
EILEEN AND ELISE 
VISITORS ARE INVITED 
Visitors are invited to our Gardens during blooming season. 
zardens closed on Sundays. To reach our place from Portland 
go south on 99E about six miles beyond Oregon City through 
New Era. On reaching the top of the hill keyond New Era, go 
straight ahead where highway turns to right. Our place is % 
INTRODUCTION 
Again we take pleasure in greeting our customers and 
those of you who have expressed an interest in Daffodils by 
writing for our catalogue. This abbreviated catalogue will 
serve for 1947 to supplement the much more complete 1946 edi- 
tion. For more complete descriptions than are found here and 
for other information designed for Daffodil fanciers, we 
would refer you to last year’s catalogue. If you did not get 
a copy last year, we suggest you send 25c in coin for a copy 
of which we have a limited number left on hand, Our remain- 
ing supply is too limited to go around. 
We extend our thanks to you who have patronized us in the 
past and express our gratitude for the many kind letters 
which you have written us, many of which we were unable to 
answer personally. 
DAFFODILS 
Fair harbinger of spring, we wait with bated breath 
Thy coming; or, reluctantly we bide our time 
And, in our fancy, now beholding winter’s death 
See thy return with beauty’s garb sublime. 
Could but the bards of yesteryear behold 
Thy chaliced cup, or see thy glowing crown; 
Or visualize thy vivid eye or trumpet bold 
Their words would fail, however great were their renown. 
Thy beauty oft enhanced in hybridizers’ hands 
Surpasses all fantastic dreams of yore; 
But still perfection beckons onward, and 
We know not what the future holds in store. 
But though we may not fathom ever 
By what strange alchemy were these changes made. 
Yet in our gardens we may still endeavor 
To have a glorious Daffodil parade. 
—G. HE. M. 
mile from this junction. From Canby, go northeast about one 
mile under truck road overpass, turn right and keep on main © 
traveled paved road about one mile to our place. 
We still get many inquiries for Gladiolus catalogues. Our 
Glad business has been sold and you may proeure bulbs from 
Gladland Acres, Lebanon, Oregon. 
VARIETY NOTES 
Since most of you have our 1946 catalogue, which gives 
our personal comments on many of the Daffodils that we grow 
in addition to the regular descriptions, we will confine our 
remarks this time to fewer varieties, and primarily the more 
recent introductions, although of necessity, many of the most 
recent kinds must be omitted; and some of the more familiar 
varieties are so intriguing that we are prone to omit them 
from this list. The galaxy of real stars has become so exten- 
sive that no one can keep abreast of all the recent develop- 
ments. With the limited number of colors common to Daffo- 
dils, brief descriptions such as can be given in a catalogue 
will be confusing and monotonous to a beginner, and will 
fail to convey any adequate idea of distinctive characteristics 
even to a seasoned fancier, particularly so when descriptions 
are as abridged as is the case here. Most of the 1946 introduc- 
tions and some older ones have not yet bloomed in our gar- 
dens these cannot be,yconsidered here, the brief descriptions 
given elsewhere being based on those of the originators. 
We always iook forward to the blooming of the first Daffo- 
dils, of which the tiny species, minimus, generally leads the 
parade. This is followed by another species, cyclamineus, and 
some of its hybrids. The first large flowered varieties are 
yellows, usually trumpets, but Malvern Gold, a large all- 
yellow incomparabilis, is a flower of higher quality than most 
of the early trumpets. Camberwell King is one of our favor- 
ites of the somewhat later blooming yellow trumpets, and 
the newer Carisbrooke and Kingscourt seem very promising. 
With such fine deep yellow incomparabilis as Crocus, Tre- 
noon, Trojan, St. Issey and others of this type, it appeared 
that not much further work was necessary in this class, but 
now we have Galway, which is a great advance. We like it 
immensely. 
In white Daffodils there has been a constant improvement. 
In trumpets there are Broughshane and Kanchenjunga, two 
tremendous showy flowers; and Cantatrice, one of the finest 
and smoothest. We particularly like Pearl Harbor as a gar- 
den flower. And one would not want to be without Beersheba, 
which is still definitely one of the best white Daffodils. Of 
the leedsiis there are so many fine new ones that one is at a 
loss to know which to list and which to omit from a very 
limited selection. Zero, Truth, and Ludlow are three very out- 
standing representatives of this group. Other very fine ones 
include Cotterton, Evening, Slemish, and Killaloe. Then there 
are. those which are nearly white and in this group Green 
Island stands out as a inagnificent flower. Some of the older 
things such as Brunswick, Tunis, Daisy Schaffer, and Mar- 
mora, are indispensible to the Daffodil fancier. And it is to 
this group that most of the pink Daffodils belong. The small 
crowned leedsiis have amongst their number several of the 
most beautiful of all Daffodils. We cannot refrain from 
enthusing over Chinese White, Sylvia O’Neill, Foggy Dew, 
and Cushendall, to mention only a few. 
For top quality in the bi-color trumpets we would choose 
Content, Trousseau, and Trostan as representatives and 
among incomparabilis varieties Polindra, Coverack Perfec- 
tion, and Bodilly still rate high. 
There has been a great number of red cups introduced in 
the last few years and some real advancements have been 
made in this section. However, we will mention but a few, 
Krakatoa was one of the first to combine very intense red 
and yellow coloring with large size. Tamino excells in perfec- 
tion of form, Gibraltar surpasses in substance, and Bahram, 
Klingo, Narvik, Rouge, and Indian Summer are among the 
leaders in quality. 
Of those with light or white perianths, several looked very 
good to us. Among them were Limerick, Bravura, Tuskar 
Light, and several others not so new. 
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