Glad Cpreetings te Old Friends 
and New Friends 
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gq As far back as memory goes, we always 
had a few Glads in our home garden, but 
in 1923 we began to grow Glads at Ridge 
View Farm in considerable numbers. We 
did not consider Glad growing as a part of 
our business, but we put them in along 
with our strawberries, raspberries and 
garden produce because of the vast amount 
of pleasure that we derived from having 
them and sharing them with our friends. 
q We started with the best kinds then 
obtainablesmAlice. “hiplady.-—. = bwshayier 
Persia, Souvenir and many other varieties 
whose names are not ‘now remembered. 
Kach year, as our enthusiasm grew, we 
eagerly searched, the <catalogs. and added 
the newest varieties: tO.Our. lst. unt, a6 
one period, we were growing about 700 
different kinds. 
{But -we-didi’® stop there. he ideaor 
creating our own varieties had fired our 
imagination soon after we had started to 
erow Glads in quantity and after about 
ten years of hybridizing, our own origina- 
tions began to take up a large part of the 
time and space which we could dev ote to 
this hobby. 
