GREETINGS 
At first I thought 1 wouldn’t issue a catalogue this year 
as there 1s a scarcity of bulbs and no doubt I can sell most of 
my stock from just a cheap circular. However on second 
thought I realized that as I have issued a catalogue for many 
years and have many thousands of customers that I owed 
them a responsibility and that most of them would be look- 
ing forward to my regular ee So I decided to put 
one out. 
However due to war time conditions to save paper etc., 
I have had to curtail the size of the catalogue and leave out 
some features that I think have been of help to my customers 
in the past. 
As stated in the above there is a great scarcity of bulbs 
this year and very heavy demand and I am gust as short of 
help this year as last. Last season I thought we never would 
get our orders all out. But this year we are working very 
long hours and will do our best to get orders out on time. We 
cannot guarantee to ship them on any Bee date but will do 
the best we can. 
For one reason or another we have had to discontinue 
some varieties. Some of these are omitted just for a year or 
two to enable us to increase stock. Others are dropped perma- 
nently because other better ones are coming along. Then some- 
times we drop a variety because the stock gets mixed or the 
bulbs go bad or for some other reason. Also we are growing 
less of the odd kinds and varieties that are suitable only for 
the home garden and specializing more in the better varieties 
that will be in demand for commercial purposes and show 
flowers. Of course these are all suitable for the home garden 
also. 
Here’s hoping the weather will be perfect this coming 
season and that you will have the best garden ever. 
Glad-ly yours, 
Elmer Gove 
Apostle of Beauty 
