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THE GLADIOLUS FANCIER’S 
PREVIEW OF OUR 1940 IMPORT RELEASES 
DR. DENTZ (Clingendaal). Another giant floret commercial. Fresh, pure rose. Medium 
tall. Probably underpriced. 
GRETO GARBO (Pfitzer). A knowledge of the complete specifications of this beautiful, 
very light rose pink (not very far distant from blush white) will unerringly convince you that 
this is the world famous hybridizer’s greatest production to date. We back it without reser¬ 
vation of any kind. 
NEW ZEALAND SPLENDOR (Toon). Has not reached the U. S. show's. Too few 
blooming size bulbs until this second crop, U. S. grown, was dug. A few bulbs, fully acclimated, 
now available of this New Zealand champion almost 2 years ahead of normal release date. 
Other than the Both varieties, this is the one chance to buy stocks of a quality import ahead 
of normal release. 
PURPLE BEAUTY (Roozen). We have been searching for years for this glad. A self 
purple with excellent qualities, both exhibition and commercial, all in the same glad. 
ROSA VAN LIMA. At its introductory price this is probably the greatest value to be 
found in this catalog. Particularly to the cut flower man. Suggest that you take on an assort¬ 
ment of sizes and bulblets and lead the way this year. Others will follow, sooner or later. 
Watch the florist demand for this bright, light rose pink. 
SUMMERWEALTH (Heemskerk). In our hunt for large floret glads with commercial 
qualities we came upon this one. Darker color than F. J. McCoy, shorter, less open but 
florets much larger and has a shining color which may induce much admiration. 
VELA (Heemskerk). Another fine commercial glad by Heemskerk. Light scarlet, rosy 
toned, blotched deeper. Tall spikes. Early. With us it is second only to Harmau for free 
production of blooms from bulblets. Offered cheaply enough to warrant cut flower growers 
to test out an assortment of sizes and bulblets right now. 
SIZE OF BULB TO BUY 
If economy be the aim, do not rely on small 
bulbs to give wholly satisfactory blooms. 
The small bulbs will all bloom but medium 
bulbs almost always give far better than 
“medium” sized spikes of the given variety. 
Our descriptions usually indicate whether or 
not the variety is an exceptionally fine pro¬ 
ducer of blooms from the smaller sizes. 
A number of varieties either have come 
into sufficient world production to warrant 
low price for large bulbs or bloom so un¬ 
satisfactorily from medium size bulbs that, 
for the protection of our customer, we omit 
the smaller sizes from our pricing. Likely, 
we have them if you insist but we recommend 
only the sizes offered. 
Commercially, bulbs are graded into 6 
sizes. .Size 6 is under 3^ inch diameter and 
other sizes range up every 34 inch, the Num¬ 
ber 1 bulb being 134 inch up. Catalogs 
commonly offer bulbs as L (large) sizes 1 and 
2) (134 inch up); M (medium) (sizes 3 and 4) 
(% to 134 inch); S (small) (sizes 5 and 6) 
(34 to M inch) and Bits (bulblets, the little 
hard shelled cormels which cling at the roots 
of the bulb). 
For the most part we deliver number 1 for 
L, number 3 for M and Number 5 for S. 
Tiny bulblets are screened out and where 
they are priced per each they are selected 
as large as they run. Morever, except on 
large quantity orders, we prefer to supply 
No. 2L for M rather than No. 4 and to supply 
No. 4M for S rather than No. 6. This applies 
particularly to early orders and to expensive 
item orders. 
The size (bulk) of bulb you purchase 
determines the amount of food with which 
you are starting to produce a given spike. 
Below is a table giving the cubic inch of food 
content of the various sizes, figured at a dia¬ 
meter average for the given size, i.e., half 
way between its maximum and minimum 
size: 
No. 6, up to 34 in., aver. .027 cu. in. 
No. 5, 34 to ^ in., aver. .127 cu. in. 
No. 4, ^ to 1 in., aver. 34> .350 cu. in. 
No. 3, 1 to 134 in., aver. 134) .745 cu. in. 
No. 2, 134 to 13^2 in., aver. 1^, 1.361 cu. in. 
No. 1, 134 up, aver. 134> 2.247 cu. in. 
2 in. up Jumbo, aver. 234) 5.021 cu. in. 
Note, curiously enough, that the big 
differences are between sizes No. 5 and No. 6 
and between Number 1 and Jumbos which 
really average more than 234 inches. Norm¬ 
ally, it is not until a bulb reaches large size 
that it loses its spherical form. A 3 in. 
Jumbo bulb may approximate a half sphere 
but such a bulb would contain 7.07 cu. in., 
about 5 times the food bulb of a No. 2 large 
bulb. 
YOUNG JUMBO BULBS 
These young jumbo bulbs are 2 inches 
diameter or over, mostly over and are first 
time arrived to large size, not more than 2 
years growth from bulblet. 
With up to four times the food bulk of 
the so-called large bulb, these oversize jumbos 
are most dependable for producing the magni¬ 
ficent show specimen blooms that capture 
the blue ribbons in the many, highly com- 
