

SMALL 


SIZES OF 
BULBS 
These cuts show the 
average standard sizes 
of bulbs. When No. 1 
run much larger than 
the cut they are called 
Jumbos. Some growers 
prefer Jumbos for ex- 
hibition and I can fur- 
nish them in some 
varieties for 10% more 
N. ) than listed prices. Per- 
Oo. sonally I don’t think 
size alone will produce 
better flowers than No. 
2 or No. 3. Age of bulbs and other fac- 
tors have something to do with it, tho 
theoretically No. 1 and No. 2 should 
produce better blooms than medium 
size. However, you will be pleasantly 
Surprised at the bloom you will get 
from the medium sizes and even from 
small ones. 
People who are not familiar with 
glads often think they have to have 
large overgrown bulbs such as the 
chain stores sell. The fact is that many 
times the chain store bulbs are old and 
past their usefulness and so have been 
sold by commercial growers who prefer 
younger tho smaller bulbs. 
Small bulbs will most all bloom 
satisfactorily and will make nice large bulbs for 
the next year and will usually produce more bulb- 
lets than larger bulbs. 
No. 3 or No. 4 or MeEpivum bulbs will produce 
very satisfactory bloom and are preferred by 
many commercial growers as the price is much 
lower and the blooms from large bulbs often not 
enough better to warrant the extra price. 
Bulblets sold in packages and in bulk are 
mostly medium size. In small quantities especially 
of the newer kinds I put in the largest I have but 
some varieties never make large bulblets. Size hasn’t anything to do with germinat- 
ing qualities tho it happens that in most varieties that produce large bulblets the 
bulblets make large growth. However, if a variety produces only medium or small 
bulblets we cannot furnish large ones. Some varieties will produce some bulblets 
even larger than the one on the left below. : 
In my retail price list the bulbs are listed as Large, Medium and Small, not as 
No. 1, 2 and 3. Some people make this mistake when ordering calling the medium size 
in the second column No. 2 and the third column No. 3. 

Extra Large Bt. 
Large Bt. Medium Bt. 
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