It is always a pleasure to express our thanks, and appreciation for the many 
orders we have received from our thousands of customers and friends during the past 
season. It was an excellent season; we enjoyed handling an unusual wholesale volume, 
as well as an increased retail business. We are hopeful that everyone had a good 
growing season; lovely flowers and success at the Gladiolus Shows. 
We enjoyed a most exciting time with our seedlings. We made eight or ten 
selections to be grown for further test; and probably discarded twenty-five out of 
fifty or sixty that were growing in the test rows. We found that three of our seedling 
selections could win at the Omaha Gladiolus Show, one of them winning “Champion 
Seedling Single Spike of the Show” in a very strong class. That winner was a cream 
colored seedling that scored 88. But watch for a Rose Red to appear in the shows 
in another year or two. Grand color. We will plant five or six thousand new young 
seedling bulbs this spring. We find much excitement and enthusiasm out “in the 
seedling rows” when they start to bloom. 
We tried out a good number of new varieties in 1949, and found a few that were 
very fine indeed. We were very much disappointed in a few of the new sorts too; 
but of course that happens every season. Perhaps they will make a better showing 
next season. 
We had a number of distinguished visitors to our garden during the season. 
Dr. and Mrs. Philip Corliss, of Somerton, Arizona, spent a couple of days with us. 
Dr. Corliss has a KODACHROME FLOWER SLIDE service that he is offering to 
Garden Clubs, and flower lovers throughout the country. He has probably one of 
the largest collections of slides in the country, around 20,000 which he offers on a 
rental basis to clubs, anywhere in the country. They are remarkably clear fine pictures. 
His rental slides picture glads Iris, Orchids and Day lilies. Dr. Corliss entertained a 
large gathering of Garden Folks at our home during his visit here. Mrs. Corliss is a 
writer on garden subjects, and at present is State President of Garden Clubs of Arizona. 
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Moses, of Lima, N. Y. also visited us during the peak of the 
blooming season. Mr. Moses grows 60 or 70 acres of glads per year and conducts a 
general Nursery business in New York. 
Justructions for Ondening Bulbs 
All orders of $2.00 or over at retail are prepaid in the U. S. A. Orders not accepted 
for less than $2. All orders should be accompanied by check or cash with order. All 
stock is guaranteed true to name, free from disease and injurious insects, and is 
offered subject to prior sale. Where bulblets are listed by the “‘packet” there will be 
50 to 100 bulblets or more in package. Five bulbs will be sold at one-half the price 
per ten in medium and large sizes. Where small bulbs are quoted 25c per ten, they will 
not be sold in lots of five at that price. No single item of less than 20c. 
BULLE “SIZES: 
Glad bulbs are graded into six sizes, No. 1 bulbs are 1% inch or larger in dia- 
MeteriNol 2 ie 132) to11%s inch in) size. No: 8 is 1-inch to 1% inch. No. 4 is three 
quarter inch up to 1 inch. No. five and six are one-quarter inch smaller with No. 6 
being a half inch bulb, and considered the smallest size sold commercially. “Large” 
bulbs are considered No. 1 and No. 2. Mediums are No. 3 and No. 4 mixed. Small bulbs 
are Nos. 5 and 6. Most varieties will produce a very good bloom from medium bulbs, 
and Nos. 5 and 6 will usually bloom altho quite late in the season. Many varieties will 
supply a fair bloom from well grown bulblets. 
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