A FRIENDLY CHAT. 
You have looked through our catalog and have come to this page. Now 
we would like to have a friendly chat with you to tell you of some of the things 
we have done in the world of glad growing. 
We have been growing Gladiolus for the past eighteen years and have 
seen beautiful varities come and go; their span of life shortened by disease. 
We ourselves have spent many a dollar for some bulbs which we enjoyed for 
only a year or two and alas the next year they were not in the field to bloom, 
the dreadful diseases getting the best of them. The more we thought about 
them the more determined we were to do something about it. We came to the 
conclusion that glads must be like human beings, subject to many diseases, 
some hard to detect and therefore would not respond to the treatment given 
them. (We all know that there is no one medicine which will cure all of our 
diseases, neither is one patient given the same strength of medicine as another 
with the same ailment.) 
Not having much to do one spring and bearing this in mind we decided 
to see just what could be done about it. We selected Picardy for our experiment. 
Taking 1210 of the largest bulblets, we peeled them, divided them into eleven 
lots and dipped each in a different solution before planting. The results were 
surprising. The poorest average of one lot was 65 bulbs, while the best lot 
harvested 109 bulbs, almost a 100% average. The following years other varieties 
were tried and still other dips until several years ago we really hit upon 
something good which gave us some wonderful bulbs. This year we have 
strengthened the dip on some and lengthened the time of dipping and have 
found marvelous results. Next year we intend to experiment further with our dip 
and we hope in years to come to have a superior bulb to offer you. One must 
remember that we can only work once a year, and what benefits we have 
derived from our work will first improve next year. We have had no blight 
or any noticeable disease in our field this year as the visitors to our field can 
well testify. 
We came on the market so that you people might benefit by our results 
of long labor fighting these diseases, and we are happy to offer these bulbs 
