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THANK YOU! 
And I really mean just that, for I do appreciate all the orders which you customers 
sent me in 1938 and I am very pleased to tell you that these orders made it possible 
for our gladiolus business to again show an increase. One of the many pleasant parts 
of this business is that we have so many fine letters each year from you customers 
telling us that our bulbs have given you so much pleasure. I assure you we all shall 
continue to do our very best to see that you are a'ways pleased and with the hope 
that your garden will give you a bit more pleasure than you really expected. 
It was very kind of so many of you to show your interest in our welfare at the 
time of the hurricane and tidal wave. Although we were in the center of the area 
our gladiolus damage was confined to the loss of the blooms from a late cut flower 
planting. 
We want to give you a personal service so if you have a question of any kind 
connected with gladiolus I hope you will write and if, from experience, I can tell you 
anything that will help you I want to do so regardless of whether you are sending an 
order or not. If you do send an order it will always have my personal attention, yet 
we are all human and if there is anything, no matter how small, that is not 100% 
satisfactory when you receive your order or after you have grown it I do hope you 
will give me an opportunity to adjust it. 
We hope that next summer we will again have a large number of you as visitors 
to our field (it is nearby both main roads to Cape Cod) and we usually have some 
interesting things in bloom from early july to early October. Watch for the sign 
in the picture above. 
The past season, in most sections of the country, was one with an abundant 
rain fall and this unquestionably helped toward giving so many gardens the best 
blooms they have ever had. But a part of this improvement in the blooms the past 
season was because there has been such a great advancement in the gladiolus varie¬ 
ties of the past few years and many of these varieties are now found in almost every 
garden. 
May the year 1939 be truly the happiest, healthiest, “glad” year you have ever 
had and may your gladiolus garden be the best you ever grew. 
BANCROFT WINSOR 
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