Greetings to all Gladiolus Growers: 
Once again it is my desire to take this opportunity of extending to all of 
you my sincere best wishes for your success and pleasure derived from what- 
ever extent of Gladiolus raising you may have attempted, also my thanks to 
the many for their appreciated letters and orders of the past season. While 
there are many meritorious varieties grown and offered for sale which we do 
not list, our bulb offerings for this season are again only from young stock 
grown on new ground for Gladiolus and the entire planting kept cut free 
from bloom spikes, assuring buyers of young vigirous stock consisting of 
several of the older varieties that are outstanding and including such of the 
newer ones as we have had the opportunity of trying out long enough to 
believe them to be dependable. I have always maintained the policy of not 
offering for sale those which I did not deem worthy of culture. Many listings 
contain a preponderance of high priced varieties while the fact is that there 
are many excellent varieties in each of the color classes that are inexpensive. 
Regardless of where you may purchase stock to make your ultimate plantings 
from, you should buy only young vigirous bulbs if you might expect to 
obtain ultimate productivity, for then when given proper attention I know 
of no other in the floral kingdom quite as responsive as our modern Gladiolus. 
BUSINESS TERMS 
We aim to ship only healthy stock true to name and size and no further 
guarantee is implied in the sale, however, if after receiving your shipment of 
stock from us you might not be entirely satisfied, your purchase price will be 
refunded to you if you will notify us by returning shipment at once or by 
writing us and we shall attempt to rectify any mistakes on our part. Please 
do not ask that orders be filled after May first. We believe Railway Express 
shipments to be the better way in transportation of bulb orders and we will 
forward all retail orders amounting to $5.00 and above by Express Pre-paid 
unless requested by the Customer to ship otherwise. On orders for less than 
$3.00 you will please include .50c extra for packing and carrying charges. 
Extras will be included in orders according to size of order and where stock 
on hand permits. My stock carries Iowa State inspection certificate No. 125. 
BULB SIZES AND SHIPMENTS 
Bulbs classified herein as Large are No. 1’s (over 1/2 inches) and No. 2’s 
(between 114 and 11 inches in diameter). Medium sizes are No. 3’s (1 to 
1% inches) and No. 4’s (34 to 1 inch in diameter). Small are No. 5’s (Y2 
to 4% inches) and No. 6’s which are those under 14 inch in diameter. In 
making up orders we attempt to make an equal representation between the 
two of the sizes ordered as far as possible. Packages of bulblets run from 
fifty to seventy-five or more, unless specifically listed as to number for a 
given price. 
