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SELMA GLADIOLUS GARDENS 
Ira and Alice Mason 
Box I11, Selma, California 
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SELMA GLADIOLUS GARDENS 
Ira and Alice Mason 
Box I 11, Selma, California 
GLAD FANS: 
We wish to thank the many who sent us orders last season, and especially those who took the time to write us 
their appreciation of the high crown bulbs they received and of the fine flowers they grew. It is these things that 
instill in us the desire to go ahead in spite of the handicaps of the times. 
We like daffodils, iris, roses and other flowers but have decided to devote all our time and attention to Glad- 
iolus, believing that with our favorable climate and soil conditions we can grow better bulbs by growing the one 
crop, and our bulbs speak for themselves. 
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VARIETY COMMENT 
Though we grow most of the new originations as they come out we do not care to comment on them until we 
have grown them by the thousands. 
It is unfair to judge a variety from flowers grown in a single locality. Soil, climate and growing conditions 
make one Glad and break another. Elizabeth the Queen, Golden State, Lavender Prince, Leading Lady, Minstrel, 
Purple Supreme, Silver Wings and Spotlight were outstanding as grown here. 
We cannot speak too highly of the following varieties as grown here: Aladdin, Corona, Ethel Cave Cole, Gre- 
ta Garbo, King Lear, Lady Jane, Lavender Ruffles, Margaret Beaton, Myrna, Rosa Van Lima and Wanda. We grow 
these varieties in large numbers for the Florists. Many others are worth while but these were the outstanding ones 
both from our conditions and Florist's favor. We did not mention reds, blues, smokies and other colors not be- 
cause they do not grow well but they are not florist's colors. True, they will use a limited amount, and glad to get 
them, but not by the 100 dozen. 
Many of the Gladiolus bulbs sold in the seed stores and 5 and dime are old bloomed bulbs whose lifetime of 
usefulness is about over. We sell only high crown young bulbs that have all their future left in them. 
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