Glad Greetings and Salutations 
Greetings to all our customers and friends everywhere; and especially to those who 
will order bulbs this season for the first time. To them we wish to pledge our best efforts 
with generous treatment in every respect. Our mailing list keeps growing year after year, 
and many new friends are made each season thru the interest we have in gladiolus. 
Many fine folks ask us about high priced things, and we really do not like to list a 
variety at a real high price until we have grown it long enough to feel that it is a really 
worth-while number. Many times the “new $5 glad” is a big disappointment to us. 
Especially if the introducer will not sell any bulblets with his opening sales. We invest in 
half a dozen at $5 each, and we get some old two or three-year bulbs, that do not produce 
bulblets. Our first year blooms do not thrill us, and the lack of increase in also discouraging. 
Still, we do like to assist the introducers who seem very honest about their pets, and if 
we get a fair break with a few young bulbs, we often get a good start with the new one 
the first season. Evangeline was such a case. We had about 500 bulblets the first season 
from eleven young bulbs, probably threes and fours, and our stock is now excellent and 
increasing rapidly. 
Others write us and ask when we will introduce a seedling; and to that question we 
have a hard time to reply. We just cannot seem to make Up our minds. We think we will’ _ 
be out with one or two, and maybe more, in 1952. We have quite a number increasing 
in the test garden. We have many thousands of new ones to bloom in 1951, and just gobs 
of seed to plant and grow. The 280 crosses we made last season produced more abundant 
seed than we have ever gathered before, and the seed seems better too. 
We enjoyed the Big Central International Glad Show at Madison, Wisconsin, where 
we assisted in the judging. Hundreds of fine new seedlings appeared there and thrilled 
us greatly. We hope the time is not far distant when we might have seedling meetings 
in our own territory, perhaps several times a season and discuss and criticize each others’ 
new creations. Seems like that would be good sport. We know of three new growers who 
will make a worth-while start this season, and near enough so | can visit them. 
It is a pleasure to send you our little catalog. We hope you will find it interesting 
and helpful; and we hope that 1951 proves to be a good growing season with great 
spikes in your garden. If anything | write in this booklet makes you feel like writing me, 
just go right ahead and “Lay on McDuff, and cursed be he who first cries ‘hold, enough’. 
Good luck now. 
Instructions for Ordering Bulblets 
All orders of $2.00 or over at retail are prepaid in the U. S. A. Orders not accepted 
for less than $2.00. 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. 
BULB SIZES: 
Glad bulbs are graded into six sizes: No. 1 bulbs are 1% inch or larger in dia- 
meter. No. 2 is 1% to 1% inch in size. No. 3 is 1-inch to 14% 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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