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GLADIOLUS SOCIETIES 
There are twenty-five state or regional 
societies in U. S., in addition to the national 
society. Five or more in Canada in addition 
to the Canadian Gladiolus Society. Several 
each in Australia and New Zealand. National 
societies in England, Holland, Germany. Upon 
request we will assist you to contact your 
nearest society. You will find much of in¬ 
terest and pleasure in your local society. 
The New England and the British societies 
publish substantial annual volumes of around 
200 pages of very interesting and informative 
matter. The Canadian Gladiolus Society 
publishes quarterlies which, in a year, use 
about the same page equivalent. This society 
publishes a symposium and rating of about 
500 of the foremost gladiolus of today, classi¬ 
fying them into 21 color groups, rating them 
skillfully within their respective color groups. 
This feature alone is sufficient to make their 
publication outstandingly valuable. The 
Empire State society publishes a monthly 
Bulletin of varying number of pages. Several 
other state societies, notably Iowa and In¬ 
diana, publish monthly or occasional bulle¬ 
tins. 
The American Gladiolus Society has sus¬ 
pended its monthly magazine and we are 
unable at this writing to state how soon it will 
be resumed. 
The annual membership fees listed below 
include the respective publications mentioned. 
New England Gladiolus Society, $1. (An¬ 
nual). Albin K. Parker, Sec’y., Norwood, 
Mass. 
Canadian Gladiolus Society, $2. (Quarter¬ 
lies). Mrs. J. A. Carleton, Sec’y., 166 
Willow Rd., Guelph, Ontario, Canada. 
British Gladiolus Society, U. S. $1.50 
(London Draft or postal money order). 
(Annual). A. E. Blake Amos, Sec’y-. 109 
Lexden Straight Rd., Colchester, Essex, 
England. 
Empire State Gladiolus Society, $1. 
(Monthly Bulletin). A. N. Fisher, Sec’y., 
113 Tompkins St., Cortland, N. Y. 
Ohio State Gladiolus Society, $1. (Occa¬ 
sional Bulletins). R. P. Kelley, Sec’y., 207 
Buckeye Bldg., Akron, Ohio. 
& a a & 
For New Memberships 
To the first 250 of our customers, including 
foreign, who will enclose with their Retail 
order of not less than $5, a check, postal 
money order or draft (as the case may seem 
to require) payable to the Sec’y. of the Soci¬ 
ety you prefer, in full amount for one year 
new membership fee, we will transmit same 
to such sec’y., and we will give you bulbs of 
our selection of quality equal or superior to 
those purchased and of Retail value equal to 
one-half of the membership selected. This 
offer is only to secure new members, not re¬ 
newals and cuts your membership fee in half, 
as you readily see. 
To our customers, including foreign, whose 
purchases at Retail total $20 or more, pro¬ 
vided such customer is not already a member, 
we will give a paid-up membership in the 
Canadian Gladiolus Society for 1937. For 
this new membership we will nave to trans¬ 
mit $2 cash. 
These offers differ materially from former 
offers, are for 1937 only and are experimental. 
We have had heavy returns on our previous 
membership offers and these offers may turn 
out to be costly experiments—too costly, per¬ 
haps, to be repeated next year. 
250 customers constitute but a small per¬ 
cent, and judging by past experience with 
less liberal offers, the present offer is likely to 
be absorbed by 250 takers by about March 
15th to April 1st. If the $2 membership tak¬ 
ers do not "gang up” on us too heavily, we 
may waive the 250 limit. We make and take 
this bulb offer seriously, furnish high quality 
bulbs, frequently from stocks of varieties in 
short supply we should not spare. 
