Dear Glad Friend: 
Again it is a pleasure to send you my 1948 list of gladiolus, which features the 
Krueger varieties, and which is supported by larger stocks of other fine gladiolus. 
It is a privilege to thank my 1947 customers for more and larger orders, and for their 
expressed appreciation of both the service given, and the quality of stock received. 
The 1948 list presents a few novelties and exhibition gladiolus, but the emphasis is 
placed on varieties with cut-flower possibilities. 
Wholesale prices are gladly quoted to those who are entitled to them. 
BUSINESS TERMS 
Minimum order $2.00. Retail orders are prepaid. Wholesale orders F.O.B, Oconomo- 
woc. Overcount or extras with all retail orders. 5% cash discount on all retail orders paid 
for in full prior to December 15, 1947. Payment in full before shipment. 
I aim to send out only healthy bulbs, true to name, and will cheerfully refund the 
purchase price on any order found unsatisfactory on receipt, and promptly returned; but 
no guarantee of growth is implied in the sale (careless usage of chemical dips and sprays 
make this mandatory) nor will I be responsible for the crop. All orders are placed with 
the above conditions accepted by the purchaser. All orders are accepted subject to stock 
crop and subject to prior sale. 
No bulblets orders are solicited nor accepted after April 1, 1948 for spring shipment. 
Flowers and bulbs are inspected by the State Department of Agriculture. 
This price list cancels all previously published retail prices, and voids any hereto- 
fore announced prices or price policies. 
Signed, 
WALTER C. KRUEGER 
GENERAL REMARKS 
It is the business of Reliance Gardens to sell bulbs, and to do so by proven sound 
business practice and ethical business conduct. To this end varieties need be found a- 
mong the seedlings, or stock purchased, to give you the buyer, finer floral beauty, service, 
and honest value. These varieties are found listed in this 8th retail listing, based on a 
growing exprience of 18 years and 16 of hybridization and show competition. 
The facilities of Reliance Gardens are not such, either by available help, or acreage, 
to grow every glad, nor to follow those grown to the ‘bushel of bulblets’’ quantities, hence 
it remains a small business, and in its scope, primarily coming commercials, tries io serve 
you. 
While crop rotation has been followed (except for the practice of exposing seedling 
stocks to infested conditions) a land area has been purchased to make possible the growth 
of better bulbs with less expenditure of energy. 
The following criteria are used to evaluate seedlings, (yours or mine, named or other- 
wise) are (1) beauty of color and form, (2) health, (3) propagation, and (4) field habits. The 
florist, the ultimate user of the product, and the grower, who produces the bloom deter- 
mine the worth of any variety of gladiolus. 
Every variety listed herein except Evangeline, Heart's Desire, and Daisy Mae, was 
grown at Reliance Gardens. 
Reliance Gardens stock is of high quality. It is personally inspected before planting, 
cared for the same way, harvested, cleaned and shipped by me. This personal attention 
assures you of quality stock, which is the cheapest stock that money can buy. 
1947 OBSERVATIONS 
From the commercial growers point of view the two most important introductions of 
this year were Spic & Span and Tralee. The former is a beautiful pink, and the latter, a need- 
ed early rose. Each of the two is a spike maker under all conditions, and from all sizes of 
bulbs. Both open in water, and increase satisfactorily. Whether third place should go to 
