GUIDEBOOK FOR 1949 
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CANDID 
We ask our regular customers to read our 
variety descriptions from year to year. They 
are not static ‘‘originator’s descriptions.’’ We 
keep them up-to-the-minute in light of 
additional growing experience and _ other 
facts collected from world-wide sources. 
We are growing all of the recent Both 
varieties, including the ’48-49 as well as the 
large part of other recent Australian and New 
Zealand sorts. We do not wish to offer 
quantities too small or before our growing 
experience enables us to separate the sheep 
from the goats. 
Word does get about. Such as concerning 
the stamina of the K & M spikes we carried 
for them to the N. E. G. S. (Boston) show, 
staging a very presentable specimen display 
for them. From the F’orisis’ Exchange we 
read that it ‘“‘won the Mass. Hort. Society. 
vote of thanks and N. E. G. S. Purple 
Rosette. Of those shown Circe and Ravel 
were given M. H. S. Votes of Commendation. 
Pink Tivoli, rose purple Benjamin Britten 
and salmon Polynesie were in perfect condi- 
tion at the Show’s close.’’ In the November 
issue of far away Australian Garden Lover, 
(Australia’s foremost horticultural monthly 
magazine, Melbourne, overseas. subscription 
9/0 per year) we read several paragraphs 
devoted to this display including the sentence 
“The best endurance of any three spikes at 
Boston when the exhibition closed were 
those of Polynesie, an orange toned salmon 
with deep orange on petal borders.’ 
As orders come in we keep a running 
inventory of sales vs. stocks, in order to be 
aware when a size or a variety is sold out. 
About May 1st we abandon this safeguard 
because of press of shipping work and prepar- 
ation for our own plantings. On these late 
orders it is often difficult to know offhand if 
an item will hold out to the order number 
until reached. 
SIZE OF BULB TO BUY 
If economy be the aim, do not rely on small 
bulbs to give wholly satisfactory blooms. 
The small bulbs will all bloom but medium 
bulbs almost always give far better than 
“medium” sized spikes of the given variety. 
Our descriptions usually indicate whether or 
not the variety is an exceptionally fine pro- 
ducer of blooms from the smaller sizes. 
Commercially, bulbs are graded into 6 
sizes. Size 6 is under 14 inch diameter and 
other sizes range up every 4 inch, the num- 
ber 1 bulb being 1% inch up. Catalogs 
commonly offer bulbs as L (large) (sizes 1 and 
2) (1% inch up); M (medium) (sizes 3 and 4) 
(34 to 144 inch); S (small) (sizes 5 and 6) 
(144 to % inch) and Bits. (bulblets, the little 
hard shelled cormels which cling at the roots 
of the bulb). 
The size (bulk) of bulb you purchase 
determines the amount of food with which 
you are starting to produce a given spike. 

TERMS OF SALE 
Cash with order. 
Delivery after April 15th (normal begin- 
ning of mild weather hereabouts) prepaid in 
Uses 
NOTE: bulb deliveries requested and 
made before April 15th will go post paid or 
express, transportation charges Collect, at 
our option, governed largely by weather and 
package. size. Express charges vary with 
weight of parcel and distance, of course, but 
we would estimate the average cost of the 
average parcel will be roughly around 75c. 
If sent Express Collect we will, of course, add 
stock of value to exceed the express charges. 
Replacement or refund purchase price any 
bulb, root, plant or seed that does not prove 
true to name or does not arrive in condition 
herein represented. Bulblet and seed germina- 
tion are not guaranteed. 
No substitutions will be made. 
Orders received until planting but subject 
to stock being unsold. To get proper prop- 
agation of new sorts, it does not pay us to 
hold for further sale bulbs and blts priced 
only per each beyond May Ist. Order early. 
Our selling season is very short. 
BULBS: 6 may be ordered at 5 times 
the single price. 12 bulbs at 10 times 
single price. 25 bulbs at hundred rate 
if such is given, otherwise at twice the 
dozen rate. 
BULBLETS: Any amount at the rate 
offered. 
Please be mindful that, under present con- 
ditions, items under about 15c are filled at a 
loss. 
Delivery prepaid to foreign countries in 
the Postal Union having the usual 14c per 
pound rate, provided war restrictions of one 
kind or another does not bar such delivery 
except that purchases at 100 rate prices should 
add at rate 50c per 100 for large bulbs and 
20c per 100 for medium sized bulbs. 
Notice to Canadian Customers 
The $5.00 cash ceiling heretofore placed 
upon your import privilege has been removed. 
Apply to the Secretary of Destructive Insect 
and Pest Act Advisory Board, Dept. of Agri- 
culture, Ottawa, Ont., for permit and mailing 
label. 
