that we have written a booklet that fully covers the phase of conducting a 
part-time gladiolus business, and if you would like a copy, simply send us 
a 3c stamp to cover mailing expense. 
If you are now a commercial grower, marketing flowers or bulbs 
and simply want to see if this booklet will contain ideas that might be of 
value to you, you may remit 13c in stamps which just covers our cost of 
printing and postage. Ask for booklet, “GROW GLADIOLUS FOR PROFIT.” 
ARTISTRY IN GLADIOLUS ARRANGEMENT 
This has proven our most popular publication to date. We have 
only a few hundred copies left, which are offered at 25c each. This 40- 
page booklet contains 32 full page reproductions of arrangements of 
Gladiolus for home decoration, styled by leading designers and photo- 
graphed by Dr. Philip G. Corliss of Somerton, Arizona. All of these are 
also contained in one of his famous Arrangement color-slide rental col- 
lections, and in color these are really very beautiful. You really should 
write him if you are a member of a garden club for his bulletin covering 
his color-slide collections. Unquestionably, he has the largest library of 
original flower photographs in color, in existence. We hope to publish 
a companion volume to our “ARTISTRY” booklet, we had planned for this 
year but were unable to secure sufficient photographic material. 
_ OUR HEADLINE VARIETIES FOR 1951 
PHAROAH (Higgins) Class 530. Our 1950 Introduction 
This has warranted every claim we made for this remarkable pink- 
salmon seedling. Its behavior in our field was spectacular in the ex- 
treme. Even from size 4 bulbs we could cut X-fancy spikes right down the 
row. It held exceptionally well in florist ice-boxes — one florist reported 
holding it two weeks, and still perfectly usable for funeral design work. 
It has received the finest possible favorable comment in the press. Dr. 
Cason in December NAGC quarterly rated it the top glad in the 530 
class. In the headline Gladiolus symposium in February POPULAR GAR- 
DENING, by Lee Fairchild — PHAROAH was rated the top light salmon 
introduction of 1950. In February issue FLOWER GROWER, H. M. Sher- 
man in his annual feature story of the new Glads, not only repeats his 
last year’s favorable report, but this year places it in the probable best 
10 of all colors. Even before we introduced it, PHAROAH had been rated 
as superior in a 2-year test in the 5 NAGC trial gardens. Every amateur 
will want it for its prize winning ability on the show table and the com- 
mercial grower will find it one of the most vigorous, most dependable, 
and most profitable varieties he has ever grown. 
Price: L. $1.00; M. 75c; S. 50c. Bulblets — large selected, 10 for $1.00 
For commercial growers a very special offer to permit the purchase 
of an adequate starting stock now: 1OL, 10M, 100 S & % pt. bulblets $25. 
EXCLUSIVE GLADLAND INTRODUCTIONS FOR 1951 
LADY LORCHID (Class 466) Originated by Mrs. G. A. Caswell of Michigan. 
Each year we attempt to find a worthy seedling from a hybridist as 
yet unknown to the general public. This year our selection is LADY LOR- 
CHID — a dark lavendar, with feathered throat of rosy lavender, bloom- 
ing a week later than Elizabeth the Queen, and growing somewhat taller, 
with us about 40 to 44 inches. The floret size of 4% inches is exactly 
right for arrangement, basket, and floral sprays, and we like the color 
and its ability to open 7 to 10 florets of its 17 to 22 buds. It was registered 
in 1948, but has required a couple of years to build a stock of sufficient 
size to permit of introduction at the $1.00 per bub price which we con- 
sider a proper price for a new seedling release. These two years have 
