
PICTURE ON FRONT COVER 
The photo of an extremely tall Bagdad, Mrs. Lloyd and 
one of our trucks. This Bagdad grew and bloomed. No, 
we didn’t use Vitamin B. The cut spike measures 70%4 
inches, not cut low in the field, but as we cut commercially. 
The picture shows almost all the spike in bloom with the 
lower three florets almost gone and the two side shoots 
nearly all open. Just a freak that is unlikely to be 
duplicated. 

GLADIOLI FOR 1941 
We wish to thank our many friends for the most success- 
ful season we ever had and to assure you of our apprecia- 
tion of your patronage and to express the hope that we 
shall merit the continuance of the confidence you have in 
us and our flowers. 
Our best asset is our satisfied customers - they tell 
others. One of our best recommendations is probably the 
fact that, year after year, a number of our customers call 
at the gardens, make their selections of varieties, pay for 
them and have shipment made at planting time for their 
locality. 
For the past several years we have had the reputation 
of growing the best Gladioli for size, beauty and keeping 
qualities to be obtained in southern New Jersey. We are 
trying to maintain that reputation. To do so, we must 
plant only good, solid, well grown corms of the best 
selected varieties. We have discontinued over three 
hundred varieties in recent years, taking on the newer and 
better as they are introduced and prove superior to those 
they replace in that they have greater beauty, longer 
stems and flower heads, a larger number of flowers and 
buds, which open up all the way to the top of the spike 
and keep longer after being cut. 
Our test table is one of the toughest in the world - our 
open retail display stand in front of our farm. Any 
flower which, after being cut and placed in water, will 
stand up out there in the wind will surely give satisfaction 
in the protection of your home. 
The Gladioli corms you receive from us to grow in your 
garden are from the same lots which we plant to maintain 
our reputation. You may receive the better appearing 
corms as we try to select these for you. If you call at our 
farm, you may personally select the individual corms for 
planting in your garden, just as you have always selected 
the individual cut flowers you have purchased at our farm 
or branch retail stand during the blooming season each 
year. We want you to be satisfied with every purchase 
trem Lloyds. 
