favorably with ordinary wholesale prices. You should also take into consideration 
that my prices are transportation paid, and not F.O.B. here, when order is large 
enough so that I would be paying this as previously shown. 
ORDER EARLY —On account of my limited supply in some varieties you should 
not delay in placing your order. Even though | have a good stock of a variety this 
also might be sold out early, for like the operation of a store where it often happens 
that many customers want the same item all at once with the result that the cur- 
rent stock is soon exhausted. In the store a new supply can usually be had soon 
but it is not so with my supply of bulbs for I do not buy for resale and so must 
wait for next year’s crop to replenish. Orders will be filled and set aside as fast 
as received. If you are not sure of all you want at one time, send your order for 
what you do know vou want early and add to it later. 
SPECIAL DELIVERY AND AIR MAIL — A special delivery letter will not reach me 
any sooner, and possibly not as soon, as a regular letter but from a distance an 
air-mail letter will get here much quicker. 
OPEN UP YOUR SHIPMENT — |[mmediately upon receipt of your bulbs, unpack 
and open each bag to let the air in, for they need the air at all times. If damp 
on arrival allow to dry off and then quickly put in storage, unless it is time for 
planting. Ideal storage temperature about 40°, but when that is not available, 
make it as cool a place as possible, usually just off cellar bottom in the coldest part 
of your cellar, as | would not store directly on cellar bottom, because of possible 
dampness. By all means do not let them freeze. 
MINIATURE AND SMALL 
FLOWERING VARIETIES 
In this section I am glad to be able to list some fine 1953 introductions, as 
well as a good number of additional varieties of both recent introductions and old 
timers. 
You should be able to find most any color or type you wish to fill your every 
want, be it for exhibition, arrangements, corsages, table decorations, or something 
else. There are intensely ruffled ones, pointed petals, lacinated, face-ups, plain 
petals, and even multipetals. Every variety listed has its usefulness in one scheme 
or another. 
In attending shows during the past several years you have probably observed 
the ever increasing numbers of these small varieties, both in the exhibition and 
arrangement classes, showing their rapidly growing popularity. Many people are 
now beginning to realize how much more appropriate these are for the home, 
especially the small home, than the larger varieties and they are unsurpassed for 
table decorations. | have recently learned that there are those, who up until a short 
time ago would grow only the large exhibition type, and were and still are top 
exhibitors in those classes, and had no use for the small type ones, are now 
growing the little ones for their own home and occassionally slipping one in on the 
show table. . 
In connection with the exhibition classes at various shows, let me suggest 
to you, who are interested in showing the 100 size class, or real miniatures, that 
you get in touch with your show committee and have them make classes for the 
100s separate from the 200s, even though they may at first have to combine several 
colors in order to make good competition. This combining of colors will soon not 
be necessary when it is known the 100s have their separate classes. Our Long Island 
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