FOREWORD! 
Again we present our list of Daffodils for the current season, and greet our 
many friends and customers, old and new, extending our heartfelt thanks for 
your orders and appreciation of your many kind letters, a large portion of 
which it was impossible for us to answer. Much as we should have liked to have 
replied personally to each one, our health over the past year has precluded our 
accomplishment of many duties, and we can only tender our apologies and 
trust that we may in the future do better. 
We look forward to another flowering season with eager anticipation and 
trust all who read this may have derived much pleasure from their 1954 garden. 
There are always some disconcerting factors — perhaps weather is not too 
clement, pests may take a toll, or other circumstances contrive to take a toll 
from one’s gardening pleasure; but few flowers are as welcome as Daffodils 
in the spring, and few, if any, have shown greater improvements made in the 
past few decades. In response to the expressed interest in our seasonal notes, 
these are again being incorporated into the catalogue. Cultural directions will 
be mailed with bulb orders. 
EILEEN and ELISE examining FIRE CHIEF 
Several varieties are being discontinued this year. Most varieties are again reduced in price, but a 
few for which there is greater demand than our stocks will support are being held at the same figure 
or raised a bit. The cheaper kinds cannot be offered at reduced prices, but on the contrary, some of 
these have had to be increased to compensate for increased costs of production, not the least of which 
are the higher postal rates! To facilitate handling hundred quantities, these are being priced prepaid 
this year along with other bulbs, as orders which called for some prepaid items and some not prepaid 
led to some difficulties in figuring shipping costs. However, for those who would like to pay trans- 
portation and receive equal or greater value in extra bulbs as compared to shipping costs, we shall 
gladly comply with your desires and ship express collect in the case of larger orders, or permit you to 
remit postage after the receipt of bulbs otherwise. 
We are offering a few new introductions again this year. Most of those we have introduced up 
to now have been primarily decorative flowers but anticipate offering more of exhibition type in the 
future. We have had many commendatory letters on our introductions up to the present, and several 
that we looked on as only garden or decorative flowers have been taking ribbons and championships 
on the show table. In the past few years we have offered Daffodil seed of designated crosses, but due to 
the uncertainty of getting the crosses listed and the comparatively little interest, we are not listing 
these this year. 
1954 Introductions 
CLACKAMAS (John Evelyn x Dick Weliband) 38C43/21 2b M. PINK LACE (Shirley Wyness x Pink a Dell) J80/1 2b. Like 
21”. A good sized flower with quite flat overlapping white most pinks, this is not consistent in coloring, but it is 
Pereninmandeailaree neariy flee lemon erown edeed with distinct from most others in the heavily ruffled, lacy, trum- 
‘ pet like crown which opens creamy lemon and turns to 
pale orange. A good flower for garden and for cutting. clear shell pink in two or three days, the color intensity 
$3.00 each. varying with the season. As the flower ages, it loses much 
of its color. Wide overlapping white perianth. This should 
be of considerable value for breeding as evidenced by 
some of its progeny which we have already bloomed. 
$5.00 each. 
FIRE CHIEF (Damson x Fortune) 38C19/2 2a EM. 23”. Bril- 
liance characterizes this Daffodil. With a crown that vies 
with Krakatoa in size and color, but more resistant to 
geo oats i> Tost showy asia WILLAMETTE (Tunis x Mitylene) 39C134/1 2b. A very tall, 
garden flower. Tall strong stems with a yellow perianth of 
not too good form, and a very large flaring brilliant or- 
ange red crown. A sister seedling to Seoul. $4.00 each. 
LUNA MOTH (King of the North x Content) K43/15 la. 
While our stock of this is as yet very limited, we have de- 
cided to offer a few bulbs for disposal this year. An im- 
mense flower of shimmering luminescence in a delightful 
shade of cool sulphur lemon, having a broad, very flat 
overlapping perianth standing at right angles to the long, 
quite narrow trumpet. Approximately the size of Moon- 
struck but of different form and entirely distinct in ap- 
pearance. One of our most lovely seedlings. Three or four 
bulbs to go at $40.00 each. 
early midseason Daffodil with large flowers borne on 
strong stems, having the smoothness of the pollen parent 
and the stems of its seed parent. Very smooth, polished, 
clean white perianth, and good sized, well balanced, clear 
yellow crown. A nicely porportioned flower suitable for 
garden, cutting, and exhibition. Last season we noted 
the blooms as being exceptionally long lasting in the field. 
A good stock permits the comparatively low introductory 
figure. $4.00 each. 
YELLOW WARBLER (Fortune x Triandrus albus) G65/2 5a 
EM. 14”. From the same parents as Lemon Drops, this is 
similar but slightly paler in color and opens about two 
weeks earlier. Usually two or three drooping light yellow 
blooms to each stem. Prolific of bloom and increase. 
$2.50 each. 
