EXQUISITE MINIATURE BULBS 
CORMS and TUBERS 
TTD BRAS Ray, 
RECEIVED 
% SEP26 1952 
U.S. 
Alexander Inuing Heimlich 
Welurm Massachusetts 
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We take this opportunity to thank our many thousands of gardening 
friends for their very fine letters of appreciation that we have received during 
the past year. If what we had to offer pleased you to this extent, we know 
that the many new exquisite beauties that we are listing this year will thrill 
you that much more. Our bulb expert, Mr. Jean Thibodeau, has left no stone 
unturned to present to you in these pages not only the finest top sized bulbs 
available on the American market today, but the widest assortment that can 
be procured anywhere. 
At the New England Spring Flower Show this year, we were awarded the 
President’s Cup, a gold medal, and on the lower floor, a silver medal for the 
most extensive assortment of these bulbs ever shown in New England. In 
these gardens, as well as in our feature display in Washington, D. C., we 
showed approximately two hundred and fifty species and varieties of miniature 
narcissi, tulips, crocus, dwarf iris, etc. 
To grow hardy bulbs with success does not necessitate a wide knowledge 
of them, once their general requirements, which are very few, are understood. 
The most essential requirement is proper drainage of the ground in which 
they are planted. Failure to adhere to this principle usually leads to disaster. 
This can be confirmed by observing that all bulbs in general growing in their 
native habitat, are in well drained ground. Most of the bulbs we are offering 
require a well drained soil, and a well drained soil includes a good shovel 
full of builder’s sand spaded into the area in which you intend to plant your 
bulbs. The ratio, therefore, is two parts loam to one part sand. 
A little bone meal, mixed well below the bulbs, is the only safe fertilizer 
to be used at planting time. We recommend no other fertilizer. In order 
to preserve the bulbs, it is advisable to remove the seed pods that form after 
flowering, especially so in the species of tulips. 
It is our desire that you succeed with the bulbs we are offering. We have 
noted the planting depth, and have made special notes where required. This 
should help the amateur a great deal. 
