Of course if any bulbs are not true to name 
you cannot make claims for that until after 
blooming. If anything goes wrong we always 
try to make a satisfactory settlement with the 
customer. This is the only way that anyone can 
hope to build up a business. 
However, there are the following exceptions 
to my guarantee: 
1. We cannot guarantee in any way the crop 
of bulbs that you will harvest. Growing con- 
ditions are so variable and so much depends 
upon soil and weather and other local conditions 
that we cannot guarantee that you will harvest 
a good crop. It is beyond our control. 
2. We cannot guarantee that bulblets will 
grow. Not all bulblets will grow anyway. 75% 
is considered a good germination. Some kinds 
will germinate nearly 100%, while others will 
not ordinarily germinate more than 25%. Local 
conditions also affect them. If I had choice high 
priced bulblets I would peel them or at least 
take a piece of husk off one side. 
3. We cannot guarantee that all small bulbs 
will grow. I don’t know why they don’t but I 
do know that all of them do not grow. But there 
shouldn’t be a large percentage that fail. 
Skippy (description on page 36) 4. We cannot guarantee that every bulb of a 
variety that is a sport from another variety will 
produce blooms like the sport. Sometimes they 
revert. If you do get any bulbs that have re- 
verted in high priced varieties I will be glad to 
replace them. Sometimes white sports of Picardy 
revert and occasionally some others. 
Most everything nowadays needs spraying or 
dusting. Glads are no exception if you want to 
be sure of clean ones. 
Weeds 
Needless to say there should be no weeds 
among your glads. Mulches will help to keep 
them down. Cultivation should be done early 
so weeds will not get a start. 2 - 4 - D and other 
chemical weed killers may be good if handled 
properly but I don’t want to recommend them. 
Try them on a small scale first. 
Disease 
There are various diseases to which glads are 
subject. But don’t let the articles you see in 
various papers frighten you. If you plant glads 
on fair soil and they don’t get too much water, 
the chances are you will not be troubled with 
disease, tho you may lose an occasional bulb. 
Guarantee 
I guarantee to do my utmost to please my 
customers. We mean to send out only clean 
bulbs, free from disease and insects. Any claims 
or complaints in regard to bulbs should be sent _ . 
soon after receiving the bulbs. Celeste (description on page 21) 
“My bulbs did exceptionally well that | purchased in the spring.’ —Wm. O. Schell, Pa. 
“The glads you sent last spring did very well and were the source of heaps of fun and lots of 
pleasure.” —Adolph E. Meyer, N. Y 
“AIl your bulbs did very well for me last summer.” —Ray C. Pykosz, R. |. 
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