To All Our Gardening Friends: 
Now is the time to plan and choose your flowers for 
your 1955 summer and autumn gardens. For a copious sup- 
ply of blooms for cutting and for garden enjoyment be sure 
to plant generous quantities of bulbs. Tuberous begonias 
for shady areas, daylilies and gladioli for months of succes- 
sive blooms, tuberoses for their fragrant whiteness, mont- 
bretias for their tawny appeal, all these should be grown 
wherever summer flowers of great beauty and easy culture 
are wanted—which undoubtedly includes your garden. And 
be sure to order now for August planting, the colchicums, 
autumn crocuses, sternbergias and wild cyclamens for bright 
drifts of autumn color. 
ce Cy Spring Display 
Again we are pleased to invite you and all your garden- 
ing friends to come and enjoy our festival of spring beauty 
here at "“Lenteboden." Here for two months each year 
some 50,000 spring-flowering bulbs in more than 1,000 sep- 
arate plantings by variety bloom in all their glory. The show 
begins with the early species tulips, little bulbs and hyacinths, 
and continues through the daffodils to the tall may-flowering 
tulips and scillas. 
A Living Catalogue 
ach year this display is regarded by more and more 
ers and garden lovers as a horticultural event they 
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 faba our bulbs for the fall. We 
can offer for sale only for the saeatan 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 
die lt 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 ey with the seasons 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-fiowering tulips, 
scillas and late daffodils. 
