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SIZES OF 
BULBS 
These cuts show the 
Standard sizes of bulbs. 
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larger than the cut 
they are usually called 
jumbos. Many people 
think they have to 
have a large bulb to 
produce good bloom 
but this is all wrong. 
No 2 Many think that the 
3 large overgrown bulbs, 
often sold by chain 
stores, are the best. 
The fact is that often these large 
bulbs have been discarded by growers 
as being past their prime and have 
been sold out at a low price to the 
chains. 
The growers generally consider a 
bulb at its best when not over two 
years old from bulblets, that is when 
they make their greatest increase in 
bulblets and usually give a_ better 
spike of bloom. 
In some varieties many times a 
medium size bulb will produce about 
as good a spike of bloom as a large 
bulb and often better if the large 
bulb is old. In my own fields I plant 
almost entirely small bulbs with some 
No. 4’s. This is so as to have bulbs not over two 
years old to sell to my customers. 
Bulbs sold at retail are sold as large, med:um 
and small, The large may be either 1’s or 2’s, 
and medium either 3’s or 4’s, and small either 
5’s or 6’s. The sizes don’t always run just the 
same as it depends upon the variety and the 
stock available. 
In bulblets we usually give the largest we 
can. But some varieties just naturally produce 
only small ones and in cases of this sort we can’t 



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One of the most successful commercial growers I know, when he buys bulblets by the 
quart always wants the smallest ones he can get so he can get more to the quart and if there 
is a live kernel in the bulblet he will make it grow. 

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“lam very happy indeed to advise you that | was the winner of thirteen ribbons out of the 
iwenty offered and also the Grand Champ winner of group number two. 
| will further advise that all spikes entered by me came from bulbs purchased from the CHAM- 
PLAIN VIEW GARDENS.” 
—J. Cain Lee Sr., S$. C 
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