“The garden mystically ...a place of spiritual 
repose, stillness, refreshment, delight.” 
—John Henry Newman. 
(Ey, atone 
| Thanks a million for all the fine letters we have had this past year about the | 
quality of our bulbs. They renew our determination to send out only the best. Any- 
thing else is not good enough. And your letters telling us of the good results enjoyed \ 
even when weather conditions were most adverse are most gratifying. It takes GOOD 
lily bulbs to succeed in the mid-west and north as well as the warm south and your | 
| fine letters tell us most emphatically, that Oregon Grown lilies do satisfy. From the | 
Dakotas to Texas, from Denver to the east coast, you have sent us simply wonderful 
| reports and while we have the greatest confidence in the superior quality of our bulbs, | 
| we do appreciate your telling us of your successes. 
This year, you will find prices in general are a bit lower. This we are happy to 
advise. And as this is written, the bulbs are starting their growth with every indica- { 
tion we will have ample stocks. Keeping up to the growing demand for quality lilies 
has not been easy but our Oregon growers are doing it and at the same time keeping 
the quality up also. | 
You will note also that this year we offer numerous new hybrid lilies. The J 
Aurelians, Temple Hybrids, the Golden Harvest strain, wonderful new DeGraaff 
hybrids and all the other new things are a distinct addition to these aristocrats of i 
the hardy garden. You will find them welcome in your borders. Definitely, they area 
vast improvement over older strains. With them, your garden may easily become 
outstanding because fine lilies DO SOMETHING for one’s garden. They raise it 
out of the ordinary, give it exotic beauty out of all proportion to the space they 
occupy or what they cost. Today’s lilies are a healthy, vigorous, free blooming lot, 
vastly improved over the older varieties. 
And please, don’t overlook our other two specialties, Hardy Cyclamen and Hardy 
Clematis. Both of these items have a very definite place in almost every garden. 
Both of them have had a most gratifying reception from every part of the country. 
Both of them are “‘different’’ and unusual. They truly ‘‘do something’’ for one’s 
garden, lift it out of the ordinary and give it a quality far greater than their cost. 
We have had so many satisfying letters from gardeners who have planted them on 
our say so and now would not want to be without them. With them you can produce 
garden pictures that will bring a chorus of Oh’s and Ah‘s from every one who sees 
them. And that is one of the most satisfying rewards of all our gardening. 
Your garden need not be ordinary. It can stand out in your neighborhood as 
“beautiful’’ and at no great cost. 
And again, let me wish you “better gardening’, 
Sincerely, 
| ate b. Ware 
“Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics 
of Nature, by which she indicates how much 
she loves us.”—Goethe 
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By ech OCC, 
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