
THE 1948 GLADLAND ACRES CATALOG 
We welcome the new year with enthusiasm. Certainly the past year has gained 
for us a host of new friends, evidenced by hundreds of cordial letters, and many visitors 
this summer with whom we have thoroughly enjoyed checking our fields. 
This is the second catalog issued by Gladland Acres under Baker ownership and 
management. Gladland Acres is a family enterprise—Paul V. Baker who writes the cata- 
log and advertising copy — Mrs. Stella M. Baker who assists in office detail — and our 
son James, a war veteran of over 5 years service, who manages the field operations and 
the packing and storage houses. 
In our first catalog we planned to give the kind of arrangement, and the definite 
information, that we, ourselves, would want to have when we buy gladiolus. Apparently 
the most of you liked it — and many have written that they considered it the best of the 
1947 gladiolus catalogs. We are trying to make this an even better one, and are try- 
ing to incorporate in it, information of such value that you will want to preserve it as a 
book of reference. 
It is pleasing to be able to tell you Gladland customers how you have helped us 
grow. 
In 1945 we grew about 1% acres, producing 400,000 bulbs. 
In 1946 we grew about 6 acres, producing 1,500,000 bulbs. 
In 1947 we grew about 16 acr., producing 6,000,000 bulbs. 
Our sales of the 1945 and the 1946 crops entirely ex- 
housted our production except for propagation reserves. 
Advance sales are now so much ahead of last year that it 
begins to seem that we would need to again increase our 
acreage. Already (Oct. 15) we are entirely sold out of 
large size bulbs in more than a dozen varieties, except 
for -a very small quantity of each, which have been 
reserved for early buying retail customers. We were 
highly complimented this summer on our gladiolus farm. 
One prominent visitor from Ohio called it an ideal layout 
for gladiolus. The past summer we constructed an ad- 
i ditional 3,000,000 bulb capacity storage house, a fumi- 
PAUL V. BAKER checking APRIL gation chamber for use of methyl-bromide, an office, and 
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