GLADLAND OFFERINGS FOR 1949 
Again we present our fall price list. From a four-page list in 1945, a 16-page list 
in 1946, a 20-page list in 1947, this fall it swells to 40 pages. A part of this increase is 
due to the greater number of varieties offered (this season 572 distinct kinds are 
described and priced) and also because we were anxious to provide you with more 
factual data that would enable you to know the actual performance of the varieties when 
grown unpampered but with reasonably good care. 
Our test garden, in which we use no fertilizers, either chemical or organic, and 
with a minimum of watering, has given us opportunity to check the number of days 
required to bloom, the number of buds per spike and the number of florets the variety 
could open. This information plus a more detailed description of the color shades, is 
added this season to our descriptions. 
The making of the field records and the compilation of this data, has taken an 
enormous amount of time, so much so that as yet we have given no thought to preparation 
of a winter catalog. One thing however is certain, that a repetition of the pricing and 
the detailed descriptions as given in the following pages will not be reprinted this year — 
so you should preserve this list — as the prices will remain in effect until our sales this fall 
and next spring exhaust our available supply of bulbs. 
We are proud, very proud, of our 1949 introductions — and feel that you, as we, 
will consider them real garden assets, and fortunately the initial prices are so low that 
you will certainly be able to enjoy growing them while they are still new. 
GLADLAND PRICES FOR 1949 
All of us feel the impact of increasing prices. Paper costs have doubled, printing 
costs are advanced, shipping cartons are a real item of expense, and even parcel post 
rates are advancing 2c per pound. We have been unable to find a substitute for 
painstaking hand work in cleaning and sorting bulbs, and the labeling of sacks, and 
assemblage and inspection of bulbs going into the individual orders requires a lot of 
time. For this reason we will be unable to accept orders for less than $2.50, and we 
must request that you add postage charges for orders under $5.00. We actually take 
a small loss on each minimum size order. 
HOWEVER GLADLAND BULB PRICES ARE ACTUALLY REDUCED 
In field operations we have achieved substantial savings. By use of selective 
weed controls we have eliminated the hand weeding that last summer required twenty 
weeders, and by other mechanical improvements we are reducing the cost of planting 
and digging. Most important of all, we have absorbed. in the past two years a very 
substantial portion of our original investment in many of the bulb varieties, so»that- 
prices of these can now be reduced. Practically all varieties priced at 15c last year are 
reduced to 10c. This is the minimum at which we can afford to offer a large size bulb. 
Most varieties last year listing at 20c to’ 50c per bulb are cut a third or more. 
In the higher priced brackets, some few, because of excessively short supply, are 
unchanged in price. In only one variety have we increased a price. This is DREAM 
CASTLE, released back in 1943 by Lins. This is such a remarkable variety, which will 
be so valuable to the commercial cut-flower grower, that in order to build a stock to- 
adequate size, we are increasing the price to $1.50 per bulb in the hopes that you will 
let us keep enough of them to propagate. In most cases prices are greatly reduced. 
Three masterpieces of 1948 introduction, BUTTERSCOTCH, MARY ODELL, and SNOW- 
MAID may be had this year for only $1.00 per bulb. GRAND FINALE, listed at $5.00 
the past two years, is likewise reduced to $1.00. DIADEM, last season $10.00, which 
was a star performer this year, reduced to $2.00. ORIENTAL PEARL, last year $2.00, 
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