GUIDEBOOK FOR 1950 

Reading that they had combined 23 
with 22, etc., we ran a test on Circe 
(523 in ’49 classification) on just 6 shows, 
all of them with high light reports in 
September or December Bulletins and 
we feel warranted in belief that the data 
was obtained from detailed published re- 
ports issued on those shows—Bingham- 
ton, N. Y.—Ind. State at Wabash—W. Va. 
State at Wheeling—N. W. Ohio at Toledo 
—Chagrin Falls, Ohio—Purdue, Ind. 
These are hardly insignificant parlor 
shows, arbitrarily unworthy of inclusion 
in the tabulation. 
Reporting on 45 shows, their 522 lists 
2 winners only, Atlantic at 5 and Glamor- 
ous at 4. Circe not mentioned. However, 
in reports on the 6 above named shows, 
we find that Circe was a winner in R. I. 
at Binghamton, a winner at Purdue, a 
winner in R. I. at Wabash, a winner in 
R. I. and Open at Wheeling, a winner 
at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, a winner in both 
Open and R. I. at Toledo where it was 
also sec. and division champ (Best R.I.), 
also Grand Champion. Eight firsts and 
3 special awards and not mentioned in 
the “Winning Show Varieties” tabulation. 
On Polynesie, 430, in open and R.I. 
sections we found reported 2 winners at 
Binghamton, 2 at Wheeling, 1 each at 
Toledo, Pittsburgh and Tri-State at 
Wellsville. Seven winners with none in 
the tabulation, though other varieties 
vane only 4 and 3 firsts were included. 
¢. 
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 amost 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 producer of blooms 
from the smaller sizes. 
Commercially, bulbs are graded into 
6 sizes. Size 6 is under % inch diameter 
and other sizes range up to every % inch, 
the number 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) (% to 1% 
inch); S (small) (sizes 5 and 6) (% to 
% inch) and Blts. (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. 
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TERMS OF SALE 
Cash with order. 
Delivery after April 1st (normal begin- 
ning of mild weather hereabouts) pre- 
Daldeie Ula: 
NOTE: Bulb deliveries requested and 
made before April 1st will go post paid 
or express, transportation charges Col- 
lect, at our option, governed largely by 
weather and package size. Express 
charges vary with weight of parcel and 
distance, of course, but we would esti- 
mate the average cost of the average 
parcel will be roughly around $1.00. 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 germination are not 
guaranteed. 
No substitutions will be made. 
Orders received until planting but sub- 
ject to stock being unsold. To get proper 
progagation of new sorts, it does not 
pay us to hold for further sale bulbs and 
blts priced only per each beyond May Ist. 
racy 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 
conditions, items under about 25c 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 
Apply to the Division of Plant Pro- 
tection, Science Service, Ottawa, Ontario, 
Canada for permit and mailing label, for 
bulbs and bulblets. No permit required 
for seeds. 
“While in Customs getting the lot of bulbs from 
you I met our Canadian Inspector and he told me 
that the lot I was in for (your shipment) was as 
fine a lot as he had ever examined and every corm 
a perfect one in being absolutely free from defect, 
thrips or disease of any kind. That was getting real 
value for my money, particularly in view of the fact 
that your overcount and extras more than made % 
for the exchange, duty and express incurred.’ 
J. W. McL., Ottawa, Ont. 
