Foreword 
It is with pleasure that I am sending you my 1953 catalog. 
I wish to thank all of you for your many wonderful letters and for the busi- 
ness sent my way. 
During the past seven years I have shown my glads to over 7,000,000 people. 
At my first showing at Long Beach, Calif., I exhibited Bagdad and Vagabond 
Prince. These two smokies were the most popular glads there. When Flying 
Fortress, R. B., Tunias Mohamet, etc., were shown they literally “stole the show’. 
Since then, I have added to my collection the brightest and oddest colors I can 
find the world over. As far as I know I am about the only grower who is doing 
that and almost entirely disregarding glad standards. For example: Spic and 
Span during the past two seasons has won over 300 blue ribbons and grand 
championships at major glad shows yet at the Los Angeles County Fair this 
year I exhibited good spikes, averaging 7-10 open florets, of this variety but only 
4% of the people sending in orders, ordered it and it was priced at 2 bulbs for 
35 cents. In contrast, Braga was ordered by 66%, and Margaret Peters by 50% of 
those sending in orders. Yet Braga and Margaret Peters were both grown from 
medium bulbs, they didn’t like the hot weather and only had from | to 4 florets 
open at a time. Neither of the above varieties won as much as 3 blue ribbons. 
Perhaps none. Why? Well, I have figured it out something like this: Suppose you 
could have your choice between two new cars, one a Ford or Chevrolet of your 
choice of colors or a new Cadillac, but the Cadillac had to be orchid color with 
ereen and yellow polka dots on it, and in order to have this car you couldn't 
repaint it. See what I mean. 
My glads for the Los Angeles County Fair were of very poor quality this year 
due to the extreme hot weather at Ontario where they were grown. Almost every 
day for 8 weeks before the fair and during the fair the temperature got above 
95 degrees and as high as 103 degrees. 
Here is a list of glads that proved to be the most popular, according to the 
per centage of people ordering them. This was made up from orders just as 
they came from the Fair. At all times I had over 50 varieties in bloom. 
The number following the name is the per centage of people ordering that 
variety. 
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PME Tare tsRClCl Saati as > a 50 [4A DUGEL Asoc 1 meaner eee re 30 
SMC BO ULUINE! eae a os 48 ise A@reeeyk ee 30 
Nie eC ADONCRETINCE co, 46 LOWEN OWetan Ose 9. eee een ee 30 
MED AL OM ew ees es a= Ke 44 Lf? Rega Beene Pgs ree ade 30 
9) QyereQaitalnyi: .. Oe ener 44 TS ieeblie Hit a CC Mees eee meee 28 
Vee LertiveNVIdOW = oq oe x 42 IRS) AkaareKeypich ee ee 24 
AGNI eo ae rae 40) AVe). VAR OIE! oe es eS ae: 
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iI) Wave WB Yeys) g08 aa ee aes 40) DO ROCA COR ieee eee eek eat A ee 
Bim inosbortress= «ce. hia. 36 D9) BRAVE] wie pee en ane eet eeeg 20 
Ime izabetie tics OuecIIn 2a. 36 Oiee Orange COLO nie menor 20 
D5 mae Vis tal Agee mare rece) oer, ae 20% 
*The quality of these were much below standard and they would have rated much 
higher if I had had some good ones to display. 
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