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Fal 
AINERS 
es: -DISCARDS 
Diet to the fact ae a new Bapafidation of daffodils is being prepared by 
~ the Royal. Horticultural Society, which will be used for the first time in 
1950, we decided not to print a catalog this year but to prepare a better 
| and more complete and up: -to-date book for the 1950 season. We still have 
a few copies of our 1947 book available on request, but hope that our cus- 
tomers will save their present copy and use it. New prices on all novelties 
on pages 29 to 32 of this list.- 
~ After years of experimentation with new and light-weight shipping con- 
tainers, we have found one that appears to be the answer to all our problems. 
_ We have given some eight thousand of these containers a most severe trial 
during the 1948 shipping season and in only a very few instances have they 
fallen short of owr expectations. Each case of failure has been investigated 
by us and we believe that proper remedies have been found. As a matter 
of fact, losses due to collapse or breakage of the containers were less in 
~ 1948 than in any previous year when wooden crates exclusively were used. 
-Made.up out of heavy gauge fibreboard and wooden, slotted ends into which 
the fibreboard is stapled, the new containers weigh ten pounds less than 
wooden crates of comparable size: This saving in weight already means a 
considerable reduction in freight and forwarding bills. There are other no 
~ less important savings, however, in the greater ease with which these new 
containers can be handled in your warehouse or store. Many of our custom- 
ers have written to us to tell us that the attractively printed and decorated 
containers have been an important aid in their fall bulb sales campaign. 
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Every year, during the flowering season, we score all our varieties. Again 
at harvest time we check on quality and performance and all varieties that 
are not sufficiently outstanding are discarded. This fall, with ample stocks 
on hand of all outstanding varieties, we decided that the time had come to 
review once more our entire collection. After careful checking on perform- 
ance and on the demand for these varieties, we decided to add some 116 of 
them to our choice mixtures. This wholesale reduction in our collection 
involves but few varieties of commercial value. All dealers will do well, 
- however, to check their current listing of daffodils against ours. While we 
regret the reduction in the number of varieties of daffodils offered, we should 
‘point out that of many varieties. we have carried stock for twenty years 
without a single sale and while the esthetic rewards of growing these beau- 7 
- tiful flowers are substantial, they do not provide a sufficiently strong financial Beer 
_ basis for their maintenance. 
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