GLADIOLUS 
1935 
NCE again we are coming to you with our list of care¬ 
fully selected varieties of Gladiolus: chosen for color, 
growing qualities, size and arrangement of flowers on 
the spike, as well as keeping qualities and number of 
blossoms open at once. This last item shows the big difference 
in the modern Gladiolus and those of even a few years ago. 
The old ones opened about three at a time, then as the fourth 
opened, the first one was gone. Now we have six or twelve or 
more open at once (according to variety) , if the bulb be a good 
sized one. 
When our acres are in bloom, we are one of the tourist 
features of the Coast Highway and as such we heard a glowing 
account of our gardens coming in over a well known radio 
station. This last season of bloom brought us many hundreds 
of visitors from all parts of the country and many of our old 
customers, who stop year after year to see the gardens, and 
make a note of the ones they want this season or to place an 
order. 
Now the flowers are gone, but in their place we have a 
wonderful lot of fine, healthy bulbs to put this beauty into 
your gardens next blooming season. In this connection, may 
we say that so often visitors ask, “But why can’t we raise 
such fine flowers? We buy great big bulbs . . One reason 
is that they DO use “great big bulbs.” We plant, according 
to their ideas, rather small bulbs—fine young high crowned 
ones that, like all fresh young things, human’ or plants, are 
ready to forge ahead. Then too, our long growing season (we 
plant in February and March), and our long pleasant Fall for 
curing the bulbs out in the air and sunshine do help in making 
bulbs full of “pep” and vitality. This is borne out by the fact 
that year after year, our customers re-order for their plantings. 
Elsewhere you will see some of the nice things they have 
written us, after our bulbs have bloomed. 
