porary. STATEMENT 2. eee 
After forty years of growing flowers of all kinds because of his pure love for 
the good earth and all sorts of growing things our father has finally realized 
his life long ambition to be in that business. In the year 1940 the writer, 
the oldest of the family of boys started growing a few glads as a hobby but it 
was not long before "The Bug" bit him and he was lost to the other things he 
loved to do out-of-doors like sailing and sculling and he soon found that the 
growing seasons couldn't roll around fast enough to get in all the pent up in- 
terest he was storing up during the off seasons...and some of you surely know 
what we meaneces 
Well, anyhow it wasn't long before Dad just couldn't keep his hand out of the 
"kettle" and so there was now two cooks.eeand his hobby "chess" soon became a 
winter evening's pastime (when catalogs were not out yet). Then, after three 
years of growing and showing brother Russell began to get interested. He had 
spent sdéme eight of ten years in Texas in the Citrus fruit business so tractors 
and cultivating, plowing and digging, spraying and harvesting were not new to 
him..but..those beautiful flowers were something that had just managed to es- 
cape his close scrutiny, so low and behold another convert was madeseeseSo now 
there are three GLADIOLUS NUTS and a "ton of work." Our little city lot of 
Glads has now grown into six acres and our original twenty varieties or so has 
now become close to four hundred, not counting our own seedlings, and new in- 
troductions on trial. This past season we had two and a half acres of bulblet 
stock alone in and if that isn't work to do then the writer doesn't know what 
work is. Nevertheless, we have completed our first year as a business partner- 
ship and the results are very gratifying to say the least. 
In submitting this list for your perusal and approval we wish to make one 
thing absolutely clear,...(That one thing adds up to several)... 
A- From this moment on so long as we are in bulb 
and cut flower business YOU must be satisfied... 
Whether it is only cultural information you want 
or an opinion about some variety we grow or do 
not grow you may be very sure that we will do 
everything possible to be honest with you and 
ourselves in getting the information to you as 
quickly as possible and in as frank and equit- 
able a manner as is within our understanding to 
give. All orders must meet with your unequiv- 
ocal satisfaction or we will accept immediate 
return of same and your money will be cheetful- 
ly refunded. We cannot assume responsibility 
for crop failure. 
Be On our own behalf we pledge that we will send 
out nothing that is not State inspected, free 
from disease and harmful insect pests and true 
to name as advertised» 
