FOREWORD 
MY MESSAGE TO YOU 
1 am grateful to my gladiolus friends for the 
orders I have received in the past. I thank 
you for your patronage. 
This year I am offering a number of new 
varieties and business ethics dictates that my 
prices be the same as the introducer. For this 
reason all of the bulbs in this catalog are priced 
prepaid. 
I have tried to describe each variety in a way 
to give you a mental picture of what it should 
do. A variety that will grow straight under my 
conditions may sometimes crook for you, and 
vice versa. All of the most useful glads do not 
open a lot of bloom at one time. Monster glads 
are usually good for show purpose only. Some of 
the most brilliant show records would never have 
been won under usual conditions. Almost any 
variety will furnish some prize winning spikes 
if given enough water and fertilizer. 
Guarantee 
I guarantee the bulbs I send you to be healthy, 
uo to size and free from insect pests. To my 
knowledge, there have never been any gladiolus 
thrips in the Glad Patch. If I make mistakes, 
