KAYLOR NURSERIES, LAKEWOOD, WASH. 3 
Greetings for °47 
Many of you folks are “new names” on 
our mailing list. This may be the first of 
our catalogs you have received. May we 
have a moment to introduce ourselves? 
We are unorthodox in our ways of 
thinking and of doing business—that’s why 
our catalogs are different. 
Middle age had caught up with us when 
we established this nursery more than 
twenty years ago. The fires of youthful 
ambition were already beginning to wane. 
If they had ever fed a flame of hope for 
fame and fortune such flame has now 
become a bed of coals banked over by the 
ashes of advancing years—we have no de- 
sire to become rich. 
Aside from the development of an in- 
telligent, happy and useful human being 
what can be more fascinating than the pro- 
duction of beauty in the form of plant life? 
We love to work with Mother Nature and 
have learned that ‘‘as ye sow so shall ye 
reap.” Growing a garden should teach one 
the truth behind the commandment: 
“Whatsoever ye would that men should do 
to you, do ye even so to them.” Patient 
and kindly care pay dividends in the gar- 
den. Despite the rule of “grab” which now 
seems to dominate the world, good will stil? 
pays dividends, not always in money, but 
certainly in friendship. 
Every item sold by us goes out on this, 
our only guarantee—if the customer is not 
satisfied, he may send back the goods and 
get his money. 
To all our customers, both old and new, 
we send the wish that your 1947 gardens 
may be better than those that have gone 
before and that next fall you can write us, 
as does one customer in Montana: “Your 
bulbs and plants have been the best I have 
found. They grow well in this climate 
and I have won several prizes with blooms 
grown from your Glad bulbs.” Thanks a 
lot. 
KAYLOR NURSERIES 
Floyd C. Kaylor 
Mertie L. Kaylor 
Anniversary Gifts 
Plants and bulbs make ideal gifts for 
Mother’s Day, birthday, wedding and other 
anniversary presents for garden growing 
folks. We accept orders for such gifts any 
time during the year and send them out 
at the proper time for planting. Place your 
order, we will send your friend a gift cer- 
tificate so they will know the material is 
coming along later. 
Reviewing The Glads 
The opinions expressed herein are our 
own and are based on experience growing 
these Glads in our own fields. 
Hundreds of new varieties are launched 
every year. Many of these are tried out 
by us. Those found good are offered for 
sale. A new variety should be given a 
number of tests to determine its quality and 
to learn of its “bugs.” If it has too many 
of the latter, we drop it. Good points are 
disease resistance, ease of propagation, 
color harmony and size. During this test 
period fair sized stocks should be built up. 
This should permit introduction at a rea- 
sonable price. Lots of folks will not buy 
a flowering plant of any kind until they 
have seen it. So that more garden fans 
may see our new flowers, we try to hold 
down prices — works out nicely and the 
more we sell the more we sell. 
Varieties are grouped according to color 
with the lightest shades being followed by 
the deeper ones. 
White Glads 
The whitest, snow white, is our own 
Tunolia. It is tulip shaped with upright 
florets of very heavy texture on a tall, 
strong stem. There are no lower lip or 
throat markings and for this reason florists 
like it for their work. Individual florets 
are much used in corsage work and its tall 
stems make it fine for large bouquets in 
church and other decorative plans. Mt. 
Index is milk white and one of its chief 
attractions is a yellow throat. Grows very 
tall on good stems and for floral work, out- 
sells all other whites we grow. Myrna is 
the most ruffled of the whites, good size 
and good stem; while the older Snow 
Princess is a fine sort at a very low price. 
The latter is about the only German or 
Holland variety we have ever found that 
had any disease resistance—it is reliable. 
Heavenly White is a new one with us, a 
white edition of Rosa Van Lima. Margaret 
Beaton, a tall-growing white Glad, has a 
brilliant red throat. 
Cream Glads 
More than twenty years experience 
growing so-called “World Beaters” has left 
us somewhat skeptical about the ballyhoo 
that sometimes accompanies the launching 
of a new one, but we must admit we gota 
real thrill when Oriental Pearl opened its 
large pearly cream florets for the first time 
in our fields. Our spikes were even better 
than the one used in the introductory ad- 
vertising and if you like them large but 
still “illusive” in coloring, get this one 
