FOREWORD 
Since we were able in 1946, again to take up the export of our bulbs to the United States, the 
volume of business we have done, has been regularly increasing. 
It is a very pleasant idea indeed, that the efforts we have beei: making to supply to our clients 
and friends, the best Holland produces in bulbs, have been so greatly appreciated. 
We are glad to know that in Spring many gardens allthrough the United States are a riot of color, 
through our bulbs, and we can appreciate the keen pleasure our clients feel when in Spring they 
obtain from our bulbs just the flowers they expect. For we know that the keen Amateur Gardener 
visualises the sight his garden will be in Spring, when he plants his bulbs in the Fall. We are 
keen Amateur Gardeners ourselves, besides growing bulbs commercially, and are just as enthou- 
siastic as you are, to see our bulbs bloom. 
Exporting bulbs to your country during a quarter of a century has given us a clear understanding 
of what the American Amateur Gardener wants and our position in the center of the bulb district, 
where we have been connected with bulb growing for three generations, is a guarantee that you 
receive from us bulbs, grown under ideal conditions, and packed by experienced hands. 
We shall be happy again to receive your order, which will be filled with the cream of the crop, 
true to name and with lots of vitality. 
Sincerely, 
SVEN VANZONNEVELD JOHN H. VANZONNEVELD 
American Distributor President 
From Summerfield Bulb Farms April 1950 
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% SENSATIONAL 
VAN ZONNEVELD NOVELTY |! 
This year we can offer you, and we are the first 
to do so, AMARYLLIS HIPPEASTRUM, GIANT 
DUTCH HYBRIDS, in named varieties, grown from 
offsets and therefore true to colour, specially 
prepared for flowering at Christmas. 
We deliver the bulbs to you (giants of 12 inches and 
more in circumference) towards the end of October, 
and they will come into bloom, with huge lilylike flowers, 
towards Christmas, in ordinary livingroom temperature 
(60 to 64 degr. F.) 
NO SPECIAL TREATMENT AND NO SPECIAL TRICKS 
Full cultural directions giving particulars how the 
same bulbs canbe brought into bloom several years, 
with every bulb. 
SCARLET EMPEROR, scarlet red ._ . Each $ 3.00 
ORANGE TRIUMPHATOR, orange . . , §$ 4.00 
RED MARLEY, deepred. . .. . LOU 
PINK WONDER, guaranteed pure rose »  $ 4.50 
WHITE EXQUISITE, guaranteed purewhite , $ 4.50 
Flower of Amaryllis Hippeastrum Hybride SALMON JOY, clear salmon orange » $$ 4.00 
