SUBSTITUTIONS 
Frankly, we know that we are going to list many sizes and perhaps even a few 
varieties that will be sold out even by the time this catalog reaches you. As many bulbs 
as we grew this past year as compared to what were grown and sold in the past, it 
seems to us incredible that we should even have to mention substitutions. 
Please do state in your order whether substitutions in sizes, when necessary, may 
be made by us. 
We will not substitute in variety — even in cases where our stock would allow us to 
give you similar quantity of a kind we think superior (and probably higher priced) unless 
you specifically tell us to do so. 
THIS IS OUR RETAIL CATALOG. IF YOU ARE A COMMERCIAL FLOWER GROWER 
OR A DEALER OR CATALOGER OFFERING FOR RESALE THE BULBS YOU BUY, YOU ARE 
ENTITLED TO WHOLESALE OR JOBBER PRICES. Please advise us if you fall into any of 
the latter classes so that we may offer you the schedules to which you are entitled. 
TERMS 
TERMS: Cash with order: or remit 25% with order and balance may be remitted 
before shipping date, or we will send C.O.D. for the balance if you prefer. MINIMUM 
ORDER THAT WE CAN ACCEPT IS $2.00. On orders totaling less than $5.00 please 
remit full amount with order. 
SHIPMENTS 
We ship either by PARCEL POST or EXPRESS. We do not guarantee the safe ar- 
rival of parcel post shipments. All shipments to the east must cross the Cascade and 
Rocky mountains where cold, even in the late spring may be intense, are protected 
against freezing by the express company, and are insured against loss or damage in 
transit and against freezing damage. Should your bulbs be frozen simply have your 
express agent give you a “frozen in transit’ statement and we will immediatel replace 
the shipment prepaid without further cost to you. We will furnish you with an itemized 
statement covering the shipment inciuding the value of the bonus bulbs which you should 
file with express company. When this check is received, simply endorse and forward to 
us. All express shipments are sent ‘transportation charges collect,” but we add sufficient 
bulbs to more than offset these charges. UNLESS YOU SPECIFY PARCEL POST, WE 
WILL SHIP BY EXPRESS. Under no circumstances will a C.O.D. shipment be forwarded 
other than by express. 
PREMIUM BULBS 
It is our custom to add to each retail order extra bulbs of our selection—the amount 
depending upon the size of the order. The value of these free bulbs will be approxi- 
mately $1.00 on a $5.00 order, ranging up to $25.00 on a $50.00 order. If you wish 
you may suggest the color classes from which you would prefer our selection of the gift 
varieties. 
OREGON GROWN BULBS 
As amateurs we have grown gladiolus in Oklahoma and in Kansas, and have 
watched them growing in all of the states of the middle-west and in many of the western 
states. It was our experience there, that OREGON GROWN bulbs produced for us the 
finest flower spikes. Hence it was natural that when we decided we would like to grow 
glad bulbs commercially; to make a business of what had been our favorite garden avo- 
cation; that we came to Oregon to grow them. 
Here in Oregon, the famed Willamette valley of western Oregon seemed to pro- 
duce the best of the gladiolus bulbs; and of this valley, the Santiam River valley, at the 
easterly edge of the Willamette, nestling directly against the foothills of the lofty Cas- 
cade Range, seemed to us the heart of the finest bulb production. It is here that we 
purchased our farm, “Gladland Acres.” 
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