GREETINGS 
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Herewith our unlucky number, the thirteenth annual issue of the 
Trial Garden Report. 
We would like to invite all our readers to send their new creations 
for trial. Unless the majority are tried out in the same trial garden, 
it is impossible to make a comparison and decide which are the 
worthy varieties. Only by actual growing and comparison of results, 
can the true worth of any be determined. The show table is a fine 
place to select the better ones but has the draw back that these va- 
rieties usually were grown with special care and may be the only 
good spikes produced in a large planting. 
The value of our garden to others can be maerially improved if 
you will send your “BABIES” here for trial. You may have given 
yours many trials and judged them as being worthy additions. So far 
so good, but rather disgusting to you would be the fact that we may 
O. K. something very similar as being a fine addition to those in 
commerce or to yours Only to find what we have selected is inferior 
to your variety. You lose financially and also have the disappoint- 
ment of seeing inferior varieties spreading about. For the sake of 
your own, they should pass through the Trial Garden. 
For those who do not know us, we would like to inform you that 
-we do not sell cut flowers. Our only income is an effort to sell enough 
worthwhile varieties in bulbs, on commi.sion to HELP defray the ex- 
pense of this report. Florists were crying their eves out the past _ 
year for flowers and we could easily dispose of the cut flowers at a 
fancy price. 
OUR CUT FLOWERS go to the disabled veterans in the hospitals, 
The past season we added shipments or deliveries to Truax Field 
Hospital at Madison. These were well enough received so that Army 
trucks at times, made the 100 mile round trip to take the flowers to 
the Hospital. 
