This and That 
In making this small catalog we have tried to describe 
each variety as it grows for us in a way so you can 
visualize the flower you expect to produce from the bulbs 
we send you. Those who visit the shows certainly realize 
that thousands of bulbs were planted in order that those 
show glads could be carefully selected. Don’t expect 
every bulb to produce a show spike or you are due for 
disappointment. You might produce a Grand Champion 
spike from a very few bulbs, but for one Grand Champion 
in a show there have been grown tens of thousands of 
spikes. Some show spikes may be pure chance, but usually 
it takes some practice growing glads in order to win con¬ 
sistently. Varying weather conditions and changes in the 
soil elements make it next to impossible to achieve the 
same results every year. 
There are exceptions to almost every rule and there 
are also exceptions to many glad descriptions. Glads that 
are said to be always straight, sometimes crook, those 
that are always well faced, sometimes show one of two 
florets looking the other way, those that bloom in 75 days 
sometimes take ten days longer, and so it goes. And this 
is not all the fault nor the intention of most catalog 
writers, but due to other conditions, some of which we do 
not know. And so, “have a heart” and don’t blame the 
grower for everything that keeps your bulbs from pro¬ 
ducing the kind of spike you have been led to expect. 
Cultural Directions 
Owing to the fact that we do not know what manner 
of soil yours is nor what portion of the country you live 
in and hence not your climatic conditions our suggestions 
must need be rather general instead of specific. 
The bulbs you receive should be free from disease, 
but whether they are or not, they should be treated, before 
planting, with one of the mercuric compound fungacides 
in commerce or with corrosive sublimate (mercuric chlor¬ 
ide). This is used in a dilution of one part to 1000 or the 
