To Gardeners Everywhere: 
Spring planting time will soon be here. The time for 
planning and choosing the flowers for your 1954 summer and 
autumn garden is already here. If you wish to be sure of a 
copious supply of flowers for cutting and for garden enjoy- 
ment you will plant generous quantities of bulbs. Tuberous 
begonias for shady places, daylilies and gladiolas for months 
of successive blooms, tuberoses for their fragrant whiteness, 
montbretias for their tawny appeal, all these should be grown 
wherever summer flowers are wanted—which is in every 
garden. And be sure to order now, for August planting, 
the colchicums, autumn crocuses, sternbergias and wild cy- 
clamens for drifts of bright autumn color. 
OF Spring Display 
We invite you and all your gardening friends to enjoy 
our feast of spring beauty here at "“Lenteboden" this year. 
Here for two months each spring some 50,000 spring-flow- 
ering bulbs in more than |,000 separate plantings by variety 
bloom in all their glory. The feast begins with the earliest 
species tulips, little bulbs and hyacinths, and continues 
through the daffodils to the tall May-flowering tulips and 
scillas. 
A Living Catalogue 
Each year this display is regarded by more and more 
gardeners and garden lovers as a horticultural event they 
would not miss. We hope that you will be among them this 
spring. Moreover this show has a value far beyond the beau- 
tiful spectacle which it is. It is also a living catalogue. As 
such it surpasses the most lavishly illustrated printed list im- 
aginable as a guide in selecting spring-flowering bulbs for 
your own garden. For here you can choose varieties, not 
from printed lithographs, but from the flowers themselves. 
So make note of the empty spaces in your garden, then come 
to Lenteboden, select and order your bulbs for the fall. We 
can offer for sale only for the duration of the display the 
vast range of varieties shown here. Later buyers must choose 
from a much more restricted list. 
Three Times To Visit 
Our gardens will be open for visiting and placing orders 
for fall delivery from April | through May 25, from 10 A. M. 
to 6 P. M. every day including Sundays. Weekday visiting is 
usually less crowded. New Hope can be reached from the 
New York area by U. S. Routes 22—202. From the Philadel- 
phia vicinity, Pa. 232 and Pa. 263—U. S. 202 lead to New 
Hope. It is an easy two-hour drive from midtown New York 
and about an hour and a quarter from downtown Philadel- 
phia. The map inside shows the location of our gardens. 
Blooming times vary with the season but fall approxi- 
mately into three periods during each of which the gardens 
should be visited: 
1. April 1—April 20 for hyacinths, early bulbs and 
species tulips. 
2. April 15—May 5 for early tulips and daffodils. 
3. May 1—May 25 for tall May-flowering tulips, 
scillas and late daffodils. 
