

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. © i 
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. ~ 
We Do Not Guarantee Bulblets To Grow 
Bulblets of most varieties will grow easily but not all bulblets of any variety 
will grow. Some bulblets are harder to germinate than others. If you keep the 
bulblets warm for a month or so or put them in the sun for a few hours before 
planting it will help to germinate them. As I said above every bulblet will not 
grow anyway and there are so many conditions which can affect them that we do 
not guarantee them to grow. But you can safely expect a large percentage to ger- 
minate. 
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. 
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. 
Pure Vermont Maple Syrup 
If you have never eaten the pure high grade filtered Vermont syrup you don't 
know what you have missed. The dark blended syrups sold throughout the coun- 
try as maple syrup are usually only faintly related to the pure article. I handle 
only the very best fancy grade to be had and guarantee it in every way. 
This past season the demand for syrup has been many times what it ever was 
before so that all fancy maple syrup was sold out early in the season. There will 
be no more till the new crop comes in in April. I don’t know what the price will 
be. If interested drop me a line and after the crop comes in I can tell you what the 
price is. 
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 
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