GREETINGS 
Dear Friends: Another summer will soon be here, and most of us are planning our garden. We 
are encouraged to plant flowers as well as vegetables in our Victory Garden this year. I hope Gladiolus 
will be one of the flowers grown as I know they grow their best, when planted in rows in the garden. 
Last summer many of our larger growers of Gladiolus were unable to get the help to care for as 
large an acreage as other years. This made a shortage of flowers last summer and of bulbs this spring. 
In the summer I work most of the time each day in my garden. The time does not seem so long 
when we are busy, and this is the work I can do best. 
I enjoy receiving letters and meeting people who are interested in Gladiolus. Have been a member 
of the New England Gladiolus Society ever since 1927, and am a Life Member of the Michigan Gladiolus 
Society, also a member of the Mid-West Gladiolus Society. 
While I write I am thinking of all those in service over seas who are fighting and working that we 
Don’t forget to write to them often, and now I must stop, and write to my son, who is a 
may be safe. 
Best wishes to all of you, 
Seebee located on some island in the Pacific. 
Sincerely, 
MRS. GEORGE KINYON. 
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