Dear Glad Friend: 
Again it is a pleasure to send you my 1947 list of gladiolus, which features the 
Krueger varieties, and which is supported by larger stocks of other fine gladiolus. 
It is a privilege to thank my 1946 customers for more and larger orders, and for 
their expressed appreciation of both the service given, and the quality of stock received 
The 1947 list presents a few novelties and exhibition gladiolus, but the emphasis is 
placed on varities with cut-flower possibilities. 
Wholesale prices are gladly quoted to those who are entitled to them. 
BUSINESS TERMS 
Minimum order $2.00. Retail orders are prepaid. Wholesale orders F. O. B., Ocon- 
omowoc. Overcount or extras with all retail orders. 10% cash discount on all retail or- 
ders paid for in full prior to December 15, 1946. Payment in full before shipment. 
I aim to send out only healthy bulbs, true to name, and will cheerfully refund the 
purchase price on any order found unsatisfactory on receipt, and promptly returned; but 
no guarantee of growth is implied in the sale (careless usage of chemical dips and sprays 
make this mandatory) nor will I be responsible for the crop. All orders are placed with 
the above conditions accepted by the purchaser. All orders are accepted subject to stock 
crop and subject to prior sale. 
No bulblet orders are solicited nor accepted after April 1, 1947, for spring shipment. 
Flowers and bulbs are inspected by the State Department of Agriculture. 
This price list cancels al lpreviously published retail prices, and voids any hereto- 
fore announced prices or price policies. 
Signed, 
WALTER C. KRUEGER 
GENERAL REMARKS 
It is the business of Reliance Gardens to sell bulbs, and to do so by proven sound 
business practice and ethical business conduct. To this end varieties need be found a- 
mong the seedlings, or stock purchased to give you the buyer, finer floral beauty, service, 
and honest value. These varieties are found listed in this 7th retail listing, based on a 
growing experience of 17 years and 15 of hybridization and show competition. 
The facilities of Reliance Gardens are not such, either by available help, or acreage, 
to grow every glad, nor to follow those grown to the “bushel of bulblets’’ quantities, hence 
it remains a small business, and in its scope, primarily coming commercials, tries to serve 
you. 
While crop rotation has been followed (except for the practice of exposing seedling 
stocks to infested conditions) a land area has been purchased to make possible the growth 
of better bulbs with less expenditure of energy. 
The following criteria are used to evaluate seedlings, (yours or mine, named or other- 
wise) are (1) beauty of color and formfi (2) health, (3) propagation, and (4) field habits. The 
florist, the ultimate user of the product, and the grower, who produces the bloom deter- 
mine the worth of any variety of gladiolus. 
VARIETY COMMENTS 
Of the glads of recent introduction the following varieties seem to stand out as 
great commercial prospects: Christine for its earliness, size, and white color; Wax Model 
for its classic charm and fine performance; Alcan, a 1947 introduction. In cream tones, 
Oriental Pearl and the smaller Parma. Gratitude and Orange Gold look promising in the 
orange color class. Scarlet Tarawa has great possibilities. While the not new Bridesmaid 
is a real great, a superb performer in adverse or good conditions. Madeline Brown, very 
much like Picardy in color, is a great glad. It makes stretchy spikes in adverse growing 
conditions. Pioneer is the third salmon of real promise. Salmon scarlet color is well cared 
for by Praire Beauty and Dieppe. ‘ne later reminds one of the older Pfitzer’s Triumph. 
It is excellent. Nowadays in a shade between rose and deep salmon is a great commercial. 
