RIMA 
FOREWORD 
One season passes and another is here almost before we are aware of it and new 
again it is catalogue season. We wish first of all to thank our many customers for the 
good orders given us during the last year and we trust that each of you had many fine 
flowers in your Glad garden during 1938. While our own planting was not so extensive as 
the year before, we had more good blooms and we hope to have enough bulbs of most of 
the better and newer varieties to satisfy the demand. Of some, the supply is limited, of 
course. 
It is a difficult matter to select the best from all the new Glads introduced and it is 
impossible in one or two year’s trial to properly evaluate all the new ones. However, we 
endeavor to offer as select a list of the newer things as is possible, and while doubtless 
some that we list are not really superior to some of the older varieties, we realize that 
the short trial given to the variety is not always conclusive of its merits and though it 
might not have given an outstanding performance here, it may do better another season 
and may be much better in other localities. Moreover, tastes differ and what one may 
like, another may condemn. A number of the new ones, including some of which we have 
considerable stock, have been omitted because they failed to perform well for us; others 
were not included in our planting as it is obviously impossible to grow all the new intro¬ 
ductions. The omission of a variety does not necessarily indicate its lack of merit. We 
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