Aristocrats of the 
Gladiolus World 
INTRODUCTION 
The past few seasons, as the quantity of our stocks increased, we found that soon we 
would not be able to give the desired individual attention to the newer varieties and seed¬ 
lings and it was a case of either turning part of the job over to someone else or cutting down 
the work. We chose this latter course and have decided to confine our efforts to import¬ 
ing and increasing the newest of the foreign varieties; selecting those that are outstanding 
in quality and that do well here in United States climates for it is a fact that many varie¬ 
ties, unquestionably of the highest quality where originated are failures here. We intend 
to offer the imported varieties as soon as released even if stocks are still small and wher¬ 
ever possible will offer bulblets so that customers can get a start with the least outlay. It is 
fortunate for us that we have gladiolus friends in almost every country that today is pro¬ 
ducing valuable new varieties, for this enables us to have honest opinions of the new varie¬ 
ties and secure them as soon as offered for public sale. We endeavor to secure every 
foreign variety that has been a consistent winner and all those recommended by our 
friends in the various countries. We believe a smaller planting given personal care and 
observation is best in handling the rare new varieties and we hope that this change in 
policy will meet with the approval of our customers. 
Today the enthusiastic glad fan gives bulblets the best of care and obtains wonderful 
results in many cases; they are more of a gamble than small bulbs and of course that is 
one reason for their much lower price, while we can not give any guarantees that they will 
germinate and grow we do feel that the results will be satisfactory from the per cent that 
do come along for the original cost. The sizes of bulblets vary decidedly for the different 
varieties and oftentimes the smaller bulblets of one kind will give much better results 
than the jumbo bulblets of many hard germinating varieties. We send out the largest 
bulblets of the particular variety ordered that we have when the order is received. 
Our winnings the past few years at the strongest shows in the East are sufficient 
proof that we are growing the best of the exhibition varieties. 
