GREETINGS TO GLAD LOVERS 
It is a real pleasure to send you this, our 1950 catalogue. 
While the East simmered with intense heat and perhaps tne greatest 
drought in history, we had an excess of rainfall in June and early July, 
extreme heat with little moisture in August and a perfect September. A 
season that gave us superb early blooms, splendid bulblet growth and an 
erratic performance of several varieties, that had performed so well in 
normal seasons. Our irrigation lines had to be used but very little. 
We specialize in well grown quality bulbs. Every effort is made to send 
to you, young one year bulbs grown from bulblets, regardless of the size you 
order. Some varieties, as you know, just will not make large bulbs from 
bulblets. In that case, your order will be filled with large bulbs grown from 
No. 5 and 6’s. of the previous year. We hand select the bulblets for you and 
send out no pinheads or exceedingly small bulblets. Some varieties, such as 
Patrician and Boise Belle, habitually make small bulblets, and we can but 
send you the largest bulblets possible. 
This season we are listing several new varieties for friendly originators 
and co-introducers. A few of these varieties we have not seen or grown. But 
because some of the best judges of glads in our land, that have grown or 
seen them tell me that the varieties are outstanding or unusually good and 
wonderful performers, men whose word I have found to be as good as gold, 
I do not hesitate in recommending the varieties to you for your consideration. 
These growers assure me that I will receive quality bulbs and bulblets for 
you. 
I do sincerely believe, that you will be offered no better new varieties, 
this season, by any grower or originator than Big Joe, La Valle, Chinook 
and Margaret Jean. Unusually strong vigorous growing varieties, good 
performers that can take extreme heat and adverse growing conditions 
and do well. 
We are not large growers, that is we do not have a large acreage nor do 
we grow bulbs by the million. Each year we have had to cut down our 
acreage so that we could do all the work ourselves with but a minimum of 
hired help. Then too, we are no longer what one would call young, and we 
must regulate our plantings with our ability to look after and care for same. 
We do not list hundreds of varieties. Because we value your friendship, 
we try to list no variety that we feel certain will disappoint you. Any list 
of several hundred varieties is certain to have such varieties. We quickly 
discard all varieties, regardless of value, that prove to be varieties—That 
are weak growers—poor health—those that crook badly—short growers— 
poor substance—weak attachment of florets and varieties that increase to 
slowly. We must have good performers as well as fine colors. 
We do not believe in knocking a variety the first year it is grown by us. 
Some varieties are just not happy with us the first year, but prove to be 
grand in following years. 
Although we have grown fine varieties for many years, we have seen 
but very very few varieties that easily open up eight florets at once. A 
