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BATTERTON FARMS DISPLAY—ILLINOIS STATE FAIR 1948 
BATTERTON FARMS 
Growers of Fine Gladiolus 
CHATHAM, ILLINOIS 

a/IAGTs 
Sec. 562, P. L. & R. 
, U.S. POSTAGE 
PAID 
CHATHAM, ILLINOIS 
Permit No. 2 
REECE I VED 
U.S. Department of Agriculture 

If you cannot have a flower garden this year, please pass this list along to a gardening friend. It is valuable and unusual. Thank You. 
Greetings; 
A few short weeks from now warmth will return again to the soil, 
bringing with it a new cycle of plant life, much of which is now resting 
in the dormant stage. Life forces are, for the most part, locked up in 
seeds, bulbs and dormant roots. We never fail to thrill anew each sea- 
son when we witness the rebirth of a new cycle marked by the emer- 
gence of tender, green, actively growing shoots which hold so much 
promise of fruit and flower during the coming gardening season. 
Many gardeners have their specialties. Some like to grow big 
tomatoes, some one thing, and some another, but most like flowers. 
Our own specialty is growing the finest gladiolus varieties to be found 
in all the world. We make it a business, it is true, but it is none the 
less a pleasurable one. 
It is a pleasure to be able to share with other gardeners these 
bulbs which, when placed in the ground, give so much breath-taking 
beauty for so little effort. Gladiolus need no special pampering. All 
they need is common garden culture. That is undoubtedly one reason 
why so many people grow these wonderful flowers. The variety and 
color combinations are seemingly endless, with each new one coming 
from the hands of the hybriders apparently more beautiful than any 
that have come before. 
We had a splendid bulb crop last year, and now those bulbs, 
grown in our fields and so carefully tended, are cleaned, sorted, and 
lined up in orderly trays waiting for your order so we can send them 
forth to bloom in your garden, to be truly yours, and to display for 
you the brilliant colorings and fine growing habits built into them by 
patient hybridizers all around the world. 
Now we are all lined up for a new season. Please get your orders 
in as early as possible as it will help us to spread our work. We are 
glad of an opportunity to help make your garden beautiful and also 
glad we can offer you these low direct-from-the-grower prices. Good 
luck and good gardening. 
Very truly yours, 
MW? fll 
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