GREETINGS 
We sincerely hope that you have had a pleasant and profitable year of gladiolus 
growing; profitable in dollars if you are growing commercially; profitable in satisfaction 
and enjoyment if you are growing them only for pleasure. And if you are not growing 
them at all!!! Well you don’t know what you are missing and you should remedy that 
condition at once. 
Perhaps we are a little late with this catalog, but if you have ever dug bulbs out 
of a mat of sod plowed the first time only a year before you will know where our daylight 
hours have been spent for a number of weeks just passed. We started out with an ex- 
ceptionally wet, cold spring—you undoubtedly heard about the rain. This was followed 
by a very hot, dry summer. Had it not been for the sprinkling system, our glads would 
have been a poor lot. 
But October went a long way toward compensating for what had gone before. We 
had the most beautiful Indian Summer anyone could ask for. It was an average of ten 
degrees above normal, reaching 80 degrees on several days and it was really pleasant 
digging in spite of the extremely hard work getting the bulbs out of the old sod. 
From the piles of trays, it looks as though we should be able to fill all orders, but 
we will probably run out of several varieties before spring. 
PLEASE ORDER EARLY 
We would like to suggest that you place your order just as soon as possible. Yes, 
| know that is an old story, but it is good advice just the same. First come, first served 
you know, and we shall fill all orders in the order they are received. It is a great deal 
of work to count out bulbs and bulblets of several different varieties and get them 
properly packed so they will reach the buyer in good condition. And it will really be a 
very great help to us if we can have your orders early in the shipping season; it will 
help you, too, because you will have your bulbs earlier. While this is our first year of 
commercial growing we are here to stay and we intend to fill each order so that you 
will be glad to order from us again. 
Our stock has been state inspected in the field and will be in storage. We expect 
to use a three or four-year rotation with a constant building up of the soil. If we can- 
not serve you this year keep us in mind. Next year we hope to have a still larger and 
better crop. 
BULB SIZES 
We are selling nothing this year but new and one-year old bulbs, that is, bulbs 
grown this year from bulblets and bulbs grown last year from bulblets and again this 
year from those bulbs. We have quite a lot of so-called jumbo bulbs, but they are NOT 
old bulbs, but were grown from bulblets last year, producing medium or large bulbs 
which in turn produced the jumbo sizes this year. They will be used to fill orders as 
long as they last, at the regular price of conventional large size bulbs. 
However we may not have enough bulbs of any given size to fill all orders, so we 
will appreciate it very much if you will give us permission to use other sizes if necessary, 
but always giving full value for the money you send. We will NOT make this substi- 
tution unless you say we may. 
WHAT TO BUY! 
We know that to anyone not familiar with the different gladiolus varieties, even 
the very best catalog, listing a hundred or more, is not very satisfactory. Following is 
a little persona! discussion about our varieties, which may or may not help you a little 
in some of your decisions. 
If we had to pick out from our listed varieties only a few to keep for our grow- 
ing next year, | believe these would be the ones that would surely mean the most to 
us. Most certainly we could not part with Wax Model and Silver Wings, and it would be 
hard to decide about Llona and Annamae. All are excellent cut flower and exhibition 
varieties. Elegant Lady and Heavenly White would give us some trouble, too. In the 
creams, let’s see; no question about Oriental Pearl and Leading Lady. We definitely 
feel that White Gold has at last lost its long-held place of honor. Nothing could be 
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