INTRODUCTORY 
With no help available coupled with the latest and 
worst planting spring of our experience, we are won- 
dering why we are issuing a list at all this year. Might 
I suggest it is more of a spasm than a list. Just don’t 
want to be a quitter ’sall. Most of the trays in our bulb 
house are loafin’ and the rest look lonesome. 
A salute to our fine customers who have stuck by us 
in the past and kept us in the running, and we hope 
many new customers will pal up this year. 
We do not wish to disappoint our customers to 
whom we are so sincerely thankful, but we do honestly 
urge that they send their orders early to avoid disap- 
pointment as a perusal of this list will assure you how 
scarce most all of our varieties are. 
Our extensive hybridizing operations under present 
world conditions decree that our large number of 
promising seedlings on test be kept moving at the 
expense of larger stocks of our named varieties. 
We herein give blooming dates as near as possible 
from an average of years for us, also year of introduc- 
tion, just after each variety name. 
Customers will note we are unable to cut prices this 
year with such a small stock of most every variety 
listed except a few of the higher priced 1943 introduc- 
tions on which we reduced prices in accordance with 
available stock. 
After all, we are originators and introducers of our 
own varieties only and will endeavor to have a good 
stock of all our 1945 releases. We have several fine 
seedlings with stock enough to introduce this year but 
preter to greatly increase the stock of each and intro- 
duce in 1945. One of these being the large informal 
champion seedling at W. Va., 1942, with a three spike 
score of 89 at Ohio State, 1943. All who have seen it 
declare it the finest Wilson origination to date. We 
hope to shove it and several other top seedlings around 
the circuit next show season. 
With a shortage of bulbs everywhere and from the 
early volume of inquiries coming in, we anticipate a 
sell out this year and if such is the case, our stock of 
present varieties will be still smaller in 1945. 
As we are cutting down on the size of our list this 
year we are not going into fullest details on descrip- 
tions and with many show reports not in yet we do 
not have the complete winnings of all our varieties 
for 1943, 
