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The Florists^ Review 



Fbbruaby 3, 1921 



It will pay you to read the letters 

 below from well-known authorities 



MR. GLADIOLUS GROWER: 



No doubt you know the Kunderd Gladiolus and 

 that never before have I had a surplus to offer to 

 the trade. These new Gladioli have grown so 

 rapidly in popular favor that even 

 now, these "dull times," I can only 

 spare stock of a limited number of 

 kinds to a few growers. Last year 

 I sold over $53,000.00 worth of bulbs 

 and this year the sales will probably 

 nearly reach this amount if not more, 

 and if not for the "dull times," would 

 have reached $80,000.00 to $100,- 

 000.00. All this business has been 

 built up in 10 years and before Gladi- 

 oli became as popular as now. The 

 Gladiolus is fast becoming by far the 

 most popular of all summer flower- 

 ing bulbs (or plants) , and rightly so, 

 both as a garden ornament and as a cut flower. 

 Too many growers are still growing the more 

 common kinds and not keeping up with the finer 

 new things, and are thus losing the best returns. 



Mr. Jobn Zeestraten, Eaat Bridgrewater, Mass., In a letter 

 dated January 4, 1931, wrote me as foUows: 



Dear Sir: 



Yourc of December 31 received and I thank you for letting 

 me have the ^"i Marie Kunderd for $100.()(», 1 am buying this 

 to work U" a stock from, and don't care what a bulb costs as 

 lonu as it is Rood. 1 sincerely think your dladlolus the finest in 

 the world without any exception. And not only that but good 

 money makers for the grower. 1 grow many varieties originated 

 by you including all your CJlorys and have made money on all of 

 them. I have Norton and Mary Kenncil which are hard to beat. 

 Purple Glory is a "beaut." 



On receipt of above, I wrote Mr. Zeestraten that X would 

 like to uae hia letter for this advertisement to show other 

 growers what can be done. He replied as follows : 



Dear Sir: East Hridgewater, Mass., Jan. 10, 11121. 



Yours to hand and you can use anything out of my letter you 

 may see fit. Ye.s Mr. Kunderd, 1 think your Gladiolus wonder- 

 ful and as a grower know them to bo line money makers. I 

 have sold over ](l,O0(l younn 1)u11)h of Norton alone this year, be- 

 sides its bulblets at $.">0.OO per quart. 



Next year aftr I have paid for my farm, I am going to get 

 only new vari< ties from you, and be one of the first to have 

 soinething new for .'■ali'. You are right in buying only the best 

 because a plant or bulb is never expensive when it is good. We 

 always did this way In Holland and found it very profitable, and 

 I am doing the same now. Four years ago I started here with- 

 out a cent and only a few bulbs and now I own a little place in 

 Mansfield and haVe a fine 50-acre farm here with good buildings, 

 and almost all paid. I made enough on "Norton," "Orange 

 Glor>" and "Mary Kennell" to pay over one-half of this place. 

 So you see what Kunderd's varieties have done for me. I am 

 sure I will make good in a few years on the "Marie Kunderd." 

 I must not forget "I..ilywhite," Last spring I bought bulblets of 

 It from Mr. Meader for $ir>().00. This fall I sold a fine lot of 

 young bulbs from it, but have a nice lot of young stock left for 

 myself. Respectfully your.s, 



(Signed) John Zeestraten. 



Many of our best grrowers have built up in this city, 

 Some grrowers make the mistake not to buy new kinds of 

 bulbs or plants when scarce, because while yet scarce the 

 prices are hlffb. The larg^e quantity which can be grrown 

 from a new variety in a few years makes the first cost com- 

 paratively insignificant. The Increase in stock is always 

 far more rapid than the decrease in price for years, and if 

 you wait till the price is cheap, you find you have some- 

 thingr which is* too cheap by then to grow profitably. A 

 peony plant will double in quantity each year, an iris will 

 increase four times a year and a not very rapidly increasingr 

 g'ladiolns would under favorable conditions multiply by 

 ten each year. ITow take a pencU and a piece of paper and 

 see what this means for a period of five or ten years. 



A prominent firm of bulb grrowers in Florida wrote me De- 

 cember 29 last: 



"Your wonderful introductions need no praise from us — -they 

 are In a ciaas by themselves. We have tried many varieties of 

 other growers, and have gone as far W*st as California, thinking 

 perhaps that bulbs from there would do well In our climate, but 

 most of these have found their way Into our Mixture." 



Another grrower from Ann Arbor, Mich., January 4, (this 

 year) in a letter, writes: 



"You certainly have marvellous varieties and I should like to 

 see you take down the bars and flood the whole world with their 

 beauty, making them accessible to the poorest, who really need 

 them most, as well as to the more wealthy. Personally, I should 

 like nothing better than to run the most of my business into your 

 varieties." 



More than a dozen testimonials like the above come in my mail weekly. Now Mr. Grower, would it not be 

 good business for you to grow gladioli that bring such praise and such demand. There is always a surplus of 

 common kinds, but never enough to meet the demand for good varieties. If you are a grower, you need this stock 

 and if you are a beginner, you cannot afford to start without it. Take advantage of this opportunity, as I do 

 not expect to oflfer a surplus to the trade next season. Write me a list of what you can use and I will make vou 

 an attractive inducement on wholesale lots. 



A. E. KUNDERD 



The Originator of the RuflBed Gladiolus and D^--OT #^^.»1. T J IT C A 



many others of the World's Finest Varieties. DOX Ot f VjOSnCIly illCle, Ue l3« /\« 



