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Hornberger’s Home and Garden Service 
OUR 1938 CATALOGUE 
Renewal Offer 
To our many friends and customers we present this 193 8 catalogue which is 
our selling medium. This year we are making a special effort to re-check our mailing 
list. If you send us an order be sure to check page 2 of the Order Blank attached 
in this catalog. If you do not send us an order, but wish to receive our catalogue 
then check page two of order blank and mail same without an order. This will 
permit us to place your name on our active mailing list and you will then receive 
our next catalog as well as any special lists you check. 
GARDEN FACTS 
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 
r We have arranged the following questions 
and answers to give you some general infor¬ 
mation relative to glads. More detailed in¬ 
formation may be secured with the purchase 
of a recent copy of the “Gladolius” issued 
by the N. E. G. S. at a cost of only $1.00. 
Also if you have some problem we will assist 
you if we have the available data. 
NOTE: MINUET 98% as we list has some 
rogues of Break O’Day which flowers well 
10 days before Minuet. Both flower well 
from small bulbs. In the season 19 37 we 
found about one-half of one percent, how¬ 
ever, we are listing it as 98% pure. 
QUESTION: Can you give me a list of the 
best varieties of Glads? 
ANSWER: I can give you a list of what 
I personally regard as the best varieties, 
however, some other growers may not agree 
with the list I give. There is the difference 
of performance in different soils, climates 
and environments. There is also the differ¬ 
ence of the individual opinion of growers 
as to what constitutes the most desirable 
qualities. Perhaps there are as many dif¬ 
ferent lists of the best varieties as there 
are growers. We need more than lists that 
are largely the result of individual opinion. 
We should have a method of securing aver¬ 
aged opinion which results from averaged 
experience. Such a plan is outlined in our 
19 37 catalogue under title of the Cooper¬ 
ators Gladiolus Test Gardens which has over 
thirty cooperators at date located in perhaps 
twenty states. The objective of this research 
group is to give more general information 
than now generally available to the public. 
If interested write to Prof. R. C. Allen, Dept, of Floriculture and Ornamental Horti¬ 
culture, New York State College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. and 
you will be informed how you may become a cooperator. The Empire State 
Gladiolus Society has charge of this work and reports of findings will be published 
in their Gladiolus Bulletin. The membership is $1.00 per year and on another page 
we give the names of the new Glads we give free with each NEW membership to 
the E. S. G. S. 
QUESTION: What are the principal causes of mixed stocks of Gladiolus Bulbs? 
ANSWER: The principal causes are, first in the handling. This need not al¬ 
ways be careless handling. A bulb or bulblet dropping some distance on a hard 
