SIZES OF 
Ko. BULBS 
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These cuts show the 
Standard sizes of bulbs. 
When No. 1’s run larger 
than the cut they are 
usually called  jumbos. 
Many people think they 
have to have a large bulb to 
produce good bloom but 
this is all wrong. Many 
think that the large over- 
grown bulbs, often sold by 
chain stores, are the best. 
The fact is that often these large bulbs have 
been discarded by growers as being past their 
prime and have been sold out at a low price 
to the chain stores. 
The growers generally consider a bulb 
at its best when not over two years old from 
bulblets, that is when they make their 
greatest increase in bulblets and usually 
give a better spike of bloom. 
In some varieties many times a medium 
size bulb will produce about as good a spike 
of bloom as a large bulb and often better 
if the large bulb is old. In my own fields I 
plant almost entirely small bulbs with some 
MEDIUM No. 4’s. This is so as to have bulbs not over 
two years old to sell to my customers. 
1 ft Bulbs sold at retail are sold as large, medium 
q Vf and small. The large may be either 1’s or 2’s, and 
“19 medium either 3’s or 4’s, and small either 5’s or 6’s. 
The sizes don’t always run just the same as it depends 
upon the variety and the stock available. 
In bulblets we usually give the largest we can. But 
some varieties just naturally produce only small ones 
and in cases of this sort we can’t furnish big ones. 
SMALL One of the most successful commercial growers I 
know, when he buys bulblets by the quart always 
wants the smallest ones he can get so he can get more to the quart and if there is a live kernel in the 
bulblet he will make it grow. 
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Extra Large Bt. Large Bt. Medium Bt. Smali Bt 
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“We have never had more beautiful glads than we are enjoying right now. Both last years and 
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