. The blue book of bulbs. Bulbs (Plants). IN preparing this new issue of The Blue Book, I have had keen pleasure in being able to show my friends the first pictures of the flowers at Mayfair. From them, I think, it will be seen how much has been accomplished in but one year. Yet the chief value of these pictures lies not so much in this evidence of the quick results in my own gardens, as in the proof of the usefulness of the spring bulbs for new gardens, where one waits all too impatiently for the time when the garden will seem to have been a garden for many years, The varieties added in this
. The blue book of bulbs. Bulbs (Plants). IN preparing this new issue of The Blue Book, I have had keen pleasure in being able to show my friends the first pictures of the flowers at Mayfair. From them, I think, it will be seen how much has been accomplished in but one year. Yet the chief value of these pictures lies not so much in this evidence of the quick results in my own gardens, as in the proof of the usefulness of the spring bulbs for new gardens, where one waits all too impatiently for the time when the garden will seem to have been a garden for many years, The varieties added in this year's Blue Book are all so fine that I am surer than ever of the help The Blue Book will be to those who cannot come to Mayfair to see things for themselves. From Mayfair April J, 79/7. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hunt, Chester Jay. [from old catalog]. Little Falls, N. J. , C. J. Hunt
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