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Holloway’s Dream Garden Henry, Nebraska 




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Gage T. Holloway (1947) Henry, Nebraska 
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Give fools their gold and knaves their power; 
Let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall; 
Who sows a field or trains a flower, 
Or plants a tree, is more than all. : 
— John Greenleaf Whittier. 
Hard to believe we have been mailing out our bulb list to many of you good 
people for 12 years and it always gives us pleasure to extend greetings and all 
good wishes to those who by their many years of pleasant business relationship 
have created a bond of good feeling virtually akin to personal friendship, which 
you may be assured we value highly and consider it to be in many ways of greater 
value than the monetary considerations we receive in handling your orders. We 
regret the necessity of making our humble apology to those who kindly sent in a 
request for our list after the 1st of March the past year, and while this was much 
appreciated, it is unfortunate that these lists were exhausted at the time. Must 
have been trying to hold down expense, inflation or something; at any rate we just 
naturally failed to have sufficient copies printed and further regret the lack of 
courtesy in our failure to advise that these lists were depleted. 
“MOON SIGN BOOK” 
Valuable publication, 256 pages, annually compiled by Llewellyn Publications, 
“td. Discard your incomplete and usually inaccurate almanac and really get in 
harmony with nature—it pays. (Don’t pass this off as “Star Gazing Stuff.” Plant 
these new things at the right time and, Oh, Boy, what a garden!) No penal offense 
in a little experimenting even though ‘Radar has contacted the Moon.”: - Postpaid 
$1; supplied with bulb orders aggregating $10 or over for 75c each. age a? 1 
“BELIEVE IT, OR NOT: COLUMN” 0 ne ee 
We really stage a “Show” all our own during the blooming season.-: The un 
expected performs the ‘Leading Role” each year and here is a list of our best five 
“Grand Champs” in rotation as they have grown for us: SILVER STAR, LORD 
SELKIRK, GRAND OPERA, EGLANTINE, SPICK & SPAN. The following list — 
were virtually “Reserve Champions” and so good it would be anybody’s guess 
where they should place and while we will endeavor to list them in rotation as to 
performance, some of the last mentioned could easily be way up in front: SUM- 
MER GAL, SILVER WINGS, MARION PEARL, CONN. YANKEE, ORIENTAL 
PEARL, H. R. HANCOCK, YANKEE LASS, LEADING LADY, MYRNA FAY, AU- 
RORA, ASTRID, SALLY JANE, BIRCH RED, SUNLIGHT, ORANGE GOLD, 
FIREBRAND, SUN SPOT, LADY LUCK, DIEPPE, MADELINE BROWN, DRAG- 
ON’S BLOOD, BLACK DIAMOND, KING ALFRED, ATHLONE, RED CHARM, 
DANNY DANTON, GLEAM, GRATITUDE, SPOTLIGHT, ABU HASSEN, W. R. 
READER, DETROIT NEWS, SALMON’S GLORY, SWEET ORCHID, MISS wWIS- 
CONSIN, CALYPSO, ABIGAIL, J. V. KONYNENBURG, DAISY MAE, VERONICA 
PFEIFFER, MT. INDEX, TAHLAHNEKA, SILVERY TETON, BALLAD, NOWA- 
DAYS, LAVENDER & GOLD, OREGON RED, NORMANDY, BURMA, NEW EU- 
ROPE, FRANCIS M. IRWIN, ELIZ. THE QUEEN, ROSEA, VOODOO, IVY ROB- 
ERTSON, KENWOOD, PINK LACE, HUNTRESS, TEXAS, PINK JEWEL, and 
‘dust as well give up.” Many fine ones we have failed to recall, some of the last 
mentioned belong way up in front, the variety H. R. HANCOCK was a “knock out.” 
could easily belong with any best 10, and this also apples to PINK LACE. While 
ZACATEY is not dependable, it is our “GRAND CHAMP” about two years out of 
three and have yet to see anything more beautiful. When at its best, it will open 
10 to 12 massive perfectly placed florets and in a poor year, which applies to the 
past season, anyone’s reaction would be that this glad has reaily changed color, too 
much red in it to be attractive. Done the wrong thing if it was our wish to cease 
growing so many varieties. Planted most of our bulbs on ground we had previous. 
ly used for feeding sheep with the result that virtually everything was of show 
ealibre and would hardly know the right thing to discard. 



