FOREWORD 
Our business is supplying field-opened, 
exceptional, cut gladiolus to a select group 
of excellent florists. 
Our aimis to do a better job of this every 
year. 
We take to the shows the same spikes 
we deliver every day to the florists. 
All our gladiolus are field-grown, non- 
irrigated. 
Our seedlings are tested by years of this 
kind of growing in all sorts of weather 
conditions. The varieties that survive must 
have color appeal, good substance, volume 
of bloom. They must, in other words, be 
in demand. 
First Frost 
White is the backbone of any really good 
gladiolus planting, yet good white gladi- 
olus are few. Consider, then, FIRST 
FROST, a white, not cream, gladiolus—a 
white for special occasions with volume of 
flower whiteness and consistently ou t- 
standing spikes. 
FIRST FROST opens six or seven flor- 
ets almost at once—florets large, well- 
placed, of better-than-average substance 
and uniform in size. 
