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MY STOCK OF BULBS 
This year my bulbs as a whole are the nicest and cleanest I have had in years. Thanks 
to a good growing season and dry weather at digging time. Also I dipped my bulbs in NEW 
IMPROVED CERESAN. This is considered one of the best preparations to dip bulbs in to 
help prevent disease. It will not kill thrips so you have to get rid of them in some other 
way. But Ceresan is worth trying. It is not easily obtainable but I think some of the large 
seed houses have it. 
Last year due to bad weather at digging time and difficulties in getting the bulbs cured 
some varieties that are inclined to be weak were not quite so good as they should have been. 
But this year most everything is nice and clean. 
THRIPS 
Thrips are a small insect that dries up the buds of glads so that they don’t open properly. 
It has done lots of damage around the country but it is something that can be easily avoided 
simply by carefully disinfecting the bulbs and spraying afterwards. This is fully explained 
in my growing instruction sheet which goes with every order. WHEN YOUR PLANTS 
GROW NORMALLY BUT THE BUDS TURN BROWNISH AND DRY UP AND THE 
BLOOMS DON’T OPEN PROPERLY YOU MAY KNOW THE TROUBLE IS THRIPS. 
DELBETAR 
Delbetar is one of the best disinfectants and fungicides I have found. I do not handle this 
myself but suggest that you send to the manufacturer direct, for Delbetar or for a circular 
about it. Send to the 
Beckwith Gardens, North Street, Manchester Center, Vermont. 
Do not send to me as I do not handle it. 
Thanks to your boost for Delbetar I used it this year and have been well satisfied with it. I 
had some Tartar Emetic and used that on one block. Both sprays gave 100% control but DEL- 
BETAR I prefer because I could use tt when the buds were in color and also it ts a general all- 
garden spray. I had been discouraged with delphinium and dumped the residue of the Delbetar 
after dipping glad bulbs on the crowns of the delphs and had clean spikes for the first time in 
several years. 
JAM trASH BR ay 
NAPTHALENE FLAKES 
If you have thrips on your bulbs you can very easily clean them by using Napthalene 
on them. Just scatter the flakes over the bulbs and put a paper over them to confine the 
fumes or put them in a bag with Napthalene and tie it tightly leaving them in a fairly warm 
place for three weeks or more and there will be no more thrips. 
However don’t use them after March when the root nodules begin to swell as it will 
hurt them. But early in the season it is alright to use and a sure cure. 
Package of nearly 2 lbs. enuf for 2000 or more bulbs. Postpaid for 75 cents. 
“COMMANDO and SEEDLING 37272 (KESTREL) were truly magnificent.” 
—E. H. Verner, Calif. 
“The glad season is over here in Pennsylvania but | sure had some fine blooms from your bulbs 
that | have bought the past few years. —Verne Phillippi, Pa. 
“Last year you sent me MALTA as an extra. | have never seen such a fall, straight and large 
flowering glad. It was perfect.” —Mrrs. |. B. Leverson, Minn. 
“Of the newer ones, for me, secured from you last season, OPHIR, DR. WHITELEY, HIGH 
FINANCE and OGARITA all did remarkably well.”’ Rep Loomis, Washington. 
“BLESSED DAMOSEL was a dandy.”’ —J. T. Robertson, Washington. 
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