OUR AIM 
We believe we are doing the largest job of hybridization ever at- 
tempted on Lilium Speciosum with Japonicum, Auratum, Rubellum 
and many other varieties and a lot of crossing on Henryii, Umbellatum, 
Parryi, Wilmottiae, Princeps-Sulphurgale, Rubellum, Japonicum, 
Auratum and with Longiflorum types Croft included. In the future 
of these crosses we see a 7-months cut flower season from the field 
in a wide range of lily flower types and colors and many valuable 
pot types that will force in as little as 30 days on the bench at 50 
degrees. You might figure what it would save the greenhouse indus- 
try to cut down by half the time required to force their crops of Easter 
lilies, fuel, labor, light and rush during or just after the Christmas 
holiday in potting. We think it is worth the effort and every dollar 
we can spare is going back into this project. Of course, in the mean- 
time we are supporting this work with the growing of the best Croft 
lilies that time and experience can produce. Your early order for 
your next fall’s requirements of Croft lilies both for cut flowers and 
pot plants assures you a supply of the finest forcing lilies to date 
and gives you an opportunity to help us make lilies to force in as 
little as 30 days. May we have the pleasure of serving you direct 
_where your dollars help you more? _ 
BEGONIAS 
In the past several years we have been doing quite a bit of hybri- 
dizing on begonias—intercrossing between Rex and Fibrous, Rex 
and Tuberous, etc. We are offering the results of some of our work 
in the following collections. If you do not find the variety listed in 
which you are interested please write for prices on that specific 
variety. On some of our more recent introductions we do not have 
stock in large quantities, but can propagate on order. In ordering 
from the following list please give your preference and we will follow 
it as nearly as possible. 
REX BEGONIAS—Splenadid assortment of highly colored and spiral 
varieties. Flat grown plants 3 to 4 inch pot size, 10 labelled varieties, 
many our own introductions, $20.00 per 100; 50 at 100 rate; $17.50 
per 100 in lots of 500 and cver. F. O. B. Harbor, Oregon. 25 piants 
$7.50 prepaid parcel post. . 
We have a strain of SMALL LHAVED HYBRID REX BEGONIAS 
that are more difficult to propagate than the regular Rexes and they 
are so brightly colored that we thought the florists would be inter- 
ested in them. We will have them in rather limited quantities until 
November, 1948, then again in early summer, 1949. They include 
the following: Baby Rainbow, Peacock, Our Indian, Calico. 
These are flat-grown, 3-inch pot size plants. $50.00 per 100; 50 at 
100-rate. F. O. .B. Harbor; 25 shipped parcel post prepaid, $15.00. 
FIBOUS BEGONIAS—10 labeled varieties all different of the 
more easily grown Fibrous Begonias, $20.00 per 100. This collection 
will include plants of our choice from the following list: 
Tea Rose, OADI, 101, Snowblush, Baby Pink, Glaucophylla Scan 
dens, Glabra, Manda’s Wooly Bear, Odorata Alba, Geneva Schalet 
Beauty, Dichroa x Glaucophylla Scandens, and others. 
We are listing the harder to propagate Fibrous Begonias at $25.00 
per 100; chosen from the following. 
