
Greetings: 
We appreciate this opportunity of presenting our 1948 catalog which commemorates our 21st year in the 
bulb business. You will find herein a splendid collection of bulbs for your gardening pleasure. The 
varieties have been chosen with great care and the knowledge gained by over 21 years of growing bulbs 
—an intimate knowledge of bulbs which only long experience of growing, grading, packaging, and 
shipping can give. Our constant endeavor is to supply bulbs of which we can be proud and which will 
produce the best possible results in your garden. That we are successful in this effort is shown by the 
large number of gardening friends that our bulbs have made for us through the years. 
We hope that we may have an opportunity to help make your spring garden brighter and more 
beautiful. Making a little of the world brighter and more beautiful—that, we feel, makes our 
business worth while. 














































KING ALFRED 
The King Alfred Daf- 
fodils I got from you 
last fall (jumbo size), 
were excellent—aver- 
aged 4 blooms per 
bulb. The Narcissi- 
Datfodil assortment 
was beautiful—every 
one bloomeé, and 
such beauties! 
Mrs CAB 
Hay, Wash. 
CONLEY’S BLOSSOM FARM 
Pat and Lola Conley 
King Alfred Daffodil 
Occasionally there is developed a variety that is so outstanding in quality 
that it becomes the standard by which all others are judged. Such a variety 
is King Alfred. It is grown more than all other daffodils together and 
each year millions of the flowers go from the fields and greenhouses to 
the cut-flower markets. The flowers are of good size and of such good 
quality that they last unusually well both on the plant and when cut. The 
stems are tall and strong, holding the blossoms erect in almost any 
weather. The large firm bulbs are disease resistant and increase rapidly. 
We grow many acres of this variety and that gives an opportunity to care- 
fully choose the select bulbs that we ship to you. We doubt if you can 
get better King Alfred bulbs anywhere. 
JUMBO MOTHER BULBS. This is the largest and finest grade obtainable. 
Especially selected from the hundreds of thousands of bulbs we grow. 
Each bulb will produce three to five blossoms the first spring. 
3 for 70c, 12 for $2.50, 100 for $18.75 
LARGE DOUBLE NOSE GRADE. Each nose will produce a flower so you 
get two flowers from each bulb. These are beautiful, smooth, firm bulbs, 
carefully selected. 3 for 50c, 12 for $1.80, 100 for $13.50 
LARGE ROUND GRADE. Firm round bulbs that will give one bloom next 
spring but what a wonderful large flower it will be! This is the type of bulb 
to plant if you want to leave them without digging as long as possible. 
3 for 40c, 12 for $1.40, 100 for $10.50 
NO. 2 DOUBLE NOSE GRADE. These are bulbs that because of size may 
not be put in the Large Double Nose Grade. Otherwise they are perfect— 
clean and firm—and measure over six inches around. They may all make 
two blooms the first season but we only claim they will produce 18 flowers 
per dozen bulbs. 12 for $1.00, 100 for $7.75 
King Alfred Planting Stock 
These are the small bulbs that are planted in the 
fields to produce the big bulbs for the following 
years. Ordinarily we do not offer such bulbs for 
sale but this year our crop is so large that we are 
setting aside a limited quantity for our customers. 
This is a wonderful opportunity to develop a plant- 
ing of King Alfreds so that you can have hundreds 
of flowers for your own use or for sale. Orders for 
this stock should be placed as early as possible as 
most of our bulbs are planted by the middle of 
September. No orders will be accepted after Oct. 
1. Not less than 10 pounds so!d. The size of the 
bulbs vary considerably but they will average 
around 10 bulbs per pound. Many of the bulbs will 
bloom the first season. All of them should give 
good big flowers the second season. 
12 Ibs., $5.00; 30 Ibs., $10.00; 100 Ibs., $30.00 
These prices for planting stock are not postpaid. 
Shipment is usually best made by express collect. 

INDEX 












Anemones ......... Erythroniums ..... 28 Muscari.:4s6eeeer 26 
Baby Gladioli ...... 24 Freesias jis a-0e eee 29 INarcissi \.i- eee 2-12 
Brodiaeas) 52.2 e050 28 Eritillaria yee ne 26 Ranuneuli 222.2. 29 
Chionodoxa ........ 26 Galanthus)> 2s5e. 48 26 Scillas. |. 3 2ncereees 27 
Calochorti 22. 5,..-5. 28 Hyacmthsmree see 13 Sparaxis, Vie aeaouee 29 
Crocus Pye eee 27 Ixolirion osc cee 25 Terms. 2... canes 31 
Dattodilsy so eee 2-12 Weucojunine eee 26 Trilliums =. 5.75 28 
Dutch Wises eee. 24 Lilies. iis. oe ee s0=54 Triteleia’ 5.2 co4asee 25 
ETraAnthis Mee oe ee ne 26 Mertensias ....2... 28 Tulips: 22... ee 14-23 

