GUIDEBOOK FOR 1951 
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CONFERENCES 
Ohio Society, at Garden Center of 
Greater Cleveland, February 4th, 1951, 
1:30-6:00 P. M. Principal speaker, Prof. 
Paul Krone of Mich. State College, who 
for many years has been considered the 
outstanding authority on Gladiolus in 
the middle west, probably in all U. S. 
Free admission to all interested. 
_Ohio Society, Bulb Auction, color 
slides, ete., Garden Center, March 17, 
1951, 2:00 P. M. Free to all. 
Ohio Society, Judging School, Garden 
Center, July 22, 1951, 2:00 P. M. with 
a tour of Valleevue Farm at conclusion 
of open meeting. 
THE OHIO ANNUAL 
EXHIBITION, 1951 
The Ohio state show, again at the 
wonderful Higbee Co. Auditorium on 
Cleveland’s Public Square. Under same 
roof the R. R. Terminal Tower, the Cleve- 
land Hotel and the Terminal Garage 
(largest in the world). Monday and Tues- 
day, August 27 and 28, 1951. No other 
shows scheduled to interfere with your 
coming. The world’s quality show as well 
as one of the largest. 
THE CHAGRIN FALLS (Ohio) SHOW 
Conducted by the Chagrin Valley Men’s 
Garden Club. At High School Gymna- 
sium, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, on State Route 
422 about 20 miles east of downtown 
Cleveland. Saturday and Sunday, Septem- 
ber 1-2, 1951. 
Ohio society participation, both in ex- 
hibiting and judging. 
THE OHIO RECENT INTRODUCTION 
AND SEEDLING SHOW 
AT NEW LOCATION 
Note the new location. At the Vallee- 
vue Farm where the Test Garden is 
located. Seven tenths of a mile east of 
State Route 91 on Fairmount Blvd. 
(About 2 miles north of intersection of 
91 and US 422). (Our farm is 2 miles 
south of the same intersection, on 91). 
The date is Sunday, September 9, 1951. 
The facilities for show purposes are far 
superior to those at our farm. For picnic- 
ing, as well (bring your own basket). 
Full access to the Test Garden, where for 
instance, will be found all the projected 
1952 K & M varieties, etc. 
CeAeNeDileD 
Choose your own extras. Time is at 
great premium at shipping period. Here- 
tofore, we have assembled old orders 
to new and examined them with view of 
ascertaining desirable extra items with- 
out duplication where the customer 
failed to mention such on the order sheet. 
Most orders now have 3 to 10 more 
clipped together. The very bulk of them 
is appalling and the task of studying 
them has become too great. So please 
read our new Terms of Sale carefully. 
With our stated liberal discounts in 
extra bulbs, new customers will know 
the least they can expect. Old customers 
need not think this is a device to put a 
ceiling on our customary liberality. 
More and more of our successful show 
exhibitor customers are suggesting that 
their large bulb items be filled to extent 
able with divisions having sufficient food 
bulk to produce show blooms. The reason 
being that they seldom produce 2 spikes 
and they save the exhibitor the trouble 
of disbudding round jumbos down to 
one eye. 
See our WHITE ELEPHANT SALE 
on page 33. This may be a potential 
headache but we must close out many 
varieties to obtain time and space for 
new material operations. 
Our current year introductions and 
import releases, all outstanding new 
varieties, unquestionably set a new 
record for low introductory prices—just 
think of it—nine varieties ranging from 
50c to $1.50 per bulb. Prices on the other 
two are beyond our control but we con- 
sider them worthy, at their higher prices. 
We have such a vast proportion of 
informative material in this Guide Book 
that it is necessary we become more 
brief in the variety descriptions, though 
descriptions are what produce orders 
and without orders the Guide Book 
would naturally cease. So kindly be 
mindful of our early declaration that 
traits or habits not specifically men- 
tioned are above the “satisfactory level’. 
Our proximity to the large planting 
of new gladiolus material from world 
wide sources at Valleevue has been of 
vast assistance to us in our constant 
-search for the best varieties in which 
to invest, propagate and offer to our 
customers. Catalogers visiting the Trial 
Gardens at Valleevue can obtain more 
valuable information on new varieties 
than by visiting 12 shows. For several 
years we have refrained from copyright 
of our Guide Book in order that pub- 
lishers, catalogers and others may avail 
themselves, both our own data and the 
official report of the Valleevue Test 
Garden, which we have been publishing 
for the general benefit of the gladiolus 
industry. 
