
FOREWORD 
It is a pleasure to place our 1949 Catalog in your hands. |! wish to take this 
opportunity to thank you all for the splendid business given me by you folks during this 
past year, and for the hundreds of orders already received this season. It has been a 
deep satisfaction reading the many, many enthusiastic letters sent in by many of you 
last season when your glads were blooming and afterwards. 
Perhaps you were one of the first in your neighborhood to grow some of these 
vigorous giants and the newer ruffled varieties. If you were you had a terrific advan- 
tage over your neighbor who still contends that one glad is about the same as the other 
except for color. It seems that some of my customers did a better job growing glads 
than | did. One lady wrote and told me her White Go!ds were over 6 feet tall and 
had flowers over 7 inches across. Another said that she didn’t label the varieties but 
had several varieties grow taller than 6 feet 6 inches. 
Advertising is one of the necessary evils of modern business, especially a mail 
order business such as we have. There are several ways to advertise and | believe the 
best of all is the advertising done by satisfied customers. We know that if our bulbs 
give you better and more vigorous glads than you have ever had before you will be 
enthusiastic about it. The first thing you know your neighbors will be our customers 
also. This type of advertising is the best that anybody can get. Here is what we 
are going to try this year. We are going to cut down on some of our other types of 
advertising. In turn we are going to put additional bulbs in your order. These bulbs 
will be over and above what you pay for. We are going to send you these extra bulbs 
instead of buying advertising. Give us a try this year and | think you will be thrilled 
at the extras. In turn we will appreciate you sending in the names and addresses of 
anyone that you think would like to receive our catalog. 
This year we have added quite a few varieities to our catalog, we also dropped 
several. We only offer the ones that grow the best and are the most beautiful. We 
do not drop a variety simply because it is old. We keep it until it is superceeded by a 
better glad of approximately the same color. 
The first and most important thing about growing good glads is to get. good 
varieties. The second is good young high crowned bulbs. Be sure when you order 
bulbs from any source that you get the most flowers for your money, not necessarily 
the most bulbs, as you will always be able to find so called bargains when some cut 
flower grower is unloading worn out bulbs of obsolete varieties. It is my belief that 
you get the most for your money when ordering medium sized bulbs. 
CAUHE PIU RE ADR EXC: TE TPOUNES 
A 9-page culture folder will be included with every order Glads are among the 
easiest of all flowers to grow as they require very little fertilizer but they do like sun- 
shine and lots of water. Most of our customers live here in Southern California. Our 
soil is on the alkaline side as well as our water. To counteract this condition use about 
4 pounds of sulphur per 100 square feet. Sprinkle this on the ground after you plant 
your bulbs: Rake it in lightly, do not spade it in. 
This year we repeated our performance of 1947 by again winning the Grand 
Champion Spike of the So. Calif. Glad Societies show at Pasadena. This time it was 
with a beautiful new seedling originated by Dr. Charles Evans of Santa Monica. This 
new ruffled glad has since been named Pink Mist, watch for it. We also won the most 
points in the entire show again. | also went to the Sacramento show with Dr. Evans. He 
won Grand Champion Spike with another of his seedlings. This one an appleblossom 
pink, since named Love in Bloom. 
If you are ordering glads for the first time | believe the following varieties will 
give you a complete color range without duplication. These are the lower-priced glads 
but if you have never grown them, you will get as much pleasure out of these as you 
would many of the more expensive varieties: Alladin, Bagdad, Big Top, Bingo, Black 
Opal, Blue Beauty, Buckeye Bronze, Burma, Chamouny, Corona, Elizabeth the Queen, 
Ethel Cave Cole, Hawkeye Red, Hi Finance, King Click, King Lear, Margaret Beaton, 
Marguerite, Miss Wisconsin, Leading Lady, Ogarita, Orange Prince, Picardy, R.B., Red 
Charm, Rosa Van Lima, Spotlight, Vagabond Prince, Vee Cream, and White Gold. 
DISCOUNTS—In place of making a dozen rate in our catalog for those of you 
who want several of one variety, just go ahead and order them at the unit price and 
we will give you enough extras to amount to a substantial discount, more than you 
would expect. The larger the order the bigger percentage of extras we put in, because 
postage rates per pound drop as poundage goes up, so does packing costs. It would pay 
you to get together with your neighbors and send in a group order, we would all be 
ahead. Remember we are putting in extra bulbs for advertising purposes this year. 
