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your soil. On real sandy soil 5 days, and in heavy soil, 10 days is often enough. 
Cultivate after watering as soon as your ground can be worked. Cultivate shal- 
low and keep your weeds down. 
CUTTING BLOOMS: Commercial cut flower growers usually cut their 
glads before the first floret opens. However, it will bloom out a little nicer if 
you wait until about 3 florets are open. Be sure to leave 4 to 5 leaves on your 
plant after cutting the spike. This is necessary to grow your new bulb. 
DIGGING BULBS: Your bulbs should be dug 6 to 8 weeks after they 
finish blooming. Do not wait for the foliage to die down. If you live where the 
ground freezes, dig before the soil freezes hard. 
WHOLESALE ORDERS: As this year’s crop will be approximately 114 
million bulbs we will be glad to send a wholesale list to growers and nurseries. 
We would appreciate you sending a want list and we will give you a quotation. 
BULBLETS: Our long, warm season means that our buiblets are mature. 
‘They start out faster and grow faster than others. When filling bulblet orders 
we always select the largest bulblets. Our packages contain many more bulblets 
than we could give if we had to count them. We feel sure you will be satisfied 
with the amount. We advise cracking and peeling bulblets before planting, as 
it helps germinate them. However, we don’t. What a job it would be to crack 
a million bulblets! 
PLEASE READ BEFORE ORDERING 
Retail orders of $2.50 or more are prepaid anywhere in the United States 
if accompanied by cash, otherwise 25% deposit must be sent with the balance 
C.O.D. On orders of less than $2.50, please add 15c to cover packing and 
postage. 
Orders should be sent in as early as possible as we always run out of many 
varieties before the season is over. Orders to the East will be shipped as soon as 
frost danger is over. 
CALIFORNIA CUSTOMERS PLEASE ADD 3% SALES TAX. 
A LITTLE ABOUT GLAD BULBS 
Most people seem to think that a glad buib has to be two inches or over 
in diameter to be a top bulb. It is true that a large bulb if it is young and vigor- 
ous will make a taller flower spike than a medium sized bulb. However, the 
difference in size of flower spike is not in proportion to the size of the bulb. I 
have won many blue ribbons on glads grown from bulbs under 1l-inch in dia- 
meter. You really do get more for your money buying medium size bulbs which 
run from 34-inch to 14%4-inches in diameter, Medium size bulbs bloom about two 
weeks later than large. This lengthens your blooming period. 
Small size bulbs usually bloom if planted before the end of May. However, 
the flower spike is considerably shorter and has less buds. Small bulbs bloom 
about a month later than large ones. In one season your small bulbs will grow 
to a good high crowned large and jumbo bulbs. So if you order small bulbs you 
will havea fine collection.of large bulbs that will be worth much more than 
your original investment. 
CHRISTMAS GIFTS 
Your friends and relatives, who love to garden, would really appreciate a 
Christmas gift of top quality olad bulbs. What finer or more appropriate gift 
could you select? 
