INSTRUCTIONS FOR ORDERING: 
(Please read) 
i i ‘epaid ¢ ‘el e i tates or Can- 
All orders from the retail prices are prepaid anywhere in the United S | 
by Haein Order, $2.00. Wholesale orders are F. O. B. Sioux City, Iowa. Kindly 
list all varieties as named in the catalogue, also name the size desired as listed. If 
you have a choice of some of the medium priced varieties you would like to try 
as extras, kindly so state. Otherwise we will include something extra for trial as 
we have always done in the past. 
Remittance should accompany all orders, unless previous arrangements have been 
made. On wholesale Seed, ee conable terms may be arranged, if proper references 
can be supplied. In the retail list, five bulbs will be supplied at one-half. un dais 
per ten, if priced per ten. If priced as single, ten may be purchased at eight times 
the single price. One hundred may be had, if available, at eight times the price 
per ten. 
We mail all customers a copy of the invoice on each order, just as quickly as order 
is received. This is the only acknowledgement, made by us. We will ship at any 
future date designated. Bulblets will be supplied in most varieties up to May Ist. 
SIZE OF BULBS: Large bulbs are 14-inch and larger in diameter. Medium bulbs 
are three quarter inch up to 14-inch. Small bulbs are three quarter inch and smaller. 
If bulblets of high-priced varieties are purchased, it is usually advisable to peel 
them, and they will then germinate and be up in a week to two weeks. Un-peeled 
bulblets will sometimes remain dormant for two months or more, or fail to grow 
entirely. Growing bulblets is the cheapest way to get started with the high-priced 
varieties. We are always liberal with bulblets, peradventure a few might not grow. 
Ordinarily, the size of order makes some difference in the extras included. The 
better order we receive, the more we toss in for trial. 
SUPPORT YOUR GLADIOLUS SOCIETY 3 
If you are not now a member of any Gladiolus Society, and would like to receive a 
very valuable magazine about Glads, we will be glad to accept your subscription to 
North American Glad Society, or it may be sent to Mrs. C. D. Fortnam, Tyler Hill, 
Pa., but if sent to us together with an order for bulbs, we will include a dozen 
large bulbs of desireable varieties to show our appreciation. 
The lowa State Gladiolus Society publishes four to six very fine bulletins each 
year, with many fine articles, and we will accept your dollar for such a subscription 
on the same basis. 
GREETINGS AND GOOD WISHES 
This is our fourth annual catalogue, altho we have been growing Gladiolus for 
twelve years. We wish to express our appreciation to all of our bulb customers for 
their past patronage, and to assure all of them that we are ready at all times to 
adjust any shortages or errors. We try to be generous in filling orders, and to pro- 
vide some extras in case of some failures, so that any purchase made from us will 
prove to be money well spent. We are always glad to have letters from customers, 
and enjoy answering them. 
Our nursery is located about 1% miles north of Sioux City, on No. 75 Highway, 
and visitors are always welcome. 
We had a wonderful growing season—up to August 10th—and our early blooms were 
marvelous; then it turned continuously hot for many weeks and late blooms failed 
almost entirely. In some varieties plants died in the field before frost; but our bulb 
crop appears to be very fine. We grew about 200 varieties, plus 57 seedling crosses, 
some of them turning out to be very exciting. We made about 400 crosses this 
season, and are offering some seed to our customers this year, for the first time. 
THRIP AND OTHER INSECTS 
We have had practically no trouble with thrip the last two years. We believe our 
good fortune comes about because we dust our bulbs in storage with 5% D. D. T. 
Dust just as quickly as they are cleaned, and we also apply the dust to the plants 
in the field as they near the budding stage. We use two dusting machines, and 
by going thru our fields twice we believe we eliminated every thrip. We did not 
see a dozen damaged blooms in our 18 acres of Glads. As the bulbs were brought 
out of storage last Spring, for planting, we did not find a single insect in the trays 
of bulbs. Our storage house is kept at 40 degrees throughout the Winter and 
Spring. D. D. T. has been a great labor-saver for us. 
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