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I have watched this variety since its first year of bloom and have 
grown it this past season. All my efforts are centered in bulb 
production, not cut flowers or exhibition flowers. It actually 
startled me, therefore, to get such astounding results without 
any special effort. I have never before won a grand champion- 
ship or major show award, so I feel that the show record of 
Bridal Orchid is phenomenal and indicative of great things 
to come. I feel that it will be the ‘greatest of the great.’’ 
I sinéerely hope that it may continue to perform so mar- 
velously and that any confidence you may place in it 
will be rewarded. I am not looking for your dollars as 
I don’t need them. I find more happiness and real 
satisfaction in giving you and the gladiolus world 
something to fill your hearts with the same joy and 
admiration that this flower gives me. 
I have mentioned before in my catalogue that I 
love flowers of every kind and description and I 
grow many flowers other than glads. It seems 
to me that any love, care, and hard toil which © 
we devote to them comes back to us in bless- 
ings of many kinds. So whether or not you 
purchase your gladiolus bulbs from me or 
someone else my hope is that they will 
bring to you an abundance of happiness. 
I’m not waxing ‘‘sentinental.’’ I imagine 
that anyone who grows anything partici- 
pates in similar feeling of perfect sat- 
isfaction and that he finds a similar 
degfee of beauty in that which he 
produces. 
To me a flower is created not for its 
utilitarian or practical value... 
but rather to give us something 
esthetic to feed our hearts and 
minds and innereman ... to make 
us stronger and give to us the 
ability to realize that there is 
more to life than to eat, drink 
and live for today only. This 
is why I grow flowers. I can 
make more money, and 
easier, in other pursuits. 
PLANTING STOCK 
NOTE HEAVY 
BUDDING 
