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BURBANK'S 1920 NEW CREATIONS IN SEEDS 
Newest Hybrids 
One hundred thousand abso- 
hiLely new varieties of about 
every form and color ever pro- 
duced from this wonderfully 
variable plant, including scar- 
let, crimson, yellow, blue, pur- 
ple, lavender, orange, salmon, 
and pink, with infinitely varied 
combinations o f r a i n b o w 
colors. Such a mass of various 
brilliant colors can not be pro- 
duced at many times the cost of 
these in any other llower. 
Every gladiolus bulb which I 
here offer originated on my 
grounds. For over forty years 
the Gladioli have been one of 
my specialties, and the founda- 
tion of some of the most popu- 
lar strains originated with me 
decades ago. During the past 
few years wonderful new com- 
binations of colors and shades 
never before seen in any llower 
except the tropical orchids 
have appeared in bewildering 
variety and abundance so that 
it is no longer possible to give 
them names, for the tender 
transparent orchid shades blend 
in endless poems of color. It 
seemed useless to try to intro- 
duce more Gladioli, as so many 
are growing them, but after my 
newest ones went out to the 
people two years ago, the de- 
mand was so great that every 
bulb and bulblet was called for 
and even the stocks which had 
been planted for the next sea- 
son had to be dug to supply the 
astonishing demand. 
When you plant Gladiolus 
get the very newest and best if 
you desire to see what can be 
accomplished by forty years 
rigid selection. Among these 
some really wonderful prizes 
will be drawn. 
These seeds liave and will produce many new prize varieties of all sizes, shapes, 
and colors; saved from fully 100,000 varieties. Packet of 100 seeds, $1; three, $2. 
Bulbs, each, 25c; six, $1; ten, $1.50; 100, $10. 
Elora, the new giant white. Packet of 100 seeds, $2. No Elora bulbs left. 
1920 GLADIOLI— .7 U ST A SAMPLE OF BURBANK 
IMPROVEMENTS. 
Caiho, li.r,., .July 19, 1919. — Three years ago I got a package of gladioli 
have ])looiii('(l this year and most of them were beauties; several, I think, 
One is a crushed strawberry and cream pink with a sjiike of sixteen flowers, Uiicc 
double, having twelve petals each to the other (lowers' six. The llowcis we 
the stem more than other kinds and looked like a large canna truss. 
Bui-i-Ai.o, N. Y., Dec. 28, 1919.— The bulbs 1 purchased of you last year were a a 
cess and I assure you they were admired by those who saw them. 
"Vin(;i;nni;s, Inij. — It is an unusual experience for a grower to write llie origin 
variety ol llower that Ihe plants exceed his claims. Your new gladiolus "I'.lora" is 
and is a beauty. You claim that it grows three and one-half feet tall and that 
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