Dear Friends ano Gardeners: 
Thirty years ago this spring my husband and | picked 
flowers off our first planting of large modern daffodils. 
(We had previously picked and shipped to Baltimore 
by boat old-fashioned Early Virginia or Trumpet Major 
jonquils from naturalized plantings.) Since then our 
original stocks of 1500 King Alfred and 500, Olympia 
bulbs have multiplied into many tons. 
| am glad to be able to offer my customers bulbs 
from these same exceptionally vigorous stocks which 
became acclimated to conditions in this country and 
reproduced so phenomenally for us. (So phenomenally 
that | have sold over forty tons of King Alfred bulbs 
and still have a growing stock of fifteen tons left from 
our original 1500 bulbs.) 
Starting out with our healthy, state certified daffodil 
bulbs, success in growing them is practically assured. 
Moles, mice, thrip, and other common flower and plant 
pests do not attack them, due to some protective sub- 
stance in daffodil bulbs which makes them unpalatable. 
The bulbs we sell are of blooming size, which means the 
blooms are already formed in miniature in the bulbs 
when you receive them. 
There are thousands of named varieties of daffodils. 
These have myriad sizes, shapes, and colors. The aver- 
age gardener can aspire to own perhaps 50 to 100 of 
these. If you buy a few varieties each year, you will 
be surprised in what a short time you can assemble a 
very fine and interesting collection of varieties. 
Daffodils lend themselves very well to creative land- 
scaping. ‘‘Naturalized” informally—sowed by hand- 
fuls and planted where they fall—they create beauty 
in early spring on hillsides, in meadows or vacant lots, 
by lakes, or in light woods. For naturalizing we suggest 
our bulbs as sold by the bushel or peck. Our mixtures 
give a succession of bloom over a period of four to 
six weeks.” 
