WHAT ARE THE TWENTY-FOUR NEW 
GLADS THAT YOU ARE MOST EAGER 
TO ADD TO YOUR COLLECTION? 
We did not issue a fall list this season. We should prefer to do all our retail selling 
through this one catalog and not issue a clean-up list in the spring. Reserving the biggest 
bargains until the end of the season has seemed like putting a premium on late ordering, 
when those who order early should really have the biggest bonus. So this year we decided 
to try to pre-figure the season-end bargains that would be available and offer them at the 
beginning of the season instead. It is necessary, however, to put the offer in quite an unusual 
form. 
Thinking back to the time when the writer was simply a glad enthusiast and not a grower, 
I recall how every collection offer, no matter how appealing, inevitably contained a few items 
I already had or didn't want. Attempting to figure out a type of collection or special offer that 
would suit every glad fancier perfectly, we hit upon the idea of a TAILORMADE COLLECTION 
—in other words you tell us exactly what you want and we'II send it to you at a fixed price so 
low almost everyone can afford to get what he wants most. Of course, such an idea wouldn't 
work out at all if there wasn't an element of flexibility somewhere. Here is how we save our 
own skins in the face of such a wide-open offer: we reserve the right to send any size or 
quantity of each variety that we can best spare. Here, then, is the offer in a nutshell; 
List on the Other Side of This Sheet the 24 New Glads You are 
Most Eager to Secure and We Will Send You All of Them for 
Only $10—Even Though Some of Them May Cost $5.00 Each! 
There is no limitation to your choice, except that the varieties must be listed in our 
general descriptive list beginning on page 3 of our 1939 catalog. (Also because of patent 
restrictions and other circumstances. Golden Goddess, Incense, Diane, Marguerite and Lord 
Selkirk are excluded from this offer.) 
How can we do it? Here's how: for years we have specialized in the newest and best 
varieties. Inevitably we sometimes build up stocks of certain high priced sorts more rapidly 
than necessary. For various reasons we cannot cut the price on our whole stock of a variety 
but we can afford to unload the surplus at a very low price. We prefer to give our old cus¬ 
tomers first chance at all our special offers, and this, by far the most generous offer we have 
ever made, is being mailed to all our old customers first. But don't be too slow on the trigger, 
if you want to get one or more of these Tailormade Collections! At most we can spare only 
about 500 of them and the number will probably be nearer 300—we cannot judge exactly 
until we come to make up the orders which will be done in exact rotation and as soon as 
possible after they are received. We reserve the right to withdraw this extraordinary offer at 
any time, in which case your money will be returned promptly. 
Just to give you an idea of what wonderful glads you can get in this "believe it or not'' 
offer, we suggest the following (though you needn't take any of these particular ones if you 
don't want tol): 
1. Black Opal 
8. Jalna 
17. Shirley Temple 
2. Rewi Fallu 
9. Regent 
18. Amrita 
3. Hindenburg's 
10. Puritan 
19. Bit O'Heaven 
Memory 
11. Resolution 
20. Ellen Marie 
4. Margaret 
12. Angelica 
21. Hansel 
Beaton 
13. Airy Dream 
22. Creve Coeur 
5. Allegro 
14. Arethusa 
23. Amberglow 
6. Rima 
15. Barcarole 
24. Irak 
7. Rosalie 
16. New Era 
Plus Peppermint Candy or Freckles (Free) 
^ few^ varieties w^e may be able to send only bulblets (even these are sometimes pretty 
high priced!) but we can promise you that few collections will total under $50.00 at regular 
catalog prices. All will be made up individually and no two will be just alike. All we ask 
is that when you receive your shipment you check up on its total value, and if you don t 
think it the finest glad bargain you ever received, return it to us for a cheerful refund! A 
special order-blank is provided on the reverse of this sheet. 
