Greetings Friends! 
We at Wilshire Gardens are happy to have the oppor- 
tunity once a year to send you a special message. We 
receive so many kind letters and cards from friends 
and customers asking us for special information, 
sending us pictures of their gardens, pratsing our 
bulbs, thanking us for an extra bulb we have tucked in 
—and this is the only way we are able to reply to 
many of these letters. Keep right on sending them. 
You do not know how much we enjoy hearing from 
you and how much we would like to answer each 
one. It makes us feel as though we have personal 
friends all over this country of ours and as though 
we would like to look in on your gardens now and 
then to see how things are coming along. 
Og 
x 
AND A BIT OF NEWS—and GOOD NEWS! 
PRICES ARE DOWN on most varieties of bulbs. You 
who have been waiting for Tunis and Mrs. R. O. 
Backhouse, for Beersheba and Fortune, and others 
of the finer varieties of Daffodils will feel that you 
need wait no longer for the prices are down even 
lower than pre-war level. 
You will find a number of new varieties of bulbs in 
our catalog this year. Outstanding among these are 
Mrs. John Bodger, one of the newer white Daffodils, 
Hades, an outstanding Red-Cup, and Royal Sovereign, 
a very lovely semi-double. In the Tulip list are sev- © 
eral new Parrots, and in the Lilies specially selected 
strains of Candidum, Centifolium, Umbellatum, Hen- 
ryt, and the Pink Trumpet variety, from one of the 
outstanding Lily hybridists of the Northwest. Any or 
all of these varieties are worthy of a spot in your 
gardens. 

For Our 
SPECIAL OFFERINGS OF 
Polly 
HOLLY WREATHS AND CHRISTMAS GREENS 
for the 1947 Holiday Season 
See Our 
SPECIAL HOLLY ORDER BLANK 
Between Pages 12 and 13 

2 WILSHIRE GARDENS 
