
Garden of the Gods 
SCRATCHING IN MOTHER EARTH— 
TO GLAD FANS EVERYWHERE:—tThe best of wishes for 
the coming season of 1947. May your Glads be the best that 
you have ever raised; also the blue ribbons to prove it. 
Our garden, based upon Indian tradition, makes every 
effort to uphold the honesty and fair trading of that early 
American race, 
WHAT SIZE BULBS. 
With the coming of a new season, we find ourselves with 
a good stock of bulblet grown bulbs. Our practice is to send 
out the select bulbs to the early orders, and each successive 
order receiving the finest bulbs that we have in stock. And 
here is a tip to you; don’t overlook the very good value of 
bulbs of smaller sizes. We have seen prize winning blooms 
in shows from number four and five size bulbs. They are 
much cheaper, and you will harvest a young, large bulb for 
the next year. In buying new stock, number five size is our 
preference. You will be very agreeably surprised at the good 
quality of bloom that these smaller sizes will give you. 
GROWING BULBS of finest quality is our business, and we 
believe that we are doing a very good job of it. Glad fans are 
becoming very critical of the quality of bulbs that they re- 
ceive in their orders. We anticipated this trend of the buying 
public some years ago, and thru up-to-date methods, and ex- 
periments of our own, we have worked out a method of 
growing bulbs that is, we believe, original. We don’t believe 
that another grower is using the same principle of growing 
bulbs. We have never, in the past, grown bulbs on ground 
that has ever been used for Gladiolus before. And we have 
no intention of doing so in the future. We have in the past, 
and expect that we will in the future, purchase disease con- 
taminated stocks, but we are usually the first to discover this 
condition, and they are destroyed, regardless of our invest- 
ment. We are striving for a perfect Gladiolus bulb, and re- 
sults of the past are evident, and expect these results to con- 
tinue. Repeat orders are our intimation that the customer is 
always right. 
This catalog is our message of goodwill to you. It is 
planned to aid you in your selections by giving you an hon- 
est description of varieties as we see them in our field under 
normal field conditions. Any variety proving itself under 
these conditions will meet your requirements in the garden. 
They are also tested for their desirability for the cut flower 
industry. Each variety has a distinct personality all of its 
own. As different in its mannerisms, as are its growers in 
the human race. Growing of Glads is nature in a very ap- 
pealing form. If you wish to enjoy your contact with nature, 

