KAYLOR NURSERIES, BLAINE, WASH. 
We Extened Greetings and An Invitation 
Carrie Jacobs Bond wrote that the 
end of a perfect day was a “count of the 
friends you’ve made.” 
As /the years roll along I am im¬ 
pressed with what seems to me to be a 
fact:—that no other occupation is so pro¬ 
lific of friend making as that of grow¬ 
ing good plants and bulbs for those who 
find an outlet for their higher emotions 
in the producing of beautiful gardens. 
Perhaps this is because I have a real 
friendly feeling towards flower lovers. 
On this common ground we can, for a 
time at least, forget those little selfish 
things that make “countless thousands 
mourn.” Even those of us who depend 
upon growing plants, seeds and bulbs 
for our living can derive a soul divided 
out of these friendships if we will but 
open the way and join the other fellow 
in a trip down friendship lane. 
In the twelve years since this little 
business was established, I am happy to 
say we have made many of these trips 
and my hope is that the future years will 
lead to more of them. 
If it ever seems to you that we have 
treated you in other than a friendly man¬ 
ner, please be good enough friend to tell 
us about it so that we can clear up the 
matter and have you again join us in a 
pleasant trip down Friendship Lane. 
We are doing our best to give our 
customers the best of bulbs, plants and 
service at the lowest possible cost. Please 
help us in this effort by observing the 
following new rules: 
Remit by money order, draft or 
check. If currency and stamps are sent, 
they travel at customer's risk. Sometimes 
such remittances are lost in the mails. 
We pay transportation to fifth zone. 
Roughly, the country lying north and 
west of Grand Forks, Denver and Los 
Angeles. Customers east or south of this 
line, please add ten per cent for extra 
transportation costs. Except that we pre¬ 
pay postage on all orders for bulbs of our 
own Gladioli varieties. 
The U. S. postoffice department re¬ 
fuses to pay for damages caused to in¬ 
sured parcel post shipments by frost. 
Because of this failure upon the part of 
the government to make good on insured 
parcels, all shipments of bulbs and plants 
made during the winter months will be 
by express, or by parcel post at con¬ 
signee’s risk and expense. 
If you prefer to have your order 
come transportation charges collect, tell 
us and we will put in more than enough 
stock to pay such charges. Lots of times 
we can send a much larger plant on 
charges collect orders than on those that 
are prepaid. 
Washington Customers, Please Add 
Sales Tax. 
Three Beautiful New Glads Are Introduced 
“Of the making of books there is no 
end,” might well be said of new varieties 
of Gladioli. Every year sees hundreds 
come into the picture; also hundreds of 
the older things fade out. Many are 
called but few make the performance 
grade now required of a new varietv. 
Only top notchers can hope to remain in 
the running. 
For the season of 1938 we are intro¬ 
ducing three new ones which have been 
greatly admired by visitors to our gar¬ 
dens or to other gardens where they have 
been tested. We hope thev will prove as 
beautiful and reliable in your garden as 
they have in ours and we believe there is 
a niche into which they will fit in the 
Gladioli color scheme. 
In all statements as to size we wish 
to call your attention to the fact that the 
measurements were taken from field- 
grown specimens produced under normal 
dry-farming methods. These measure¬ 
ments were taken in the field and not af¬ 
ter the spikes had been held in dark cold 
storage for a few days to make them de¬ 
velop extra size and number open. If 
you want to pet them some, they will do 
better than the records noted in our de¬ 
scriptions. 
Chiroco 
Pronounced Chi-ro-co. 
Leschi was the seed parent while 
Morocco supplied the pollen in the breed¬ 
ing of this new dark red. It bloomed for 
the first time in 1934 and has been con¬ 
sistent in its good performance ever since. 
Here on Puget Sound it blooms in about 
100 days from planting, but this time is 
reduced about 12 days when grown in 
warmer climates. It grows spikes 56 to 
60 inches tall with a medium size but 
strong stem so that the florets are always 
carried upright. The flower head is 24 
inches long carrying 20 buds of which 
eight will open at one time without “pet¬ 
ting.” Size of florets is five by six inches. 
