BURBANK'S 1921 NEW CREATIONS IN SEEDS 
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Gladiolus 
Newest Hybrids 
One hundred thousand absolutely 
new varieties of about every form and 
color ever produced from this won- 
derfully variable plant, including scar- 
let, crimson, yellow, blue, purple, lav- 
ender, orange, salmon, and pink, with 
infinitely varied combinations of rain- 
bow colors. Such a mass of various 
brilliant colors can not be produced at 
many times the cost of these in any 
other flower. 
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 
foundation of some of the most popu- 
lar strains originated with me decades 
ago. During the past few years won- 
derful new combinations of colors 
and shades never before seen in any 
flower except the tropical orchids have 
appeared in bewildering variety and 
abundance so that it is no longer pos- 
sible to give them names, for the ten- 
der transparent orchid shades blend 
in endless poems of color. It seemed 
useless to try to introduce more Glad- 
ioli, as so many are growing them, but 
after my newest ones went out to the 
people two years ago, the demand was 
so great that every bulb and bulblet 
was called for and even the stocks 
which had been planted for the next 
season 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 have 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. 
Cairo, III., July 19, 1919. — Three years ago I got a package of gladioli seed from you. All have 
bloomed this year and most of them were beauties; several, I think, better than "Elora." One is 
a crushed strawberry and cream pink with a spike of sixteen flowers, three of which were double, 
having twelve petals each to the other flowers' six. The flowers were set around the stem more 
than other kinds and looked like a large canna truss. C. B. 
Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 28, 1919. — The bulbs I purchased of you last year were a wonderful success 
and I assure you they were admired by those who saw them. E. C. S. 
Aurora, III., Oct. 13, 1920. — I am particularly well pleased with the Gladiolus purchased from 
you. W. B. D. 
ViNCENNES, Ind. — It is an unusual experience for a grower to write the originator of a hew 
variety of flower that the plants exceed his claims. Your new gladiolus "Elora" is now in bloom 
and is a beauty. You claim that it grows three and one-half feet tall and that the individual 
flowers are four and one-half inches in diameter. My plant is four feet tall and the blooms 
measure Ave and one-fourth inches in diameter. This kind of a flower from a bulblet I regard 
as remarkable. All of your seeds have made a remarkable record for germination. From twenty- 
three tomato seeds planted, twenty-three plants came up. It is a novel experience to me to have 
plants and seeds do more than is claimed for them. You richly deserve your success. M. O. 
Brunswick, Ga. — Please send me twenty-flve thousand choice gladiolus seed. I regret that I 
did not order some of all your named gladioli. The "Elora" is one of the finest and most 
satisfactory gladioli that I have ever grown. The stalks are five to five and a half feet, with 
flowers up to Ave inches across, with six flowers open at once. The top flower on one stalk had 
twenty-four petals and was five inches across. That was some flower. C. S. T. 
Salem, Ore. — In the Spring of 1917 I purchased of you several hundred gladiolus seeds. These 
were planted in April, and in June, 1918, they began to bloom. Gladioli experts here say such a 
thing impossible. Many of these flowers were very fine and far excel any others produced in 
Salem or Portland, Oregon, J. H. F. 
1920 GLADIOLI— JUST A SAMPLE OF BURBANK 
IMPROVEMENTS— ABOUT Mi NATURAL SIZE. 
