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Hornberger’s Home and Garden Service 
GLADIOLUS SOCIETIES AND OUR 
FREE BULB OFFERS 
We offer just two varieties this season (no changes can be made in offer). Your 
selection to the value of $1.00 of any sizes except bulblets of two outstanding new 
Glads, TREVONIAN and LIGHTS OF GOLD. See page of letters. 
If you already have, or do not care for this offer, we shall be pleased to forward 
your membership to any society you wish to join. But the above offer will be given 
free to all who care for it, with a. (NEW) not a renewal membership, to any and all 
Gladiolus societies we mention below, and if we have missed any society, it is not 
intentional, and the same offer holds good if wanted. THE NEW ENGLAND, THE 
EMPIRE STATE, and THE DETROIT are so called independent societies, that is 
they have no connection or affiliation with THE AMERICAN GLAD SOCIETY. 
THE AMERICAN GLADIOLUS SOCIETY, Goshen, Ind., is the oldest society in 
the country, it has many affiliated societies in a number of states, mostly the western 
and mid-western states. The A. G. S. publish the Gladiolus Review, a monthly publi¬ 
cation devoted to the Gladiolus, free with membership, which is $2.00 per year for 
the A. G. S. or any of its affiliated State societies. The members of affiliated 
societies also get the Gladiolus Review. Following we give the states where we have 
data on hand that there is now an affiliated society; The Calif., also East Bay, Calif., 
HI., Ind., Iowa, Mich., Minn., Mo., Slope-N. D., N. J., Ohio, Ore., Pa., Utah, Wash, 
state, Wis., and New Zealand. 
THE NEW ENGLAND GLADIOLUS SOCIETY: Publish each year in January, 
their now famous Year Book, revised and re-written each year with entirely new 
articles and information. The title is THE GLADIOLUS. It is an entirely new and 
different book each year, although under the same title. The 193 6 edition is bound 
in boards and cloth, 27 2 pages, 4 0 pages of illustrations. It discusses in detail every 
possible question you may have in mind pertaining to Glads. Each article written 
by an expert in his particular line. I call it “The World’s Master Text Book on the 
Gladiolus.’’ I do not think you could purchase any other book on Glads from pub¬ 
lishers that will equal this book, and surely not for $1.0 0. If you have a good friend 
who likes Glads, make him a gift of this book. We do not care how many member¬ 
ships you send us as each one gets our offer if for new members. If you wish to 
perform an outstanding service both to your community and to the interest of Gladio¬ 
lus growing, see to it that your local library has a new edition each year of “THE 
GLADIOLUS.’’ 
THE EMPIRE STATE GLADIOLUS SOCIETY, INC. We are building up a won¬ 
derful Glad society here in New York state. For several years past we have held 
our exhibitions at Ithaca in connection with all the attractions, diversions and features 
of interest of the New York State College of Agriculture located at Cornell Univer¬ 
sity. Visitors have been permitted to visit the experimental gardens, trial grounds, 
greenhouses, etc., of the College, as well as benefit from the lectures by experts and 
examine experimental work by the Dept, of Pathology. Our exhibitions have been ex¬ 
ceptionally large and fine, and our membership is rapidly increasing. We publish a 
most interesting monthly Bulletin, free to members; a free copy will be mailed to 
interested parties. Membership, $1.00 per year. Our society also gives a collection 
oi seven (7) bulbs, one each of Betty Nuthall, Mother Machree, Mammoth White, 
Golden Dream, Picardy, Commander Koehl, and Minuet to all who join now. Our 
1936 Exhibition will be held at Ithaca, N. Y., perhaps after Aug. 20, we can supply 
exact date after January 1. 
THE GREATER DETROIT GLADIOLUS SOCIETY: (Independent). Membership 
$1.00, our free offer applies to all societies. This society has made glads very popular 
in and around Detroit, their shows have been outstanding. Bulletins. 
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