We wish to thenk our many customers end friends for their orders end kind 
letters received this past yeerr, 
The yeer 1952 marks our thirtieth year es commercial glediolus growers. For 
our thirtieth enniversery we sre putting out e lerger end more deteiled catalog 
then we heve in the pest few yerrs, elthough still © modest end condensed one, 
There are meny things I would like to include in this foreword end in the 
catelog, but do not have the space, I would like to print some of the letters 
from our customers,- not the usucl type you see expressing thanks for overcount 
end abundant extres(they sre ersy to get), but the ones telling of the plessure 
end fine results with our bulbs. I especially like the ones thenking us for our 
choice of extras, usually something different end of specirl interest to thet 
perticuler customer. 
There ere meny interesting new verieties I would like to describe in more de-~ 
tail, but this would teke pages. It is very difficult to condense the descrip- 
tion of e fine variety into two or three lines, but we heve tried honestly to 
give you the importent virtues end feults of erch, At the end of the descrip- 
tive list the feults of some verieties cre set forth in more deteil then wes 
possible in the descriptive list. ‘'e try meny new verieties erch yerr, end 
drop meny from our stock. Mceny never cppecr in our crtrlog. #11 verieties we 
list we feel heve fer more virtues then frults. ily ded wos usually brutelly 
frenk in his description of verieties, sometimes overlooking « virtue to list 
e..feutt. 
Neturelly, I'd like to breg = little cbout our show winnings, but ded re- 
minds me thrt you sre not interasted in whet our bulbs do for us, but what they 
will do for you. After checking brck to be sure, 1 find tht since 1929, spikes 
grown from our bulbs have won more blue ribbons «t “eshington shows then the 
bulbs of sny other grower. Of our 1951 ewerds, there are two that will be of 
interest to you,- two Americen Home Magszine Achievement Awerds. One of these 
wes won et the Paeific Internstionsl Show of the North American Glediolus Coun- 
cil with our seecling"Julic Mee Ven". Our red seedling "Royel Stewart" carried 
off the same honors at the Yestern Internetionel Show et Yekima. These two 
vorieties will be introduced in 1953 or 1954. 
“Te heve tried to condense end summerize ell the important information thet 
you will want to know ebout a veriety. For the customers who cre not femilior 
with ell of the varieties by neme, we heve indexed the verieties by color, All 
of the whites sre listed together, the reds, the pinks, etc. This listing or 
index will be found on the next to the last pege. These listings do not indi- 
crte size,- only the color. An idea of the size of the floret mey be obtained 
by referring to the cless number. The cless number, the originstor end the 
yeer of introduction cre given following the name of the veriety in the Retail 
List. For excmple ANNAMAE (Pommert 40) 400,- originetor Pommert, introduced 
1940, cless number 400. From the class number you cen determine size of floret, 
color, shade, end merkings. The first digit indicetes size, the second color, 
ond the third shede end/or merkings. the following is the clessificetion sys- 
tem nationslly used: 
Minieture Gleds 100 - florets under 24 inches rcross. 
Smell i 200 - "24 in. thru 34 in. 
Medium i 300 -  " oebove 3% thru 4 3/8 in, 
Lerge : 400 - " 4% in, thru 5 3/8 in, 
Gient 0 500 - " 54 in. ond lerger. 
Color numbers will be found before each color group in the index. 00 White, 
O06 Creem, 10 Light yellow, le POeD yellow, etc, By using this number system 
we find ANNAMAE 400 is « large (4% to 5 3/8 in.)floret, the color is white, 
ond it hes no conspicuous merkings. “then the third digit is 0 it indicates 
either white or a very light shade. 2,4,6, indicate progressively deeper 
shedes. When the third digit is an odd number it indicates that the floret 
hes conspicuous merkings. 
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FRONT COVER : Helena Pommert holding four spikes of Skymester. Mount 
Rainier in the beckground. 
