GLADIOLUS and LILIES 
Wholesale and Retail 
Alfred L. Moses, Lima. N. Y. 
Dear Glad Friends: 
It is a real pleasure to mail our 1944 Glad and Lily List to you and we greatly 
appreciate the business you have given us in the past. We have done our best to 
please you and cannot help but feel we have done just this from the many testimon- 
ials we have received. 
Our supply of bulbs is not as large as usual. We, like many others, planted a 
larger acreage of food crops to help Uncle Sam at the expense of our bulb business. 
This together with a real late spring, plus the labor shortage, has made this season 
the most difficult we have ever experienced. After all, we have a limited, fine crop 
of bulbs and solicit your continued good will and patronage. 
Please Read Carefully 
Please mail your orders early this year, if you never did before, and we will ac- 
knowledge promptly and all orders will be filled in ROTATION AS RECEIVED. 
On ALL orders taken from the RETAIL LIST, you may select as extras: 10% on 
$3.00 to $5.00 orders; 15% on orders from $5.00 to $25.00 orders, and 20% on orders 
from $25.00 to $50.00. If you would like any particular variety for discount, kindly 
mention. We make it a point to include something different for trial. There are a few 
varieties we cannot give discount on, so please do not figure them in. Also please do 
not ask for these as extras. No Discount on Lilies. 
From the wholesale list you may take 2% discount for cash with order. 
All orders from Retail List shipped prepaid. Wholesale orders are F.O.B. Lima, 
New York. 
A Few Comments on New Commercial Possibilities 
It seems to me that now is the time to get started in some of the newer up- 
to-date commercial! varieties. The old standards have doubled and tripled in price, 
while the newer high priced varieties have not gone up but in many cases have been 
reduced. You simply cannot go wrong in buying now. 
Of all the newer commercials I think PINK RADIANCE is the finest in the pink 
class. Consistency makes a commercial, and Pink Radiance really has it. The color is 
ideal, form and placement of the best, and opens in water exceptionally well. A fine 
propagator and bulb maker. ETHEL CAVE COLE looks like a fine type and good 
grower, plus heavy producer. FLORA FARMER is simply beautiful but needs strong 
soil or lots of water. It was outstanding for us this year. CARILLON is another well 
worth growing for cut flowers. KING WILLIAM is a Picardy type but a cleaner pink 
and apricot and is my pick to give Picardy a run. 
In the white class, we believe SNOW PRINCESS is one better than Maid of 
Orleans, while MARGARET BEATON is in the lime-light with many, but for us 
SILENTUM is a better all around commercial. The scarlet blotch is not as conspic- 
uous but the placement and flower attachment is much better. LEADING LADY, 
white Picardy sport, will not have to take any back seat. SEPTEMBER WHITE a 
