O our many friends and customers, from Alaska to Mexico, and from 
_ Maine to New Zealand, we send our greetings and our thanks for 
@ the many orders and kind letters of the past season. 
The year 1942 marks our twentieth vear as commercial e@ladiolus 
growers. And in celebration of that event, we are issuing our first 
catalog in color. We hope you like it. The two color plates are of two mighty fine 
elads, and the colors are as accurate as printers’ ink will make them. 
These troublesome times will bring many people back to the peace and solace 
of their gardens. According to reports from Holland—even in rationed Germany, 
more tulip bulbs were planted last fall than ever before. 
Please send your orders in early this year. We are very short on help—none 
to be hired around here—everyone on defense work. So if you can get your 


orders in before the March rush, vou will all have our deep gratitude. 
Sincerely, 
RALPH J. POMMERT 
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NEW VARIETIES 
Again this past summer we tried out many 
of the new introductions in our trial garden. 
And as in the past, some of them are excellent, 
but many of them are either very similar to 
existing varieties or other varieties that have 
just been introduced. It is just a heart-break- 
ing, and a purse busting job for any commer- 
cial grower to try to keep up with new intro- 
ductions any more. 
We tried out a number of the new pale pink 
and cream varieties, but feel that GRETA 
GARBO is still the best in this class. The most 
outstanding new introduction in our garden 
last summer was Pruitt’s JEANIE. This glad 
has bright color, placement, and spike—and 
should make a fine commercial as well as an 
exhibition variety. Salbach’s CALIFORNIA 
ROSE is a rose colored Picardy that will 
make a name as a cut-flower glad. MRS. 
MARK’S MEMORY, while not new last year, 
is the finest red-violet I have seen. Fine tall 
spikes and florets that will make it a con- 
tender for the largest floret in the show. Our 
own MARGUERITE was again a favorite 
with all visitors to our fields. For those who 
like odd colors, both GARDEN OF THE NA- 
TION and GREY GHOST are varieties that 
will be appreciated. KING LEAR 
doubtedly the King of the purples. 
is un- 
I was unab'e to tell much about many of 
the new glads we had that bloomed after Au- 
gust 20th. We had an “Oregon mist” that 
started here about that time and lasted for 
almost a month, with the result that most of 
our blooms were spoiled. 
SEEDLINGS 
No, we have no new introductions this year. 
We have a number of mighty fine ones that 
we are giving a thorough test, and if they 
survive another year’s trial we will have one 
or two to introduce in 1943 at popular prices. 
As an example of what we have, take a look 
at seedling no. 38-6N, which can be seen (as 
J. D. sez) if one looks closely and coneen- 
trates, on page 14. When we introduce any 
new seedling you may be sure that it will 
have enough points of superiority to be better 
than any other variety of its class that we 
have seen. We spent several years building up 
a stock of a beautiful pale pink seedling of 
Maid of Orleans only to discard the whole lot 
when Greta Garbo was introduced, because 
Garbo was better. 
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PLEASE NOTE—Any persons desiring additional color pictures of the two varieties in 
this catalog are requested not to write for additional copies of the catalog just to get the 
pictures. We have a very limited supply of catalogs. I have had a number of additional 
pictures of both Marguerite and J. S. Bach printed up, and as long as my supply lasts, I 
will be glad to send you as many pictures as you want, upon receipt of 10c in stamps for 
each picture desired. 
AFTER YOU HAVE FINISHED WITH THIS CATALOG PLEASE LOAN IT TO A 
FRIEND. WE WILL BOTH APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. 
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