EDITION LIMITED — MORE THAN TWO-THIRDS ALREADY RESERVED FOR 1942 MEMBERS 
Membership 1941 (3,300); 1940 (3,000); 1939 (2,700); 1938 (2,400) 
17th Annual 

1942 Edition 
. “The Gladiolus” 
Published by 
THE NEW ENGLAND GLADIOLUS SOCIETY 
Organized 1920 
Incorporated 1935 
272-page book, bound in cloth boards, stamped in gold (illustrated), with 
new articles, reports 3 shows; and advertisements of about 50 leading 
growers of Gladiolus. 
New Varieties: —On the West Coast, Willis H. 
Wheeler; Corn Belt, Carl Fischer; Alberta Selections, 
Prof. Shoemaker; Trial Gardens, 1941; Maryland 
G. S.; West Virginia G. S:; J. R. Hopkin’s now famous 
annual Ratings for 1941, the best by color groups; Dr. 
ee Symposium of 1941 Show Winners (45 
shows). 
Culture: — Sand Tank Culture, Stephen Chase, 
Florida; For Home Gardens, F. M. Barnes, Vermont; 
For Show Rooms, Mr. and Mrs. Waite, Iowa (326 
ribbons, 19 medals, 7 trophies, won 1941); Cutting 
Blooms to Ship, Douglas A. Neff, New York. 
Hybridizing: — For Specific Colors, J. R. Almey, 
Horticulturist, Canadian Pacific Railway, Winnipeg; 
ome new and interesting features are listed below. 
Botanical Study, Gladiolus Cormlet: — by Sister 
Geiger — final instalment, complete in itself; invalu- 
able permanent record; many illustrations. 

articles for commercial and amateur growers. 
Single Treatment to Destroy Thrips on Corms with 
Methyl Bromide, California Dept. Agric.; Resistance 
to Fusarium Yellows (Wilt Disease), Lucia Mc- 
Culloch, U.S. Dept. Agriculture; Colchicine Technique, 
Thomas Manley, West Virginia Univ. 
Some New Contributors: — Everett Long, Leo 
Matthews, Frances Elliott, G. A. Blanchard, W. W. 
Brough (New Zealand), F. W. Ritchie (Australia), 
Chester F. Kuhn. 
Breeding for Yellows, B. R. Kadel, Penna.; Surprises, 
Milton Jack, British Columbia; Parentage List (con- 
tinued), Rev. C. H. Birch. 
Other Familiar Experts: — Dorothea Kuhn, Dr. 
George H. Scheer, R. H. Nelson. 
The book is a rich storehouse of valuable and intensely interesting material, free to all N. E. G. S. members, published by this non-profit 
organization devoted to the collection of research and other material on the ‘Gladiolus from all available sources and, to the dissemination 
of such knowledge to more than 3,300 members located in every state, all Canadian provinces and over twenty foreign countries. 
This valuable book free with each membership 
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To ALBIN K. ParKEr, Secretary, Box 2, Norwood, Mass., U. S. A. 
Supplement Membership $2.00 | 
Entitles you to a deluxe, flexible, imitation leather-bound copy of THE GLADIOLUS issued in 
January. You will receive also April, July and October Supplements (about 36 pages each) 
containing current information and seasonal articles on planting, fertilizing, hybridizing, grow- 
ing for and shipping to shows; the listing of over fifty show dates on this continent; harvest- 
ing, curing, storing; reporting of over forty shows; also news from the twenty-five affiliated 
Gladiolus societies from coast to coast and from foreign sources. 
Regular Membership (Book only) $1.00 | | 
Regular cloth-bound copy of THE GLapIoLus, 1941, and membership privileges of the society. 
(Usually costs us more than your dues — but offset by value to N. E. G. 8. of possible volunteered participation 
and possible market for our advertisers.) 

The $2.00 Membership is what you Name 
really want if you can afford it. Gives 
you three quarterly 36-page Bulletins 
in addition to your copy of the 1942 
Yearbook (deluxe). 
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