GUIDEBOOK FOR 1953 
Page 13 
TERMS OF SALE 
Cash with order. 
CASH DISCOUNTS. You may have 
3, 5 or more bulbs or bulblets at the 
10 rate which is 8 times the each rate. 
(Illustrations: a bulb listed at $1.00 each 
is $8.00 for 10—being 80c each; or $4.00 
for 5 or $2.40 for 3 bulbs). This is a 
20% cash discount. It begins at the pur- 
chase of just 3 bulbs of a size and kind. 
Our offerings are largely new varieties 
of limited U. S. supply, so current year 
introductions and current import re- 
leases and a limited few other very 
scarce items are designated “‘No 10 rate.” 
Bulbs or bulblets quoted at a 100 rate 
may be taken in amounts of 25 or more 
at such rate. 
BULB DISCOUNTS. On bulb and 
bulblet orders of $5.00 to $10.00 taken 
from the General Price List (only) you 
may select 10% of such part of your 
purchase in further bulbs or bulblets of 
your own choosing from the General 
Price List (only). (Propagating grower 
units excluded.) On similar orders over 
$10.00 (taken from the General Price 
List) you may similarly select 20% in 
further items of your own choosing from 
the General Price List (only). (Propa- 
gating grower units excluded.) The cur- 
rent year offerings are in too scarce 
supply to permit their use for bulb 
bonuses or prices lower than stated. 
DELIVERY prepaid in U. S. after 
March 15th, the normal beginning here- 
abouts of safe postal shipments of 
perishables. Deliveries requested and 
made before that time may be made by 
express, transportation charges collect, 
at our option, governed largely by 
weather and package size. If so done, 
stock will be added of value to exceed 
the express charges. 
MINIMUM PURCHASES. Im ss ship- 
ping season time is a major problem. 
To gain time in this rush season some 
minimum amount items appear in our 
General List such as 2/.25 (2 for 25¢) 
or 3/.30 (38 for 30¢), ete. 
Our plants are state inspected late 
in the growing season and our bulbs in 
storage around April 1st. Further, we 
examine every bulb at time of putting up 
order, all of which pays | off with sound 
bulbs, fit to plant “as is” 
Replacement or refund artnet 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. 
Order early. Our selling season is very 
short. Remember we deal in many items 
in negligible U. S. supply. In some 
instances we have the only stocks on the 
continent and late buyers of such items 
may have to be satisfied with “sold out’ 
information and refund of their cash. 
Delivery prepaid to foreign countries 
in the Postal Union having the usual 14¢ 
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, On- 
tario, 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 defects, 
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 up 
for the exchange, duty and 
J. W. McL., Ottawa, Ont. 
express incurred.’ 
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 %4 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. 
