VISIT OUR GARDENS 
We are located one and one-half miles S. E. of the 
Waterloo City limits on Highway 218. 
You are always welcome to visit our gardens. Come 
any time—in the spring when tulips, iris, and peonies 
are in bloom; later from July 15 to frost, we have acres 
of gladiolus and dahlias blooming. 
The best way to select new varieties for your garden 
is to see them growing. We also have many perennial 
and annual plants which are very interesting. You are 
under no obligation to buy. 
We do a complete florist business during the summer 
season furnishing flowers for any occasion, church 
baskets and decorations, wedding bouquets, funeral 
designs and so on. | 
A bouquet of flowers is a welcome gift and a token 
of love to anyone and especially to a sick friend. We — 
deliver or wire flowers anywhere. 
JUST BETWEEN OURSELVES 
There are thousands of named glads and countless 
numbers of seedlings. Of course no one can try them 
all and as we are not hybridizers we do not have any- 
thing to exchange for new ones while they are high 
priced. We are reminded of the boy who had the — 
$100.00 cur, he finally got rid of it for two $50.00 cats. 
We think the hybridizer has a right to introduce those 
he thinks worthy and ask what he pleases for them. 
Nevertheless too many are bought out that are no- 
better than older sorts and soon are discarded. As we 
have no $100 dogs we wait until new varieties are 
proven better, than the older ones. At show after show — 
old varieties are champions and no mention is made — 
but a new and high priced glad wins a couple of blue 
ribbons and it is hailed as a world beater. 
We subscribe to the North American Gladiolus Coun- : 
cil new code of ethics and fair practices. We regard | 
this as simply good sense to deal fairly at all times. 
JCIN A GLAD SOCIETY 
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Most states have a glad society, dues are ssall 
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$1.00 per year and you receive many benefits. The © 
North American Gladiolus Council is composed of 31 
state and Canadian societies. For $1.00 you may join . 
the lowa Glad Society and also receive the N.A.G.C. — 
Bulletin four times a year. Send to Wm. Collins, sec. ) 
lowa Glad Society, State House, Des Moines, lowa. We » 
can furnish information of other state societies if inter- 
ested. | 
