a considerable num ber th a t way r sold the two boxes to P aul Mr Staff
but the main th ing—his interest P eters at C lackam as greenhouse and I
s
o
,
in lilies increased, so did his lily and the whold w orld knew he When it i
°
tulbs. In two years he had so got them.
i e v,‘ae®
VideE! t
...x..., A
n traveling
i i a y e u t m salesm an give up,
uu h "7,
many he didn't know w hat to do saw these lilies perform ing in to tak .•’the
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d is
i« still
«till w ith thpm
At with them. He sent a uucc-u
dozen iu
to his greenhouse and recognized gave Mr e, * lbs 08 *
ag
and
them . a»i
his uiuuhv
childhood friend. Mrs. Maude them as the lily Mr. David had for his Da. u ° 7 ha‘ fl
the present time he is £ growing
i v n mg »»»»
la n e
f for
n r W
tcn n
r tf M
\ f a arkhan.
r lz h a n
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a large num ber of azaleas
W a atson
of
Wash,
introduced to the m a rk e t. M r. d a lly J X * i " “ ' ,
«tore, tried them in the green- the government to plant along a
Mr. Croft said he couldn’t give P eters got excited. He called us b ills' that
J * »•
house for him from time to tim e federal project in Virginia. His bulblets away. No one seemed on long distance telephone, say- of the
,
a' t0 k
to see how certain specimens advice *o you is "Don’t give up ¡ntercste.. His wife suggested that ■ng. "I bough, two boxes of 1,11« some o, e
would [jerform in the g r e e n - ,o depressions.’
he put an advertisem ent in the from you. I will buy 10.000 every tim e came »»
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house.
Mrs. O. C. Shindler, whose hus- Jocai newspaper, "B erm uda Lily year. I will come to see you.”
deliver h . h l
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Not 24 hours la te r I heard a
-
ha" "> * '
Mr. Houghton was very free band is the present druggist at Bulbs. 5c each.’
The
Crofts
'
with his bulbs, giving one or two Bandon, got her eyes on Mr
Later, Mr. Davids of the Arm- noise in the kitchen and before
to anyone who would plant them. Rasm ussen’s r o w of beautiful crost & Royston Bulb Co., Los , I could get them e Mr. P eters one hospital to anoti^
They became common in the door lilies and admired them so tnat Angeles, contacted Mr. Croft and
¡-came able
met me a t the living room door, to 5 the ic nome
of Mr. o J l
yards of Bandon, but no one Mr. Rasmussen gave her two °h*ained some of the stock and
hat in hand. He seem ed anxious. « h e re they were ten'
seemed tc think of them com- large bulbs when he dug that senl srnaR q u antities to m any
mercially. He gave two bulbs— fall. She planted them in her different greenhouses throughout He m ade th a t sam e speech again. for. He finally wasat)<|
» ■ each of w’hat he considered yard and let them grow. A fter be> United S ta te s to see how I’ve come to m ake the deal.” W» ja r . In 1911 the; J
By that 2 , 7
ihe best types to the late Mr. some time two or three years
tbey would act in different cli- I said to my husband, “I guess
Rasmussen of Bandon. One of she noticed they were not doing rnates- All reported them "tops.” I won’t have to peddle any m ore.” Koing ligh. That su.-rj
..o w u n amounted
amounts to .J
these two was the m other lily too well. She investigated and ^ ut no one c°uld find out w here He replied, “It surely looks like my
«•” .Mr. P eters ,„ld all « h o ask- 1 ,'w sales
a s h a r t ?0T
now' known as the Croft. Mr. found the ground, where her lil- Mf - Davids got them.
Rasmussen - propagated them
so *es had been, was just full of
Mr - C roft liked the sh o rte r of ed him « h e r,, he go, , he , w o . w c r ,h,.,r
UU III ¿»V,---
boxes of Idles. C onsequently we persuade him to r .- ’
C B r e fu llv .
H lif l
in
u
H lllKcs
.Q ho r iiir v
* h e tW Q k i n d s
ilio S
lc i’ i
carefully, and in a couple of bulbs. She aug them up and
’v“ »us o or f l lin
e s he l had.
’
years had a row clear across the divided them, planted back what He
He segregated
seSrega ted them
them , , and
and la la te te r r -?>f so m any orders, w’e never land and let u«
chance he
’
front of his city lot.
she wanted and piled the others named the sh o rte r one "C roft.” were able to fill them , unless it : same
i
..
5«ve
u
'
ga' eu” s i
Mr. Houghton grew his lilies °n the ground. Just as she was {b.e otners he sold to W. L. develops th a t we m ay have too
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bUt
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a t Bandon and Crooked Creek, about to finish the job. Sydney Crissey. Brookings, w h o estab- m any this fall..
‘ihie. But his whole
Meanwhile Mr. C roft plodded his lily. He went bacx
south of Bandon ■ for . five
o X r / I six
Croft, who lived
next
bsbed it on the m ark et as ‘Es-
.» V
» n
I i . r u
l l t . \ l door,
U U U J , came
v d iT lC
aw ay in his lily patch across the Washington and tr£
n e o on
n his
h i« w
n u home and
» „ j ____
years. Then he moved thnm
them to alo
«long
way
asKed , ta te .”
Tillamook At Tillamook,
her what
^he
Tillamook, in
in ’25,
’25, her
what she
she was
was doine
doing. She
. tbls
this tirne
tim e Mr. C roft was road. His health w as failing. His with the Watson lilies i
he persuaded two — business
*— 1—
.
men 8ald she wished him
to tak e these g e t,’nS m ore and m ore interested wife became seriously ill w ith cold, and passed a»ai
’
to go into the ,,,>
um r w
un mm
pk
lily uuMiicss
business wirn
with "«'•'■->
bulbs u home
with
him and plant
and Convinced th a t his pet lily goitre. He asked Mr. S tafford to Oct. 25, 1941.
him. They incorporated
'orporated in 1937 fhem
them for his wife. He said he was w orth som
ething. He talked help him dig his bulbs. He had
The work he started
something,
---- profit-
_ had to -----.
__ e __ r a . c in
. g , i lilies
and were getting
c e ttin e along
»inno
nmflt
«rv>nu . . his
u«.. tim
spend
,dies to everyone.
r — ' t'i>one. "Come
com e over gl,)« n thptn ju st one year. He As *or
for me
the Stafford's
Stafford's
and Mr. Stafford becam e good realize we have mark
ably in competition with Japa- things to eat and th at she must and see the Croft lily.” his wife friends.
He liked the careful w ay
C o ,„ l„ X J X
r.ese bulbs on the market. Mr. I not Put such notions in his w ife’s , ° ften heard oim say. A fter the
Houghton says as time went o n : head. Thus they kidded one an- Bergen test Mr. C roft dug ud
kTnd'‘‘’nr“i r U andi KrOW'n many u h er' and be sta rte d for home. mu1c h , of his vegetable g ard e n
kinds of 1,hes and daffodils. It H er mind was made up that Mr and P,anted all his lots to these
Mrs. May Stafford
Tells Story About
Sydney N. Croft
Mr"
■
liquidated. Mr. Houghton took
his share of the lily bulbs back
tc .Maryland w nere they failed to
grow. He went back to work tor
the denartm ent of ag riculture
a ,
? d n ’f‘ fh a ’ ,he l‘‘:e ( ? ,ft shou,d t a »<e th ese lilie s ,'s o ,i,y b u ,b s- « e « a s ju st s ta rtin g
nun on cam e along e n d i'h ‘‘ p reten d ed to be m ad ab o u t ,o rnak<J som e m oney from th e
-wo or ,
. " " UKh,'' n
? ' r Croft
cuP-
Of bulbs * b™
Bandon,
In WTO if
Je a rs-.
j
g h,s hands to his m outh as
“ e cam e along in 1936 and
1930 the depression overtook he returned: "Give me t h o s e burned his home.
’••m an., the corporation was darn things. I ’ll plant (hern \ n
By th at tim e Mr. Amadon had!
the garden.”
g a rd e n ”
moved his stock to H arbor, where
She «aid «he put them all i n t o i ^ '/ tf n ' sey bad »'Hes growing
his hand, a round double handful ¡hi« i \ 7 e y e a rs- M r- C roft dug
Mr. Croft took them home and He ,1U,b? and moVed fo H arbor,
¡m ade a trench in one of his ga r. , ,
the O s c a r Benson!
d<‘" rows and dumped them in h T £ a " d planted
liliesi
¡and covered them up.
h t n ‘. h v e O «nc became lily-con.
Mrs Shindler did not care ab o u t U m ^ h
W a* the Psychological
h e r lilies so much I
,
because Mr. Crissey and his
Mrs. Dan H y m a le t h ^ J ’ hCni *?nds had 6000 successful
of the Ace lily l ^ a m e
nf>ighb° r ’ Mrs L ave™ <>1-
in ,d -
in a \ u g g tT ¿"V Mr« the
,h a t a11
z A D A ’ S
BEAU T Y
SH O P
S h in d le r g av e M rs. P lv n ia le all eouli
the bulbs She had. Mrs’ m „ , I
.
Closed Sunday and Monday
° ° f t h ‘ S co n in iu n ity
p ay in 8 »heir ta x e s if
(kept them until the B .n i ’
e , U,7 could get « m arket for the
A fter the fi^e «f,( mid M r’V r Ui i"'
Had tried ta is *ng all
he could have them if he could liberal i n ^ -
had ***" vei> !
interesting others
¡she never lost anv time g r ^ i s h
1U n<?Ver forgvt the way
¡•ng liecause she insisted th at S - d i m a n ^ 113^
l° tUFn sales’
U roft accepted her left-over h l j 1 to* me it had utalked repeatedly
hulbs and b ulblets. .
r
half ol aJ1 1 c° u ld
Mr. C ro ft’s row of lilie«
i
i i • \ ,inal,y accepted, but I
Mello s
WELDING
<ng beautifully a n ? p ^ 7 UseT 7 o l Z l
he becam e in te re ste d
»aid he n ev e r
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H it ' ' -1 ' ,
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-d in t L , tr ? He
hi Our New' Location
BETTER ABLE TO II \NI)I E
YOUR BUILDING NEEDS!
Now Building Millwork. Cabinets
W mdows and Doors, Pre-cut
Garages, Houses, Bulb Sheds
Concrete Work
E I) W A R D S
GENERAL contractors
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Photograph^
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324 II. S treet, Telephone 2131
Crescent City,
fuU ° f bu,bs
i hvadcd n o r th . p ed d lin g door
° ° r l° m ake ^
s
asw e
? ' nV
S° ld “
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,be idea nf selling lily bulbs M vrtle P o m ? T h ? ? ,Oi* ra to '
LET ME
M A S 0 N &
Platform Play Shoes
E ngineer’s
u 1 the
SERVICE
South Bank Road
!s mile from Harbor
Children’s Sandals
Brookings, Oregon
our
M arshfield for $93."
at
! M any a thrilling sales trip has
followed until we gained some
!
^
,r\ n c e in bulb m arket-
ig. W hen Mr. Croft moved in
:i,CI. ? S t b e , road- he heard of our
bulb peddling for most of the
neighbors who had bulbs let me
7, , lo r V]em ’ glvin8 me half of
, all I could get for them.
y “ dn 1 rem em ber the first
J tim e I ever saw Mr. Croft He
cam e puffing up o u r drivew ay
w here my car was being prepared
to r a tn p . He had a , h « X " ?
g a r box and several o th er small
box«
h ,s orm s and a
bu^
I in each hand. He said: "Do voul
Ihe’^ W ™
™,UM S' “
o
f ? • , rt’P ?' w as: "l «»■nk
are " H
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me “ hat <he>'
call a . H; „ ’,'UA " hite '"»• Jo llo w 1
,r . o '
,r,s' c ,c - but these
1 gigantum
Ber-
Im uda
lily bulbs. longiflorum
I ll let you have!
', VlS
"f ,hem
provlded
¡d d>n',b
o n a te
« anyone
»hem
you you)
^ t
Cmt'e!1'’ ’ UCh , h ‘ n « »
L r o f t,
gigantum
( Bt rm udas can’t be
as
M r.'
longiflorum
held down.
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