NOTE- 
We are not in the sense of the word a commercial glad grower, we grow 
these bulbs for but one purpose and that is to find a control of the various diseases 
on gladiolus. We are not interested in Grand Champion winners or how many blue 
ribbons they win; our interest lies in the kind of a bulb it produces and will the 
variety still be sold 6 or 7 years from now, or will it be on the market for only a 
short time and then be forgotten. If we were a commercial grower we would 
list most of the varieties other catalogers do, but as we are only interested in 
this particular work we list only those grown by us, as these are our guinea pigs. 
We know the varieties from years of work with them and we know their ups 
and their downs. You would perhaps be surprised to know what varieties we 
use as a measuring stick for health when we try new varieties to compare with 
them. We have one variety in particular we still list and we can tell you truth- 
fully many of you old timers would hardly believe it could be grown as it does 
if you saw it on our field. 
We are offering our fine stock of bulbs to all interested, to enable us to 
continue with our work. We are not claiming them to be disease free, we say 
they are disease controlled. We know from many years of experience what can 
happen to what appears to be a perfectly healthy bulb, and it has kept us wonder- 
ing for all these years. Many is the time we asked; Why? How? What is wrong? 
What happened to this particular bulb? Until now, we believe we have finally 
discovered the source of the greatest killer of the gladiolus bulb. This particular 
disease has been giving us a great fight for many a year, but we believe it can 
be controlled. If our findings are correct, we can tell you no spray or dip in the 
world can help it. It is a very little item all glad growers have overlooked all these 
years. It is as small an item as showing thrip to a stranger and he says, “Such a 
little thing can do all that damage?” So is it with this; and we're sure it would be 
pretty hard to convince the people that it is the killer of the bulbs. We need about 
4 or 5 years more to definitely find out if our discovery proves to be true, and if 
so we can tell you the cost of the control of this disease would cost you nothing 
for dips or sprays, yet you may ask “how can it be controlled?” 
Our bulbs have been State Inspected and for as many years as we have 
had them inspected, we have always had the rating as one of the healthiest fields 
