INTRODUCTORY 
Common sense told us not to get out a list this year, 
but something dumb inside gave us a shove. 
We do not have as many customers as most growers 
but more than we can handle with George doing all 
the work in all departments except some digging and 
cleaning. 
Nineteen hundred and forty-four was the worst 
planting and growing season seen, read or heard of 
before, but this past season was simply Murder, Inc., 
with the wettest, muddiest, frozenest digging season 
this side of there. A dry, cool summer, following up 
a very late, wet spring. Our plantings too late to catch 
shows except for the Ohio State second show held at 
the Herbert O. Evans farm on September 9th. By the 
way, here’s one place to go if you want to see plenty 
of top spikes and get mixed up with tons of good 
eats. 
Sales were extra good last winter and we sold way 
too deep into our own planting reserve in almost all 
varieties. With the late spring most of our bulblet 
plantings were caught in the dry spell before they had 
time to germinate. However, they did germinate 
after the September 8th rains started, but were too 
small to bother digging, consequently making us very 
short on small sizes. All summed up, two seasons in 
a row that could easily be twins. 
Please believe us when we say that our 1946 stock 
is very small, insufhcient for our retail needs, with 
nothing to wholesale. Early orders may secure your 
needs complete. 
Only a small portion of our four 1946 releases were 
planted in 1945—this also applies to 1944 planting— 
as with almost everything else, including seedlings 
on test. 
We grow only what you find listed here; our own 
originations. 
It 1s just possible we may be able to make a per ten 
price on a few items early in the season. Stock not 
cleaned or graded at the time of this writing, so it 
is impossible for us to name any varieties. This by 
correspondence only. 
