FOREWORD 
We wish to thank our many friends and customers for the generous orders of the 
past season and for their expression of appreciation of our stock. 
We were favored with an unusually fine growing season for 1937 and conse¬ 
quently are in position to offer many fine varieties at low prices. Our list of varieties 
is greatly enlarged this season and in addition to our list of standard varieties, we 
are offering two new introductions and several fine varieties of very recent introduc¬ 
tion. We wish to call your attention to the varieties Fortune, Coralie, Shalimar, 
Chrysalis and ]oli from Mr. John Brauer of Union, New York, who has produced 
several varieties of unusual merit. Mr. Brauer has been especially successful in 
breeding fragrant gladiolus and his ]oli is a distinct advance in this direction. 
The rose-like fragrance of ]oli is often noticeable within a few feet of the plant. 
Mr. Brauer’s seedlings have been especially outstanding in our test plots and in 
offering them, we feel confident that they merit a place among the best varieties 
in commerce. Two of these introductions now offered at lower prices— Vanguard 
and Nola —have performed unusually well for us and we recommend them highly. 
Nola has produced some of the most gorgeous spikes we have ever had and Van¬ 
guard, although a smaller flower, consistently produces perfect spikes of unusual 
beauty. 
Our introductions, Matoaka and Alandale are seedlings of Mr. Brauer which 
when grown by us, proved so fine that we prevailed upon him to sell us his entire 
stock. Matoaka, a seedling of Red Lory x Diablo has for two seasons been outstand¬ 
ing both as to color and performance. Although offered only as a premium bulb 
for this season, its continued good performance will merit future offerings at a price 
commensurate with its fine qualities and those who take advantage of our offer this 
season will secure an early start of a variety which we believe will prove outstanding 
in its color class. 
We wish to call your attention to Mr. Salbach’s varieties added to our list this 
season: Festival Queen, Miss Alameda, Queen Helen II, La Fiesta and Golden God¬ 
dess. The latter is the first patented gladiolus (U. S. Plant Patent No. 77) and is also 
the finest yellow we have grown. All have been tested by us for at least two years, and 
we recommend them highly. Mr. Salbach is the originator of many outstanding 
varieties of gladiolus, iris and dahlias and needs no introduction to flower lovers in 
this or foreign countries. 
We are also offering three fine varieties originated by Mr. D. S. Pruitt of Eugene, 
Oregon— Shirley Temple, Early Peach and Paradise. Shirley Temple is a wonderful 
new cream colored variety and Early Peach seems to have all the qualities needed for 
a first-class commercial variety. The spike of Early Peach pictured herein was grown 
in greenhouse last season which seems to indicate that it is a fine forcer. 
Other new varieties offered for the first time in our list this season are Miss 
Marion, a new lavender introduced by Mr. Louis R. Fischer; New Era, a new pink 
introduced by Mr. John Majeski of Redwood Nurseries; and Retvi Fallu, new dark 
red from Australia. 
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