2 KAY!I.OR NURSERIES, LAKEWOOD, WASH. 

God Bye, 1945 
And we are surely glad to see you go. 
Hate to knock anyone, but in almost fifty 
years of residence on Puget Sound you 
were the most disagreeable season we 
have seen—you were all wet so far as we 
are concerned. 
Rain in the spring delayed planting. 
Rain through May, June and July maae 
cultivating hard and damaged many cut 
flowers. Then in late September and early 
October we had a dry spell and the Glad 
bulbs came out of the land so fast they 
are still somewhat pale from the expe- 
rience. That is what we want, nice bright 
clean bulbs. Rain resulted in a good 
crop but large bulbs are very scarce. 
In greeting 1949 we hope it will be 
more considerate of the feelings of all 
of us. 
This year we are introducing two new 
Glads of our own originating. They have 
been tested both here and in hotter cli- 
mates for several years and have met a 
warm reception. 
Heavy demand for Helleborus Niger, 
Christmas Rose, forced us to remove 
these plants from sale last year so that 
stocks might be built up. This fine win- 
ter bloomer is back again, but as stocks 
are limited, please order early. 
Here’s hoping that those of you who 
can will visit us this year and that all of 
us will have better gardens than we had 
last year. We are always glad to help in 
any way we can and wish to thank all 
of you for past orders and other favors. 
KAYLOR NURSERIES 
Floyd C. Kaylor 
Mertie L. Kaylor. 
Kaylor’s New Double Painted 
Daisies 
About twenty years ago, when this nur- 
sery was located near a cemetery, we 
faced the problem of supplying large 
numbers of cut flowers for the Decoration 
Day observance. Because peonies were 
uncertain as to blooming dates, and ex- 
pensive to grow, we turned to Pyrethrums 
—Painted Daisies-——as plants that would 
give us large numbers of long stemmed 
colorful flowers from a small plot of 
land. 
Thousands of seedlings were grown 
and bloomed. From these the very few 
that came double were saved and car- 
ried on. Out of these were later selected 
those possessing the quality we wanted. 
Over the years these have been built into 
stocks of sufficient size to justify offer- 
ing plants to other gardeners. To meet 
our requirements the flowers must be ful- 
ly double, have long stems with a 
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great number produced by every plant 
and the colors must be bright and at- 
tractive. 
Experimental work has been continued 
over the years and other varieties have 
been added to the original four with 
which we started. They have been tested 
in many parts of the country and have 
proven themselves to be good. The orig- 
inal four, of which we now have good 
stocks, are: 
Purity. Clear white with center feath- 
ered petals tinted cream. 
Phyllis. Two tones of pink, the high 
crowned center having some cream pink. 
Pauline. Not quite so large as the oth- 
ers but a high crowned flower in a me- 
dium shade of red and the earliest of 
the lot. 
Phillip. Larger than Pauline, deeper 
red with the center petals tipped golden. 
The above varieties sell at 60 cents per 
plant or any four at $2.25. 
Among the more recently developed va- 
rieties are the three listed below. We 
have very limited stocks of these. They 
sell at $1.25 each, or any three for $3.00. 
They are higher priced than the first four 
because stocks are limited. 
Snowball. Larger than Purity and snow 
white clear to the center. 
Cynthia. Possibly a little larger than 
Snowball in a solid dark red color. 
_ Caroline. Beautiful deep pink of large 
size. 
Pyrethrums are easy to grow. Just start 
with good strong plants in a well drained 
soil that has plenty of fertility, sunlight 
and moisture. Put the roots deep down 
in the soil. Plants may be moved early 
in the spring, just after blooming in 
May and June and in the fall. We prefer 
June planting as this gives the plants 
a chance to get well set before freezing 
weather comes with the chance of heav- 
ing. Spring planting is fine if it can be 
done very early, but sometimes the flow- 
ers will be single the first blooming af- 
ter moving. 
Our experience shows that divisions 
from strong mother plants give better re- 
sults than do single plants. Divisions 
seem to take hold of the soil easier and 
quicker. We supply both kinds of plants 
and if orders are received too late for 
spring planting, they will be sent along 
in June. Keep the new plants well wa- 
tered and they will provide you with bou- 
quets of long stemmed, fully double 
flowers at a season when they are most 
needed. Cut off after blooming and get 
a small crop of flowers in the fall. 
