Foreword 
In building this Catalog we have tried to make it interesting, attractive and worth 
your while to look it over. Above all we have tried to represent facts honestly and 
make prices reasonable. We hope you may retain it until our next Catalog is published 
in the Fall of 1936. 
This year we are introducing a new variety. A new variety should be introduced 
because it has merit, in color, form, substance or style superior to varieties already on 
the market. We believe that Beautiful Ohio has such merit. 
We are including under this cover a list of the “High Fifty 1934 Favorites” as 
selected by the voting members of the American Gladiolus Society and published in 
the Gladiolus Review. Number one being most popular and so on down the list. We 
hope it proves interesting. Page 4. 
You will find brief “Notes” as to soil, planting, harvesting and storing of Gladiolus 
bulbs. A few facts for what they are worth. Page 5. 
Descriptions of varieties are on pages 6 to 15. 
Copy of our inspection certificate signed by P. A. Glenn, Chief Plant Inspector of the 
State of Illinois, certifying our garden and premises “free from dangerous insect pests 
and plant diseases.” Page 15. 
We take pleasure in calling to your attention our retail or “Prepaid Prices,” pages 
16 to 23. In this list all orders will be shipped prepaid. 
On page 24 we are offering some rare varieties which have much merit and which 
we think you will be especially interested in. “Special Offers.” 
On pages 25, 26, 27 we offer larger quantities at “Wholesale” prices which are F. O. B. 
Easton. The quality of the bulbs is the same but if you can use twenty-five bulbs or 
more of the same size and variety you may buy them considerably cheaper by paying 
the carrying charges. 
Inside Back Cover “Achievement” record. 
Lastly, we try to please each and every one of our customers and if for any 
reason your order has not been satisfactory please advise us. Thank you. 
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Concerning "Beautiful Ohio" 
Extracts from letters from Wendall W. Wyman, 106 Billings Street, Sharon, Mass. 
(Mr. Wyman is a member of the Executive Committee of the New England Gladiolus 
Society.) 
Beautiful Ohio was grown by Mr. Wyman under the name of Seedling No. 430. 
Mr. Wyman says: 
Sept. 4th, 1935. 
“In regard to the Seedling No. 430, it gave me splendid spikes with four or five 
five-inch blooms open. A little under four feet tall, straight and clean. A high class com¬ 
mercial variety.” 
Sept. 24th, 1935. 
“I cut the last spike from Seedling No. 430 Saturday, September 21st, and the color 
was glorious, the purest lavender I think I ever saw, deep and lustrous. 
“The spike carried eighteen buds with four or five open. I have a very high regard 
for it as a commercial variety. There is nothing I have ever grown to touch its color. 
It grows from three to three and a half feet high with eighteen to twenty buds.” 
(Signed) Wendall W. Wyman. 
