Dr. GORDON R. McKENNEY, 
A4 ‘CANISTEO 3 GRO MDORNEGE wan oy. 

is Official and Sole Agent for Laidlaw Gladiolus Ltd., Newquay, Cornwall, England,—all orders, 
correspondence and cash should be sent to Dr. McKenney. All Laidlaw does is to supply 
the goods—All you need to know is that Dr. McKenney is backed by Laidlaw Gladiolus Ltd. 
With these extremely low prices, you are benefitting by currency devaluation, and this benefit 
is exemplified especially in the price of recent introductions, it is advisable to order early and to 
tell us if you don’t mind better subs., should we he short. 
We believe we have adequate overall stocks but there is always the odd variety that goes 
short. Order, please, before March 15th, but later doesn’t really matter, only we take all these 
things into consideration when making up your order. 
Try to stick to the rules. Prices are each and only available where quoted. They include 
postage aud duty anywhere in Continental U.S.A. Minimum $2.00. Cash with orders of $5.00 
and less. Larger orders 50% with order, balance before shipment.’ But we will treat those who 
send all cash at once with greater generosity. 
Let us tell you we grow all the glads. worth growing, Canadians, Americans and New 
Zealauders mentioned here and a few nice ones of our own. We are being modest about them 
but you'll take notice itt a year or two. Laidlaw himself specialises in finding new glads., Doc. 
McKenny will specialise for us in the U.S.A. and you must know about Deverill Burdon—he is 
our foreman—he specialises in throwing glads. on the compost heap—not up to Laidlaw standards. 
HERE ARE A FEW GOOD ONES! 
ACE. (Jennings 49). Orange scarlet with a ligher throat, tall, decorative and tough com- 
mercial... F.C.C. Ballarat Test Gardens 1947. 0.80 
ALL GLORY (Yoon). Bright orange with purple blotch deep in the throat, Heavily ruffled. 
.30 
SURPRISE (Moore). Orange and slate smoky. Very tall and vigorous and a strong com- 
mercial, with a light almost lemon throat, a lively smoky and a pleasant change from dull 
overall smokes. .30 
ORIENTAL PEARL (Carlson). A huge creain destined for blue ribbons, plain huge florets, 
good placemeut and opens well. .80 
RADIENT (rry), Flame Scarlet, tall and attractive. Opens up to ten. .60 
RIALGAR (Erry). Glowing apricot shading to rich chrome yellow. If you can feed and water 
well, this is the goods. .50 
SINCERITY (frry). White with red blotch. Very tall, opening ten. This variety was heaps 
better than Margaret Beaton in onr hot, dry summer last year. .50 
LIBERATOR (Erry). Bright orange salmon, eight to ten open, tough and attractive. .60 
Mrs. R. G. ERRY (erry). Very dark red, the biggest and best in its colour class. .60 
X115 (Blanden). Ever heard of it? Like all other good glads., we have it. Any size $5.00, 
no cormlets. Have to stick to the rules on this one. If you haven’t heard of X115, you will :— 
and you cannot be tops without it! 
FINALLY, if it hadu’t been for America’s generosity helping England with financial assistance 
after the war, then we couldn’t have bought those stocks from Australia, we couldn’t have 
paid-our men to grow them and vou wouldn’t now be faced with an opportunity to buy. 
We are very grateful for your help and we hope vou see how we are trying by our work to 
repay you. 
