Greetings! 
In presenting our 1948 Gladiolus 
catalog, we acknowledge - with 
thanks the hundreds of fine orders 
sent us last season by our good 
customers, making 1947 by far our 
best year to date. While we don't 
have the largest or most elaborate 
catalog in the trade, we do try to 
make it a helpful one, and we hope 
you will find it of value in making 
your gladiolus selections for the 
coming season. 
Specializing as we do in the 
newer sorts, many really good 
older glads must be dropped from 
our listing each year to make room 
for new varieties and_ seedlings 
coming on. We have neither the 
time or space to grow many good 
commercial kinds in quantity, pre- 
ferring to leave this to the whole- 
sale bulb and cutflower growers. 
Our 10,000 to 15,000 new seedling's 
growing each year from hand- 
crossed seed, plus hundreds of 
seedling selections in various stages 
of propagation, take up a lot of 
our time, 
For 1948 we are introducing two 
new varieties that have been on 
test here for a number of years; 
we feel sure they will both be dis- 
tinct additions to their respective 
color classes. Boise Belle is an un- 
usual combination of deep pink 
and yellow, with many ruffled flor- 
ets open at once. White Goddess 
is perhaps the most vigorous ruffled white, and one of the most beauti- 
ful as well. These two were highly rated at the Michigan trial garden 
last summer. 
We are pleased to be able to co-introduce Cleo, from Mr. Youmans 
of New York, and Butterscotch, from Mr. Langworthy of California, 
with Gladland Acres of Oregon as introducer. We are certain that 
these two new glads will become very popular, Our Premium vari- 
eties are, we believe, even more outstanding than those of last season. 
Seashell, with large round satiny pink florets, would have been named 
“Pink Satin” had the name been available. Orpheus is a novelty 
orange with blotch that is liked by everyone seeing it. Its blotch is 
odd but pleasing, and the florets are nicely ruffled. Full details and 
descriptions of these Premium glads in the regular alphabetical list. 
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