A FIELD OF OUR ROGUE RIVER VALLEY 
GLADIOLUS'. Note healthy, robust growth 
HARROLD’S 
ROGUE RIVER VALLEY 
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PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE ORDERING 
Our Gladiolus stock this season is the most complete, in the better 
varieties, that we have ever offered. Many of the older sorts have been 
dropped for various reasons, usually because some far better variety 
in the same color class has become available. Our line has been heavi¬ 
ly modernized during the past year as will be noted by a comparison 
with our last year list, and we believe that it offers better values. 
While stocks are quite complete at date of going to press, quantity 
sales in car load lots has taken up a very large part of the stock 
grown in our valley. As a result, there is no surplus at this time and 
there is a definent liklihood that many varieties will be inadipuate 
to supply all the demand. For this reason it is suggested that you 
order early. Should the size ordered be exhausted, we will supply the 
same value in the next larger or smaller size if available. If size sub¬ 
stitution is not satisfactory, please so state on your order. We must 
of necessity make all quotations subject to stock being unsold at the 
time order arrives. 
Rogue River Valley Gladiolus are famous for their vitality and 
quality; being one of the highest crowned and heaviest bulb stocks 
produced in the United States. They are top quality for any type of 
planting, and the fact that they deliver the goods is demonstrated by 
the continued shipment of many car loads of these bulbs each season 
to the Florida cut-flower growers; to be used as forcing stock. Large 
quantities of Gladiolus are grown much closer to these Florida grow¬ 
ers and could be delivered to them with less freight cost than our 
Rogue River Valley stock. The fact that these growers find this 
stock so valuable, that they use it year after year, demonstrates its 
quality and value to the cut-flower producer. 
Our Gladiolus are all carefully inspected, both in the field and 
warehouse, and will be found as free of all types of disease as any 
commercial stock obtainable. On this point they must have passed the 
rigid Oregon State inspection standards as well as our own. In the 
matter of Thrips, our bulbs and warehouses — including all handling 
equipment — has been fumigated three times with calcium cyanide, 
under the supervision of an Oregon State horticultural inspector as a 
preventative measure. Bulbs leaving here are in a sterial condition as 
far as insect pests can be considered, and if properly handled they will 
stay so. It should be remembered, however, that if exposed to infested 
conditions in the location of planting, re-infestion can occure, as can 
the development of several diseases that can become resident in your 
soil. Our stock is clean and it is suggested that it be handled in such 
a manner as to avoid infestion by disease or insect when planting. 
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