GUIDEBOOK FOR 1954 
Order early. Our selling season is very 
short. Remember we deal in many items 
in *neglizible), UszS. ssupplys Iny 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 14c 
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. 
MENELIK 
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LEIF ERICSSON 
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. 
