Business Terms 
All. prices in this list are net and are prepaid in 
the United States. COD orders entail extra bookkeeping 
so please send the full amount with your order. An 
acknowledgement of your order will be mailed to you the 
day it is received and will state the shipping date. 
Bulbs are mailed as early in the spring as weather 
Will permit. Bulbs sent South will be shipped by prepaid 
express at any time you request. 
I try to be particularily careful to send out only 
healthy bulbs, true to name, and will cheerfully refund 
the purchase price on any order which upon receipt is 
not satisfactory, and which is promptly returned. No 
guarantee of growth is implied in the sale nor can I be 
responsible for the crop. All orders are filled in 
rotation as received. All orders are placed with these 
conditions accepted by the purchaser, and orders are 
accepted subject to prior sale of stock. 
You are interested mainly in producing large, fine 
gladiolus spikes. The size of the bulb determines the 
amount of food available to start the spike. So it 
follows that the larger the bulb, the better chance you 
have of producing a good spike. A ‘large! bulb is 14 
inch in diameter and larger, a 'medium' is from ~ to 14% 
inch in diameter, a 'small' bulb is + to # inch in 
diameter. A large bulb will give you the best flower 
in size of floret, length of spike, and number of buds 
on the spike. A medium bulb will give a good bloom, but 
usually it will ‘be smaller and shorter than a spike from 
a large bulb. A small bulb will usually not give satis- 
factory bloom the first year grown. 
I reserve the right to substitute smaller pulbs.o0t 
a variety if my stock of large bulbs of*acvariety is 
sold out. In that case, a sufficient number of bulbs 
will be added to your order to more than offset the 
difference in price. 
I've changed the order in which the varieties are 
listed, and arranged them by color classes. It should 
make the selection of varieties easier for you! Anyway, 
I hope you like this arrangement. 
January 15, 1948 
