Heiloo, Holland, January 1953. 
our eighty-third year 
W. have much pleasure in presenting you our 1953 Spring list and we do so 
with the respectful request that it may have your kind perusal. It is our pleasant 
duty to thank our many customers for their liberal and loyal patronage, we have 
been favored with last year and for the numerous letters of appriciation and reports 
we have received. 
In response to the many requests and to make our list more complete, we offer 
in this publication a wide range of the best Dahlia varieties. The selection of the 
varieties in the different sections is being donewith utmost care and we guarantee 
them to be the best available for the purpose you want them. 
In addition to our previous listwe have added 12Gladioli varieties of the finest 
and most valuable introductions of last year, which we trust will be greeted as a 
‘welcome’ by all who want something real special for the exhibition-table or for 
the garden. 
We never had such a beautiful stock of big, healthy and clean Gladioli-bulbs as 
we grew this season, so you may expect your miuch appreciated orders to be filled 
with super-bulbs, the quality which gave our firm the position, gainedamong so 
many other bulb merchants. 
One year has now gone by since we established our Hamilton-Office, from which 
point we are now executing your orders directly. We are happy to be able to report 
that everything proved up to expectations and worked out to better and more effi- 
cient facilities to our customers. We trust we have now definitely mastered all difficul- 
ties and removed all obstacles, which always accompany such elaborate measures. 
In conclusion may we ask for a continuation of your patronage and please send 
your instructions early, in order to enable us to ship the bulbs at the right time for 
planting and to avoid possible disappointment. 
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