Guarantee 
I guarantee to do my utmost to please my customers. We mean to send out 
only clean bulbs, free from disease and insects. Any claims or complaints in regard 
to bulbs should be sent soon after receiving the bulbs. 
_Of course if any bulbs are not true to name you can not make claims for that 
until after blooming. If anything goes wrong we always try to make a satisfactory 
settlement with the customer. This is the only way that anyone can hope to build 
up a business. 
However we do not guarantee in any way the bulbs you harvest as unsatis- 
factory growing conditions or disease in the soil are beyond our control and we 
cannot be responsible for the crop you harvest except that if bulbs should not be 
true to name we will be glad to replace them or make a satisfactory settlement but 
not exceeding the purchase price of the bulbs. 
Disclaimer 
I, Elmer Gove, try my utmost to have all bulbs true to name, free from disease 
and insects of all kinds and send out only first class stock but I wish it to be under- 
stood that in case of failure of crop for any reason whatsoever or bulbs are found to 
be untrue to name that I will not be held responsible beyond the actual purchase 
price of the bulbs. 
CHANGE OF ADDRESS 
When moving or changing your address, if you wish to remain on our mailing 
list, Just notify us of the change, giving both your old and your new addresses. Even 
though you notify your Post Office of your change of address, they will not forward 
catalogs. Every year we have hundreds of catalogs returned that were addressed to 
people that have moved and didn’t notify us. 
A Classic 
The following paragraph describing the various stages of gladiolus growing has 
attracted so much attention and been quoted so many times that I am repeating it 
again. 
“There is a fascination about growing glads that becomes a hobby, then a 
craze. There are five stages of interest in growing “‘glads.”’ First you just grow them 
as an amateur, same as you would any other flower. Then as your interest in them 
increases you become a “‘fan,”’ then a “‘bug,”’ then a “nut,” then finally a “‘fiend.” 
When you reach this final stage you are Bones You think of “‘glads” all day, 
dream of them at night, spend every available minute of your time in the garden, 
talk of them, visit the shows, read all the catalogs and sueud all your money on 
them. You will look lovingly at the last flower in the fall, will handle over your bulbs 
in the wintertime and will hardly be able to wait till you can lovingly plant the 
bulbs in the spring. From then till the first bloom appears is a period of happy 
anticipation. When finally the spikes of bloom begin to appear you are in heaven. 
In which class are you? 
Do Gladiolus Change Color? No. 
I am asked this hundreds of times every year. I want to say positively “they 
do not’ except for the occasional sport. What happens when you start in with an 
assortment of colors and they finally simmer down to one or two shades is this: 
some varieties are strong and vigorous and propagate well even sometimes the 
bulblets blooming, while others are inclined to be weak and acquire disease and 
die. Don’t let anyone tell you that their glads have changed color because they 
positively cannot except once in a great while an individual plant will sport to 
another shade. 
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