planting?;. 
But I know better. This would not supply my customers. So I have several other 
plantings as large as this. It’s a case of “The More the Merrier.” 
“Believe it or not,” this glorious sea of Pink Picardy was produced from medium and 
small bulbs. And, as with my Red Phipps field on page 32, thousands of spikes were cut 
and shipped all over the West, before this picture was taken. As the fisherman would say, 
“The big ones got away.” First to bloom always the largest spikes. 
“J. D. Sez, Sez ’e” 
As you see, I’ve given considerable space in 
this catalogue to Culture of Fall Bulbs, Iris 
and Peonies. Glad to do this, though had to 
“bile down” many descriptions of these favor¬ 
ite flowers in order to make room for cultural 
suggestions. 
But when it conies to Glads, there is so 
much to be said about their care and culture 
that I can’t afford to add the many extra 
pages in catalogue that would be required to 
give as much information as you wish and 
should have. 
So I’ve written a special booklet, entitled 
GLAD GOSSIP. This is a 24-page booklet, 3% 
by 6% inches, packed full of the best and lat¬ 
est information on growing Glads and success¬ 
fully controlling diseases and pests. 
The thrips problem is given special attention 
and considerable space. You do what I tell 
you to do, in this booklet, and you can “lick 
the thrips” as many growers are now licking 
them. 
The price of GLAD GOSSIP is 10 oents. I 
have no apology whatever for making this 
nominal charge. The price should be at least 
25 cents. Positively worth dollars to the av¬ 
erage grower, either amateur or professional. 
Glad Gossip free with a Glad order amount¬ 
ing to $1.00 or over. Otherwise 10c. One rea¬ 
son I charge for this booklet is that I firmly 
believe you will read it more carefully and get 
more good from it if it costs you something 
than if it were as free as ordinary advice 
usually is. 
My Digging Time Prices are not intended to 
be sensationally low, though very fair and rea¬ 
sonable for the quality and amount of stocks 
of various varieties available in the U. S. A. 
I must consider competitors as well as cus¬ 
tomers. All are my friends and I wish all of 
them well. It wouldn’t be nice for me to cut 
and slash and demoralize prices. That’s a 
poor way to try to build up a permanent busi¬ 
ness and good will. 
I’ve sold Glads 27 years. Over and over I’ve 
said if orders not satisfactory, return at once 
at my expense for full refund. Only several 
have ever come back, and then on account of 
misunderstanding rather than value or quality. 
Do your own thinking. Must be good rea¬ 
sons why my customers stay with me and tell 
others. 
My Pall Glad customers do get extra value 
not seen in my printed price lists. In appreci¬ 
ation of your helping me deliver part of my 
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crop in the fall and early winter I send you 
liberal over-count and other extras not offered 
or promised in my price making. You help 
me—I help you. We both win. 
“Stalling all cars I” That’s about what hap¬ 
pens when my Glad fields are in bloom along 
the main highway. Well, I can’t blame ’em 
so long as people do love the sight of beautiful 
flowers. 
Take a tip from me—JD. Coast slowly 
through that list of 180 items on page 29 and 
discover the values offered in “Help Yourself” 
Collections. I invented this system of serving 
yourself in making up Collections. Have given 
such good values that not one customer has 
ever indicated anything but satisfaction. 
“There hain’t no slch colors” in Glads! 
That’s what we all thought up to a few years 
ago. But PALMES showed ns when he gave 
us Duna, Bagdad and Wasaga. Gee whiz, if 
you hain’t seen these, you hain’t seen nuthin’ 
yet, in unusual and charming colors. The 
BUDS of Duna and Wasaga! So lovely! 
Colorado Sales Tax should be added to each 
order sent me by Colorado folks. No tax re¬ 
quired from other states. Verily, as the Den¬ 
ver Post says, “It’s a privilege to live in Colo¬ 
rado!” 
Speaking of Colorado, and mountains, that 
hump you see beyond the Red Phipps field, 
page 32, is just a little pet we keep in our 
back yard. The REAL mountains lie farther 
back and can’t be seen from this point. 
To see the majestic snowy range, Long’s 
Peak, the glacier—and all points west—we 
drive out a few miles east. 
Bast winter I told you about son Everett’s 
cabin way up near timberline, 28 miles from 
Boulder. I finally got up there myself last 
August. Grand place to loaf. No mail, no 
phone, no bill collectors. Cabin on bank of 
clear, cold, rapid, rollicking, tumbling stream 
in a heck of a hurry to go places. A mighty 
mountain peak near by called down, “Come up 
and see me some time.” 
Some folks get me all wrong. Because I 
devote so much of my catalogue space to gar¬ 
dening suggestions, many look to me for fur¬ 
ther information. Therefore, let me make it 
clear that I’m not in a position to give addi¬ 
tional instruction by letter. Write your state 
agricultural colleges for booklets, etc. Read 
farm and garden magazines. Or ask your 
neighbors. Swap ideas. I’m swamped looking 
after the many details of this business. 
1930 SPRING CATABOG—See Back Cover. 
