PERSONAL GREETINGS FOR 1940 
My, how time does fly! Seems like only three months ago I was writing greetings 
for 1939. The older we grow, the faster the time seems to go. Well, here we are again 
offering you some of the finest bulbs we ever were able to grow. 1939 was the wetest 
year we ever experienced in our Glad growing career. Didn’t see a thrip on the place 
during the whole season. Some growers think wet weather and thrips don’t go to¬ 
gether. Whether it was the weather or our constant alertness with Rototox and Tartar 
Emetic, the new spray, we don’t know. Didn’t have to resort to irrigation the entire 
season, but we do know we had a time keeping ahead of the grass and weeds. Took the 
help of two hired men and our new Ariens tiller, but we were rewarded with the finest 
crop of fine flowers we ever grew. Our display put on at the Citizens & Southern Bank, 
July 12, attracted more attention and favorable comments than any show ever staged 
in Atlanta. Ford’s ! Glads were selected for decorating the bank the entire season. In our 
trial patch we had about 75 new varieties to test out. Some of the finer ones we are 
listing this year. Some other good ones in the bunch, not enough to offer this season. 
Hope we will be able to list several of them next season. Sorry, but many of the new 
much bragged about varieties did not come up to our requirements, and of course were 
discarded. We do not claim to offer all the good ones, but what we do offer can be de¬ 
pended upon to be of the best. Thus we can save you time and money by selecting your 
needs from this list and let the other fellow experiment with some of the new overrated 
ones. We are releasing three new ones this year: “Etta Bell” is our own seedling, while 
“Dixie Gold” and “Betty Ford” are Fred W. Gray seedlings ,of which we control the 
entire stock. You will like them all. The prices are in reach of all Glad fans. In addition 
to these beautiful Glads we are listing our stock of fine Iris. We have a very fine collec¬ 
tion, both the tall bearded and the new fall blooming series, which bloom in the spring 
and again in the fall till the frost gets them. 
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“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. 
There must be WILL to produce a superior article.—John Ruskin. 
