1953 / River's Edge Flower Farm ; Mrs. S. L. Hopkins.

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HANDMADE DAFFODIL MIXTURES

GLOUCESTER COUNTY MIXTURE. (Mixture No. 1) A mixture of eight or more good varieties which are
grown in large quantities for cut flowers in our section, includes King Alfred, Olympia, The First, Emperor,
Helios, Sir Watkins, Croesus, and Cheerfulness, and may have some other fine varieties in it. $4.95 per
peck; $18.50 per bu.; $5.50 per 100.

RIVER'S EDGE NOVELTY MIXTURE. (Mixture No. 2) Contains the eight varieties included in the above mix-
ture, also at least four other varieties such as Brightling, Bonfire, Orange Glow, Lady Diana Manners, and
Twink. $5.45 per peck; $20.00 per bu.; $6.00 per 100.

ALL YELLOW MIXTURE. (Mixture No. 3) Made up of King Alfred, Olympia, The First, Helios, and other
yellow daffodils with long or short cups. $4.75 per peck; $17.90 per bu.; $5.35 per 100.

LARGE BEDDING
HYACINTHS

BISMARCK. (Left) Bright blue.
; KING OF THE BLUES. Dark blue.
& L'INNOCENCE. Pure white.

CITY OF HAARLEM. Golden yel-
low.

JAN BOS. The finest brilliant
scarlet hyacinth. Very early.

SPECIAL COLLECTION No. 1
PINK PEARL. (Below) A beautiful

Bonfire
Brightling 3 each of 10 varieties (30 bulbs) ..$ 2.95 pink,
Cheerfulness \}
Croesus 6 each of 10 varieties (60 bulbs) .. 5.25 : :
A ; doz.;
Beles 12 each of 10 varieties (120 bulbs) .. 8.50 CROCUS Zsa CCNY aaa (Po! ae
ing Bel ee f Yellow 80¢ per doz.; $6.00 100 100
i 0 eS: : E specie, PEt 7 $17.50 per :
Fa ants Manners 25 each of 10 varieties (250 bulbs) 5.50 - White. 75¢ per doz: $5.50 per 100.
ym j ; Sky-blue. 60¢ per doz.; $4.50 per 100.
ll 4 the North Striped. 75¢ per doz.; $5.50 per 100.
The Firs | Mixed. 25 for $1.10; $4.25 per 100.
RAINBOW MIXTURE TULIPS
MANGOSTEEN. (Below) (Small Cup) A magnificent flower $6.90 per 100
with a wide scarlet crown and golden yellow petals.
Late. Each 35¢; 3 for 85¢; $2.60 per doz.; $20.00 SYMPHONY TULIPS. Double and cherry-red. $1.25 per doz.; $9.50 per 100.
per 100. REM—EMPEROR. A glorious scarlet-red tulip of remarkable size and substance. 3 for
/0¢; $2.15 per doz.; $16.00 per 100. =>
PARROT TULIPS
BLUE PARROT. Bright violet color. $1.10 per doz., $8.00 per 100.
FANTASY. Georgeous pink Parrot Tulip. $1.10 per doz.; $8.00 per 100.
THERESE. A very large Parrot Tulip of a subdued scarlet color. $1.20 per doz.; $9.00
KING ALFRED. (left) ‘‘The perfect daffodil."’ An old per 100.
favorite, it has never been surpassed in popularity PARROT TULIP COLLECTION. 4 each of blue, pink, and red. (12 bulbs) $1.10.
fa by newer introductions. It is typical of the Yellow
Trumpet class of daffodils. (Olympia is also a very
fine example of this class.) $1.10 per doz.; $4.75
\ i per peck; $17.90 per bushel.

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rose, or white. State choice. 100 for $3.50.

Mixed colors 100 for $3.25. Zs
ECLERIGIMIRICATEEINORIIOO for $3.50 YOUR CHOICE OF ANY VARIETY PICTURED BELOW or ZWANENBURG (White)

CHIONODOXA. (Glory of the Snow) Ten or fifteen 12 for $1.10 25 for $2.10
tiny blue flowers to a spike. 100 for $2.25. 100 for $8.00
j SNOWDROPS. Has tiny white bells; very early. , COLLECTION OF HYACINTHS
4 ) 100 for $4.00 3 each of 5 varieties below (15 bulbs) ...$1.55
( MUSCARI. (Grape hyacinths) A cluster of tiny blue _— 1 each of the above 6 colors ..........++.+---- $1.10
bells on a spike. 100 for $3.50. 6 each of 5 varieties below (30 bulbs) ... 2.90 Fee SF Teer ee: |S eee 3.10
COLLECTION OF SMALL BULBS. 25 each of Scilla “Se
> Campanulata, Scilla Sibirica, Chionodoxa, Snow- ~ 25 each of 5 varieties (1 25 bulbs) Me a hs 9.90 5 each of the above 6 colors .............0200% 5.00
2 drops and Muscari. $4.20 Mixed Hyacinths: $2.00 per doz.; $16.50 per 100

CAROLINA. (Left) (Small Cup and typical of
this class of daffodil. Note short length of
cup in comparison with petal length.) An ex-
ceptionally tall, large flower. Pure white
petals, orange cup. Late. 3 for 70¢; $2.15
per doz.; $16.00 per 100.

FORTUNE. (Left) (Large Cup. Flowers of this
class have cup more than one-third length of
petals.) Famous for its sturdiness and fine
coloring. Early. 3 for 70¢; $2.15 per doz.;
$16.00 per 100.

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Daffodils are Harvested at River's Edge Farm

Mrs. Selina Hopkins, of River’s Edge Flower Farm admires a bunch
of her choice daffodils gathered from one of her fields.

BY—HAMILTON CROCKFORD
Times-Dispatch Staff Writer

NUTTALL, VA., March 31—Mrs.
Selina L. Hopkins just about aban-
doned housekeeping a couple of
weeks ago and took to gathvring
posies. Lunch will continue to be
irregular or missing for three weeks
yet.

It wasn’t simply a walkout, or just
Spring fever — although that had
something to do with it:

The daffodils had it. Here in Glou-
cester County they were bursting in-
to bloom again. (The daffodil show
at Gloucester is on today and to-
morrow.)

Everybody in Gloucester County
has a daffodil patch. Mrs. Hopkins
has some 15 acres of them.

Bread and Beauty

And since they supply her table
with bread as well as beauty, picking
posies in March for her has only an
incidental resemblance to gathering
nuts in May.

So, beauty being fragile, business
on her “River’s Edge” flower farm
here, a couple of miles east of the
courthouse, is bustling these days—
everywhere except the kitchen.

Every clear morning the pickers
show up at her fields. Every after-
noon a truck shows up at her pack-
ing house for a shipment to go
somewhere.

And every day, all day, an elderly
widow turned business woman gets
about to all corners of the place to
supervise the operations from pick-
ing to packing.

If it’s a frosty morning, the daffo-
dils will have their heads down, and
there’s no picking then. But when

they look up and dance in glee like
Wordsworth’s, beside the North
River here the nimble-fingered pick-
ers must move fast.

Money for Pickers

[There’s money in it for the pick-
ers, while it lasts. at 2 cents per
bunch of a dozen, 25 bunches to the
basket, and some people picking 20
baskets in a day’s working time, the
owner observed. }

The job must be done by noon, if
possible, Mrs. Hopkins noted, to leave
enough time for cooling the flowers
to stiffen their stems, and for pack-
ing before the truck comes. She
drives her car out into the fields to
direct the work.

The baskets go into troughs of
of water to stav until the stems are
“cool to the hand.” Then the pack-
ers take over, gently placing them
30, 36 or 50 bunches to the box, ac-
cording to the size of the flower var-
iety. and bracing it to be sure the
blossoms don’t bruise.

While this is going on, the phone
may be ringing with a long distance
order from somewhere, and Mrs.
Hopkins will be off into the house
to take it.

A daily broadcast of prices in
New York is also “must” listening for
her or her son-in-law and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hammer, who
live with her, and grow more daffo-
dils of their own.

Market Perishable

The market can be as perishable
as a daffodil, if there’s a temporary
glut in one place: The New York
price dropped from 50 cents a dozen
on a Saturday to 10 cents by the

Reprinted from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 1, 1951

Workers Pick Daffodils on River’s Edge Farm

SOTTO

Mrs. Hopkins Superintends Packing of Daffodiis

next Thursday, they noted. They
shifted destinations accordingly,
just before truck time.

Mrs. Hopkins, who moves unruffled
through this melee, got into flower
farming on her own rather later
than most.

An aunt of actress Katherine Hep-
burn, she was born Selina Hepburn,
the daughter of a Hanover County
Episcopal minister, in 1878, and
marrried N. S. Hopkins in 1900.

From general farming on his
family’s old place here, “Waverly,”
first owned by Philip Edward Tabb,
he went into bulb growing seriously
about 1922. He developed a couple of
varieties himself. Meanwhile, Mrs.
Hopkins observed with a smile, gen-
ealogy and Gloucester County his-
tory were her chief occupations.

But when her husband died in
1937, and her four children wondered
what she ought to do, she decided
simply. “It was the only living I
had,” she said. She turned to daffo-
dils.

She’ll be 73 on April 9, but it’s
easy to agree with her own sum-
ming up, that “getting outdoors with
the flowers agreed with me.”

She sells a dozen or so commercial
varieties and a few boxes each year
of an estimated 100 other varieties.

And while she’ll be getting back to
a little more housekeeping after
about April 20, she won’t tarry long

at a time.
Has Bulb Trade

She’s worked up a bulb trade, too,
and does about as much business
Selling the increase of her bulbs in
the Fall as selling flowers in Spring.

Selling only to home gardeners
and florists rather than large whole-
salers, she’s shipped them now to
every State except Montana, she said.
(Everything goes out with a tag
noting the bulbs were State-inspect-
ed and found free of the plaguish
ellworm and narcissus bulb fly. Ham-
mer pointed out.) And she “grades
bulbs with the boys all summer.”

They have to be dug every one to
four years, she noted, and where they
grew the fields must be planted al-
ternately to soybeans and Winter
clover, sometimes for two years, and
these turned under, until the ground
is right for bulbs again.

After cleaning, drying, chemical
treating and curing, the bulbs for re-
planting go back in the ground from
September to Christmas. It’s a year-
round business.

“The only time I get any peace at
all is when I get them all patted
down in the ground in the Winter,”
Selina Hopkins said,—“And then I
have to work on my income tax.”

But she was smiling at a cluster
of her “Magnificence” when she
said it.

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Our Customers Cay:

Warren, Ohio
September 23, 1952

Dear Mrs. Hopkins:

The bulbs | planted last year were the talk of the neighbor-
hood. We did not move into our new house until December 14,
and because the grading was not completed | had to tuck the
bulbs here and there wherever | could find a few feet of ‘‘dig-
able’’ soil (after the contractors had deposited their usual debris!).
What a surprise my spring show was to everyone—myself included!
They were beautiful blossoms in spite of the adverse circumstances
under which they were planted. Please send the following order

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Very truly yours,
Mrs. Edward C. Fales.

Swannanoa, N. C.

March 12, 1953

Gentlemen:

A neighbor of mine tells me she orders blubs from you and finds
them most reasonable, true to type, etc. . . . She says you have
special bargain collections at times, and | would be interested in
these.

Yours truly,

(Miss) Sallie Kate Davidson.

Jasper, Florida
May 23, 1953

Dear Mrs. Hopkins:

I am enclosing check for $5.45 for River’s Edge Novelty Mixture
daffodils. Last year | ordered your Gloucester County Special and
they were beautiful. Enjoyed them thoroughly.

Very truly yours,
Ann E. Greer.

“Enjoyed the daffodil bulbs of last year. They were very lovely.
My place is rather large, so am planting more this year."
Mrs. J. Sam Hale, Floydada, Texas.

‘| want fo tell you how much | have enjoyed the daffodils from
the bulbs | bought from you. Most of them had at least two blooms.
And the Red Emperor tulips have been the admiration and envy
of the neighborhood! The Zwanenburg tulips were as fine as any

| ever saw."’
Miss Olive Bagby, Stephensville, Va.

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Express Office
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Check, money order or cash enclosed for.

(Amount)
No C€.0.D. Orders Please—All over-payments promptly refunded

PREPAYING OF SHIPMENTS: We prepay all charges on all bulbs, including our bushel and peck offers
of daffodils, to all points east of the Mississippi River, Customers living west of the Mississippi River
will please add ten per cent to our prices for daffodils to help with transportation charges. Tulips and
all other bulbs will be sent any place in this country prepaid.

YOU MAY ORDER one-half bushel at the bushel rate. Six or more bulbs may be bought at the dozen
rate and 25 bulbs at the 100 rate.

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Cultural Directions Will Be Sent With Each Order

Dear Friends ano Gardeners:

Thirty years ago this spring my husband and | picked
flowers off our first planting of large modern daffodils.
(We had previously picked and shipped to Baltimore
by boat old-fashioned Early Virginia or Trumpet Major
jonquils from naturalized plantings.) Since then our
original stocks of 1500 King Alfred and 500, Olympia
bulbs have multiplied into many tons.

| am glad to be able to offer my customers bulbs
from these same exceptionally vigorous stocks which
became acclimated to conditions in this country and
reproduced so phenomenally for us. (So phenomenally
that | have sold over forty tons of King Alfred bulbs
and still have a growing stock of fifteen tons left from
our original 1500 bulbs.)

Starting out with our healthy, state certified daffodil
bulbs, success in growing them is practically assured.
Moles, mice, thrip, and other common flower and plant
pests do not attack them, due to some protective sub-
stance in daffodil bulbs which makes them unpalatable.
The bulbs we sell are of blooming size, which means the
blooms are already formed in miniature in the bulbs
when you receive them.

There are thousands of named varieties of daffodils.
These have myriad sizes, shapes, and colors. The aver-
age gardener can aspire to own perhaps 50 to 100 of
these. If you buy a few varieties each year, you will
be surprised in what a short time you can assemble a
very fine and interesting collection of varieties.

Daffodils lend themselves very well to creative land-
scaping. ‘‘Naturalized” informally—sowed by hand-
fuls and planted where they fall—they create beauty
in early spring on hillsides, in meadows or vacant lots,
by lakes, or in light woods. For naturalizing we suggest
our bulbs as sold by the bushel or peck. Our mixtures
give a succession of bloom over a period of four to
six weeks.”

DAFFODILS—Aore Recommended Varieties

GARDEN COLLECTION No. 2

Beat All Naomi
Caledonia Pride of Virginia
Campernel Regulosus Successor
Lucienne Twink |
Mrs. E. H. Krelage Whiteley Gem |
3 each of 10 varieties (30 bulbs) ............ Cy SAE
6 each of 10 varieties (60 bulbs) ............ 7.20
SUCCESSOR 12 each of 10 varieties (120 bulbs) ............ 13.90

ACTAEA. (Poeticus) The largest poeticus in existence. Broad, snow-white perianth,
large eye margined with dark red. Late. 3 for 40¢; $1.30 per doz.

BEAT ALL. (Large Cup) Large, flaring pinkish-orange cup, creamy yellow petals,
rather short stem. Midseason. 3 for 40¢; $1.30 per doz.; $10.00 per 100.

BEERSHEBA. (White Trumpet) A very fine flower with perfect form and a pure white

color throughout. Midseason. Each 30¢; 3 for 85¢; $3.00 per doz. JOHN EVELYN
BONFIRE. (Small Cup) Very pretty; lemon yellow petals, with brilliant scarlet center, ;
blooms late. 3 for 40¢; $1.30 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. QUEEN OF THE NORTH. (Small Cup) White, round petals; ruffled primrose small

BRIGHTLING. [lharae Cun) Primraca netale blaraa Aat Aranane Hn
red margin. Midseason. 3 for 40¢; $1.30 per doz.; $10.00 per 10

CALEDONIA. (Large Cup) Creamy white petals, flat yellow crown brightly banded
with orange. Midseason. 3 for 70¢; $2.15 per doz.; $16.00 per 100.

CAMPERNEL REGULOSUS. Two small deep yellow blooms with tiny cups on each
stem, sweet-scented. Early. 3 for 40¢; $1.30 per doz.; $10.00 per 100.

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BAMSON. (Large Cup) A siriking Tooling tN eu ee SCARLET ELEGANCE. (Large Cup) One of the finest newer red cups. Beautiful

i i : for 60¢; $2.00 doz.; $16.00 100. : :
Wchsia cup. Midseasonsa2 ior Ge» pereor Y as d coloring; petals deep yellow, cup deep orange-red. Midseason. 3 for 60¢; $2.00
DICK WELLBAND. (Large Cup) The petals are pure white, and the cup is flame per doz.; $15.00 per 100,

triking fl . Late. 3 for 60¢; $2.00 doz.; $16.00 100. ’

Orange. Saya een Se ee octee ee pene Pa SCARLET GEM. (Poetaz) A colorful cluster-flower with a number of deep yellow

E. H. WILSON. (Large Cup) Expanded, shallow lemon-yellow cup is surrounded by heads with red centers on each stem. Very’ pretty. Late. 3 for 50¢; $1.90 per
star-shaped white perianth. Midseason. 3 for 60¢; $2.00 per doz. doz.; $15.00 per 100.

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RED GUARD. (Poetaz) Apricot-tinged petals, orange cup; two blooms on a stem.
3 for 70¢; $2.30 per doz.; $18.00 per 100.

ROBINHOOD. (Trumpet) A giant flower with golden petals and a large orange cup.
Very striking. Early. 3 for 80¢; $2.40 per doz.; $18.00 per 100.

FRANCISCUS DRAKE. (Large Cup) Pure white petals of unusual substance, cup SUCCESSOR. (Yellow Trumpet) A long trumpet daffodil of the King Alfred type,
golden yellow at base shading to flame orange at the frilled edge. Late. 3 for deep yellow throughout. Late. 3 for 60¢; $2.00 per doz.; $16.00 per 100.

aol .; $13.00 100. : , :
SOG) BO vperidoz7 ial a ; : THALIA. (Triandrus) Three delicately formed white blossoms crown each stalk. Late.
GERANIUM. (Poetaz) Tall stems carry 3 to 5 blooms each. Flowers are white with 3 for 80¢; $2.40 per doz.; $18.00 per 100.

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Qsrcnvum ted esiiet: bate oe ps) aos oa © Ee : TUNIS. (Large Cup) Bold ivory crown with coppery gold brim, waxy white perianth.
HADES. (Large Cup) Exceptionally nice color with deep red crown and white petals. Early. 3 for 80¢; $2.40 per doz.; $18.00 per 100.

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Midseason. “3 for 854; $2.60 per im ; TWINK. (Double) The leading double, primrose and apricot. A large, fine flower.
JOHN EVELYN. (Large Cup) Pure white perianth, lemon yellow, fluted cup. 3 for Early. 3 for 60¢; $2.00 per doz.; $15.00 per 100.

; $2. 3 : 100. ;
ONS EBON ONG as OR ae , UNSURPASSABLE. (Yellow Trumpet) A very fine new giant, deep yellow throughout.
LADY DIANA MANNERS. (Small Cup) Pure white petals, expanded yellow crown, Early. Each 35¢; 3 for 90¢; $3.30 per doz.

i i : : for 45¢; $1.35 .; $10. ; : :
DOE CS DCO hael e SIUG = $ sate AN an ese) WHITELEY GEM. (Large Cup) Tall with a bright orange fluted cup backed by a
LUCIENNE. (Large Cup) A large flower with deep yellow, saucer-shaped cup, orange golden perianth. Early. 3 for 70¢; $2.15 per doz.; $16.00 per 100.

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panded, ane ‘white remagtieg Late” (2 font eet be Sed 316 00 peu oy YELLOW CHEERFULNESS. (Double) A yellow form of the well-known white Cheer-
MRS. E. H. KRELAGE. (White Trumpet) Often described as ‘'the white King Alfred. fulness. Cluster of double yellow flowers. Late. Each 30¢; 3 for 80¢; $2.50 per

Midseason. 3 for 80¢; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. doz.; $18.00 per 100,
MRS. R. O. BACKHOUSE. (Large Cup) The best-known pink trumpet daffodil. lvory- DUTCH IRIS
white petals, long trumpet; with apricot-pink, frilled edge. Late. Each 30¢; 3 for (Bulb
75¢; $2.30 per doz. ulk ous)
NAOMI. (Small Cup) Pretty red cup flower with white petals. Midseason. 3 for (Require some protection in Northern States.)
70¢; $2.15 per doz.; $16.00 per 100. IMPERATOR. Dark blue. YELLOW QUEEN. Soft clear yellow.
PRIDE OF VIRGINIA. (Small Cup) A large, tall flower with a red-edged cup and WHITE EXCELSIOR. Snow-white. 60¢ per doz.; $4.50 per 100.
white petals. Late. 3 for 60¢; $2.10 per doz.; $16.00 per 100. DUTCH IRIS MIXED. 55¢ per doz.; $4.25 per 100.

EXHIBITION COLLECTION No. 3

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Rretolelny: ohiemOnzolmaitioes (60) HHO | Aan oaugacdumod Shoangavueuoomoncyns = 4.90
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Your Reward for Ordering Early

is price list, mail-
each of 10 varieties (30 bulbs) ...........-.. If your order is selected from this price Ast, Mile
: each of lees * ne A aie before August 25, 1953, and aoa
by remittance in full, you may deduct FIV

CONNOISSEUR COLLECT

1 each of 10 Varieties (10) bulbs)" 222 .s22s. ee:

pctcres ; CENT cash discount from our list prices. We will
See i aiso include a surprise packet of bulbs when we
ogee 4 fill orders placed by this date. .
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SCARLET GEM Mangosteen U Please save price list for fall use,

No other list will be issued this year.

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C. H. HAMMER NURSERY
NUTTALL,
GLOUCESTER COUNTY,

VIRGINIA

WE PREPAY ALL CHARGES on all bulbs, including our bushel and
peck offers, to all points EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
CUSTOMERS LIVING WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER will please
add ten per cent to our prices for DAFFODILS to help with transpor-
tation charges. (This is necessary because daffodil bulbs are heavy,
and the cost of transporting them is quite high.) Tulips and all other
bulbs will be sent any place in this country postpaid.

GUARANTEE: Our bulbs are guaranteed to reach you in first class
condition. Packages should be opened at once on arrival and ex-
amined. Any molded bulbs reported within 10 days of receipt will
be replaced free of charge.

PRICE LISTS: If you do not intend to plant bulbs this year, you will
do us and one of your friends a favor by passing this list on to
another gardener.

PLANTING TIME. All bulbs on our list should be planted in the fall
before the ground freezes. We start to ship our accumulated daf-
fodil orders about September Ist. The other kinds of bulbs are im-
ported from Holland, and of course we cannot begin to ship them
until they come, which is usually about October Ist. It is usually
October 15th before our iris arrive from Holland.

BULB SHIPPING TIME is rush time for us. So we must ask you to
favor us with patience. It is to your advantage to order as early
as you can and we will do all possible to get the bulbs to you at the
time you prefer.

NATURALIZED
DAFFODILS

Planted informally
daffodils give the
effect of beautiful
spring wildflowers.

RIVER’S EDGE NATURALIZING DAFFODILS

(A peck contains from 80 to 120 blooming-size bulbs.)

Per Doz. Per Peck Per Bu.
KING ALFRED. (Yellow Trumpet) Deep yellow, early.

(See picturesinside folder)\ wes. cicctel os ceeicnen teins $1.10 $4.75 $17.90
OLYMPIA. (Yellow Trumpet) A giant with deep golden

yellow trumpet, lighter petals. Midseason. .......... 1.20 5.25 19.50
EMPEROR. (Yellow Trumpet) Like Olympia, smaller .... 1.10 4.75 17.90
THE FIRST. (Yellow Trumpet) Colored like Olympia, one

of the first#to- bloomueemuencawieesekeecieinine = aierertar 1.10 4.75 17.90
CROESUS. (Large Cup) Petals are canary yellow, short

cup is) deep. red. 1.02 nd atone etter terme 1.20 5.25 19.50
HELIOS. (Large Cup) Golden yellow petals, cup a little

darker, hardy ‘and| prolitic) eatly.ec cm. oeetaeetaeisene 1.00 4.50 16.50

SIR WATKINS. We recommend Helios instead.

CHEERFULNESS. (Double) (See picture below.) Several
flowers to each stem, each with a yellow center sur-
rounded by white petalss. Lcten ussrsieritseistnetetielstels 1.20 D250) 19.50

HANDMADE MIXTURES

{Mixed from named varieties at shipping time.)

GLOUCESTER COUNTY MIXTURE. (Mixture No. 1) Contains eight or more good
varieties. $4.95 per peck; $18.50 per bu.; $5.50 per 100.
RIVER'S EDGE NOVELTY MIXTURE. (Mixture No. 2) Contains twelve or more good
varieties. $5.45 per peck; $20.00 per bu.; $6.00 per 100.
ALL YELLOW MIXTURE. (Mixture No. 3) Made up of long and short trumpet yellow
daffodils. $4.75 per peck; $17.90 per bu.; $5.35 per 100.
See inside folder for more complete descriptions of mixtures.