
A section of our field showing early planting of our commercial pink Magnolia. 
GREETINGS, Glad Friends: 
We again find ourselves at the end of another very successtul 
season. A wet spring delayed a lot of our plantings but all bulbs 
matured well and are high crowned, healthy stock. Our bulbs are ali 
State Inspected and free from disease. 
We are sending you this 1950 catalog and ask that you compare 
our prices with other reputable growers. We can only list a compara- 
tively few of the hundreds of good varieties but we do feel our choice 
includes the better old varieties as well as the proven new ones, with 
the exception of some which sell tor exhorbitant prices. We have 
some stock of many of these and will list them as soon as our stock and 
the price is right. We pride ourselves in growing and selling clean. 
high crowned, disease-free bulbs. 
We belong to the North American Gladiolus Council, The New 
England Gladiolus Society, as well as the North American Commercial 
Gladiolus Growers, and of course the Nebraska Gladiolus Society. 
Because we are members of these various organizations and receive 
their publications, we feel we are in close contact with the ''back- 
yard’ grower as well as the Commercial grower. 
You will find full cultural directions included with each order, how- 
ever, if we can give you further assistance in any way please drop us 
a line. 
We have several promising seedlings in our trial patch. If after 
several more seasons they continue to prove themselves worthy, they 
will be introduced at a reasonable price. Show dates and blooming 
dates did not coincide so we were unable to show them this year. 
We wish to thank our many customers for their past patronage 
and enccuraging letters. Our bulbs will soeak for themselves if given 
a chance. We hope you will again grow glads from ''The Valley of 
Paradise. 
