HOWDY FOLKS 
PAUL BRANDON 
First of all I want to thank 
you for the many nice or¬ 
ders you sent last year. 
They surely were appreci¬ 
ated. I hope that all of you 
escaped the drouth and had 
a great deal of enjoyment 
out of your glads. The let¬ 
ters so many of you have 
written certainly do make 
me feel good, I only wish 
that I had time to answer 
each of them persanally but 
I have to put so much time 
in on my bulbs that I just 
can’t get around to it, so I hope that you will 
consider this catalog as an answer and write 
again. Greetings to those of you who have not 
received my catalog before. I hope that you 
will find it interesting and some varieties 
listed that you had been looking for. May we 
be friends for a long time! 
My bulbs are very good this year. Of 
course, growing so many kinds, a few of them 
did not do their best, but this is always so. We 
have had a fine long season, very dry, but, as 
I have told you before, this is naturally a des¬ 
ert and we always irrigate. Our water comes 
from the Deschutes river which has its source 
in the snowfields of the Cascade Mountains 
just west of here. Hot days, cold nights, sandy 
soil, high altitude, northern location, con¬ 
trolled irrigation and careful attention all 
combine to produce fine bulbs, the kind that 
has made “Oregon Grown” a nationally rec¬ 
ognized slogan. 
VARIETIES—Group 1 is tried and true va¬ 
rieties from all parts of the world, large bulbs 
priced at 5c each. These fine, reliable kinds 
have been selected largely by popular demand 
and have proven their worth out of some 8,000 
varieties put on the market during the past 
few years. Several of these were introduced 
at $100 each for large bulbs. Group 2 is newer 
and rarer kinds that promise to make a place 
in their own classes. I have always avoided 
offering anything that has not been on the 
market long enough to prove its worth. So 
many of the newer varieties (about 95%) of¬ 
fered at fabulous prices are soon forgotten 
and, personally, I find it rather dissappointing 
to pay a big price for a highly advertised glad 
only to find that it is no better than many I 
already grow.' Altogether I have tried to list 
something to please everyone, big ones, little 
ones, novelties, standard sorts, exhibition va¬ 
rieties and those more for decoration, every¬ 
thing but the high priced ones that haven’t 
been tried out yet. Here are the favorite Ten 
of the American Glad society: 1, Picardy; 2, 
Minuet; 3, Com. Koehl; 4, Betty Nuthall; 5, 
Mother Machree; 6, Marmora; 7, Maid of Or¬ 
leans; 8 Mr. W. H. Phipps; 9, Bagdad; 10, Mil¬ 
dred Louise. All are listed, seven at 5c. 
Twenty-five of the leading 30 are listed and 
mostly at 5c. The number following descrip¬ 
tion in these varieties indicate their place in 
the Favorite Fifty. 
DESCRIPTIONS—I try to describe each va¬ 
riety as I see it but it is no easy task for me to 
put a living flower into cold words. I give the 
variety name (followed by the name of the 
originator). Figures indicate height of plant, 
inches; size of floret, inches; and number of 
florets open at one time. All average under 
field culture, ought to do better in your gar¬ 
den with better care. Colors are hard to de¬ 
scribe, especially smokies and off colors. I 
have used the usual common color names but 
in case you are used to the modem method of 
naming colors in relation to their position in 
the solar spectrum, such as is used in the 
Fischer and similar color charts, I offer my 
list of color names followed by their modem 
equivalent: Red purple—red violet; rose pur¬ 
ple—violet red; lavender—pale red violet: or¬ 
chid—pale violet red; pink—pale red; salmon 
pink—pale orange red; salmon—light orange 
red; scarlet—orange red. Most listed as orange 
are red orange as few glads are true orange. 
The remaining colors, red, rose, yellow, etc., 
are usual names known to all. All colors come 
in various shades from dark to pale and many 
are blended, such as salmon-rose, rose-red, etc. 
Markings are given in detail, often they 
don’t sound as though they could be pretty, 
but leave it to nature to mix things up and 
yet have a harmonious whole. 
Lately types have been crossed so much 
that it is next to impossible to draw a line be¬ 
tween them so they have been divided as: Ex¬ 
hibition, those having large number of well 
placed flowers open at once, and Decorative. 
The latter sub-divided into large decorative, 
those having flowers over three inches but 
not exhibition type, and small decorative type, 
includes all primulinas, small grandifloras, 
laciniated, in fact, all types having florets with 
a diameter of 3 inches or less, regardless of 
former classification. However, in most cases 
I have given the old rating. Comment is my 
honest personal opinion. 
Varieties vary a great deal as to size, color, 
and performance in different climates, and 
from year to year. They often do better in the 
garden than in the field as they get better 
culture. 
ABOUT THRIPS—State inspectors have 
found my glads to be entirely free of glad 
thrips (those troublesome little insects infest¬ 
ing so many bulbs today). As a further pre¬ 
caution Oregon State laws require that all 
bulbs be fumigated before shipping, I am us¬ 
ing the highly recommended napthaline flakes 
for this purpose. 
Those who have learned to control thrips 
no longer consider them a menace. I shall in¬ 
close a yellow sheet on thrips control with 
each order, also full cultural directions. If you 
use the Paris green spray add a handful of 
Hydrated lime to prevent burning the foliage. 
A new spray, “Rototox,” put out by Rototox, 
813 Yale St., East Williston, N. Y., is now con¬ 
sidered the best spray for thrips and other 
garden insects. (Costs $1 for 8-oz., postpaid. 
This will make 12 to 24 gallons of spray.) If 
you plant treated bulbs you probably won’t 
have any thrips. 
This is one good reason why you should 
