GREETINGS TO ALL GLAD GROWERS 
I*do not know of a better means of cxpressing my appreciation of your 
Pa. 3c su. tnru this catalogue, sc let me now say to you all, “Thanks 
a million” for a fine business. But more than this, 1 am greatly indebted 
to you for your wonderful ietters telling of the joy, happiness and satisfac- 
tion you have gotten out of growing the bulbs which I have furnished. You 
will tind excerpts thru these pages trom some of them. TALL CORN GLADS 
have made good in a big way all over the United States. I have received 
many, many orders from new customers who have told me that they pur- 
chased on the recommendation of customers of mine. Thanks to all you 
folk who have said a good word for my bulbs. I deeply appreciate your 
gladiolus friendship. And let me express my deep appreciation to those 
many customers who have come to me year after year, for many years, for 
bulbs. Their confidence and commendations provide me with great zeal 
ae SENS: the best that can be gotten out of Mother Earth and Mother 
ature. 
To you who have received my catalogue, but have not placed an order 
with me, let me suggest that you send a trial order this season and see for 
yourself what it means to purchase TALL CORN GLADS. They are the 
kind that make blue ribbon spikes. My business dealings are marked by 
generosity, and a high purpose to give satisfaction. 
I am now wishing you the finest glad season in 1951 that vou have ever 
experienced. 
Most enthusiastically yours, 
H. E. Morrow 
THE BEGINNINGS OF TALL CORN GLADS 
TALL CORN GLADS began twenty-eight years ago, when I planted 
some huge bulbs which were left on the premises to which I moved. They 
were planted the next season but refused to bloom. Telling this experience 
to a friend who grew thousands of gliads, he concluded that the bulbs had 
€X..u.s.cu their biooming capacity, and he gave me five bulbs each of ten 
named varieties, and asked me to try them the following season. Among them 
were such kinds as Gold, Carmen Sylva, Alice Tiplady, 1910 Rose, and 
when they began to show bud I became so eager to see them that I could 
scarcely get a full night’s sleep until they were thru blooming. What 
sunrise thrills! Today not one of these varieties can be found in modern 
listings, and not even in the Classification listing of the N.A.G.C. I recently 
looked over filed copies of my catalogues of the past, and in my first 
issue there were 140 varieties, and not one of those listed varieties remain 
in cultivation, so far as my observation goes in reviewing scores of cata- 
logues annually. At the time of my first issue of a catalogue a smoky 
was introduced at $100 per bulb and $10.00 for a bulblet. And there were 
those who paid the price. A neighbor doctor purchased one of the bulblets, 
planted it in a pot, and refrained from telling us other glad fans of his 
purchase for many weeks, not until he got courage to defend his foolish- 
ness. Today that variety is a forgotten glad. However, as I looked over 
this first catalogue there swept over my memories a powerful current 
of nostalgia, for these were the varieties which stirred my soul and infected 
me with a variety of enthusiasm which seems to have the element of ever- 
lastingness in it. Today, after twenty-eight years, my enthusiasm is as 
strong if not stronger than at any time in the past. Financial limitations 
are the only force capable of restraining the urge within to be a spend- 
thrift every winter as I read thru the catalogues, and their high powered 
descriptions of new beauties which are supposed to be lovelier and more 
perfect than anything in existence. Might say that I have discovered, at 
considerable expense, that there are scores, if not hundreds, of new intro- 
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