sells for $1.00. : 
The Check List gives a list of named Oriental Poppies, complete so far as the 
committee has definite information, names of originators and dates of introduc- 
tion, together with color and other characteristics, and is a very valuable reference 
for anyone interested _in this most striking flower of the June garden —the 
Oriental Poppy. 
We believe that the vogue of the Oriental Poppy is just beginning; that when 
its ease of culture, its wide color range and striking charm are better appreciated, 
the demand will far exceed the supply. We believe that our collection of more 
than 225 named varieties of Oriental Poppies is the largest in this country. 
Plant Oriental Poppies in your garden and enjoy a thrill that, perhaps, you 
have never before experienced. 
“For dazzling barbaric splendor, the great Oriental Poppies are absolutely 
ORIENTAL POPPIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM, by Roy V. 
Ashley. This is an 8-page leaflet, well illustrated, No. GF 1, published by 
Better Homes and Gardens, Des Moines, Iowa, or may be ordered from 
us. Price 6c. Their ‘Gardening Guide’ for 1940 contains the gist of 
this article but in error credits it to another author. 

