GLADLAND BULBS AND 1947 GLADIOLUS SHOWS 
A great many Gladland customers are exhibitors in the various ‘local, state and re- 
gional Gladiolus shows. Every time we fill an order which calls for a list of the large size 
bulbs (it takes these to carry off the Blue Ribbons and the Grand Champion Spike Award) 
we wonder if some of the spikes from these bulbs will not finally reach the show table. 
Judging from many letters that we received this summer — that when they do — they re- 
ceive their share of the awards. 
Because of the huge increase in the volume of our retail sales we know that many 
more specimen spikes from Gladland Acre grown bulbs will be exhibited next year in 
the various shows than ever before, and frankly we will be interested in the results. To 
you will be the credit due for masterly growing, and your rewards richly deserved, and 
we will feel we have been successful in supplying bulbs with the vigor and stamina, that 
would enable you to have proper recognition of your ability as a grower and exhibitor. 
Will you report to us your winnings with Gladland Bulbs in the shows of 1947. We 
are just optimistic enough that we are going to grow some special bulbs to be given by us 
with our compliments to you prize winners — so that you can do more winning in 1948. 
A VERY VERY SPECIAL PRIZE (Worth at least $10.00) if you win a blue ribbon with 
OREGON ROSE. Of all the varieties we have ever grown it is our favorite for Vase, 
Basket, or Table-Arrangement. 

OREGON ROSE 
HOW WE GROW SPECIMEN GLADIOLUS 
The great majority of our customers are odvanced amateurs, members of state and national organiz- 
ations, with bulletins and yearbooks which cover all phases of Gladiolus growing in minute detail. To us 
it seems more important to give the utmost possible catalog space to variety listing and description, and 
supply our customers with special pamphlets dealing with culture. 
We never use chemical fertilizers of any kind here at Gladland Acres. We think that the vigorous 
growth that our bulbs seem to make wherever we send them is due in great part to the fact that our growth 
is not artificially forced, and the result is a firm bulb filled with natural organic food elements that can 
hardly fail to show exceptional vigor in its next season’s growth. 
We plant only on ground rich in natural humus. In our test garden where we try out all new varieties 
—we simply see that the soil is exceptionally well supplied with organic matter, using compost made largely 
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