DO YOU WANT HELP 
in your gladiolus problems? We are always glad to help out our customers in any 
way we can and we have a four page circular on the cultivation of glads which we 
send with the bulbs. Will send one to you anytime if you will drop us a card. 
Also we give quite a lot of information in this catalog. On an order of $12.00 
or more we give the book “The Gladiolus” by Rockwell. If you do not want to 
send in an order as large as this we sell the book for $1.35 prepaid. There is no 
other book published that goes into the gladiolus business any deeper than this 
book. This is the best book on gladiolus published at the present time. 
If there is further information we can help you with will be glad to hear from 
you but please read over the instruction sheet and the catalog first. Many people 
ask for advice on what varieties to grow for one purpose or another. I have tried 
to make my descriptions as accurate and full as I can and if you will read these 
over carefully I think you will get about all the information you need along that 
line. Varieties don’t perform the same under all conditions and in different places 
and the only way you can tell which varieties do the best for you is to try them out. 
Many people want blooming dates and I have given them in the descriptions 
as far as I know them. Blooming dates are not accurate anyway as they vary 
according to locality, weather conditions, etc. No one can give you the exact date 
that it will take a certain variety to come into bloom so please don’t ask me for 
any further blooming dates than I have noted. Where I don’t mention the number 
of days or the blooming time you may take it for granted they are midseason 
which would be somewhere from 75 to 85 days under our conditions. 
Will You Help Us? 
Every order that comes in is written in triplicate with a copy of the order as 
acknowledgment going to you at once as soon as the order is written up, with 
another copy going with the bulbs and one copy remaining here for our records. 
In the upper left hand corner of each order that is written you will find a number. 
If you have to correspond about your order later it will help us and save a great 
deal of time if you will just give us this number. 
As stated above an acknowledgment goes out for every order received. We 
try to write up our orders within twenty-four hours but in the spring rush some¬ 
times we get few days behind. If you do not receive your acknowledgment in what 
you think is due time drop us a card. Occasionally a letter gets lost but this is 
very seldom. 
Join A Gladiolus Society 
and get all the benefits such a membership involves. If you are in any of the stages 
from “fan” to “fiend” by all means join up with some society. If you have a local 
or state society join those and if possible you should join a national society. At 
the present time the New England Gladiolus Society, Inc. is the only society in 
the United States of a really national character. This I believe is the strongest 
gladiolus society in the world at the present time. This year they are issuing a 
wonderfully fine Annual of about 200 pages which you receive free with your 
$1.00 membership. This is very well worth the price to anyone interested in glads, 
d'his book contains some wonderfully fine articles on gladiolus and many pictures 
and ads from the leading growers of the world. 
New England Gladiolus Society, Inc. 
Regular Member. $1.00 
Full benefits of the Society and a 
copy of Regular Edition of “The 
Gladiolus 1939.” 
Supplement Member. $2.00 
“The Gladiolus 1939” in flexible 
binding and also April, July, Octo¬ 
ber SUPPLEMENTS. 
Life Member.$25.00 
Benefits of Supplement member¬ 
ship for life. 
Sustaining Member. $5.00 
Supplement Membership plus a 
direct contribution to the N.E.G.S. 
reserves. 
Send to ALBIN K. PARKER, NORWOOD, MASS. 
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