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i SECOND GENERATION OF KUNDERDS IN GLADIOLUS BUSINESS j 
Special Notice 
ROBERT J. KUNDERD 
Son of World Famous 
A. E. KUNDERD 
Operates His Oivn Retail Business With a 
Wonderful Selection of 
Bulbs 
5c to 15c 
for the 
FINEST BULBS 
Generally Sold at Higher Prices 
The Best Bargains of 
the Year 
ROBERT J. KUNDERD CARRIES ONI! 
A, E. Kunderd is my father. His life was spent de¬ 
veloping gladioli strains that are now known in all parts 
of the civilized world as his creations. The enormous 
business which grew up under his careful elforts always 
to satisfy his customers, is now out of his control. There¬ 
fore, I am not in a business opposed to him. 
I am very sorry that so many of my friends and cus¬ 
tomers think that I have continued with my father’s 
former business. During the worst of the depression ho 
completely lost his large fine business which was his life’s 
work, and the new management discharged me. I would 
like everyone to know it. This is the reason that I have 
gone in business for myself, absolutely on my own with 
some of the finest varieties and bulbs. This new manage¬ 
ment also let my father out. He has had nothing to do 
with the manag'ement of his former business for more 
than four years. 
With my knowledge of Gladioli and the help of my good 
wife and two fine boys, we are building up a business of 
our own under my own name. 
Beginning as a small boy at the age of seven, helping 
my father in the fields, it became second nature for me to 
compare the qualities of the blossoms and bulbs, and from 
the many hundreds of varieties that I have handled during 
my lifetime, I found I was mentally forming standards 
that I would some day use if I ever started my own glad¬ 
iolus business. Years ago I began my own private record 
books and eveiy season I have closely checked the varieties 
that I favored and which were the favorites of the many 
hundreds of visitors to my father’s Gladioli fields. Some¬ 
times it was hard to discard pet glads when better varieties 
were developed to take their place. But I had set my goal 
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at approximately 150 gladioli varieties that would equal or 
surpass anything in the gladiolus world. 
Another idea which developed in my mind over a period 
of years was that the majority of gladioli lovers were peo¬ 
ple in ordinary circumstances like myself and it certainly 
was a pity to keep such beautiful flowers out of the reach 
of these men and women. This is my reason for pricing 
the finest at from 5c to 15c per bulb. I have had lots of 
opposition to my plan, but have decided to go through with 
it and prove that I am right. I believe that I can conduct 
a successful business by giving my customers varieties 
that come up to my own critical standards at prices well 
within the reach of everybody. 
I grow no gladioli mixtures because there are varieties 
that m'oduce more abundantly than others, thereby making 
unbalanced mixtures —too many of one kind and not 
enough of other varieties. At my low prices for named 
kinds, you may order what you want and know what you 
are getting. I have always thought that buying field 
grown mixtures was like buying a cat in a sack or some¬ 
thing sight unseen. 
Every order will receive a full measure of pei’sonal in¬ 
terest so as to be sure that each customer receives all that 
is expected and more. Many other things that will helj) 
serve the customer in the best way possible are constantly 
kept in mind. 
Twenty-eight years of actual experience in the gi'owing 
of gladioli for my father, A. E. Kunderd, Goshen, Indiana, 
and four years growing gladioli for myself, puts me in a 
position to intelligently take care of the gladioli needs of 
my customers. 
ROBERT J. KUNDERD. 
Retail Orders hi V. S. A. 
Cultural Directions Will Accompany All Orders 
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