Greetings from Golden Dawn Gardens: 
To all our old friends near and far, and to all the 
new ones we hope to make, we extend our most heartfelt 
greetings. 
Growing gladiolus has for 9 number of years been 
strictly a hobby with us. We have endeavored to try out 
each year as many of the newer introductions as possible. 
This has been very costly in the true sense of the hob- 
biest. We have, therefore, decided to go a little deeper 
in the so-called art of gladiolus raising and make our 
hobby 2 paying hobby. 
Before we go on any further we want to impress upon 
you, the glad raising public that our aim is today and 
shall always be to ship you only the finest, cleanest and 
healthiest bulbs it is humanly possible to produce. We 
have in the past received from some very big growers in 
our good old U.S.A., as well as growers abroad, both ex- 
cellent stock and also the opposite. We know the people 
we like to trade with and those we don't and want to do 
everything possible to belong in the first-named list with 
you. 
Although the past growing season, owing to a record- 
breaking dry spell, was not conducive to a really success- 
ful flower season, yet with the aid of irrigation our har- 
vest of bulbs has been the best we have ever had. 
In closing, may we ask that you ORDER EARLY. Our 
stock, due to limited time, help and acresge, is necess- 
arily small and we don't want to disappoint if we can 
help it. 
Gordon E. Shepeck 
