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The blue book of bulbs / Chester Jay Hunt, Inc.

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Contributor	Hunt, Chester Jay Inc.
Date	1916
Format	image/jpeg
Format-Extent	6 folders : ill. ; 18 cm
Identifier	28194335
Language	eng
Publisher	Little Falls, N.J. : The Company
Relation-IsVersionOfURI	http://opac.nybg.org/record=b1187731
Rights	For rights and permissions, please contact the LuEsther T. Mertz Library - http:library.nybg.org
Source	YH. U64
Subject	Hunt, Chester Jay Inc.--Catalogs Nurseries (Horticulture)--New Jersey--Little Falls--Catalogs Nursery stock--New Jersey--Little Falls--Catalogs Bulbs (Plants)--New Jersey--Little Falls---Catalogs Flowers--Seeds--New Jersey--Little Falls--Catalogs Bedding plants--New Jersey--Little Falls--Catalogs
Title	The blue book of bulbs / Chester Jay Hunt, Inc.
Type	text
Dpi	300
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Suggestions and an Invitation Cream Quality Notwithstanding the noticeable improvement in the quality of bulbs offered by American dealers during the past two or three years, CREAM QUALITY continues to mean what I had in mind when I first used the phrase some years ago. It is still true that a certain percentage of every year's crop consists of what the growers regard as the cream of the bulbs; it produces the finest flowers, and brings the highest prices. This Cream Quality is eagerly sought for by the English seed-houses, and usually all of it is bought up before harvesting begins. Some of these finer bulbs are now being sent to America, and American buyers understand what the better grade of bulbs is, and how much finer bloom can be had from them. The bulbs which my growers reserve for me are selected from their choicest stocks, which they can furnish only to one dealer, since the proportion of this grade in the crop is too limited to enable them to supply it generally to the trade. Cream Quality bulbs are reserved for me only until July 1, and to secure them I offer a moderate advance over the prices for ordinary first quality. Only this grade is offered in my lists, except where ordinary sizes are specifically quoted. Furthermore, a Cream Quality list nowadays bears little resemblance to any of the lists of a dozen years ago, for the improvement in all classes of bulbs has been so marked that a great many of the older favorites are unworthy of a place in the modern garden. This Blue Book retains only the cream of the older kinds, and adds the best of the newer sorts. In making selections from my list, then, there is no chance of being misled by an attractive color-description into choosing varieties of which the growers have large stocks, and which

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